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by wryoak 2y ago
It’s not bad journalism, it’s modern journalism! It reports data and invites readers like you to confirm your preconceived biases with it, such that it never challenges those beliefs and risks losing you as a reader, nor risks confirming yo
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Grass is always greener on the other side. Lots of Americans wish our country could take a few cues from EU regulatory frameworks and social safety provisions.
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I am not an engineer by training, but rather a linguist. I just got sucked into the software development biz for a while. But as a linguist, I can tell you that the only thing you need to know about words is they change. They generalize or
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Want
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Ugh this is always how it goes. “New tech is gonna liberate us from labor! Oh wait, actually, managing the complexities introduced by new tech is going to require more labor than we originally needed.”
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Well isn’t part of the issue that people are using automation to mass apply? If so, they’ll just redirect their money from compute cycles toward application fees and we’ll be in the same situation.
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It didn’t explain soul capsules at all though, it barely mentioned them
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Speaking as a former college writing tutor (yes, it is appropriate to bow in deference), this video creator wildly overestimates the average person’s writing abilities in nitpicking through that first article.
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In my ten years I’ve never worked at a place where pairing was the norm. I would love to experience that kind of culture
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Maybe, but also denim is pretty much the ugliest thing a person can wear
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I was in Taiwan in March just waving my iPhone around with no regard for my own safety like the dimwitted American I am. I guess China doesn’t really concern me - after all, I’m only a grocery store produce stocker.
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The first point lost me because it pushed responsibility for functioning software onto the user. If your entire application ecosystem has to be recompiled because you conceived of a new clever way to conceptualize the data that doesn’t actu
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I don’t think we’re arguing about the same thing anymore, if we ever were
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People use simple locks on their doors. Have for hundreds of years. Brute force is easy. Or hell, a five dollar kit on amazon will open the lock without damaging anything. Nobody’s rushing to fix that. What’s the difference? Usually if you
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But what are the outcomes of these shares of “mental load?” How much thought translates into what measure of results? In therapy my partner was shocked to learn how much time I spend plotting and considering our domestic affairs like cleani
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That’s not what life is about in Christianity at all. Life is about choice in Christianity. Freedom. You can choose to live for yourself or for others, for the world. Dwelling on one’s suffering is a form of egoism that distances one from o
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by wryoak 2y ago
Planned parenthood nurse once told me the HSV tests are not very meaningful because false negatives are so common. They mighta just been trying to scare us into using condoms because syphilis was on the rise on the west coast at the time, b
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Dystopian? More like deliciously rebellious.
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This article’s prose is so brisk and bubbly I forgot I was reading demographic data
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I’ve made the argument before wrt other media (music, static visual media, and literature) that all art is dying due to the inundation We were raised to rail against the gatekeepers and tastemakers of art for perpetuating voices of oppressi
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The more I read about ADHD these days the less certain I am that I know what it is Despite being diagnosed with it as a child
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But we already have a holiday in October, it’s called Halloween, and without Thanksgiving we’d have no holiday in November And I don’t mean “banking holidays” like Veteran’s day, I mean holidays with strong tradition to observe or subvert (
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I love the shows I’ve been following on it like Severance and Big Door Prize, and they’ve had some great docs and feature films too
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A human is a multicellular conglomerate posing as a singular, integral lifeform. “They” is perfectly suitable if you just broaden your perspective a bit.
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What a worthless zine. I kept waiting for arguments in support of the claims, an explanation of the process rather than a reiteration of the author’s philosophical coinages, but it abruptly ends with the statement that its thesis is easily
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I generally disregard web articles written with many links posing as citations. I’ve clicked through only to find too often that the linked text does not support the linker’s claims, and often contradicts them, in fact. This seems especiall
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The best way to be right is to make yourself right
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#3 has never seemed to harm the conservative parties at the polls. Mudslinging is an American tradition As for #2, I don’t think democratic candidates are flirting with identity politics nearly as much as the loud voices of the left are or
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So it pays out if you decide you chose the wrong career? It would be challenging for any agency to make that profitable. Why not just engage in the age old practice of saving a stash of “f you” money, so when you decide you’re not going to
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I bring home $1200 a month and that’s pretty much eaten up by bills. 400 rent, 250 phone (4 people), 100 w/s/g and electric, 300 food. Once we’re past the holiday season I should be able to put away ~200/mo if I’m really good

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