RandoHolmes

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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
gasp YOU MEAN THE SLAVE OWNER POINTED TO THE CURRENT LAWS TO DEFEND THEIR POSITION!?!??! Well that worked out well in terms of their history, lmao. Please, keep telling me how the site guidelines for a random website somehow protect you f
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
omg, you're so right! The blogger had to be scouted by the agency, which used agency resources, therefore the blogger is totally liable for that risk!!!!!oneoneoneneoneshiftoneshiftoneshiftoneshiftone. -- Imagine a world in which the r
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
No one is saying that current laws aren't bullshit, they obviously are. The point is that that if Uber goes away, it won't stop people from paying for rides. It's a bit like claiming if Hershey's claimed that people woul
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
You pulled those numbers out of your ass... The truth is that 99% of the population believes that homosexual couples will have less children then heterosexual... The surprising result for the uneducated? That homosexual couples have any ch
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I'd like to buy "what is stockholm's syndrome for 500 alex!". https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome The better question. Are you implying this doesn't exist and therefore the w
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
How can we know that eggs are tasty unless a 3rd party tells us! I won't quote the science, I'll simply say that things are knowable outside of a system...
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I would like for you to define 'free will' in such a way that it cannot, in any way, include slavery. And you must do so by not explicitly defining it as 'not slavery'. go.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
It's almost as if defining anything as a "mathematical truth" is definitionally wrong and anyone having done so should be called out as a liar. Only the person who responded to the person who made such a statement were more p
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Thank you, I took the same issue you did when reading this. There are not "truths" in mathematics, it's literally a system of logic with definitions at the bottom (axioms) and then a following of the results based upon the ag
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I don't know, anything that implied dogs being raped would have been rejected by me, a layperson who grew up with dogs. Your argument seems to be more about "because some people were duped, it's ok to assume reasonable people
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Maybe this particular study, but I have to say I believe it in general. I remember working for a manufacturing company where I drove a forklift (during the summer). One of my most vivid memories is walking into the breakroom and seeing on t
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I guess slavery is worth having since someone, somewhere, "chose" to do it... Wait, what's that!?!? Are you saying it's acceptable for society to make decisions for those who don't have the leverage to protect them
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Why would it be unethical to cut out the middle man?? Oh nooo!?!?! How dare I hire that blogger directly, I'll go to jail/be fined for not going through a hiring agency!?!?! You realize that stupid opinions exist, right?
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Several in fact! But to take your implication head on, I once worked for a company whose owner decided to do this stuff himself. It resulted in several instances of people going unpaid for a few days and the owner sending out an email basic
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
that's the wrong attitude. That would be like a layman hearing someone say "general AI isn't possible, their claims are bollocks" and someone responding with "maybe that's true, but do you have a background in
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
I just want to say that this is an attitude that's come up over time and as an older person it baffles me. To explain, college curriculum's require atleast 1 public speaking class. These classes are infamously difficult for a lot
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Many people don’t have such abilities, and 95% of the people I know never needed to present something to any audience so they don’t have experience in it either. You act as if the people listening aren't aware of this. What is it
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
It's not possible to create a "perfect" interview process. I can literally give your criticism to every single interview process you can ever imagine and be correct in that criticism. It's akin to saying that because so
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
What baffles me is that you wrote this after my edit and are still pretending that I was suggesting hours long powerpoint presentations when I very specifically said otherwise.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Previously in our history, you could apprentice and earn almost nothing while you learned a trade. To me, this is much better than paying a school to earn a trade and interning for free. I think you should read up on guilds and how the
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Safety standards could be addressed by insurability, and this is really a very separate concept from wage. Sorry, but no. And I'm going to judge you for having that opinion. The idea that it's acceptable for a human being to
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
As a software developer, if I were asked to sweep the floors I'd probably find another company to work for. Or maybe not depending on how much I cared about the company, but most likely I would. So for these companies, it's requir
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> Why would I pay an uneducated, inexperienced person to sweep floors $20 per hour? I’ll do it myself first. Because you don't want to do it or you don't have the time. If I could pay someone 1 cent per hour to wipe my ass crac
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> And if we as a society decide that people should have health care, food to eat, and shelter , we shouldn’t put the burden on private companies. Why? Do they not benefit from the same healthy society that's created from this?
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> These jobs did not exist pre-ride-sharing companies. Is it your contention that taxi's didn't exist pre-Uber? Or that Taxi's weren't jobs done by ordinary people? I can tell you as someone who is over 40, I would
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
You can imagine just these sorts of arguments being raised when things like the 40 hour work week was going into effect. And yet, here we are, years later, with the 40 hour work week and companies somehow successfully surviving.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Oh dear god, found the person who has never been homeless. Do you REALLY believe that laws that, say... limit how much interest you can charge on a loan CREATE vulnerability and marginalization? Seriously?
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> However, I think that trying to place market restrictions on two parties making an agreement is not the right way to go about it. There are restrictions placed around how much you can charge in interest for taking a loan. Imagine if s
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
Having been homeless in my life, I agree with you and I submit anyone who disagrees with you has lived a charmed life.
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by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> The implication being that without such laws, enslavement of children, poisoning and maiming of workers, and other horrors would be totally legal in America? Perhaps you don't recall the number of years in which slavery was legal

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