wrfrmers

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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Ironic reply. Feel free to scrutinize.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
As a progressive, I agree that Big Pharma's profit motive is a major problem when it comes to public health campaigns like mass vaccination, and that those companies have not remotely answered adequately for many of their past misdeeds
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
>to the point of absurdity and recoil from the general public This is incorrect. The actions of wealthy people speak for themselves; they don't need to be demonized, they are plainly wrong on their face. That said, we're in agr
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
An aspect of this phenomenon (though not the entire explanation): Conservatives tend to oppose initiatives that are broadly beneficial - especially if they stand to help marginalized groups - if they require even a minor or suspected sacrif
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
You're doing that common conservative thing of correctly identifying the principle, but then taking a turn into ridiculousness when enumerating examples. We are, in fact, in this mess because of the upper middle/professional class
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Terms of Service say otherwise. Until the ads came in, users absolutely had a "right" to access YouTube's services for free. I'm sorry that you misspoke.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Bernie Sanders won against Trump in h2h polls in 2016 and 2020, quite strongly. Booker was on his was to something similar. Even 2008 Obama campaigned left of Clinton (we made the correct choice as far as an electoral victory goes, then, if
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Well, there's the notion that price no longer quite reflects what's going on under the surface. Certainly, it's in the interests of an entity experiencing a run on its reserves to do everything it can to obfuscate any indicat
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
That's incorrect - or, at least, not seriously tested with a true far-left candidate with the DNC'S full backing. Dan Osborn was decidedly not that. Bernie Sanders is, of course, the quintessential example, as he polled better aga
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
>has never This is a deeply interesting comment. Obviously, YouTube began and spent several years as an ad-free, subscription-free platform, so to state that no one has ever had the "right" to use YouTube without paying or watc
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Cyberpunk has always been, "What if what happens to those people happened to us ?" "Us" being the relatively affluent and stable first world, "those people" being the put-upon urban poor and working class (whi
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Preserving wealth is actually an uphill battle. It likes to leak; the wealthy need the help of systems and institutions to keep their largesse intact. If you want it to diffuse throughout society, stop guarding it, stop bailing them out, an
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Semi-counterpoint: the actually smart, high-achieving young people adapt to the status quo. The ones one rung lower, who the prevailing system cast aside for some deficit or other, begin their own independent revolutions (often at the margi
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
It's incorrect to divorce this dynamic from its history, which is largely one of America's right wing/nativists using "states' rights" as a cover to infringe on the rights of marginalized people, which are supp
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
It seems as good a time as any to point out that the environment in which people like this are making decisions is the one in which equal opportunity/affirmative action/DEI become tenable, if not necessary. For those of you whingi
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
It would also be damning of recruitment patterns across American institutions. Getting ahold of prestigious or lucrative opportunities often requires pressing unfair advantages that other applicants don't even know exist, by design. My
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
I'll do you one better: in this specific situation, the antisocial buck stops at the friend group who doesn't all chip in and buy their Android friend a "keep in touch" iPhone. But the point remains that a cynical UX&#x2
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
"Conglom-O: We Own You." ...Just to highlight the absurdity of the situation. Literally cartoonish corruption.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Without reading your link: this is a problem across new and existing builds, so it can't be an issue wih permitting. Housing cost growth has outpaced wage growth for decades. We are reaching an inflection point of unaffordability (uneq
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
Every company in the space realizes that it's the next computer pillar, after desktop PCs and smartphones. Even more so: these devices see everything their users see (and more), hear everything they hear (and more), and can provide sig
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
The medium is the message, as it were. Changing vocabulary changes the essence, since the minds and souls that would provide consistency across shifting intonation aren't still here to speak/bare them, respectively. I think you ov
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
There was a famous list that a guy once nailed to a church door. That was a few hundred years ago.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
It's not just the cost of building the house. Utilities and infrastructure (and the taxes to pay for it all) add up. Now, if you were to build smaller, densely, and close enough to amenities that residents could walk or bike to their d
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
That's a lot of talking around the actual question >that has kept his Tradition alive through the centuries and alive fundamentally unchanged the answer to which is an emphatic, "No." Which is why Protestantism exists in t
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
There's a story here that I would love to hear.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
In terms of "x for gamedev", what I would love to see is a fork of Brilliant that covers common topics from the basics up, using pseudocode only. I've always liked Cat-Like Coding's approach to tutorials, but I've n
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
In 2016, I wrote a short essay about my epiphany, as a Millennial, concerning the attitudes towards technology of people living in the 80s - the sense of suspicion and paranoia, living under the glow of green CRTs and the threat of nuclear
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
>Guitar Hero 2 "Woman" Ad >The Beatles: Rock Band Trailer/Opening Movie >Motorcity >Tron: Uprising >Love, Death, and Robots: Ice I always forget if it was Candeland or the other guy who was prominent in early G
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
When I took the job, I trusted my employers' word that the role's tasks required being in-person, against my own suspicions. That, combined with no other prospects, meant either I took the potentially raw deal or face destitution.
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by wrfrmers 2y ago
I can't buy your friend's conclusion, because people have been blaming immigrants, [insert analague for gays here], blacks, etc. in America and beyond for at least 100 years. That said, I think what I'm interested in picking

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