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Honestly I find it pretty fucked up that someone would renounce their citizenship "for convenience". I can't really comprehend how their country could mean so little to someone, es…

>You are free to not wear a mask or party by yourself, in your house, away from society. Or you could frame it the other way. Instead of suppressing everyone's freedom, people who …

>I would recommend looking into decoupling your social needs from your job. I absolutely hate that this is the standard answer that comes up everytime someone mentions not being ha…

The explosion in the number of sofware components in modern tractors and combines is inherent to what we expect from them. If your open source tractor is essentially a tractor from…

I don't understand how "not having to file a tax return" can work. How does it account for all the information a government might not reasonably have about your wealth and economic…

> Not in the west, it doesn't. (edit: just realised that maybe you meant the west of the USA and not the western world in general, in this case you might be right I'm obviously not…

> A pound of steak requires 4000 to 6000 gallons of water. People keep throwing this number around but it's at best voluntarily missleading, if not straight up a lie. 4 to 6k gallo…

> I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that speed limits are not effectively enforced on cars. No it's not, unless you have some study to back it up because it's not my experien…

I'm personally convinced that there's no justification for banning eMTBs (or any other negative sentiments toward them really) beside gatekeeping. There's nothing about eMTBs allow…

> It is also not really a viable large scale solution to "how do you move people around?" Not every solution needs to be large scale to be usefull. I think biofuels should be promo…

> many countries in the West should hire the Chinese to construct and build HSR in their countries with foreign labour under local direction There's absolutely no reason to do it, …

> Without workers in the office, middle management was left to spend additional time on pointless meetings, inhibiting their workers from spending their time on work tasks. You're …

It's plain illegal in Switzerland regardless of CCTV signs. Even dashcams are in a gray area where it should technically be illegal but it has never been enforced before a court as…

I share your opinion (I particularily like essays; I follow along the arguments, think whether I agree with them or not, etc. but absolutely hate the "how-to" kind of books which I…

I work in OT security in an industry completely unrelated to Telecoms but which is also a matter of national security and everything in this blog post doesn't really sound believab…

The argument about increased productivity is a fallacy. Only the primary and secondary sectors have a long track record of increased productivity, in services on the other hands -w…

My bad, I wasn't familiar with this working arrangement and the vocabulary around it. What I'm describing is simply known as being salaried in my country (not hourly paid as OT is …

The premise of the article is incorrect to begin with: > The way it’s supposed to work is if you’re salaried/exempt, you’re getting paid to do a job, not for a specific number of h…

The lack of offering for good students is already a major issue at every step of the education system as it is, closing these classes is a major step backward and "fuck you" to goo…

There's no company policy mandating me to start that early yet I start between 7am and 7:30am, by 8am the office is mostly full. The earlier you start the more daylight left to enj…

I just hope the home office trend doesn't lead to an urbanization of the countryside. I'm from a charming village that was overtaken by ugly and expensive developements during the …

This is probably going to be unpopular on this forum, but why is everyone assuming that having more researchers is desirable / needed in the first place? I think scientific researc…

Is this an article or a novel? I lost patience before getting to the point.

Beside being long yet void of any convincing arguments/ideas, this article completely ignores the fact that the majority of Covid vaccines are not mRNA vaccines, thus invalidating …