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by xracy 2y ago
I'm gonna say 'yes, but' instead of 'yes, and'. Yes, but the big problem is that these same business leaders and politicians are going to be the ones who get first bite at the apple. And so how they plan is going to
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by xracy 2y ago
At the top you're saying that no one has seriously committed to it, and at the bottom you're saying there's not an easy/quick/cheap solution. But I think the thing you have to consider, and the thing US companies sh
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by xracy 2y ago
There is another comment that answers "why" I assume dang doesn't have the time to answer all of these individually. But tl;dr it's in the guidelines for posting on the site why this happened.
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lol, your comment reads as: "This comment asks me to suggest a fix, and I don't have one, so I will pretend that the other poster isn't worth responding to for unrelated reasons."
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Feels like one of the better possible outcomes from this is that Congress realizes it has actual powers and starts using them. But I'm predicting things are going to have to get bad before people wake up to this problem. I think if th
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Gosh "who is an oppressive elite?" Musk, Trump and the billionaires in their administration sure look like "oppressive elites" to me. Can you name multiple oppressive elites? Edit: I think you answer your own question he
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I'm saying that the problem isn't identity politics, but that the American right is terrified of actual policies from the American Left. And they're so terrified they have to make a bid deal of the more divisive social polici
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I don't think you know what "identity politics" are, which is kinda funny to me. I would love to have discussions where identity politics meant "Worker vs Employer". Worker vs Employer aren't actually 2 groups
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oh, yeah, the "indebted worker" concept there sounds scary and bad and not what I'm looking for. I think a lot of companies like to appeal to the idea of a meritocracy. I'm just saying this could make it a convincing app
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I feel like the people who say things like "communists were treated like some sort of conservatives because of identity politics" are telling on themselves. If you look at the people on the actual political left in the US (Bernie,
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Honestly, it feels like the kind of thing that companies which actually want merit-based graduates should want to subsidize more aggressively. If you're a billion-dollar company that only hires college grads, it feels like there's
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am... A lot of these examples have been pretty thoroughly debunked as either non-existent, or about something other than the professors expressing "co
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great illusions of our time, like there's not data to back it up?
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How has this happened? What are your concrete examples of this having happened? I suspect all of the example(s) you might have are going to be overblown news storie(s) But if there are decades of this, I'd love to see the evidence.
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Guilty people go free all the time, as long as they have enough money. We live with the guilty people free. The least the system could do is more to guarantee the innocent person being free too.
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At the very least this has been a hotly contested conversation for a while in the US. I do still believe it's a founding principle of the US' legal system.
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I mean, "trust the electorate" sounds like a nice ideal, but I think it conveniently ignores the shithose of news and information that makes its way into the public discourse. We can't agree on basic facts in most places. Wha
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by xracy 2y ago
> Insurance companies doesn't determine your treatment, doctors do. I'm sorry you don't understand how insurance in the US works. This is patently false. Insurance companies absolutely determine your treatment, and not ju
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by xracy 2y ago
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy The thing about MLK, is that he existed as a backdrop to more violent alternatives. He is celebrated for being the better of thos
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"very wealthy NGO owners." Can you name a very wealth NGO owner that's not working with this administration. Or describe what you see as a problematic NGO? It's wild to me that people think NGO owners might be a problem
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by xracy 2y ago
you "suspect" a 5yo won't be arrested for a hit and run? Gosh, I'd love for a legal system to be based on a little bit more firm grasp than "suspicions" or else you and I don't have much of a hope of not c
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by xracy 2y ago
Yeah, I feel like you're not engaging with what I wrote. Also is spitting actually vandalism? I understand stickers aren't allowed. I'm saying "Are we okay with living in a world where a 5-year-old could be arrested for
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It's wild to me that this is a crime. To be clear, I understand that it is, but I don't want us to engage with the letter of the law, I want to engage with the spirit of "does it make sense that putting a sticker on something
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I'm sorry, your hypothesis is that people will be less likely to try and build products around a naturally occurring weight-loss drug? Like, less likely than they would be to pay Ozempic to use their patent? I mean, I could believe t
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OR, it's really easy to prove the government doesn't do anything valuable when you run the government. My concern is that they don't believe this across all pieces of the government, and they do believe it in ways that only
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I like the part where your comment about it not having evidence is right next to the comments about the evidence is yet-to-be-published.
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Sorry, I read the 2nd sentence as removing housing entirely, for some reason. I see that's not what they're saying, they're just talking about the relative weight of the thing. My apologies for not knowing offhand everything
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Why wouldn't you include housing? It's often people's largest expense?
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AKA, a 35 hour work week. lol. In my heart I knew this, but I didn't think anyone would ever self-report like this.
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Yeah, the article is literally about an entitled googler being vocal. Man worth 100+ Billion complains he should be worth more, and that the grunts should have to make him worth more at all costs. How is anyone who doesn't want to do t

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