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  1. Comment on US election results (other than presidential) thread in ~society

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    California decided to keep slavery. And make it easier to put people in it.

    California decided to keep slavery. And make it easier to put people in it.

    14 votes

  2. Comment on The Electoral College is bad in ~society

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    With out it they’d only need to worry about populous areas.

    With out it they’d only need to worry about populous areas.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Looking for a Switch game thats fun but requires little commitment in ~games

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    They just released a mobile version as well. Good luck!

    They just released a mobile version as well. Good luck!

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Toyota is the latest company to scale back its DEI policies in ~transport

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    Sure that’s fair. Do you have a blind hiring process to ensure that?

    Sure that’s fair.

    Do you have a blind hiring process to ensure that?

  5. Comment on Toyota is the latest company to scale back its DEI policies in ~transport

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    If you have a product team that has zero women on it and you have two candidates- man who scored 100 on bis hiring test and a woman who scored 90. Your belief is that the company would lose out by...

    If you have a product team that has zero women on it and you have two candidates- man who scored 100 on bis hiring test and a woman who scored 90. Your belief is that the company would lose out by hiring the woman because the man scored better on their hiring test and no other factors are pertinent.

    You may believe this but just want to confirm you are saying what you think you are.

    7 votes

  6. Comment on Looking for slim wallet recommendations in ~life.style

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    It’s definitely something that could be a “passed down forever” sort of item but it was also half the price when I got it and it was expensive then.

    It’s definitely something that could be a “passed down forever” sort of item but it was also half the price when I got it and it was expensive then.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Looking for slim wallet recommendations in ~life.style

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    They pivoted to baseball team stuff but I got one of their front pocket wallets like 15 years ago and it still looks newish? https://vvego.com/product/baseball-glove-leather-front-pocket-wallet/

    They pivoted to baseball team stuff but I got one of their front pocket wallets like 15 years ago and it still looks newish? https://vvego.com/product/baseball-glove-leather-front-pocket-wallet/

    1 vote

  8. Comment on ‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores in ~enviro

  9. Comment on Swedish government accused of trying to ‘outlaw poverty’ over begging ban – critics say proposal may not be lawful and would not tackle root cause of vulnerability in ~society

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    I’d just like to note that studies estimate about 40% of unsheltered people have jobs. There’s certainly those really far gone but there are a lot of folks that want to do better.

    I’d just like to note that studies estimate about 40% of unsheltered people have jobs. There’s certainly those really far gone but there are a lot of folks that want to do better.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on Choosing a TTRPG system in ~games.tabletop

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    D&D is good because everyone knows about it, but it isn’t the most accessible....

    D&D is good because everyone knows about it, but it isn’t the most accessible.

    https://www.mythmeregames.com/collections/swords-wizardry?srsltid=AfmBOopPUKhH76UYbaVJx-geJAMxH56lf3JKP3Tf28o2x7W0v3RfkQO3 is a great alternative most like advanced d&d

    If you want to get people in asap and don’t mind stepping away from high fantasy, Mothership is amazing.

    You can also get any game setting started in 30 minutes with the quickstart rules for GURPS and I find GURPS to have a lot of the same “Wooo!” Joy get from rolling 20’s in DnD. GURPS also plays really fast. Just remember GURPS is a toolbox, so use what you want and ignore what you dont like.

    As for getting people interested Deborah Ann Woll had the most genius way to explain how D&D works. I played this to someone today who had no idea what dnd was and she replied “i want to play that!”

    https://youtu.be/JpVJZrabMQE?si=POq5zaUgSY9IITvI

    She just plays with him right there. It’s genius.

    But for better recs, are you looking just at fantasy? There are a lot of amazing, rules lite systems out there for just about every genre.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on China is ready for war (and thanks to a crumbling defense industrial base, America is not) in ~society

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    This article may be correct but doesn’t address the military making better use of the absurd amount of money we pour into it. “Crumbling Defense Industrial Base” = highest gdp percentage of...

    This article may be correct but doesn’t address the military making better use of the absurd amount of money we pour into it.

    “Crumbling Defense Industrial Base” = highest gdp percentage of military spending in developed war, save for Russia these days.

    17 votes

  12. Comment on You're running for office on a somewhat petty, yet univerally-understood single issue. What is it? in ~talk

  13. Comment on You're running for office on a somewhat petty, yet univerally-understood single issue. What is it? in ~talk

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    Use of personal audio devices on public land (beaches, hiking trails, etc) met with caning in real time at the site.

    Use of personal audio devices on public land (beaches, hiking trails, etc) met with caning in real time at the site.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on Winamp releases source code, asks for help modernizing the player in ~comp

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    Nice on the link and yeah just dropped out of the scene. Probably because things don’t have community friendly features like mods anymore.

    Nice on the link and yeah just dropped out of the scene. Probably because things don’t have community friendly features like mods anymore.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Winamp releases source code, asks for help modernizing the player in ~comp

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    Tangentially, I miss the Winamp days of having really fun, good visualizers and I haven’t really been able to find any that aren’t trash. Now that it’s easy to cast to a TV, it’s a shame spotify...

    Tangentially, I miss the Winamp days of having really fun, good visualizers and I haven’t really been able to find any that aren’t trash. Now that it’s easy to cast to a TV, it’s a shame spotify et al don’t have a solid visualizer to add to it.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on The white collar apocalypse is nigh in ~life

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    On the flip side, human labor is surprisingly cheap. The cost to move to robotics is probably significantly higher than most people would assume.

    On the flip side, human labor is surprisingly cheap. The cost to move to robotics is probably significantly higher than most people would assume.

    9 votes

  17. Comment on Touch / Snerting | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Teasers are usually enough for me. Trailers are usually the whole movie in 90 seconds.

    Teasers are usually enough for me. Trailers are usually the whole movie in 90 seconds.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on The iPhones 16 in ~tech

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    Growth focus is the death of all products. Everything has to keep going - Zoom now is a platform. Dropbox is a platform. Iphone obviously has been a platform but they will keep adding on to it...

    Growth focus is the death of all products. Everything has to keep going - Zoom now is a platform. Dropbox is a platform. Iphone obviously has been a platform but they will keep adding on to it until it’s trash. This is how MBA kill products. Unless you have a Jobs to think of whats next, you just keep adding “buttons” because it doesn’t take actual innovation.

    20 votes

  19. Comment on How Joe Biden's National Labor Relations Board has boosted bottom-up unionism in the US (and why this matters) in ~society

  20. Comment on Disney animation shake-up: Jennifer Lee exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush takes over in ~movies

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    That’s me guessing they were testing things for political topics, seeing how things are best swayed? But also maybe just chaos, hurt a big cultural release.

    That’s me guessing they were testing things for political topics, seeing how things are best swayed? But also maybe just chaos, hurt a big cultural release.

    2 votes