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  1. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    Yeah I don’t think the person I was talking to was really aware that was the direction they were going, they’re the sort that really believes that ICE is only rounding up criminals

    Yeah I don’t think the person I was talking to was really aware that was the direction they were going, they’re the sort that really believes that ICE is only rounding up criminals

  2. Comment on How a WhatsApp group for DC parents broke apart over politics in ~society

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    I haven’t found one single instance where fascism was eliminated in a country without some other country stepping in. Chances are it’ll take some crazy thing like the US actually invading Canada...

    I haven’t found one single instance where fascism was eliminated in a country without some other country stepping in.

    Chances are it’ll take some crazy thing like the US actually invading Canada for that to happen.

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  3. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    Tread lightly, because we came dangerously close to “they deserve it because they’re immigrants” and most people who confront that feeling end up doubling down on it because they can go online and...

    Tread lightly, because we came dangerously close to “they deserve it because they’re immigrants” and most people who confront that feeling end up doubling down on it because they can go online and find communities who don’t shame them for feeling that way.

    6 votes

  4. Comment on In the resistance, we drive minivans (gifted link) in ~society

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    My grampa served in Germany during the reconstruction and he told me they were made to watch videos about fascism over and over until they were bored so that they could help the remaining german...

    My grampa served in Germany during the reconstruction and he told me they were made to watch videos about fascism over and over until they were bored so that they could help the remaining german citizens out of it.

    I cannot believe that knowledge never fully reached the states. How did we look at that and learn nothing.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Drinking two-three cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk in ~health.mental

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    Anyone else get the feeling they’re trying to encourage people to drink more coffee because it/everything just got really expensive a couple years ago so a lot of people dropped it since its non...

    Anyone else get the feeling they’re trying to encourage people to drink more coffee because it/everything just got really expensive a couple years ago so a lot of people dropped it since its non essential?

    7 votes

  6. Comment on Communities, relationships, and navigating the enshittification of absolutely everything in ~talk

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    Right that was my vibe about it, basically if they cant make money off hurting children they’re trying to make money off doing the bare minimum required by law to protect them. Actually protecting...

    Right that was my vibe about it, basically if they cant make money off hurting children they’re trying to make money off doing the bare minimum required by law to protect them.

    Actually protecting them would take a massive expensive moderation system for no monetary benefit to the company and we cant have that.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on What are you working through? in ~life

  8. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    I find when I send links to people they don’t read them or they call them fake. The argument that got them to shut up at least a couple days ago was that ICE is using lethal force to enforce...

    I find when I send links to people they don’t read them or they call them fake.

    The argument that got them to shut up at least a couple days ago was that ICE is using lethal force to enforce immigration, do you think illegal immigrants and everyone around them deserve to die? Do you agree that the government has the right to use its power like this? ICE is creating a situation in which US citizens are getting shot and killed in the street.

    That at least ended the argument. Don’t think it changed any minds but maybe if I repeat it enough. It helped that I was talking to a libertarian who believes the government should have no power.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on What are you working through? in ~life

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    I thought I had landed in a spot similar to yours when I took this job, the company is pretty large but its still a tech company. I figured a tech company would care about the quality of the...

    I thought I had landed in a spot similar to yours when I took this job, the company is pretty large but its still a tech company. I figured a tech company would care about the quality of the products it releases, but, ai hype happened and now we release shit that sounds great on paper but doesn’t really work

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  10. Comment on Hot take: movies suck because there is no rental market in ~movies

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    This is basically exactly what I was going to post. There are good movies which took risks out there, you just have to look for them. I have no idea what advertising budget they have, but that...

    This is basically exactly what I was going to post.

    There are good movies which took risks out there, you just have to look for them. I have no idea what advertising budget they have, but that advertising isn’t reaching me.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers forty years after their adoptions – government acknowledges processes were plagued with irregularities, from theft of babies to falsified documents in ~life

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    I see these stories all the time usually in the context of Korea, instead of helping a country take care of its babies they just took the babies, thinking they could do better. Kinda reminds me of...

    I see these stories all the time usually in the context of Korea, instead of helping a country take care of its babies they just took the babies, thinking they could do better.

    Kinda reminds me of that other post a couple days ago how you cant just force-build a community, you have to seed it and let it grow.

    They knew what they were doing. Kicking a community while it was already down by providing incentives for families to tear themselves apart. They did that in Africa too in order to source slaves. They took the most precious thing a country has, its children.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the coming AGI catastrophe in ~society

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    Damn, I just got called out. Maybe I should stop running and put some skin into the game.

    why fight a difficult political battle when you can simply leave? But it also means that the problems are never confronted, only redistributed. The researcher who leaves Lab A because of safety concerns may find the same concerns at Lab B, because the same people, with the same assumptions, are building the same systems.

    Damn, I just got called out. Maybe I should stop running and put some skin into the game.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    That movie Civil War had a president, that was a caricature of our current president, get killed by rebels. I know thats Alex Garlands style to invoke a feeling of shock like that, but that scene...

    That movie Civil War had a president, that was a caricature of our current president, get killed by rebels.

    I know thats Alex Garlands style to invoke a feeling of shock like that, but that scene was bold, that hit hard.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    I was just pointing out that we’re going back to the level of wealth inequality that we saw in the middle ages.

    I was just pointing out that we’re going back to the level of wealth inequality that we saw in the middle ages.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    Yeah I mean back in the day all the wealthy would make castles, so this is basically just, throwback to 500 years ago or something?

    Yeah I mean back in the day all the wealthy would make castles, so this is basically just, throwback to 500 years ago or something?

    14 votes

  16. Comment on Need a replacement for my old macbook pro, should I just get another one? in ~comp

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    When did apple have that issue with the macbook mobo?

    When did apple have that issue with the macbook mobo?

  17. Comment on What are you working through? in ~life

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    I kinda try not to take on too much of the training work cause while it’s a nice change of pace its really incredibly draining for me and on days I spend more than about an hour talking to people...

    I kinda try not to take on too much of the training work cause while it’s a nice change of pace its really incredibly draining for me and on days I spend more than about an hour talking to people I have no energy left to do any of my own tasks and I end up behind for the next day.

    That presentation basically stole two working days from me. I needed to have this other thing done last week and now its not done cause too many people were talking to me

    2 votes

  18. Comment on What are you working through? in ~life

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    I apply to those sometimes and never hear back. I think I have to know someone. Theres also credit unions, but I would have to move to their headquarters and I like where I live.

    I apply to those sometimes and never hear back. I think I have to know someone.

    Theres also credit unions, but I would have to move to their headquarters and I like where I live.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What are you working through? in ~life

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    I’m into permaculture, but progress is very very slow cause I have to work all the time and have little energy for anything else. I know I need to get out, its just I’m autistic, and Ive never...

    I’m into permaculture, but progress is very very slow cause I have to work all the time and have little energy for anything else.

    I know I need to get out, its just I’m autistic, and Ive never worked a job that doesn’t take up all of my energy just to function at the same level as everyone else. Software developing was supposed to be the safe job for me, working on something I love around people who are like me.

    What I really want is a job that requires less of me, but theres no such thing as a part time software developer. You can work on contracted projects one at a time with with no vacation or health benefits and take a break between jobs but thats the best there is.

    I’m only holding on cause right now I actually make enough money to maybe retire when I burn out and not have to go back. I just need like 15 more years.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Need a replacement for my old macbook pro, should I just get another one? in ~comp

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    My phone bill is only like $45/mo cause Im still on my moms family plan

    My phone bill is only like $45/mo cause Im still on my moms family plan

    1 vote