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by ahoy 4mo ago
AI is largely unpopular outside of the tech & business worlds. Most laypeople see it as falling on a spectrum between unwanted and annoying (google getting worse, AI chatbots proliferating in every app and site) to actively harmful (job
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by ahoy 4mo ago
hn is not a single person, there are a variety of people here with a variety of experiences and opinions and biases.
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by ahoy 4mo ago
Great analogy! Unfortunately we are the sulfur breathers.
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by ahoy 10mo ago
The first point is true of most employment, unless you're one of the ~10% of US employees with a union contract. Your paycheck is always subject to the whims of your employer. I don't have a great solution for the 2nd issue you po
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by ahoy 11mo ago
you guys won, what do you want?
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by ahoy 1y ago
New england's suburbs & small towns are the outlier in the US. I grew up in the south and my experience exactly mirrors that of the CA resident you're responding to. No amount of cultural change is going to make suburban charl
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by ahoy 1y ago
Because you have to live in a society with those other people. Because that's going to be YOU in the future. Because it's going to be your kids, your cousins, your neighbors.
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by ahoy 1y ago
Was apartheid South Africa not an ethnostate then? Was the US south during slavery not an ethnostate? I almost wonder if your comment itself is Israeli propaganda.
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by ahoy 1y ago
There is value in studying things that are "settled" science. You can reinforce or deepen the existing understanding, or uncover nuance that wasn't widely understood before. Note that this link is not the study! The published
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by ahoy 2y ago
I had this experience a couple years ago. I hate dentists man
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by ahoy 2y ago
I don't think Funko Pops and housing are comparable.
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by ahoy 2y ago
The title of this post is taken from the linked page's title element. It's likely that the NYT changed the headline on the page after publication but did not update the title element to match. Happens all the time
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by ahoy 3y ago
The NYC police budget has increased every year since the "defund the police" movement. In fact, our cop mayor is slashing the budgets of almost every city office except the NYPD. "Crime" is not at the core of this chan
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by ahoy 3y ago
I moved here about 10 years ago in my mid 20s. It's certainly more expensive and annoying to find housing here than other places I've lived, but it's more than balanced out by needing to own an automobile. The average cost of
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by ahoy 3y ago
It doesn't matter if everyone in lubbock drives cars, thats obviously not what this thread of discussion is about and you know it. It matters if everyone in Austin/Dallas/Houston is forced to drive cars. Quit being dense on p
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by ahoy 3y ago
It's an incredible crime that basically no american can live within 5 miles of their work. Car companies ad the government that capitulated to them fucked us so bad.
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by ahoy 3y ago
"suburbs" dont have to be the unwalkable disasters that we've made them. Brooklyn Heights was "america's first suburb." People moved there from Manhattan seeking everything you just mentioned.
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by ahoy 3y ago
I don't want more labels. I don't want to have to be an "informed consumer" when im buying cookware in order to know whats going to give me cancer. Those products shouldn't exist.
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by ahoy 3y ago
In the sense that it's not been implemented, yeah, its not working.
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by ahoy 3y ago
DC already has an enormous police:population ratio. If more policing were the answer, surely DC would be on the forefront of using police to stop traffic violations. Police cannot effectively solve this issue. This requires engineering. DC&
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by ahoy 3y ago
Stop signs basically dont work anywhere. If you want people to drive slowly, you have to build streets that make them do so. If anyone is interested in this stuff, the youtube channel NotJustBikes talks a lot about this and related topics.
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by ahoy 3y ago
I don't think analyzing this issue from the perspective of individual interactions is useful. Even in safe, walkable cities, some pedestrians will be reckless. Even in Phoenix AZ, some drivers will be courteous toward walkers. All that
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by ahoy 3y ago
Exactly. You can't "fix" most of our cities overnight, but you could do a lot to make them a lot better within about a decade.
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by ahoy 3y ago
Kaczynski was essentially a blackpilled fascist. He spends the huge bulk of his manifesto ranting against leftism. I think its fine to attack the ideas as well.
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by ahoy 3y ago
Most rats are too big for the average cat to prey on. Mice sure. Rats get quite large. Imagine trying to fight a medium sized dog. You'd probably win, but after 2 or 3 encounters like that you'd probably get hurt. That's a ba
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by ahoy 3y ago
Here's the link to the Florida Atlantic University article that this piece summarizes https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/perfect-pathogen-storm
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by ahoy 3y ago
I don't think its "a shame" at at all. The obvious and most important issue here is that the debt collection industry is evil and immoral. Those "worst abuses" aren't outliers, they're standard practice. &
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by ahoy 3y ago
This is really dreadful, in multiple ways. Hopefully this post gets removed.
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by ahoy 3y ago
It's not good for anyone. It's bad for customers, who feel squeezed at every little transaction. It's bad for employees, whose income depends on customers giving into that squeeze. An acquaintance of mine runs a coffee shop i
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by ahoy 3y ago
And DC has wide streets & building height limits!

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