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This sounds like it is backed by some negative experiences with religious folk. I'd be interested to hear what you have experienced if you are willing to share?
Good grief. I have never had a negative experience with religious people. You just can’t accept that I (and most people) dislike door-to-door sales shysters of all types. Don’t project your problems on me.
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What are you interested in? I have a fairly large list of podcasts that I listen to, I could maybe recommend a few. Sadly, many have wrapped up but the feeds are still up.
I really enjoy Dark net diaries. Im searhing for more "tech stories". Less how they scaled a business more how they scaled the cluster while the DC was on fire.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703564 best episode
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674609 best podcast
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Utah has the strongest legal protections for MLMs/Pyramid Schemes/etc. in the country [1]. The demand for that safe harbor and the political will to pass it is largely a result of Mormonism. The hierarchy of the church discourages anyone from criticizing the next level 'above' them. There is also strong societal pressure for Mormon wives to be stay-at-home mothers, but the economic reality means they often need to fi…
I'm not sure about the "mission system" part. Most of the MLM people I encountered in Utah did not come through the "mission system." I kinda discount the church hierarchy theory, too. The point about stay at home moms carries water, I think. There aren't a lot of ways to make money while raising a 1, 4, and 7 year old. You can let somebody else raise them while you work. Or... you could have a playdoh party at your…
> I'm not sure about the "mission system" part.
Here's my (subjective and likely limited) perspective: the LDS church has a culture that heavily emphasizes missionary efforts. Young adult men active in the church are expected to serve missions. Most of my female friends/family who are active members are taught to marry active men who have returned home from missions. My opinion is that that missionary culture saturates even those women who have not served who are active members (especially if they have married a former missionary) and I would imagine that bolsters their willpower to persistently push these products. Additionally, there is a busy-body culture (that I also feel is heavily influenced by missionary culture) I have noticed to be always engaged in good things and I would imagine for a lot of women making money fits that mold.
I may be totally wrong, but that's a theory that makes sense to me and lines up with my experiences.
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You already know the answer, but it's well-established consensus among historians that the Anne Frank diary is authentic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Auth... The conspiracy theory that it is fabricated is mostly pushed by fringe "historical revisionists" engaging in Holocaust denial. There are some Christian fundamentalists in the US who also peddle this narrative because the original uned…
> You already know the answer No, I actually did not. I believed (and still do) that the diary is mostly true, with some editing and sanitizing being done for publication. I had heard that there was some minor controversy regarding those edits and omissions, and I assumed that the flippant post by user “halffaday” (who is not me, N.B.) was referring to that. > The conspiracy theory that it is fabricated is mostly pus…
If it walks and talks like a duck, it's usually a duck, even if it says and believes it's a goose. "Just asking questions" is literally a far right meme (if you're wondering, it's part of a tactic called "sealioning" using leading questions to spread talking points and derail conversations).
I'm not saying you're a card-carrying member of the German National Socialist Workers Party, but whether intentionally or (more likely) accidentally, you're hitting a lot of the same chords and you might want to reflect on where you picked them up and why.
To be clear: HN is fairly accepting of far-right accounts as long as they avoid being explicitly so (and even then they're more likely to be downvoted than actually banned). The person who made the "joke" about Anne Frank has a history of making easy-to-miss remarks that just happen to fit in a certain political bend (e.g. complaining about "exotic sexual identities" or stating everything got worse because of something unspecified happening in the 1960s, a decade defined by civil rights victories). Even if HN's moderation policy was to actually ban far right individuals they probably would have a hard time justifying this one even if the aggregate of these comments paints an obvious picture for anyone familiar with the tropes.
It's always just jokes. The playbook literally involves telling "jokes" until you stop laughing (i.e. when it stops being a joke or as they say "when the joke really lands"). Far right communities have been at this for well over a decade at this point (though the defining moment was most definitely the GamerGate harassment campaign that populated "red pilling" in their target demographic). "Edgy jokes" are the gateway. You are not immune to propaganda.