orcrist

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orcrist ,

I remember history different. I remember Gore losing the debates because he listened to his advisors. That was cringey.

But you think it's the voters who blew it every time. You even think minority voters in hardcore Red states blew it, which is quite absurd.

Maybe the candidates were shit? Maybe their policy positions sucked? Hmm. That might be relevant too.

orcrist ,

Maybe you're making an apples to oranges comparison. But anyway, nobody I know thinks Apple has good intentions with regard to their data.

orcrist ,

Meaning what? In the long run, we all get off the ride.

orcrist ,

And we have an electoral college, so actually you can still vote earnestly in most states without major concern.

orcrist ,

Only if your vote might change the results. Which isn't true for millions of Americans.

orcrist ,

Your argument is made every four years. The someday you talk about never seems to arrive. Which means the reasoning is missing something important.

orcrist ,

"corrected" yeah no ... signalling, sigh.

orcrist ,

Oh my God oh my God if the landlords have to sell, that would be... Check notes... That would be really good for people who want to buy houses.

orcrist ,

If you're talking about a government that is ignoring other factors, which is not true in this situation. Go read the article.

But even in general, if you're trying to argue that the government can't possibly solve the problem of mega corporations buying up tons of property, making tons of money, and screwing over millions of Americans, then you might be right but I sure hope you're wrong.

orcrist ,

And you did not write it, not before, and not now. So it's hard to give more insightful feedback than what everyone here already wrote.

That's not a great way to get good information from the community.

orcrist ,

Hahahahahaha. He worked hard to get bribed.

orcrist ,

How many hours did you practice? What did you practice? These are fundamental questions for any new instrumental hobby.

If you are doing everything solo, it's easy to have misplaced expectations or a bad practice menu, or even worse, no solid practice menu at all. Screwing around is cool once you have a basic level of proficiency.

But also, it's OK to try it and later realize that you don't like it.

orcrist ,

We?

orcrist ,

Nothing is hidden. Bad headline.

orcrist ,

War, you mean like the war at the southern border?

orcrist ,

The general awareness that alcoholics tend to do far more damage to their lives and people around them than potheads do, that goes back a very long time.

Even if we weren't looking at raw data, common sense and basic powers of observation let us draw solid general conclusions.

orcrist ,

Wow that's wonderful, what a brilliant creation. Kudos to the artist.

orcrist ,

It tastes the same if you close your eyes.

orcrist ,

It wasn't a mistake. Did they make money? ... Checks notes ... lots of it.

orcrist ,

If you read some of the answers, you'll find some interesting practical ones that don't involve burning bridges. But we should also keep in mind that the company itself matters. If some random schmuck from HR is interviewing you, and you decide to spice things up a little, how exactly is this going to come back to hurt you? It's theoretically possible that they'll move companies when you're searching for a job in the future, but maybe it's not that likely.

orcrist ,

Do you know if it was productive and informative for them?

For example, I left a job several years ago, and not long before I left, I met with the boss and explained some of the massive issues facing my department. He sounded interested, but of course he never did anything about those problems, and my former co-workers have told me that the situation is worse than it was before. In my observation, and that of my friends, this is what happens most of the time. After all, if they didn't listen to you before, and especially if they didn't ask you before, then why would we expect them to care what you say now?

orcrist ,

It's also about the justice system. If you are I commit multiple felonies, will get locked up. If we tried screwing around in court that much, if we were held in contempt multiple times, the same result would occur. But he's rich and famous, at least for now, so he gets away with it, or at least he gets away with it for a lot longer.

orcrist ,

Who told you that? People who support those two parties? The corporations that fund those two parties? Maybe you've been played.

orcrist ,

I feel the same way about what you wrote.

Where is the substance? Nothing you wrote actually addressed the issue, and your speculation was inaccurate as well. Meh.

orcrist ,

StarCraft
Chrono Trigger
Tetris
Super Mario World
Super Mario Bros 3
Wolfenstein 3D
Doom 2
Skyrim
Minesweeper
百万人の漢検

That's eight. Not to recommend them, only to note what made my life exciting

orcrist ,

I didn't think the Supreme Court would go this far. We knew they would be bad, that's why they were appointed, but they've tried and succeeded at making themselves so completely illegitimate, so completely out of touch with what the American public needs. And that only pushes people towards significantly more activism. Who do they hate? Who don't they respect? Women, ethnic minorities, librarians, anyone who isn't rich.

orcrist ,

Ah, take out a loan, pay ourselves, declare bankruptcy, walk away. Classic.

orcrist ,

The exact details are complicated but the general idea is simple. Three different things tend to happen in setups like this.

First, one company can own multiple shell companies, it can borrow in one of the shell companies and funnel that to one of the other shell companies, and walk away with money after declaring bankruptcy.

Second, a company can take out a large loan and then pay some of the bosses, promising to pay back the loan knowing that they never will.

Third, a company can use multiple shell companies to create just the right tax setup such that most of those companies don't have any taxable income even though combined they definitely would.

orcrist ,

I don't see any problem with creating an account and then posting about political topics if that's what you're interested in. Perhaps you could come up with something more specific that you think they're doing that's problematic.

This particular post might be a little boring but I don't see it as manipulative. And if I were going to be critical of them, I would probably make remarks about their artistic prowess, or lack thereof, except that they are already far more skilled than I am, so I'm just going to shut up about it and hope they don't see this comment and hold it against me later.

orcrist ,

Of course he's just scumbag, but you don't blame a single person for a national failure that goes back centuries.

If cops lost their badges for any unjustified killing, if cops were locked up for manslaughter or murder whenever they killed someone unnecessarily, the death count would drop overnight. Systemic problems requires systemic solutions, and we know exactly what to do. The problem is making it happen.

orcrist OP ,

Thank you, and it does!

orcrist OP ,

There are libraries full of articles, but only a fraction of a percent of those are actually exciting. I'm looking for ones that catch the reader's attention.

orcrist ,

No. But even if they were, it's still unconscionable to kill hospital staff and patients. You can argue that some people should distance themselves from Hamas or bear the risk. I think that's mostly victim blaming, but at least you could argue that, and perhaps some surprising discussion could occur... Except here we're talking about people who are sick or injured. They really couldn't go anywhere.

orcrist ,

I love how Fortune always deflects from the actual issue: wages aren't matching prices, which means the average American is getting screwed by company owners and wealthy investors, at work, at the bank, at university.

It's not about interest rates or inflation, although those are both relevant. If inflation were evenly balanced, it wouldn't hurt most people, right? That is definitional. And high interest rates block house purchases, but in theory they also benefit house owners who have fixed interest rates. So again, if people were able to afford houses in the yhr past few decades, this wouldn't be such a big issue.

orcrist ,

Yeah, except they do, they did. Why does California have strict gun control laws? Because in the 1960s, the Black Panthers were open carrying, and white folks (esp. police) didn't like it.

If a crowd full of armed minorities had invaded Congress when Trump took power, of course hundreds or thousands would have been shot.

orcrist ,

The simple issue is that this is genocide. Full stop.

And we should stop it. After that, let's look into the complex issue you're trying to raise. Conflating the two is how people justify doing nothing.

orcrist ,

My friend, you can define words however you like, but the numbers of dead bodies won't change because of it.

orcrist ,

It's clear that Israel has bigger guns. Why would you even mention that? The question here is morality, not munitions.

By the way, how many of the dead actually wished for all Jews to die? Of course most of them didn't. Of course most of them just wanted to live their lives in peace. Sigh.

orcrist ,

Oh this is getting interesting. Now you're telling me there's some massive Iranian propaganda machine that's getting all around the globe, and somehow it's magically stronger than the U.S. propaganda machine. If that's true, can we just fire all of the top brass in the Pentagon because they're basically incompetent?

If what you're saying is accurate, but seems like people ought to lose their jobs.

orcrist ,

We all know there are incompetent people in human resources who will turn to their tech person and ask them to do the job. The tech person won't even think twice about the actual intended use of the data that they're sharing.

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

orcrist ,

Depending on your situation, you might consider a totally different setup. For example, you could install WordPress or anything vaguely similar to it.

orcrist ,

Newspapers with pay walls are just no good, but if you could post an accessible link to some online archive that would be marvelous.

orcrist ,

Thanks!!

orcrist ,

Many cops lie on their police reports. How will we handle their excuses in the future, when those lies are uncovered, and they try to blame the inaccuracies on AI? It's already hard enough to get cops charged with perjury, and this just makes it even harder. But technology or not, the lack of accountability is not a problem that's likely to be solved in the near future.

In practice, many people use technology to help with writing, and there's no reason why law enforcement shouldn't do so, to some degree, as long as they are held responsible both civilly and criminally for what they produce.

That being said, are we going to actually see increased productivity in the pigs? Various research has shown that many cops arrest people disproportionately in the last hour of their shift, because they know that their department policy requires that they work overtime to finish their report, and they want the extra bucks. For cops who are gaming the system now, of course they're going to keep gaming it.

orcrist ,

Your comment is a good example of two of the classic global warming denial tactics.

You're claim about industrial productivity causing unavoidable damage to the environment is setting up a binary in order to pretend the badness is unavoidable. In reality, different industrial procedures have vastly varying effects on the environment. One procedure might have an incredibly small effect relative to another, but if we listen to your claim, we would lump them all together and shrug our shoulders because it's necessary to have industry in modern society.

And then there's the scale argument. Well, the scale argument is another kind of deflection. I think the background assumption is that because human beings have done things on a small scale for the past few hundred years, we shouldn't worry that things have been ramped up in the last half century. Of course that doesn't make sense because the world population has risen massively, and the effects of increased climate change end up causing irreversible damage, damage that wasn't even close to being caused a hundred years ago.

And finally, the fatalistic tone itself is a deflection tactic. In fact we have created a lot of legislation to fix problems created by pollution. We have successfully regulated a ton of environmental problems away. So if we're trying to use history as a measure of how to create the future, let's get even more regulation into place.

orcrist ,

It's not just about whether they're safe for statistically, although of course that's true, but also to point out that there's the extra mental burden of keeping track of that safety aspect.

orcrist ,

It's true that the US doesn't have the draft, but it does have horrible situations where many young people see an obvious path to economic stability, and that's joining the military. Maybe the military is their only clear way out of poverty. And predictably, as has been the case for decades, recruiting sergeants will lie about what these young men and women are going to be asked to do. But once they sign the papers, it's too late. And years later, when they leave the service, they'll be stuck trying to get medical care from the VA. Sometimes that works, but there are countless horror stories out there.

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