testacct22

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by testacct22 3y ago
> people who don't entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don't ask "why am I here" or "what's this all about" then things get pretty blan
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by testacct22 3y ago
What I don't get, sorry for my own reductive attitude, is that if you volunteer for one of these projects you're working for free . If you don't like terms of project, just don't work for free? Kind of like reddit moder
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by testacct22 3y ago
> But stability deteriorated elsewhere. Striking workers in Greece, pension protests in France and deadly clashes in Israel and Peru reduced scores in those countries. ??? Who is this list meant for? Seems kind of odd to penalize France
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by testacct22 3y ago
> I love how you hardcore Marxists only take the good parts of what you say while conveniently leaving out the guy that's gonna be wallowing in the ditch for you Uhh no? I just think that the people working in ditches should be comp
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by testacct22 3y ago
More like, a concerted media effort to nudge people to churn out kids. People can chill on the rat race, so long as they churn out kids so that the wheels keep turning Just acknowledging the trend as I see it
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by testacct22 3y ago
> What do you think society would look like if you just did away with all the modern conveniences and the "ruling class". You're drawing an association the ruling class and modern conveniences. Those are two incredibly dif
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by testacct22 3y ago
Would not do this, current job market is not favorable, you're most likely better off working towards degree (assuming it's undergrad)
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by testacct22 3y ago
> but got put in “10x developer” expectation projects where I’d churn something out, get a big shiny star sticker for it, and then 2 years later it would be abandoned I feel like I've fallen into this hole at my current gig, where I
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by testacct22 3y ago
> When we tried to decline testing, we were threatened with a CPS case and the removal of our just-born child. Pretty sure that test is voluntary in a bunch of states?
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by testacct22 3y ago
> The bottom line us that these 3 businesses make money. Billions per quarter. It's coming in so fast they quite literally dont know what to do with it all. Revenue might be going up, but are they actually providing additional value
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by testacct22 3y ago
A weird thing with this article and others: they shit on Google and Facebook, but they never shit on Apple? Why? Is Apple just a serious company in comparison? At least, with Apple I get the impression that some of their products (e.g. mbp)
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by testacct22 3y ago
This is true for me. Been making a lot of soups and soup like dishes, most have a similar profile: 1. Saute aromatic base (like onion, garlic, pepper, celery etc) 2. Deglaze 3. Add meats, non aromatic vegetables (e.g. carrot, potato) 4. Ad
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by testacct22 3y ago
Something I read like a day or two ago: > “The FBI and other 3 letter agencies contact these unhinged mentally ill kids and convince them to do mass shootings,” Airman Teixeira wrote in an online chat group, sharing a debunked conspirac
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by testacct22 3y ago
> The fact of the matter is you do not have any leverage at all You do have leverage though, that's a point that this article makes. It costs time and money to onboard people. Also you can unionize, and acquire even more leverage Yo
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by testacct22 3y ago
> All employment is “at will” in Tech, you can be fired for any reason Wrong. The reason cannot be discriminatory An important distinction to make, one that can cost a great deal if not made
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by testacct22 3y ago
Just something I've noticed here on this site: the sentiment is highly "pro-employer" (kinda like the wsj). It makes sense really, considering who finances the infra for this website. Not surprised this article was flagged Th
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by testacct22 3y ago
When they don't force you to go through a shitty gui
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by testacct22 3y ago
Every time I see one of these threads, there's always a bunch of baggage in the comments. There's also a bunch of stereotyping I see, e.g. men "preferring" hookup culture Also on top of this, whenever there's talk a
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by testacct22 3y ago
> Since there are few male teachers, the boys without a strong father figure at home never get taught how to channel their masculine energy in a healthy way I'll give an alternative perspective: people who talk this way try to shame
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by testacct22 3y ago
> What makes people defect from the secular centers back to religious communities on the border? Just the opposite trade off -- less money, freedom, power. But you'll be more grounded and connected to a community, which can be immen
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White House pushes for renewal of electronic surveillance law provision(theguardian.com)
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by testacct22 3y ago
> If you create data anywhere, assume some govt will eventually get a copy I have a hunch that we've been giving these agencies too much credit this whole time Every time there's an unmitigated act of terror makes me think: the
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by testacct22 3y ago
LF Celine's Journey. He writes about WW1 and gives a first person experience of the propaganda It's something I think about often: what does it take to convince millions of people to walk into a graveyard? It just completely flies
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by testacct22 3y ago
You could do emacs org-mode with auto encryption Or even better: could just make a little self hosted web app that does this for you Or another idea (most useful for me): self host an instance of mediawiki and use it as a personal knowledge
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by testacct22 3y ago
> Binary people are funny. Everything is always 1 or 0, nothing is ever undefined and the idea to have different levels of certainty never occurs to them. Not what I was conveying. There's a place for nuance, but from my experience
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by testacct22 3y ago
> reject what would challenge your beliefs and would make them weaker. Most unresolved disagreements I know of are because the groups disagree on some unprovable underlying assumption. Switching positions on it doesn't make the beli
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by testacct22 3y ago
> We are supposed to love each other, not idolize dolls on a screen. If you can't see how that's sick then I can't help you. I mean, yeah, but you're sort of just taking one mental image and assuming that's the r
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by testacct22 3y ago
It's a thing lol The other day I saw some gym bro in the IG comment section trying to flex on people with "do you even know what backpropagation is?"
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by testacct22 3y ago
> American primacy Why talk about this like it's an end in itself? There's an opportunity cost involved Other NATO countries combined spend less than the US. At what point is it enough?
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by testacct22 3y ago
> It's just that now, we have a sick society where most men don't have some girl in their town they'd go to war to impress. What's sick about that? Feelings are temporary, death is permanent. Your definition of a &quo

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