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Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. This will be my last attempt at interfacing with you. > Congratulations for your situation in life and …

I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Find something more solid to lean on than a straw man. If those who feel entitled…

What if you are a garbage man and an artist? What if you collect garbage for, say, three days a week? How much of your labor is absolutely necessary, and how much of it consists in…

I'm personally hoping "post-capitalism" takes off

Utah will be uninhabitable. You'll have to struggle for survival in the Manitoban jungle.

> Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Like it or not, it matters why you believe things are "going a little to fa…

To be honest you don't need to work very hard to achieve this.

> The World's Top 26 Welfare Recipients Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion, Says Oxfam

> Argon2 is a key derivation function, the winner of the password hashing competition and should be used for new projects. In case it isn't available, use Scrypt. Any other KDF is …

Never Hurd of this guy

How does waving your hands in the air "feel more human" than using your opposed-thumb-equipped hands to interact with some material object?

Primordial guac

I think there's a difference between "enthusiast market segment" and "investment commidities". Also even Yamaha grand pianos aren't typically purchased by individuals. More like ve…

Seems less like diminishing returns and more like mass hysteria at this point. The only people I personally know of who are as detached from the rest of the market are those guys w…

We're talking about an office here, not a SS regiment.

It feels like you're trying to argue for the sake of it

That's true, but "exploitation and abuse of laborers" and "tubercular beef" were ultimately caused by the same thing.

Upton Sinclair lamented the fact that nobody really got the point of The Jungle. I think after all this time he is about to be proven right.

> The beaches surrounding the atolls are sinking due to erosion caused by waves and this is exacerbated by rising sea levels. > In addition, because the sea level is rising on the …

Tuvalu is a WIP https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-and-history-of-tuvalu-14... That's just off the top of my head

Silly reactionary hyperbole. Our peaceful and sustainable coexistence with the rest of the world (natural or otherwise) has always required the curtailment of some liberties. You c…

Until the pendulum swings Republican again and he gets thrown into jail. Remember Chelsea Manning?

The problem is that those who get unfathomably rich off of "business" will employ this tremendous power to erode the barriers between what's an acceptable business venture and what…

Yeah but a "common ancestor of humans" would imply some sort of convergence, which could have happened at any point

Do we know for a fact that all life derives from one organism? Could the conditions that allowed it to come into existence not have occurred in multiple places?