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Most automotive workers in Japan are unionized, so that sounds more a problem with comparable executive decision making than anything to do with labor organizing.

> Duty is not necessarily to the state; it can be to society Thatcher is also famous for having said “there is no such thing as society.” Some people who adhere to neoliberal ideol…

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>It doesn’t get more left than SF and the corruption is rampant here. Most of SF’s politicians would be center right in Europe and are more or less only accountable to their wealth…

Humans are also quite bad at distinguishing between linear versus exponential harms. Suffering the effects of air pollution doesn’t cause your family, friends, and coworkers to be …

While I agree with the sentiment in the abstract, I see no reason why a party like the Republicans provides any meaningful contrast or check on this complacent and corruption. It’s…

I don’t think Republican opposition is the answer, as they’re demonstrably just as corrupt and self-serving. But California could certainly benefit from some primary challenges fro…

I think it’s funny that people expect this will translate to a better standard of care. Low wage foreign workers are just a consequence of what happens when politicians undermine p…

I wonder how long they can maintain that balance though. Zuckerberg is clearly setting himself up to be a Rupert Murdoch for the 21st century. While I don’t doubt that Facebook be …

Prior to some big court cases and changes to repatriation law in the 80s and 90s, the mafia was heavily involved with looting archaeological heritage in places like Italy. Criminal…

You can use your iPhone as a webcam with apps like Camo. I don’t like the $40 a year subscription fee, but it does most of the things you’re asking: https://www.macworld.com/articl…

>They are running and maintaining the infrastructure for a modern-day Stasi The online advertising industry has been this way from from the outset. The CIA has been investing in th…

This is hilarious sentiment to me because I’ve found it harder to find an honest dentist than an honest doctor. My experience is that they’re always trying to upsell you or perform…

Pornhub was widely damaging to the “the vast majority of legitimate employees“ in the industry. It built itself by stealing their work using the paper-thin ruse of “user-uploaded” …

My experience in New York and Los Angeles is that the natives are perfectly pleasant, so long as you’re aware of the local mores. The worst people are the people who move to cities…

Wait until you hear about what the Times did with their reporting on the Iraq War...

I know. I’ve been ordering my own since May. This was at the start of the pandemic when there was a run on masks.

> My coworkers from mainland China were concerned about our well-being and started shipping us KN95 masks My partner’s friend with family in China did the same thing for us. His da…

Advertising has done more damage to people’s mental health and self-image then just about any other industry.

Larian does a great job with their early access releases, soliciting the community to report bugs, play testing etc. I put like 70 hours into the new Baldur’s Gate on different bui…

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I guess if they enshrine a landed aristocracy through locking in property taxes, that could happen, but I don’t know what other “bad regulations” CA has that would cause this. If w…

Jon Ronson's podcast "The Butterfly Effect" also does a great job of breaking down how damaging MindGeek's practices have been to workers and legitimate players in the industry: ht…