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by rexpop 9d ago
> should we treat Wikipedia any differently I'm not sure we should. Should we? How so? > Explain please. Explain the difference between youth volunteer-work and vocational career-work?
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by rexpop 9d ago
It's not "automation"—it's lack of ownership over the firm, such that automation gains pass us by. It's obviously Capital that gains, and Labor that's screwed.
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by rexpop 10d ago
This is not how accusations of hypocrisy work. I don't have to agree with any particular stance of yours in order to accuse you of hypocrisy.
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by rexpop 11d ago
A place doesn't have to be relatively bad to warrant more democracy . Why is everyone so apprehensive about democracy?
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by rexpop 11d ago
> work for a non-profit? Aren't they mostly volunteers? No. Common misconception. It's a business and career like any other. > experience in my youth volunteering at animal shelters and environmental protection groups Just n
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by rexpop 11d ago
> [Behavior X] is encouraged in my social circles and anyone who says otherwise is weak minded What is "weak-minded"? Seems like an awfully brittle perspective.
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by rexpop 13d ago
Shut up. Just shut up. > Avoid generic tangents. > Please don't post shallow dismissals > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. See: H
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by rexpop 13d ago
I chose not to use that term, in this case, because it bears the wrong connotation to the uninitiated.
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by rexpop 13d ago
You're probably reading too much into it. There's nothing biological about men's disinclination to wash dishes or write a birthday card.
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by rexpop 16d ago
No, only shallow. ;)
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by rexpop 16d ago
"Civil" violence also ripples out.
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by rexpop 17d ago
That's your opinion, but not the opinion of the US' founders nor their cited inspirations.
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by rexpop 17d ago
No, it was my brusque wording that maximized ambiguity. I am with you about the importance of privacy—we otherwise risk immeasurable horrors.
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by rexpop 18d ago
Right not to be stalked by idiot cops. Right to protest without being stalked by idiot cops.
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by rexpop 20d ago
Every startup is one bet in a Martingale strategy played by the class of people who remain solvent when you bust.
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by rexpop 23d ago
This is broadly impractical for the average citizen. A scalable solution would be to make this sort of thing illegal.
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by rexpop 28d ago
The rights delineated in the American Constitution are understood to precede the government being held to account for them. Furthermore, they are held to be universal, natural rights.
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by rexpop 29d ago
But Ferraris and private planes are stupid vices. ...and I only ever commuted by bicycle or train.
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by rexpop 29d ago
But Ferraris and private planes are stupid vices.
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by rexpop 29d ago
They're killing people, and they're driving others into bankruptcy which is also killing them.
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by rexpop 29d ago
I'm sorry—vapid trappings of conspicuous consumption? You've just named three vacuous toys, whereas GPS and e-commerce deliver real value to working people. Doomscrolling, I agree, is a devastatingly poor substitute for a real civ
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by rexpop 1mo ago
I see, those are some extreme dimensions.
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by rexpop 1mo ago
Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcas
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by rexpop 1mo ago
I suspect that your one moment of thought follows many years of contemplation. Maybe you can fill us in on some of that background.
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by rexpop 1mo ago
Propaganda in China is distributed, decentralized—ie it's the responsibility of every minor bureaucrat, clerk, and white-collar worker to produce and engage with propaganda. See: https://collaborate.princeton.edu/en&#x2
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by rexpop 1mo ago
The first comment does not suggest "it was always like this", only that it was known, commonly accepted, even declaratively established to be like this. Truly, though, we did used to own many things in common that are now
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by rexpop 1mo ago
Oh sure, but then again look at South Korea! India! Argentina!
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Both are true: modern food systems can improve availability and shelf-stability while still degrading average nutritional quality.
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by rexpop 2mo ago
How is this not a total nonsequitur from the parent thread??
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by rexpop 2mo ago
Depends on if you're scaremongering about Capitalists or Commies.

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