postingpals

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by postingpals 6y ago
From your website: "Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-Accusations" Why am I not surprised to see this kind of instinctive reaction. I don't want to debate your points because that is way out of scope for this threa
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by postingpals 6y ago
Why do you have to make work fun, shouldn't you already be enjoying it if you are doing what you want to do? Are you not doing what you want to do? See, that's the kind of problem that creates the infantilisation.
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is Capitalism. Everything has to be family friendly so it can reach as wide an audience as possible. When you're waiting for customer support, you have to hear a fun jingle so you don't get upset. People have to be talked dow
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by postingpals 6y ago
The idea that the alternative to copyright means artists working for free is an ideological conflation not even the wealthiest, most cynical person on earth could have dreamt up.
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by postingpals 6y ago
The argument a layman would make in favour of this is: "if people know they could rent seek with their intellectual property and potentially make millions of dollars charging people for licenses / gatekeeping their work, well that
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by postingpals 6y ago
The alternative is trusting corporations, who also give your data to the government. Who do you trust with power then?
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by postingpals 6y ago
I find the show to be incredible, not just in terms of rhetoric but actually just aesthetically, it's got very pleasing visuals and there is no overuse of edits and sound. But sometimes i see the way david simon acts on twitter and i r
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by postingpals 6y ago
Aren't teachers supposed to provide the annotations themselves with their english knowledge?
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by postingpals 6y ago
>They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property Weird, this hasn't stopped the police before.
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by postingpals 6y ago
Are you suggesting you'd kill someone if they tried to tax you slightly more highly? Or if they took some of your child's inheritance according to a means tested solution? That is very weird.
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is a lot of odd, complex moral statements used to denounce a comparatively simple and separate idea, that wealth should be distributed somewhat more fairly. Inequality is going to persist in other areas and probably even in financial a
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by postingpals 6y ago
Liveable necessities like water, food, and housing, that are either wasted on inefficient food production methods or given to rent-seekers (by the economic definition of the term). No one is claiming we are post-scarcity and that everyone c
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by postingpals 6y ago
It's a big topic to get into, but what I really mean is there are certain resources that we either throw away or don't distribute that wouldn't require relocation, and could be given to people without needing to police them f
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by postingpals 6y ago
An example of a market failure is climate change, or at least many market failures are contained within this problem. Are you suggesting the government take a hands off approach to that? At the end of the day the government is necessary to
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by postingpals 6y ago
This is a logical leap i'm afraid. We have been trying to give people what they need using government welfare for a century now. It's not communism to correctly understand that some people need to be given opportunities to prove t
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by postingpals 6y ago
> It is the hereditary nature of wealth which is the largest contributor to long-term inequality. Hereditary wealth is a specific form of rent-seeking which is something liberal economics has no explanation for. It's like one of tho
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by postingpals 6y ago
China's policy wasn't all that successful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China Population control is a very outdated idea, we have enough resources for the population, we just don't know
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by postingpals 6y ago
For those that are inevitably about to argue and downvote the above... It seems the economy is returning, smartly, towards keynesian models because we've seen first hand how destructive the past 50 years of austerity and free market ec
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by postingpals 6y ago
This story is deeper than 'life crushed this one individual's childhood dreams'. At any turn during the story, the author could have become something much worse. He could have become a drunk, he could have become homeless. Th
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by postingpals 6y ago
It's like I'm reading a comic about my own life, except as it is happening in the 21st century.
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by postingpals 6y ago
As a wannabe beekeeper myself i can tell you honey bees aren't without their problems. Farming of honey bees has put other wild bee species into decline, and they make up a significant portion of pollinators of flowers bees don't
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by postingpals 6y ago
I've been trying to get into this area of study.. what did you read to know all this stuff?
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by postingpals 6y ago
No, look, i'm generalising. I know some people with liberal views who voted republican simply for tax purposes. Ignoring that this itself may be considered a bad view, I don't look down on republicans like some of my fellow libera
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by postingpals 6y ago
> They resent being told what to do by what they perceive as elitist, out-of-touch folks in major coastal cities They resent be told what to do by anyone . They were asked to wear masks by Dr Fauci, who is hardly a coastal elite, and ma
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by postingpals 6y ago
This too is a unicorn fantasy. You claim the reason people are not selling their data is because they are too obsessed with culture or something. In reality there is an imbalance of negotiation power. A company can sell their data because t
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by postingpals 6y ago
I am trying to get people to come to that realisation themselves, that way they're more open to it.
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by postingpals 6y ago
You cannot get rid of money or imbalanced voting structures in politics because people aren't going to write in laws that cut out their own financial and popular gain.
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by postingpals 6y ago
> They won a plurality, not a majority You speak of this as if it's not a legitimate electoral structure in place in many countries today, especially America. When OP says they voted fascists into power it carries the same weight wh
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by postingpals 6y ago
Someone made a business out of nerds talking about how they think business works, and you're in it. Pretty amazing too.
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by postingpals 6y ago
SV is not going to disrupt the sex industry because the part that needs disrupting is the unethical nature of it. Profit is not optimised to do that.

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