p0pcult

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by p0pcult 3y ago
Not op, but >she would always sit in with another interviewer and never ask any questions of the candidates. She would just observe.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
The second sentence of the article strongly implies some nefarious concentration of power and wealth among the globally powerful countries is at the root of the popularity of mercator projections.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Nobody felt entitled to 5 day work weeks before the labor movement, either. So, when are you going back to 7 days in the office, friendo?
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by p0pcult 3y ago
The only people who are concerned about it are the ones trying to take them away. The books in the library didnt tank literacy rates. Do you even hear how dumb that sounds? "Literacy is falling, so we should take books out of the
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by p0pcult 3y ago
What does any of this have to do with the presence of books in a library?
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Right, so those parents should take it up with their kids, rather than prevent mine from access.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
An artistic decision that you don't prefer is not necessarily "poor"
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by p0pcult 3y ago
No true gamer fallacy
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Not sure anyone is contesting the idea that debt is a useful tool, merely the fact that these companies are typically predatory, preying on people who typically--can't pay their debts. In a country where medical care is expensive and
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by p0pcult 3y ago
>That's a shame Is it a shame? Could the guy instead have written an article entitled, "How to Protect Yourself (and Others) From the Worst Abuses of Debt Collectors"?
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by p0pcult 3y ago
There is a church doing exactly that with medical debt: https://www.wxow.com/news/a-church-is-canceling-peoples-medi...
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by p0pcult 3y ago
if one includes the "/s" then they get a lot of people arguing that profit is why companies exist.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Because we have the ability to think counterfactually; that is, we can always imagine better worlds.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Mistakes were made.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Yes, I am aware that sociopaths exist.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
I find it amusing that you are using a throwaway account for comments on this topic. It's as good as an admission that you know the behavior is wrong.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
>what he needs to do to survive Robbing a loaf of bread so your children can eat is very different from cheating on a test/interview for a job with a kingly salary. One is doing what one needs to do to survive, and morally justifia
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Just like it was obvious in the 18th century, the optimal loom (the Jacquard) was invented, and no possible improvements to textile manufacture could be made.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Is it more or less dystopian than living on a fiery cinder?
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Only ~40% of American households have children under 18. Families are not the norm.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
You probably can indoctrinate someone with atheism, but it is, as you say, alao a potential outcome of rejecting the other options.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
You shouldn't be allowed to opt others in, especially those under the age of legally informed consent, to brainwashing.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
If they featured celebrities and cartoons and vegetables came with toys, as well as stopping the ads for garbage food...I'd guess more likely than not, we would go back to more typical levels of child obesity.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
>I think deliberately manipulating kids is heinous Yeah, i hate religion too.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
we can say, ceteris paribus, p(successful outcome|white) > p(successful outcome|nonwhite). That's what I am claiming. It also is possible to say that p(successful outcome|nonwhite) > 0. In fact, both of these things can be t
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by p0pcult 3y ago
>You can see how society works and how rich people stay rich and poor people stay poor. Shh, you'll wake the techno-libertarians.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
Oh,I wasnt suggesting that the end results were similar, merely that the students themselves were: hardworking, very smart, determined,efficient. The results themselves are different precisely because of the greater access afforded to kids
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by p0pcult 3y ago
This didnt age well.
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by p0pcult 3y ago
There's no need to get defensive! >You can succeed while having deck stacked against you. I agree! It's also less likely when the deck is stacked against you. If only there were a phrase that conveyed the idea that some peo
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by p0pcult 3y ago
> it's an error to think those privileges can be distilled down to just a single domain Youre right, we are all hugely multifaceted individuals. It is hard and maybe even weird to try to isolate the notion of privilege down to a si

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