claudeganon

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by claudeganon 6y ago
I don’t think Republican opposition is the answer, as they’re demonstrably just as corrupt and self-serving. But California could certainly benefit from some primary challenges from the left. LA is seeing this happen with the election of Ni
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Prior to some big court cases and changes to repatriation law in the 80s and 90s, the mafia was heavily involved with looting archaeological heritage in places like Italy. Criminals would dig them up and move them through Swiss freeports us
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Pornhub was widely damaging to the “the vast majority of legitimate employees“ in the industry. It built itself by stealing their work using the paper-thin ruse of “user-uploaded” videos, pushing down wages, working conditions and establish
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by claudeganon 6y ago
My experience in New York and Los Angeles is that the natives are perfectly pleasant, so long as you’re aware of the local mores. The worst people are the people who move to cities and try and fit in by adopting some caricature of these cus
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by claudeganon 6y ago
> My coworkers from mainland China were concerned about our well-being and started shipping us KN95 masks My partner’s friend with family in China did the same thing for us. His dad was getting chemo and they had their family send a coup
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Advertising has done more damage to people’s mental health and self-image then just about any other industry.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Larian does a great job with their early access releases, soliciting the community to report bugs, play testing etc. I put like 70 hours into the new Baldur’s Gate on different builds and it’s only like a third of the game. There were a lot
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Jon Ronson's podcast "The Butterfly Effect" also does a great job of breaking down how damaging MindGeek's practices have been to workers and legitimate players in the industry: https://www.audible.com/pd
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I’d like to see some kind of platform penalties that are redistributed toward victims. Pornhub has made millions off things like pirated sex work and revenge uploads, while wiping out legitimate players in the industry and driving down wage
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Using chemical weapons is already a war crime, so governments just decided that the chemical weapons they use on their own people are not chemical weapons. Tear Gas was the first chemical weapon used in World War I: https://www
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Pinker’s use of statistics has been highly spurious, which is why he’s frequently drawn ire from N.N. Taleb and others: https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pinker.pdf
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by claudeganon 6y ago
> I find the holier than thou attitude based on European insecurity quite entertaining. I’m an American and my sentiments are based on watching what this country has done to my working class friends and family. I’m glad those things don’
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Will splitting off Instagram make a meaningful difference given how little protections there are around selling advertising data? I agree we would’ve been better off if they had never been allowed to buy Instagram AND we had meaningful laws
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The US' "shitty conditions" aren't limited to healthcare or housing (but also last time I checked, having health insurance doesn't mean you're actually going to receive the healthcare you need). Look at measure
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but watching someone who worked very hard their whole entire lives be blamed for their misfortune, humiliated, and denied access to treatment by the American system of benefits (not just hea
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I know. My mother was an immigrant to the US. I've also seen family members go broke and commit suicide after being unable to afford medical care that would otherwise would have been provided to them in more humane countries. Apologies
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Some people don't want to maintain the kind off dissonance required to turn a blind eye to the widespread failings and cruelty of American society. If I had to choose between going to sleep at night knowing that the people around me wo
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I don't mean to restate the point, but how else do you arrive at these shifts in world democracies without these ideologies spreading faster or becoming more prevalent? The former happening is contingent on the latter...
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by claudeganon 6y ago
>Ok, so what are the indications that violent, racist ideologies are spreading faster or to a greater degree today than at other times? Read the news? There’s been a huge upswing in far right politics dominating democracies worldwide, po
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by claudeganon 6y ago
If you have the study, I'd consider it, but second-hand anecdotes from the "nazi-adjacent" aren't really compelling evidence. Google did take some minor steps toward curbing things a year or two ago, but I don't kno
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Yes. Historically, new forms of mass communication have been always been used to stir up insanity and violence, dating back to the invention of the printing press. Wide distribution of Martin Luther's antisemitic screeds led to pogroms
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Given that YouTube's algorithms have been shown to push people toward content with more and more extreme views, I'm not sure why'd you'd think it would ever serve that purpose. https://dl.acm.org/doi&#x2F
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Do we actually know all the details of who they’ve contracted with? I wouldn’t be surprised if private healthcare providers in the UK already got their place in line.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Not to be pedantic, but Star Trek predicted that America would experience an extreme period of inequality and social decay in the 21st century, only finding its way out of its selfish, destructive ideology after being ravaged by nuclear war
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Other people’s labor is not a company’s private property. That was known as slavery and we have mostly abolished it in the developed world. But my point is that all of your arguments rest on an unquestioned assumption about how ownership tr
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by claudeganon 6y ago
I would assume that NSA spying is used primarily for insider trading and other forms of market manipulation.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
The entertainment industry makes plenty of money, they just disguise the profits through all kinds of trickery that make what tech companies do with tax shelters look childish by comparison. There’s a whole colloquial term for it, “Hollywoo
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by claudeganon 6y ago
"Los Angeles County contributed $656 billion in gross domestic product, or 27 percent of California’s economic output, in 2015, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the most-recent data available from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. T
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by claudeganon 6y ago
So just blanket appeals to authoritarianism then. Completely rational.
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by claudeganon 6y ago
Literally any country with strong laws protecting strikes and work stoppages? In many parts of Europe, I can convince my coworkers that our bosses are treating us unfairly, unsafely, etc, we can walk off the job and not get fired. I doubt a

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