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by bad-joke 7y ago
You may find community organizing rewarding. Depending on your comfort level, you can try things like: - Volunteer work - Participating in city/town board/council meetings - Direct action (eg the TN chapter of the DSA replaced tai
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Note: Be very careful /how/ you invoke your right to counsel in the US: > And when a suspect in an interrogation told detectives to "just give me a lawyer dog," the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the suspect was,
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by bad-joke 7y ago
> which helps technological change, which leads to a more efficient economy You made a leap of logic here. The technological innovations in finance directly contributed to a more volatile economy that crashed and inflicted massive losses
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by bad-joke 7y ago
The first citation on the page[1] mentions researcher Markus Krajewski who reviewed Phoebus records and concluded "It was the explicit aim of the cartel to reduce the life span of the lamps in order to increase sales [...] Economics, n
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by bad-joke 7y ago
That confused me too. Internet Archive has earliest at 10/17/2019[1] and the page contains a link[2] to the Sudo team security alert on 10/14/2019. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191017233613&#x2F
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by bad-joke 7y ago
That 401k isn't going to be very useful if you can't afford healthcare.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
The modern drug war was designed to be a cudgel aimed at political enemies, not a public health effort. Quoth Nixon's advisor John Ehrlichman: > The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the
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by bad-joke 7y ago
I'm not talking about price lists for procedures, I'm talking about price lists for deductibles and premiums on health insurance plans. Visit healthcare.gov and navigate to your state marketplace. They typically provide a detailed
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Price lists and comparisons are available for health insurance plans. That hasn't stopped premiums and deductibles from rising to the point of popular furor.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Not if you've installed Linux on it to run Folding@home!
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by bad-joke 7y ago
> If instead of almost 8 billion humans there were 4 billions we wouldn't be in this mess either. I'm not sure your logic follows. The US outputs roughly 13% of global CO2 emissions despite having 4% of the world population. If
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by bad-joke 7y ago
To counter your anecdote, cyclist deaths have risen lately in NYC to the point of public protest: > Aster Ryan, 25, of Wingate, said “this summer has felt especially dangerous.” In addition to the three cycling deaths that took place wit
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Perfect example. The Europeans moved on the Americas before they understood disease pathology, resulting in the deaths of up to 90% of the indigenous population.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
The executives are rewarded lavishly for owning the company. They should receive equally lavish punishment when that company inflicts damage.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
> If the subsidy were eliminated and insurance untied to employer you would have a huge step in the direction of unleashing market forces. That's exactly how things were in the 1930s. Healthcare was unaffordable to the degree of pub
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Our society is not geared towards sustainability. It rewards overproduction and overconsumption and harshly punishes those who fail to outcompete their neighbors on these terms. Given these constraints, what provides a greater return on you
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by bad-joke 7y ago
> Just that was the only way to access music back then? It wasn't the only way to access music back then. You had recorded media and live music. I'm not actually from around that time but I've been playing around with a Wa
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Without advertising, these people would be forced to implement a profitable monetization strategy, or they would fail. That's how capitalism and the free market is supposed to work. If you're worried about the well-being of these
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by bad-joke 7y ago
Medication, exercise, and mindfulness meditation were game changers for me. Meditation was effective because it sharpened my ability to detect when I lost focus and course-correct. With daily practice, this habit (mind wanders -> notice
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by bad-joke 7y ago
It's surprising in light of the prevailing idea that markets enforce competition towards the lowest price. This idea forms the basis of the claim that market-driven healthcare benefits consumers by lowering costs.
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by bad-joke 7y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that co-ops are supposedly more profitable than autocratic workplaces. Co-ops still compete in the marketplace but they distribute ownership and profit among the workers in a democratic f
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by bad-joke 7y ago
> In your view, what should Amazon do to not systemically oppress the working class? Convert itself into a co-op: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative#Definition_...
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by bad-joke 8y ago
> Otherwise the most vulnerable among us will just get pushed further to the fringes. The most vulnerable among us? Like the homeless? Amazon suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle pending the outcome of a City Council vote on
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by bad-joke 8y ago
> The reality of the business world today is that employment is at-will. There's nothing stopping employers doing the things described in this article. So I offered up a way that people I know have managed to improve their career ou
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by bad-joke 8y ago
> 1) Neurogenesis halts in your early 20s. After that, no new neurons for you, sorry. Although the connections may change. This statement as written is almost total nonsense. A cursory internet search yields abundant studies on adult neu
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by bad-joke 8y ago
> Labor != Value. I can go dig ditches in a yard for 10 years and not create any value. Well that really depends on a) whether someone (including you) wants or needs ditches (farming irrigation? undertaker? dog hiding bone?) and b) the a
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by bad-joke 8y ago
I tend to "think" in Logo. Often this comes down to shouting "forward" at slow pedestrians but thankfully my family has learned to keep me away from the reptile exhibit at the local zoo (I have been ejected several times
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by bad-joke 8y ago
1. The frustration you're experiencing is normal. Even if you switched to another field where you had an easier time at first, you'd eventually encounter the same frustration at a certain point. 2. You will get better with pract
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by bad-joke 8y ago
Relatively speaking, the majority of people have the capability to do almost anything. It's only a matter of time and resources. Natural abilities and genetics can accelerate the learning process, yes, but accelerated mastery is really

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