troosevelt

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by troosevelt 17d ago
Do you imagine that people in the US aren't familiar with the concept? We've been debating it since the time of Teddy Roosevelt.
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by troosevelt 17d ago
The countries listed here, they largely did make those decisions and were not kicked out. The US could have pretty easily annexed Cuba in 1902 or held onto the Philippines.
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by troosevelt 17d ago
I've heard the term imperialism used in context with the US plenty. It is very, very common online.
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
That's why I have ahrd time getting mad at doctors. What else are they supposed to do besides charge absurd rates?
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
I really don't think this is the issue. I've been overweight in my life and I hate it. You know how I lost weight and kept if off? I ate healthier, I walk a lot (to the grocery store, for example). US grocery stores have all the s
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
Yes, but I'd argue those people are victims as much as anybody else. To truly be ignorant is to not know, and if you are in a situation where you've never been trained to need to know or you simply don't know there's ano
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
Voters don't pay attention to or they justify their votes. That doesn't mean they are inherently racist, it means they don't care enough about politics or they care about other issues to the point where they either aren'
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
Sure, but the original claim was this: > 40% of the people in the US would rather starve to death themselves than live in a world where people they hate for their skin color get anything without toiling for it. Do we truly believe that&#
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
Yes, I've talked to Trump voters and I know people who aren't especially strong Trump supporters that voted for him because the economy was shit. Their reasoning wasn't racism. There is a huge chunk where that is their reason
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
I think we're gonna see some def Democratic gains because the economy is shit and that's how voting always happens. The only argument I was making is it's no where near 40% of people that are voting for somebody cause they&#x
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
But it's not even approaching 40%, nor did I tie the two together. If you think the 33% of people who voted from Trump did it because they are racist you are wrong. Some did, a lot that wasn't their primary concern. It's view
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
I appreciate that there is a significant chunk of people that are like this, but I think if you really believe the 40% number or anything like it, you're giving yourself a false worldview. The majority of people aren't racist nor
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
It doesn't take responsibility. The defining theme seems to be their political views. She says the reason she was uninvited from a talk is not at all the given reason (political) that the reason she directly links to is. She's eit
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
There are a lot of examples in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008 eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892447 Yar
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by troosevelt 4mo ago
I feel like it is a very great privilege to be able to post this to Hacker News, soliciting donations. I was out of work for the longest time (thankfully, I finally found some). I too have disadvantages, I have a few mental disorders which
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
> Or it's something they know, namely there being nobody at the other end. But until they were told otherwise, they did not know and did not care. > Why this push to somehow "overcome" that? Why can't generated stu
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
There is absolutely some form of creation there. The most basic models now are just prompts but somebody has to prompt them, there is a human being there prompting the song and then deciding to share it (a form of curation). I'd imagin
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
That's a very gatekeepy standard for something which has for all of history been a subjective thing. What I think will fall by the wayside are dogmatic takes like these. If I gen up then curate a bunch of tracks into a concept album, w
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
People generally listen to music because they enjoy it. Is it because somebody is on the other end? I mean it's possible, but I think just liking the song is just as much if not more important. You pretty regularly see comments by peop
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
I mean the numbers. 12k per year is peanuts. You cannot live off that and to do it we'd be nearly doubling the budget (that's old data, it's probably not that portion of the budget anymore). That 12k doesn't include heal
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
Have you lived on 12k? 24k puts you near poverty level. $1k per month will cover food expenses, it won't cover transport, shelter, and certainly not medical. On 12k per year you have enough money for food and praying that an emergency
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
If you lost your $60,000 a year job due to this, do you really believe a basic income funded by it will make up that loss? It won't. Basic income in the US is usually proposed at $12k per year, which would add another $3 trillion to th
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
I'm planning on transitioning into teaching due to not being employable (apparently) in tech anymore. It's about the only career I can transition into. I wish I could make six-figures!
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
Teachers often end up working weeks that are more than 40 hours, though with grading, lesson planning, tutoring, etc.
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
Here in my state teachers in good districts start at $60,000 per year and see minimal increases due to length of service; after 20 years they might be making $75,000 per year. You ever done the math on living on $60k per year? Hard to do a
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by troosevelt 5mo ago
Yes, somebody has to actually do it, and they did.
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by troosevelt 6mo ago
I think realistically the only people who care about this are a very niche number of hardcore users. I won't be surprised if federated networks never take off. Obviously there are good reasons for normies to care but when the solution
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by troosevelt 6mo ago
That's a really cold way of talking about people who might or might not be susceptible to mental illness. I hope you never experience something out of your control like that. It's like mocking people with cancer.
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by troosevelt 6mo ago
Steam has a lot of issues but there are too just lots of areas where better products don't win out over inferior products, that's just not how the world works for lots of reasons.
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by troosevelt 6mo ago
I would bet money that HN's traffic is not orders of magnitude higher than 2020. HN is not as popular as HNers think it is.

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