bertiewhykovich

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Fairfax County, USA(jacobinmag.com)
1 points by bertiewhykovich 10y ago|0 comments
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
"Silicon Valley seems to have lost a bit of its verve since the Presidential election. The streets of San Francisco—spiritually part of the Valley—feel less crowded. Coffee-shop conversations are hushed. Everything feels a little muted
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
This is moronic. - Psychotherapy can take years to work. Three months is nothing. - What in the fuck? - lol yeah sedate your spouse. Careful you don't get ripped off! Mother's little helper should be cheap. - get your prescription
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Shlock. The writer is satisfied with the world he inhabits, is not particularly aggrieved by the powers that be, has not been particularly failed -- and therefore takes umbrage at the suggestion that the established order might not be both
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
> If they're all rational I feel you, but that assumption is where this argument diverges from reality.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I recently watched "Command And Control" ( http://www.commandandcontrolfilm.com ) on a whim. I hadn't read up about the film before seeing it, so I understood "nuclear missile accident" to mean, presumably
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
While there's a grain of truth to this, to insist on this generalization is to twist Stallman's meaning to suit your own purposes. It's quite clear that Stallman is, here, speaking /quite specifically/ about corpora
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
"If corporations dominate society and write the laws, then each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users." Also, you definitely can, tongue-in-cheek, call a general statement
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I very much disagree that they do nothing to promote constructive discussion. They put a fine point on the absurdities of the position mocked -- hardly unconstructive.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
It's good and not at all insane that I make $100,000/year for dicking around on a computer every day. Those poors just aren't creating value.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Conveying sarcasm may not be one of yours.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
God forbid those proles vote, or -- horror of horrors -- have one of the most fulfilling human experiences! They should all be disenfranchised and sterilized.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
but neoliberalism is good and without any drawbacks. the unhaltered gallop of technology will have no bad consequences whatsoever.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Please just read Marx already.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm sympathetic to your point. But ultimately I gotta disagree with the premise of your argument -- specifically, that the misery of being a cuckold makes the use of the term "cuck" unacceptable. Much to the contrary, I think
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Look, dude, it's not about inherent worth. Framing these discussions in such terms is a rhetorical trick to evade their actual subject matter. The real issue is that being cheated on, of losing "sexual control" over your part
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I'm rooting against you, pal. Cheers.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Yeah man, it's crazy misogynistic to suggest that men don't like it when their wife sleeps with another man.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The linked article suggests that the models in the animation are supposed to represent 21st-century vices. That's all very well and good, but "The Garden of Earthly Delights" wasn't supposed to (and doesn't) represe
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
That's delightful.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
The Pharcyde's video for "The Drop" was filmed entirely in reverse. They apparently worked with a linguist to work out mouth movements that would sync to the lyrics when played backwards. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
it was good
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
While a government that's "monolithic and controlling but keeps the trains running on time" is clearly a bad thing, it's not clear that the same holds for computers -- particularly for your average user. I'm not too
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Ask the facts, man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaura...
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
why would it be able to?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Are you arguing that it's /ethical/ for businesses to behave in these ways, or that it's /unsurprising/ that they do so? I'm confused.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
You guys really love cop-outs, huh?
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
As Matt Bruenig has noted, the BATNA for many workers is dire poverty. Quitting isn't that easy.
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
I've developed an algorithm that significantly improves any concept. The creativity barrier has been broken by my might -- the line between computers and humans shattered. The source code is below: its elegance is staggering. def
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by bertiewhykovich 10y ago
Saw this article and just ran with the title, eh? https://www.libertariannews.org/2012/11/15/meat-packing-lies... Turns out it doesn't actually "expose the fiction of 'The Jungle.'" I

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