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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I think of "wokeness" as ultra-generic. It really is. Those who embody it may have "Resist" in their Twitter bio, yet their purported values align with virtually all of the 1%, the corporations, the banks, the media
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>Is it time to quit tech? >I have taken some time off work recently to travel and unwind. No. Go fully remote, travel and see out the rest of your career. Software dev has about 10 years left as a viable career until it's as comm
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I hope that Texans find some way to deal with the growing Californian infestation sooner rather than later.
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>Poor people are often better informed the richer people. I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm still going to ask for some proof to the above?
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>Then perhaps folks living internationally shouldn't be taxed. I 100% agree. This is unique to the USA, as far as I understand it, and only applicable to those earning over $100K, but in my opinion no non-resident should be taxed.
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If it were so important you’d think people would treat it as such, and yet a look at any election or referendum shows the majority simply do not. Indeed the USA, that great “exporter of democracy” has turned their right to vote into somethi
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>Mental health If you're mentally unfit to contribute to society then I believe you to be unfit to weigh in on our governance. >unemployment I previously mentioned within x amount of years (where x is deemed reasonable) to accoun
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The disabled aside, no, I do not believe people who are withdrawing more from their society than they are depositing should be given a say in the governance of that society.
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>I personally think that if we aren’t going to let someone vote then we shouldn’t ask them to pay tax either. Agreed. Conversely I believe that people who haven't paid tax in a reasonable amount of years, through either not generati
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>we need some sort of poll test to make sure people are educated on issues before voting We've decided to go the opposite direction. The US media, celebrities, big companies, etc. have all decided that a huge low-information voter t
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
What Reddit started as, and what is has become, are two entirely different beasts in virtually every manner.
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> Why should two people adding the same amount of value to a company be compensated differently? You're not paid based on the value you create. You're paid as little as a company can get away with paying you.
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>people would flood to it lowering the pay enough that this was not an issue. This is already in progress and we'll get there before you know it.
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>The whole move to streaming is going to not live up to it's promise. It's already ruined. Gave it a chance. Forked over more and more for subscriptions and still the content fragmented. Cancelled everything and went back to to
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You should probably get your testicles checked out by a professional if you find these experiences roughly equivalent in nature.
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>The company I work for follows several practices Google and Spotify follow, even though they don't make sense for us. So your company is cargo culting "thought leadership" from Google, you can see it's a poor fit and
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I quite literally laughed out loud. Well done.
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Why would Europe be an attractive proposition for people leaving India?
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Are people being forced to work for him?
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>The future looks bleak with China set to become the global leader We get what we deserve. At least two generations have stood by and allowed the West and its influence on the world stage to be degraded and eroded without so much as batt
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Ah, but Orwell had no idea how much convenience we can get in return for shedding our privacy and learning to love the state.
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>With the extreme H1B conditions at the moment, it's unlikely people will take extra steps to just get to the US when they can try setting it up in India. Would those interested in H1Bs but who are struggling to get one not simply g
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>Is there any real proof that these diversity sessions actually help people work in diverse environments? I read a study a while back, which I can't find right now, that concluded that these sessions do more harm than good in the wo
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>it's not really about racism for the people that are doing this. It's about power and is using something people are very unlikely to disagree with to grab at power. "We're anti-racists, therefore if you oppose us or
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>I think the main culprit exacerbating this is the main stream media. I understand your argument but I also in no way want to distract from the culpability owned by social media companies, their product designers and managers, and the pe
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At this point in time I’d almost go as far as saying those working in something as ethically disagreeable as cigarette production would be justified in guffawing at the hypocrisy should some tech worker bring up the morality of their work w
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I’m not sure what spurred you into action to offer up... well this ... but do please keep in mind that many of us outside the USA don’t put money ahead of literally everything else in life as most Americans seem to.
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The reason stuff like this gets flagged is, in my opinion, that while the underlying issue is of relevant interest (stinking tech companies caught poisoning yet another thing), it’s too close to simple politics to prevent a thread full of h
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
> Taking this as some anti-conservative war from the tech industry is super misleading. Very wrong, but we both know that. Not the brightest war for leftie tech companies to be provoking though.
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by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Interesting that it starts with Bret Weinstein who just yesterday was banned from Facebook without reason, his account restored after uproar that included Tulsi Gabbard, and then given an official reason that it was a "mistake" fr

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