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by zer8k 2y ago
Yes, the government by force of law can wholesale strip citizens of their second amendment rights by having a list of gun owners. The ATF not even 5 years ago was doing this with all sorts of guns that were formerly legal. In particular, ex
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by zer8k 2y ago
4473s are a different, far worse, form of privacy invasion. Ostensibly used for background checks, kept forever in order for the ATF to do fishing expeditions.
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The point is to not allow a company to be able to buy out the entire country. Maybe Novo Nordisk is a good steward but historically companies like Google and Amazon act only their own best interests. Breaking up these massive companies ends
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by zer8k 2y ago
> The value of the super wealthy’s net worth is paper. It only has value because we all agree it has value. If you started to seize their paper wealth and give it to everyone else, the value of that paper would immediately fall, not just
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by zer8k 2y ago
Equating TikTok to Rock 'n Roll, TV, Video Games, and Heavy Metal is a bit reductionist don't you think? Numerous studies have been done on the effect of "dopamine hijacking" that is common to platforms like TikTok. The
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by zer8k 2y ago
Derangement? Stalin was extremely suspicious of the west and even went so far as to accuse of us collaborating with Hitler himself. Not only that, the Soviet regime was excessively brutal. One of the worst in history despite not being menti
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by zer8k 2y ago
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to execute people with knowledge that would otherwise be useful to the enemy. If we didn't, the soviets would. There was a lot to learn from them that didn't have to do with their prior alleg
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by zer8k 2y ago
Or alternatively they could take some of their record profits and upgrade their 30 year old infrastructure. The modern world is internet-enabled and these people are the ones with their foot on the hose selling water.
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by zer8k 2y ago
Very familiar with Cox as they are the only cable provider in my area and fiber largely has not made it to any other part of the city except the really new and wealthy areas. While I have not yet run into any caps with my gigabit plan I am
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by zer8k 2y ago
Actually, they do, regularly. But you've used the term "highly specialized jobs" which is unassailable. No matter which example I provide you can provide an even more specialized job that hires less people over a longer timef
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Labor unions in America were largely controlled by organized crime and likely still are today. They didn't do this to help the worker they did it as an extension of a collection racket. AKA - their own interests. Despite this they did
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by zer8k 2y ago
You're conflating processed food with ultra-processed foods. Bread and soy milk are processed. A lot of food that isn't necessarily bad for you is considered processed. Ultra-processed food is better described as a chemical soup t
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by zer8k 2y ago
Hezbollah already attacks civilians indiscriminately for one. Second, "won't someone think of the children" is a tired argument. Hate to be that guy - but maybe this will be a lesson on allowing these terrorists to roam your
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by zer8k 2y ago
2 and 3 are and always have been counter-productive. You’re some kind of -cist or -phobe if you don’t want to listen. Normal people have normal people problems. Normal well-adjusted people don’t want to go to the movies, play video games,
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by zer8k 2y ago
HR is a job program for the bottom 3rd of the IQ curve.
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by zer8k 2y ago
It must be nice to not ever worry about compensation. I havent gotten a raise in 2 years and there's no promotions available despite work enforcing horrid on-call and "team player" work hours. I personally cannot wait for the
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by zer8k 2y ago
I shouldn't have to drug myself to cope with the stress of constantly half-assed released, features getting pushed in without thought, and 3AM pagerduty alarms because of these things. We will likely see a large cohort of people who go
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by zer8k 2y ago
Mr. C is a counter-example to all of what you just said. Mr. C is an otherwise successful and intelligent person embittered by society doing him wrong. In literature Mr. C would probably be the anti-hero of an acclaimed revenge movie. He s
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by zer8k 2y ago
> Probably for the best, no way a truly "edgy" and zany hacker con would've been able to find venues to host at nowadays anyway. Best for business, perhaps. I stopped going several years ago when the conference got too sof
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by zer8k 2y ago
Personally, I am more concerned with the cumulative drop in productivity that will control for all variables including this one. Again though, sponsored clubs for a particular gender are a luxury good. If these initiatives were self-organiz
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by zer8k 2y ago
This is bunk anecdata. DEI initiatives across all industries are considered luxury goods. They provide no measurable impact the bottom line. Ignoring that, I've yet to find someone who has thought hiring these DEI experts over more eng
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by zer8k 2y ago
> I'm not sure if it's MBAs at Google sending Reader to the graveyard, or perhaps engineering management reading the usage tea leaves and making a cold calculated numerical decision rather than considering for other customer fa
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by zer8k 2y ago
To me it's not that either. SaaS can be done well and has been done well historically. The difference between then and now is the MBA-ization of tech. The MBA cancer infests and does the only thing it can do. Create spreadsheets to for
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by zer8k 2y ago
So can plenty of prescription drugs. I suspect you wouldn't criticize someone for suggesting, "unwarranted", that someone tries anti-depressants or any number of potentially dangerous anxiolytics. Cool it with your moral auth
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by zer8k 2y ago
I wish I could enforce meeting rules at work but they are dictated by TPTB. We recently had cameras forced on because management suspected people weren't paying attention. That is correct. The meetings are regularly derailed by someone
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by zer8k 2y ago
> $2000 is the minimum amount Need a source on that one. I am involved in this and new professionals do not even make that much. For "on-demand" fights (where the promoter gives you 0 notice ahead of time) you will make several
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by zer8k 2y ago
The implication that it's about ego is a relatively pathetic, naive, cosmopolitan view of reality. I wish I could live in such bliss.
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MMA has lost a lot of it's luster in recent years with it's major commercialization. It became popular because people were tired of Karate/TKD/Kung Fu/Krav Maga morons telling everyone their martial art can "ki
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Im sure they are.

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