uselesscynicism

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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
Predicament? A regular Joe beat a career politician for local representative. In what world is that a predicament? Or are you so completely partisan that having an R next to his name makes him obviously the wrong choice, even though he was
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
Reality creates scarcity. The "current system" produces a modern society with so much abundance that people like you have forgotten that scarcity of everything is the natural state and the "system" is responsible for art
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
A dystopia with fewer people in poverty than ever, and the ability to communicate instantly with people around the globe, while we wander to the supermarket and buy plentiful food sourced from all over the world at prices normal people can
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
> they have a problem with racism and sexism? Which would have been unusual because it was a lefty place. I'm sorry but the critical theories of gender are incredibly sexist, especially towards mothers, so I would personally expect
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
In addition, EPA rules made it impossible to build sedans and wagons with the performance desired by consumers, which is what caused the death of the station wagon and the birth of the SUV, which according to the EPA is a light truck and is
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
> There are plenty of less stressful work environments in technology that will pay someone a decent salary and will be much less demanding. There are?! Could you list some examples? I would take a pay cut for fewer responsibilities if I
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
> The anti-cancel-culture people make it sound like they are being horribly oppressed. But for what? The color of their skin? At work last week, our "diversity and equity" team announced that our company is "obviously&quot
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
I'm fairly convinced that the pharmaceutical companies want Uncle Sam to buy and mandate 350 million shots per year and that's why the boosters are being pushed and combined with flu shots, while Dear Leader figures out the best w
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
Oh, Fediblock! The list of based instances. It's amazing to me that the people who maintain these lists don't seem to realize that they're maintaining a useful directory for all the people they don't like to help them fi
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by uselesscynicism 5y ago
>consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with .. the folks behind Gab Gab is a hilarious example because it is a non-federating fork of Mastod
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by uselesscynicism 6y ago
Who said anything about Section 230? The GP was describing what he thought the law should be, not what it is.
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by uselesscynicism 6y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60450102/why-does-ld-pre... > No, it doesn't. A static binary has no need to resolve any symbol dynamically, and therefore the dynamic loader is not invoked to resolve t
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by uselesscynicism 6y ago
Most is 51%. If PHP was bad from 1994 to 2002, when "A Fractal of Bad Design" was written (18 years), and is OK now (assuming it got good immediately after that post was written 8 years ago), it has been bad for most of its existe
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by uselesscynicism 6y ago
Notice the careful wording: >policy executives were concerned about the outsize impact of the changes on the right, including the Daily Wire This could be reworded: the initial implementation primarily punished right-wing news organizati
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by uselesscynicism 6y ago
Then what? If you can't vote to get the change that you want, what's the alternative? Violent revolution and hoping that the new boss is better than the old boss? I'm so tired of this kind of useless cynicism. Voting matters,