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by bendigedig 11mo ago
Yeah, but then the comment was making sweepingly generalised statements based off personal experiences.
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by bendigedig 11mo ago
In my view a superabundance of irrelevant choices blinds most folks to the lack of more politically important choices which are denied to most. Perhaps the contemporary fight back against 'woke' is really about the important and e
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by bendigedig 11mo ago
> America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy America is Sliding Towards Autocracy - FTFY
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by bendigedig 11mo ago
> There is strong precedent for the US defending the 1st amendment against foreign interests. How does this ruling affect the company's right to free speech in the US? It's a fine for refusing to comply with a law in the UK; an
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by bendigedig 11mo ago
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by bendigedig 11mo ago
I think that's just Americans tbh.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Just because they've blocked UK users doesn't mean they aren't making revenue from advertising operating via the UK.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
He's the ultimate product of a dysfunctional civil service; what else could be expected other than dis-empowering people, ignoring democracy, and increasing bureaucratic power?
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Don't banks demand your National Insurance number already in order to open an account?
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by bendigedig 1y ago
If nanny state keep bailing comapnies out, how will they learn to stand on their own two feet? /s
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by bendigedig 1y ago
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I like the fact that it attempts to provide an alternative narrative to the artificial medicalisation of 'mental illness'. Maybe it isn't totally factually accurate but it has enough truth to me that it represents a small fli
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by bendigedig 1y ago
If you're well off economically, then maybe. But outside of the freedom in how you spend whatever money you are able to 'earn', I'd argue that the Western model of life (i.e. work) is pretty damn authoritarian. It's
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Vibe correlations
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by bendigedig 1y ago
If the broader economic system wasn't based on what is essentially theft, security wouldn't be as necessary as it is.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> This wasn't an "Apple only" law -- it would have affected all platforms with data on customers that live outside the UK. Yeah, the law still exists. Apple just successfully managed to refuse to comply with a request made
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by bendigedig 1y ago
What I'm saying is that people in certain regions actually say "should of" instead of "should've". And yes, there can be and often is a difference between saying "should've" and "should of&q
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> Do you mean "should've"? That's a common contraction of "should" and "have." In many American accents, the difference between "should've" and "should have" is negligible,
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I think "Try and X" means "Try to X and do X" which means to my mind means to attempt and, upon success of the trial, to complete X. "I’ll try and eat the salad." could be expressed as "I'll try eatin
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Can I let my AI chat bot do the interview for me? I want to filter out all of the crap companies before I commit my time to actually talking to them.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
All ass, zero class?
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> Keep up the good work! Sounds a little tone deaf/hollow to me. I'd encourage people to find ways to look after themself so that they don't feel like they have to keep stubbornly plodding on.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
And is it going to harvest the free blackberries I'm enjoying when I go on a walk? I don't think so.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Welcome to the sticking plaster economy. This may be the economic orthodoxy, but it completely ignores the root causes of poor productivity - and ultimately leads to the state of xenophobia you're seeing today in Britain.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
Dear reader, the women were the creeps.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I am not sure victim blaming is really an issue given this applies to the hyper-rational world of corporations. One of the problems with victim blaming is that it typically ignores power dynamics at play and blames the powerless. I think th
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I think you're missing the point by a mile. The point isn't some tedious debate over grammar; it's about the choice of language that perpetuates the idea that suicide is a tragedy that happens passively 'to people'
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by bendigedig 1y ago
> Meta has suffered zero liability in the EU. I guess because Zuc gives money to transgenders or something. I'm sorry, but are you a real person?
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I think it's interesting to see how much panic, head burying, and fascist apologia there is around.
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by bendigedig 1y ago
I installed e/os on my phone the other day and haven't encountered any serious drawbacks yet.

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