carpet_wheel

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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
Incarceration rates right now in 2023 too. Slavery is outlawed, unless...
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
Good luck finding this guy's neck for the guillotine with that weak chin. He could probably slide right out of the pillory! This must be what they mean about superior genes.
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
We create misery and then distribute poison to escape it. Ugly way of disposing of the unwanted, but it can serve as a warning to the rest.
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
The opioid epidemic is at the heart of these issues. Maybe Oregon voters were naive, or maybe fentanyl is just too poisonous to really be considered a drug. If you grew up in the rust belt, none of this is new. Kids were ODing in middle sch
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
You just did it again, trying to steer the conversation to something that not at the heart of the discussion. This is the parent: It's clear by now this isn't the case of a few bad apples - our scientific institutions are system
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
No one is shocked by the concept of misconduct occurring, the issue here is that it is no longer surprising when those committing the misconduct end up running the organization. You can pretend that the conversation is about whether scienti
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
What kind of weak cop out is this? It's the president of the school, not some miscreant child. Pathetic.
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
Get an answer the execs don't like? Time to retrain! Could be AI or human resources, it doesn't matter.
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
Rust: Half the women, twice the mansplaining
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
Remember when these guys were the young upstarts, disrupting big business and scoring points for the little guy? How bravely they have transitioned into collecting our eyeball scans and courageously hoarding billions of dollars while the pl
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
I'd love to see it. Probably the quickest way to end imperialism would be to force Americans to do the dirty work themselves.
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by carpet_wheel 3y ago
The rub for me is how you are expected to show all the signs of motivation/passion throughout your career to anyone above you in the hierarchy who asks, but are then (as you describe) inevitably punished for it if you accidentally take
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by carpet_wheel 4y ago
"Anyone who takes 6 months of paternity leave is a loser" "I had to flee SF, the city literally built in my VC image, because someone said some mean words to me" These people are a parody of themselves. Talent-less rich