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Uh, can we get back to "who

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:40:40 +0000

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Uh, can we get back to "who is Slash"?

Noah Smith has got one for

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 07:30:57 +0000

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Noah Smith has got one for ya, PP:

The real racial debate that will eventually tear our country apart is: "Is Worf black?"
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) February 3, 2022

Damn, the numbers on this

Orion — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:58:08 +0000

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Damn, the numbers on this post are gangbusters.

It's not free for businesses

ocean-kat — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 02:31:11 +0000

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It's not free for businesses to take credit card payments from customers. And those fees have been increasing. Several gas stations in my area will take credit card payments but will change 50c if you use a debit card. If your debit card is also a credit card you can use it for free if you click on the credit card option when you use it. I don't know how much the cash only movement is caused by business wanting to avoid the charges but it's part of it.

I had a weird encounter on

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:52:59 +0000

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I had a weird encounter on Twitter where 2 people insisted that "If you take away the racist parts of American history you're not left with much." If you mention a corned beef sandwich, there's a something racist about it. International highway system? Racist. Of course penicillin - racist (because if the Tuskegee experiments 90 years ago). D-Day? "Racist". That longevity has increased equally for different races? "Racist". Just no escaping the everything racist quicksand once you buy into it. Sure, there's quite a bit of racism (and not just black). But it's weird to have it the defining quality of everything.

very interesting guy I've

artappraiser — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:13:32 +0000

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very interesting guy I've been following for a while, he is trying to teach young kids to enjoy work for other reasons than money:

I’m headed to the great state of Florida to give mowers away . Any more kids there that would like to do our 50 yard challenge but don’t have a mower ? I got a few more with me. pic.twitter.com/O6lNwMlYXY
— Rodney Smith Jr (@iamrodneysmith) February 2, 2022

he has them sign pledges to break the goal of 50 miles of mowing of lawns for seniors and disabled who can't do so.

also, I am reminded by this

artappraiser — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:21:59 +0000

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also, I am reminded by this that males, especially white males, are at the bottom of the Woke hoardes' scale, and are confronted constantly with stories that even if they become successful, they will have to practice extra vigilance for knives at their back

.@jamiljivani is a brilliant black Canadian. A Yale Law grad, best-selling author with an amazing life story.

But he was fired from his radio show for not bowing to the increasingly aggressive woke-left bias of those in corporate media who are intolerant of viewpoint diversity. https://t.co/rO6m14OGhg
— Jason Kenney (@jkenney) February 1, 2022

SO: why even try? Why not just stay in mom's basement? She's the one who loves you unconditionally. Why brave the wilds just to be shot down for who you are?

to that exact point, Krugman

artappraiser — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:39:41 +0000

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to that exact point, Krugman was warning the other day on crypto, especially after checking out the demographics: careful, people, it will eventually crash, and drawing comparisons to sub-prime. Remember the craziness of the house flipping trend before 2009, including all the tv shows?

edit to add: here's another from the CNBC viral story:

'Our account had less than $1': This couple made nearly $120,000 in under 6 hours selling NFTs to save their home from foreclosure https://t.co/tA7IizEwXW
— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) January 29, 2022

this is a woman, but it's a

artappraiser — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:31:00 +0000

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this is a woman, but it's a good example, I've been reading a lot of stories where struggling lower class people who aren't working or do gig work are trying out capitalism. capitalism, it's definitely a "thing":

‘I had $10 in my bank account’: This 36-year-old went from living paycheck to paycheck to making over $109,000 selling NFTs https://t.co/AoDI9h6HDi
— CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) February 2, 2022

Nearly all of the men I have

Orion — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:14:56 +0000

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Nearly all of the men I have encountered over the past few years are like this. Growing and selling marijuana, doing freelance graphic design or writing work, working security, driving Uber, living off of inheritance, working random sales jobs, event staffing, etc. The modern economy simply doesn't know what to do with men.

That's not a men's rights argument or whatever. Women are still subject to rape, sexual harassment, and everything they claim. In fact, it may be a lot worse with a lot of men out of sorts. Hince #metoo, right? Nevertheless, the information economy has men appearing like weird, moody/angry gorillas that belong in the past. They're wandering around simply because no one knows what to do with them.

The information economy may also break down at some point soon, and that would make all of this even stranger.