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What a weird section on professionalism. The social construct of professionalism re-enforces the neoliberal hegemony. Who the hell would want to do that?

No apologies needed. The internet gives people a platform to speak without the same(but not necessarily less) social accountability that exists in meatspace. The change in accounta…

Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)

Help me out. How does that imply war?

Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with w…

The propagandist wants the opponent to be strong enough to be a threat but ideologically weak enough to defeat. That should be enough for anyone to pause and think hard about what'…

With the celebrity example I got more of a caricature effect. Excellent illusion.

My gut says that random trades have the same expected value as the underlying asset, but increased variance. I'm not a finperson, so learning why this could be wrong would be a lea…

> For decades we've been dealing with misinformation campaigns Yes and no. Now that the labor for executing misinformation campaigns is outsourced and presented in a new way, the o…

You might be surprised to learn that there are even whole books about the topic complete with reading groups, speaking events, and discourse.

I have to hand it to you. It's clear that you're adept at creating confusion around ideas by "just asking questions", and creating cohesion around fuzzy concepts by stating opinion…

Why use utility an a measure to begin with? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree simply because of the number of assumptions being brought into this discussion.

I guess I'm ok with nuance and gray areas and anti-colonialism in a way that doesn't feel like a contradiction. Sorry that's hard for you.

> The economists and politicians can't conceive of trying to restructure the economic model to the lived reality Yeah, I mean that's the definition of thought hegemony. People thin…

Surely you do not work at Purina.

It is. And this answer is why I alluded to exit interviews. Understanding the structural reasons why this standard advice exists is the first step in a line of questioning that lea…

I love how asking people why they are leaving is not on the list. Instead it's gathering metrics and data. If you treat people like numbers, that's sort of the explaination right t…

I'm less and less confident that is possible, not necessarily because personal interactions and online spaces themselves form an inherent contradiction (though they might). But bec…

You would have to be familiar with the 2016 libertarian party presidential debate and the obsession with toast-related licenses in order to truly know for sure.

Closing the border certainly affects citizens. It affects who I cannot do business with.

I don't need a government telling me where I can or cannot go. Absolute tyranny. What's next, a license to butter my toast?

This feels like a personal attack, bud.

Right before that there is a huge difference.

I'll add to the list. Be aware of org/process changes. For example, I was working for a company who had been acquired a couple of years earlier. They were transitioning from analog…