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LoonyBalloony

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    Comment #17340179

    Check out Overload on steam dude. Made by the same peeps.

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    Comment #17312650

    Competition is for the workers not the .00001%.

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    Comment #17298283

    > According to Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher, psychologists who co-directed an attempted replication of the Stanford prison experiment in Great Britain in 2001, a critical factor…

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    Comment #17293750

    I don't think people are drawn to it because it's giving an excuse for bad behavior. The Stanford experiment resonates with a lot of people because it mirrors civilization as a who…

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    Comment #17275321

    External factors created your head.

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    Comment #17196530

    Changing the world inside the box of the status quo. How many stars do I have to give my Uber driver till they get paid sick days, paid vacation, healthcare and a pension?

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    Comment #17183209

    What better way to teach kids how the real world works then scamming them?

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    Comment #17129586

    Better to do nothing then the wrong something. There is a non violent solution to this, I'm just not smart enough to know what that is.

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    Comment #17129495

    > Pretty reasonable people seem to think yes (Patriot Act). Sure

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    Comment #17129484

    Total surveillance of citizens? yes. Body cams for police? Huge deal guys! How we gonna pay for this? Oh gee my body cam was off judge my bad

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    Comment #16512888

    #wholesomeHN Edit:

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    Comment #16510305

    Maybe just a classic case of trying to make more money by saving on material costs and passing it off as the same product?

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    Comment #15899284

    When the employee has no other options it becomes a full time job. I used to work GrubHub for a year. I even moved up to the catering delivery but it still sucked. Let me try to ex…

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    Comment #15883982

    Perhaps they have to because of income/wealth inequality? If the wealthy are the only one with disposable income, it makes sense the market will conform to their needs.

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    Comment #15870948

    This myth is probably fed by employers who don't want to give raises as well. "Well if I give you a raise, you won't get more money! Get back to work!"

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    Comment #15862168

    How would you structure something like state sanctioned assisted suicide given this "window" of irrationality? We have a waiting period here in the USA when you purchase a firearm …

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    Comment #15858979

    "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to…

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    Comment #15850153

    No time to protest if you have to be at work all day.

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    Comment #15834120

    What will happen to this corporation? Any punishment at all? It didn't say in the article.

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    Comment #15796213

    > So what is the non capitalist alternative? From my understanding, 100% worker owned and operated co-ops that give the average worker more democratic control in the work place.

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    Comment #15790624

    I'm not a economist... But wouldn't turning all corporations into 100% worker owned co-ops be better?

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    Comment #15779179

    Being born is a consent-less affair. How do you know if your kid wants to live in the future we're leaving him/her?

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    Comment #15778043

    First Past the Post voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo Range Voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GFG0sXIig Single Transferable vote: https://www.youtube.com/…

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    Comment #15777679

    "shooting up something to kill the time." I like FPS games to. ;-)

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    Comment #15777231

    "This is an example of a headline that can't lose" News to sad to fail? Because no one can ignore bad news forever...