extralego

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by extralego 6y ago
For me, the answer is dispiriting: Photoshop and Illustrator. There is no other way to have a standard Linux distro and Photoshop on the same workstation without some far out hacks.
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by extralego 6y ago
I used to think the same. Good article here with a bit more detail! https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/23/how-to-think...
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by extralego 6y ago
Why do some societies have the problem and others do not?
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by extralego 6y ago
Capitalism !== markets. Markets are much older than capitalism and will be around long after capitalism has come and went. Capitalism is merely a mode of production based on exploitation by control of capital.
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by extralego 6y ago
There is a article about that here: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/23/how-to-think...
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by extralego 8y ago
Bless this comment. I think this is a succinct representation of the struggles we are facing as a society.
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by extralego 8y ago
Right 10% would be overkill. I don’t think we should be aiming to sacrifice our livelihoods to be concrete block stacking addicted energy horarders, but I’m not entirely against that either. It’s hard to look at a solution so tangible and t
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by extralego 8y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is helpful info. If a tower crane did not need to be transported, how much would the design change? I’m guessing not much, but curious. I was imagining there would be no counterweight but just opposing loads, then I
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by extralego 8y ago
That’s not right. Aspergers is not associated with “not feeling fear.” If you’re just assuming this from your experiences with these individuals, you’re just assuming this , and might do well to expand your considerations of what different
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by extralego 8y ago
The drop of meeting “through friends” is the most interesting part of this cart.
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by extralego 8y ago
I’m surprised FastMail hasn’t made it.
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by extralego 8y ago
Not all. 70% of those ants are gonna go broke and get their homes foreclosed if they don’t get off their ass and get a job.
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by extralego 8y ago
The author is confused. He says he is a liberal “in the enlightenment sense.” He cites John Locke and John Stuart Mill. But then he makes a “contrast”: >In contrast, today’s so-called progressive liberals are often intolerant, calling f
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by extralego 8y ago
I think that’s close, but until a technical solution to this comes around, we’ve got to look elsewhere. An easy target is saying the government is too powerful. That would be a mistake. If Facebook were more powerful than the government, we
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by extralego 8y ago
Never seen somebody younger than me working at a Dollar General. My point is that something is definitely wrong. But to blame this on the workers is immoral, heartless, definitely a sign you have something wrong with yourself. So I’m assumi
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by extralego 8y ago
Since when was “cashier” a manual labor position? “Stocking staff” might be, and is consistently paid a higher wage because of that. These people are hired as cashiers. The “additional job duties” are where the manual labor comes in. We are
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by extralego 8y ago
This was not an act of nature. It was the manager cutting the costs. 80 degrees is not a normal accepted indoor temperature. This is unusual punishment given the context and norms. Expecting something different from a job outdoors or in a
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by extralego 8y ago
Very upsetting. Also, the delivery and form was so simplified. I feel like what we were taught in school had one of 2 forms: 1) Bite size good/bad characterizations of involved nuanced processes. 2) Objectifying factoids on the materia
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by extralego 8y ago
These places are just awful. I went in one last summer and the girls working there were drenched in sweat. The management refused to set the thermostat below 80 degrees! And the cashiers had to stock shelves when there are no customers at
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by extralego 8y ago
Ugh. Yeah that might even be the worst part. It’s far from obvious because it’s so far out of eyesight.
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by extralego 8y ago
Agreed. Anyone reading Vox would do themselves a favor to replace it with Jacobinmag.com
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by extralego 8y ago
This is so refreshing to read! I was smh while reading the whole thread, got to your comment and was reminded there is some sanity left in the world after all.
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by extralego 8y ago
WTF is “culture fit”??!
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by extralego 8y ago
Wow I never thought of it like that! If you have any pride in what you’re doing, I see that as a problem. Maybe you’re helping, but we will never be sure if you’re making things worse.
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by extralego 8y ago
This sounds like a misunderstanding. ‘Consumer activism’ is, in so many words, not activism. It describes the effort of working towards greater change through purchasing decisions . It’s a liberal rationalization common in capitalist soc
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by extralego 8y ago
That’s an important point that not many people realize about unions. Unions are great, when they are great. The West Virginia teacher strikes were wildcat strikes, meaning they did not have the support of their union. The union was again
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by extralego 8y ago
Exactly. Consumer activism and job shaming is a moot effort. Useless. What have they ever accomplished? The only way to make a difference here is by standing together.
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by extralego 8y ago
> Does the public care about privacy? The answer is certainly “yes”. There’s a difference between caring and having any power to do anything about it. It’s time to move on from Consumer activism. This nonsense of blaming people for the
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by extralego 8y ago
Sounds like smart thinking to me. I do similar rationalizing myself, and I wouldn’t worry too much what others think. These things are tough to reconcile but we are all wrestling with them, and we have to keep our heads healthy to contend.
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by extralego 8y ago
Depends on your standards for “problem”, which is conceptually a statement I myself find frustrating, so i can see where you’re coming from. But, we should try and be considerate when we define “problem”. LA has no shortage of serious trans

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