alldayeveryday

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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> we have freedom of association, and a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own. Yes and no. Take the Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. In this case, the Supreme Cou
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Define "good" chunk. Or better yet, can you give one good example of where BDS is anti-semitic and another example where it is not? For bonus points, can you explain why BDS is bad policy for the USA without calling it anti-semiti
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Did you even bother checking? https://www.epa.gov/flint > Since January 2016, EPA has been monitoring compliance with its emergency administrative order (as amended) to ensure that Flint’s drinking water system continues
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
The EPA famously declared the air safe following 9/11. Their credibility is, at least for me personally, negligible. The flint water crisis and the Gold King Mine are other examples. People are rightfully worried and angered. Your dism
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I find it both odd and interesting that this topic, and so many others in our culture, boils down to whether someone/something is racist or not. Racism has become the ultimate morality test. Someone got ChatGPT to say the N-word. Queue
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
From their website: Chief Diversity Officer - ... responsible for guiding and scaling inclusion strategy and diversity initiatives across Twilio's global workforce Chief People Officer - .. responsible for driving the talent developmen
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I think your analysis is a good one given the data we have, and can be used to draw some conclusions or guide general discussion. However the analysis is indeed limited by the data available. The AAA data does not consider variability by ge
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> For better or worse, both major parties in US noted that you can make anything work well if you compare the other team to nazis. Agreed, I think this serves a common purpose as other generalized propaganda on the subject. The idea is t
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> I would like to think you are not suggesting those solutions implemented. Why not? Cause the current ruling class frowns up it? > I am going to bow out should it happen here. Then the system propaganda has worked fully. You police y
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Eh, the US didn’t fund the German recovery. I think you seem to be confusing pre WW2 Germany (30s) and post war Germany (50s). The German state before national socialism was having hyper inflation, spiraling unemployment and a failing econo
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Wages peaked at 7.3%, not averaged that over the 12 month period.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> … is shared sacrifice similar to how a war effort is sold. You actually posed a solution here not a disproof. Yes all this requires selling changes to the public and under a social message. One doesn’t need math to know this, it is int
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Exercise: make the turtle move around the screen
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
To your point about services reduction, I don't agree. I think more of a re-allocation of where capitol is going is the cure. We should increase or create new social programs that incentivize native births, home ownership, making it po
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Inflation began to spike in the U.S. in April of 2021, when it hit 4.2%. Inflation continued to climb, hitting 7% year-over-year by December 2021. Sadly, 2022 didn’t see any slowdown in inflation as the rate peaked at 9.1% in June. Starting
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
AI is too broad a term so as to be useful for such questions. What is artificial intelligence? Let's look at an app like Apple Maps. Knowing my search history and showing it to me is a form of intelligence. Knowing I have something in
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
which says a lot if the economy is disconnected from the prosperity and economic outlook of the majority of people. In such a case, a "good economy" is just a synonym for "elite are still doing well."
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> The short of it... did CEOs really make any significant mistakes? Or did they just take advantage of the market conditions in predictable ways? i.e. They did their jobs as it's currently incentivized. Agreed with your argument, an
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Another variable to consider: the 2020 - 2022 market was rewarding growth (as opposed to profitability or being cash-flow positive). The Corporate loan interest rate was practically 0%. Companies which could show growth, even at the expense
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Your whole argument is based on the premise that statements made in anger cannot be true. And the focus on emotional state is typical ad hominem attack. You did not refute the content in any way.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Agreed. While much criticism gets directed to the leadership for irresponsible hiring and operations, the market dynamics of today which are motivating businesses to cut costs, were at an earlier time motivating businesses to rapidly grow a
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I see it differently. i think the playbook is that the system generates a counterculture to control the opposition narrative. The systems greatest trick as Ted K put it. Sure, the hippie movement was branded countercultural. But to what pur
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I think we have a diff definition of white.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
A given queer person's level of identification with the broader community is of no relevance to the question of whether the broader culture of the community is countercultural. When the culture itself is used as a political tool by a s
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> ... mean that the majority white, straight, Christian(ish) majority in America doesn't still wield most of the power. yeah, except for finance, media, academia and politics. I do agree that straight white christian(ish) males do w
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I guess I just have the view that if I am turning on the radio, the TV, watching a movie, a tv show, celebrity voices, the state department, etc - and I am seeing the counterculture, then I am actually just seeing the culture.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> First, you lump all of queer culture into one group, a false categorization without which your augment fails. In fact, I do lump them onto one group. Many subgroups inside a group. You know who I am referring to when I say queer cultur
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Disagree. I think your social status has more to do with your conformity to neoliberal values than it does money. Sure, money can buy nice things and attract friends. Just look at Kanye.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Another hard agree. I always get a good laugh when people in queer culture claim to be living a counter culture lifestyle. Meanwhile the US state department is flying the queer flag at its embassies around the world and using it to agitate
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Blooomberg: Brexit is costing the UK economy £100 billion a year Translation: The financial elite are losing £100 billion a year. Peasants, you should care too.

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