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by hello_computer 1y ago
In those WWII days, you could make an acceptable living doing good research. You wouldn't become a billionaire, but you'd definitely make enough to support a family. Somewhere along the line, it became a winner-take-all gold-r
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by hello_computer 1y ago
" are " not " were "
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by hello_computer 1y ago
raiding old ladies' pensions and listening in on everybody's conversations does not put you in the same game as the guy who discovered penicillin.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
present tense, mercenary. present tense. contrary to what your ego says, you are not isaac newton. make your drones. kill us all with them. as you gloat, your masters point them at you.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Most of our “brains” are mercenaries, who are actually a net loss to the country if you judge by anything other than the stock market. Look at what happened to SoCal! You are all welcome to our fintech/biotech/adtech/survei
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The college deportations are the government, but I would guess that the Meta compliance has more to do with the fact that Cheryl Sandberg is a politically-connected turbo-Zionist. I wish we were neutral on this issue. As an American, it is
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Technology of all sorts. Engineering, finance, management, etc. I am leaning more on the Steiner interpretation than the strict Zoroastrian one. One could also say " The Devil ", but that will really get you people squealing.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The brilliant thing is that they have woven it deep into the retirement ponzi-schemes, so nothing short of a cataclysm will unwind it. There is also the Machiavellian consideration of external threats. We need these corporations to make th
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by hello_computer 1y ago
You can have a market economy without immortal corporations. This is something Quigley pointed out a long time ago. The varieties of persona ficta we have created is unlike anything in history. Even the old British charters were limite
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The very wealthy and the very poor two sides of the same coin. Where there is one, the other is sure to be found. My personal experience has been that the wealthy horde more property than they can lease or employ. Hobos find and fill the
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by hello_computer 1y ago
that's what happens when the people leave https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/30/population-drops-even-more...
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Seems kinda crazy that so much power was ever vested in the president. https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435
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by hello_computer 1y ago
It's Elon's dogecoin pump & dump all over again. I should have kept an eye on twitter!
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by hello_computer 1y ago
It's common sense. That is why it has endured . You people are like mob hitmen standing in moral judgment of your Godfathers. Without your muscle, your Godfather is just an old guy with pasta and a cigar. The "difference&quot
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by hello_computer 1y ago
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more
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by hello_computer 1y ago
repeated for thread continuity : The West is not The World. There are over a billion Chinese, Indians, Africans… Words mean things. Who said tree hugger? If you are an apex predator living in an increasingly cloudy tank, there is an obviou
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Stating it in patronizing fact-checker tone does not make it true. The tech nerds started it ( they love cheap labor pools ). Then the politicians joined their masters’ bandwagon. It was a PR blitz. Who has the money for those? Dorseys
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by hello_computer 1y ago
there has been far more degradation to the natural environment than mere air pollution. general sherman decimated the plains indians with a memorandum. do you think that you are sufficiently better and sufficiently more indispensable than
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The Davos class was highly concerned about ecology before Davos was even a thing. In America, their minions (the “coastie” class) are coming to see the liquidation of the kulaks as perhaps not such a bad thing. If it devolves into a “let
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by hello_computer 1y ago
So many types of mining have loads of fluoride or heavy metals to discard. Since we’re dealing with minerals, in some cases visual inspection & sorting is sufficient. In other cases where high purity is required, may need to dissolve&
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by hello_computer 1y ago
“learn to code” was from the media. whether they deserve to be classified as “creatives” i will leave to the philosophers.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
But why will that happen? If they have robots and AI and all the money, what’s stopping the powers that be from disposing of the excess biomass?
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by hello_computer 1y ago
It’s karma. The creatives weren’t terribly concerned when the factory guys lost their jobs. “ Lern to code! ” Now it’s our turn to “ Learn to OnlyFans ” or “ Learn to Homeless ”
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The devil is in the details. Even though all minerals contain impurities, NPK fertilizer is processed to reduce them to acceptable levels for agriculture. If they did not do this, places dosed with large quantities of it ( year after year
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by hello_computer 1y ago
I think anyone who has done the work quickly realizes all of that ( i.e. no point kicking Ted while he’s down ). Just thought it odd that the article is citing Ted to endorse the anti-Ted.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
This person is confused. He's citing a Ted Nelson paper about separating these things into layers (content, structure, & special effects), while personally advocating that we mash it all into unicode. https://www.xml.co
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by hello_computer 1y ago
That is a very long way to say, " That's why I keep a picture to remember her by. "
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The global economy is a complex system. Far more complex than software. All of the nerds will adjust their pocket protectors and spew their dubious word-salad (for or against), but the fact of the matter is that nobody truly knows what th
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by hello_computer 1y ago
I’d worry more about the leaded avgas they still use in prop planes—thousands of bored doctors, lawyers, & execs spew it into the atmosphere every weekend.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Norm is a hero.

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