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  1. Comment on The FAA investigates after Boeing says workers in South Carolina falsified 787 inspection records in ~transport

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    The posturing, fingerpointing, and obfuscation are predictable. So is the apparent lack of strategy regarding planes which have already been put in service. Is the FAA beholden to the public which...

    The posturing, fingerpointing, and obfuscation are predictable. So is the apparent lack of strategy regarding planes which have already been put in service.

    Is the FAA beholden to the public which pays for its supposed oversight, or to the industry it's supposed to be overseeing?

    13 votes

  2. Comment on What are some non-science-fiction books that are deep, insane, mind-bending, etc? in ~books

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    Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda.

    Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on US senior homes refuse to pick up fallen residents, dial 911. ‘Why are they calling us?’ in ~health

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    I don't buy the argument that regular people like you and I are any less culpable. As investors in our economy, participating Capitalists if you will, we should be doing all we can to vote in...

    I don't buy the argument that regular people like you and I are any less culpable. As investors in our economy, participating Capitalists if you will, we should be doing all we can to vote in politicians and policies that discourage predatory behavior.

    Maybe you're very active in this regard, but these days I'm mainly politically active at the voting booth.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on US senior homes refuse to pick up fallen residents, dial 911. ‘Why are they calling us?’ in ~health

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    They are catering to your and my investing in business to fund our retirement savings. In the U.S. that puts it on us to vote in and support policy and law that explicitly makes this behavior...

    Private equity firms operate this way by design - they explicitly cater to people who are living socialist caricatures of capitalists, the ultra-rich who have zero qualms about grinding the country into dust and dooming the entire planet just to enhance their bottom lines

    They are catering to your and my investing in business to fund our retirement savings. In the U.S. that puts it on us to vote in and support policy and law that explicitly makes this behavior unprofitable.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I completed an original tune and built a video around it. All the photos and artwork are my own. https://youtu.be/W-gVGBaZPoI?si=9NLGrw7vwmhiBE3y

    I completed an original tune and built a video around it. All the photos and artwork are my own.

    https://youtu.be/W-gVGBaZPoI?si=9NLGrw7vwmhiBE3y

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Thinking about quitting the Internet in ~tech

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    I'll try to be subtle. Or maybe I won't. The crapification of society leaves pockets of value that no one wants. I pick them up off the street. Books, sometimes great ones. Music, The Best of the...

    I'll try to be subtle. Or maybe I won't. The crapification of society leaves pockets of value that no one wants. I pick them up off the street. Books, sometimes great ones. Music, The Best of the Best. And some of the best distillations of knowledge that people scoff at.

    There's this thing you might not have heard about it's called the public library . There are even a few pockets of the internet where value can be found. Like r/simple living on Reddit, and r/books. Like tildes. CDs, the kind you invest in have been great for me even as people on Wall Street Bets make and lose fortunes.

    One of the greatest treasures I've found is my little Progressive Methodist church, where genuine people try to help other people, and find themselves by losing themselves in the interests of a bigger cause. I admire people who go against the grain and find their way ignoring the Madding Crowd.

    So kudos to you for stepping out. You aren't alone.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on What are your favorite series that are not from the US or UK and also not popular anime? in ~tv

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    Thank you. Just saw this, I'll check it out!

    Thank you. Just saw this, I'll check it out!

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Reddit pops as much as 70% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range in ~tech

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    I doubt many of those buying read the required listing of risks involved in the company. The primary one is the Redditors themselves. Now, if the company can grow its customer base and quickly...

    I doubt many of those buying read the required listing of risks involved in the company.

    The primary one is the Redditors themselves. Now, if the company can grow its customer base and quickly pivot from the unique customer driven structure it was based on to one JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, then sure, profit is possible.

    But one day in, I've already seen the quality of posts dropping, which I suspect is from moderator decisions across the board. Time will tell.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on What are your favorite series that are not from the US or UK and also not popular anime? in ~tv

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    The Extraordinary Attorney Woo, about a young autistic woman woman who becomes an attorney for a big law firm in Seoul, I belive. It's absolutely delightful and gracefully rises above the Korean...

    The Extraordinary Attorney Woo, about a young autistic woman woman who becomes an attorney for a big law firm in Seoul, I belive. It's absolutely delightful and gracefully rises above the Korean romcoms.

    Fisk is a comedy about another attorney. But since it's in Australia, it's quite different. Finally Heartland, a long running Canadian family drama, is absolutely gorgeous.

    All these are Netflix which is the only thing I stream, frugal I am.

    13 votes

  10. Comment on Are there any affordable digital compact cameras out there with a zoom lens? in ~tech

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    I used to have a Canon Powershot and loved it. You can get affordable cameras used, there's a lot of them out there.

    I used to have a Canon Powershot and loved it. You can get affordable cameras used, there's a lot of them out there.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on The carry-on-baggage bubble is about to pop in ~travel

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    See the Wikipedia article on Enshittification. It's a term origin coined by Cory Doctorow in reference to media related services, but it's everywhere now.

    See the Wikipedia article on Enshittification. It's a term origin coined by Cory Doctorow in reference to media related services, but it's everywhere now.

  12. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

  13. Comment on “Both-sides” and when is nuance acceptable discourse? in ~talk

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    "It's led to me abandoning talking about political issues with most people, because i don't consider a conversation like this worth having and my capacity for it is limited in the ..first place....

    "It's led to me abandoning talking about political issues with most people, because i don't consider a conversation like this worth having and my capacity for it is limited in the ..first place. Those conversations are not about politics. More often than not, it's someone seeking validation"

    Well said.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    As I recall, The City and the City was a bit affected, not as good as Kraken which remains my favorite.

    As I recall, The City and the City was a bit affected, not as good as Kraken which remains my favorite.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on After writing an anti-Israel letter, Harvard students are doxxed in ~life

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    Perhaps everything we do is political. In a Democracy or even a benevolent dictatorship that is true. And certainly in a capitalist society we have even more opportunities. I'm talking about...

    Perhaps everything we do is political. In a Democracy or even a benevolent dictatorship that is true. And certainly in a capitalist society we have even more opportunities. I'm talking about voting with your hands and feet. Teaching. Helping. Living your belief.

  16. Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots in ~tech

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    The larger story is the breakdown of our current economic system with absolutely nothing better to take its place.

    The larger story is the breakdown of our current economic system with absolutely nothing better to take its place.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

  18. Comment on After writing an anti-Israel letter, Harvard students are doxxed in ~life

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    Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others,...

    Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn’t we?” But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

  19. Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google in ~tech

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    Thus endeth the ball game.* *quote from Peanuts, by Charles Schulz, scraped by Don Quixote's still human brain. Thus endeth search as we have come to know it. Ironic that the term webcrawler,...

    Thus endeth the ball game.*

    *quote from Peanuts, by Charles Schulz, scraped by Don Quixote's still human brain.

    Thus endeth search as we have come to know it. Ironic that the term webcrawler, invented by Stan Lee was itself scraped from Marvel Comics in the early days of the World Wide Web.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on "My dad painted the iconic cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ and it’s haunted him ever since" in ~music

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    I'll just take this space to recommend to everyone the novel Year Zero by Rob Reid. It's a satire on the mess that is US copyright law and by extension the US legal system in general.

    I'll just take this space to recommend to everyone the novel Year Zero by Rob Reid. It's a satire on the mess that is US copyright law and by extension the US legal system in general.

    1 vote