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by zztop44 4y ago
So maybe women can be bros too? Just like men can be karens and huns. But just as complaining in an of itself doesn’t make you a Karen, shilling a scam coin in and of itself doesn’t make you a crypto bro.
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by zztop44 4y ago
Indeed. But there’s a reason why shorting Japanese government bonds is known as the “widowmaker” trade.
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I don’t think it’s the free money driving inflation, right? It’s impossible to know for sure, but I’d say it’s not likely the driving force is the weak yen. Which is caused by having 0% interest rates in a world where US interest rates are
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by zztop44 4y ago
I think the argument is that everyone else doing charity/altruism also (ostensibly) cares about effectiveness so it’s only a differentiating tenant if you somehow think your caring about effectiveness is somehow different to everyone e
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That’s fine… but that’s _not the reason_, right? The reason is that you know the person and don’t want them to suffer. Trying to ignore that lived reality in a quest to be objective or rational seems to me like a recipe for mistaken thinkin
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by zztop44 4y ago
The sister comments showing that the “racial sensitivity guide” was actually a random infographic that didn’t even remotely imply what you said it did made me curious so I looked over the New Zealand syllabus, too. I can’t see anything what
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by zztop44 4y ago
A claimed monopoly on violence. And I know everything else flows on from that, but that’s still a very narrow definition of a state.
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I mean I feel like the most visible “activists” are in egypt right now clearly calling for the measurable goal of keeping warming under 1.5 degrees?
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[0] is classic NIMBYism not degrowth as an aim (I hope you can acknowledge those are different things). [1] is a tweet just saying that capitalism won’t solve the climate crisis, which I hope you can also distinguish from advocating degrowt
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I’ve got a horrid feeling you’re waiting for this precise question, but any source on degrowth being the aim of a “lot” of climate activists to the extent that it’s vaguely mainstream (as opposed to just being a minor current, which I’m awa
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It’s Haiti. It doesnt exist before the racism and colonialism. Of course, something existed on the same land, but that wasn’t Haiti.
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No but they do introduce themselves by name, ask you how your meal is going and check in every now and again. That’s not a bad thing, but it is different, and seems in my mind related to tipping culture.
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I think this is wildly off base. Lots of them don’t want to have kids. The government has many ways to influence the public. But I don’t think it’s true to say that they have so much control over their populace that they could do anything l
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I make a good living building software for nonprofits. It’s true there are plenty of opportunities for better software out there. But, as is often the case, understanding the industry helps. I worked for 10 years at nonprofits in non-develo
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NZ South Island is a popular skiing destination that sees snow every year and has glaciers. Or do you mean snow at sea level or something? Edit: I did some googling. It seems that snow at sea level in October is rare but not unprecedented.