206lol

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by 206lol 3y ago
Economic uncertainty and exploitative labor practices, increasing wealth gap and decreasing wages? Seems like a recipe for depression.
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by 206lol 3y ago
Our schools are basically prisons these days - we drill kids to get them ready for tests, we demand perfect obedience, and we give kids little to no space to be kids. We're also increasingly letting clueless adults run things (see all
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by 206lol 3y ago
Interesting to see hp hit the front page twice in one week, once for "hp is the most vile business and their executives should be in jail" and then moments later "ooh, pretty laptop!" Seems like HP should be pretty unive
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by 206lol 3y ago
Post COVID? We're still seeing excess deaths, were still seeing long COVID absolutely wrecking lives, we're still totally unaware of the long term impacts of a COVID infection. I don't blame anyone who is looking at that and
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by 206lol 3y ago
Yes. He was captured by Calypso, and held on an island against his will. It's said he wept bitterly every night at the shore, longing to be back with his wife. He was not in control, he was not happy, he was not free to leave. So yeah,
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by 206lol 3y ago
Unionize your workplace
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by 206lol 3y ago
Offload most police duties to civilian organizations who are specifically trained to do them. Traffic enforcement doesn't need a gun. Mental health crisis intervention is made worse by cops. (A yelling homeless man doesn't need a
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by 206lol 3y ago
Many people say ACAB for this specific reason - cops work for moneyed interests. To be a cop is to defend the wealthy and corporate, axiomatically. Plenty of cops are nice people, but they're working for a system that fundamentally is
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by 206lol 3y ago
Me too, our difference is that I see relatively few leftist publications in tech. There's plenty of writing out there that supports Democrats, but the Dems are not leftist in any meaningful way.
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by 206lol 3y ago
There are other alternatives. For instance land held in common by small communities that care for and live on the land. Not everything needs to be individually owned or owned by some large central government.
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by 206lol 3y ago
For most of human history, no one owned land. There are systems beyond individual ownership and central government ownership.
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by 206lol 3y ago
Wired coming out swinging with an actual socialist/leftist/communist article? Color me impressed. In the states, the Democrats are often mislabeled as a lefty party, or mislabeled as socialists. People will call CNN Marxist. The
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by 206lol 3y ago
No reason to live in Seattle itself?! It's the best part of the Seattle area! The Eastside is sterile suburbia.
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by 206lol 3y ago
Here's the thing, though, Assange and WikiLeaks are complicated figures who have done good and evil things. They are fair targets for criticism, and it's genuinely ok for someone to draw the conclusion that, "given the critic
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by 206lol 3y ago
Zucks responses are incredibly out of touch, holy shit. I can absolutely see why staffers are losing trust. Mark is treating this as if everyone already agrees with the idea. Just, unbelievably callous.
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by 206lol 4y ago
Plenty of folks called those a scam too.
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by 206lol 4y ago
It's likely SVB has assets in excess of $250k per account. So if they are sold, I'd expect depositors to get at least $250k and possibly more, depending on how those assets are sold. It only becomes a bailout if the government pay
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by 206lol 4y ago
The guy seems incredibly driven, doing all sorts of stuff to improve access for people with disabilities, for instance. I'd assume Twitter was dysfunctional before this guy was.
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by 206lol 4y ago
They supplied data from the state showing the longer trend line. Scroll up a few comments. Both posters are correct, and supplied data. Crime rates are half what they used to be, that's true. Crime rates have also gone up very recent