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Staccato 127 points 3 years ago

Orange County, where Disney World is located, went for the D candidate 53-46. Don't blame them for the malignant human tumor their state foisted on them.

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Staccato 40 points 3 years ago

The article was a fun read, but for readers who don't have time, I believe Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" describes the same problem with marginally fewer words. My favorite excerpt, though, really nails exactly the BS your article mentioned:

Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that they lead to. This time it must of its nature be an imaginary one. I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes:

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Here it is in modern English:

Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

This is a parody, but not a very gross one.

Peterson's writings are worse than Orwell's own parodies.

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Staccato 36 points 3 years ago

LOCK HIM UP

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Staccato 30 points 3 years ago

I bet they could get the Democrats' help! All they have to do is nominate a Democrat for Speaker. What a beautiful opportunity for bipartisanship!

...wait that's not what they meant?

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Staccato 29 points 3 years ago

Rehabilitation doesn't mean the perpetrator won't spend years separated from society, just that the perp's sequestration happens in a setting meant to enable him/her to return to society in the distant future, assuming the perp becomes a changed person.

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Staccato 27 points 3 years ago

Nah, the remaining employees aren't the "dead wood" necessarily. They're all the ones on H1 visas who can't legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).

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Staccato 23 points 3 years ago

EVs start their life with a higher environmental burden than ICE vehicles, but the math comes out so that the burden becomes lower after between 15k-20k miles.

By the end of life of an EV, they are more eco friendly than an ICE vehicle of similar build.

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Staccato 23 points 3 years ago

That "college friends" line always bugged me. I keep in closer touch with my good high school friends then I do with my old college friends.

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Staccato 23 points 3 years ago

It's also how you destroy the environment of the Niger River Delta.

You want to take out the pumps, not the pipelines.

(Calm down NSA, I'm saying this purely in jest)

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Staccato 23 points 3 years ago

Ugh, gig workers need to be brought into some semblance of a minimum wage. Uber and Doordash are just techstortion.

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Staccato 21 points 3 years ago

I remember thinking a similar thing in early 2016

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Staccato 21 points 3 years ago

Rodents might not be a great model. We know from a variety of sources that humans can't really sense excess nitrogen or hypoxic air: industrial accidents, diving experiments, even astronauts.

However, rodents may be able to sense hypoxia a bit better than we do: experiments found that rodents presented a choice would avoid a hypoxic chamber. Guinea pigs may not be the humane animal model here.

A hypoxic chamber does sound like one of the less painful ways to go. I'm not in favor of governments killing people, but a relatively quick loss of consciousness seems far better than getting poked with needles, electrocuted in the brain, shot with bullets, or hanged on a rope. Although I'm still expecting Alabama to screw this up somehow.

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Staccato 18 points 3 years ago

That headline is doing the murderer's work by literally propagating his anti-LGBT terrorism. Shame on that periodical.

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Staccato 18 points 3 years ago

"Sir you don't understand. We were being completely chaste while fucking the shit out of each other. We were just trying to prepare for that orgo exam."

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Staccato 17 points 3 years ago

So when are you getting your land mines and napalm?

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Staccato 15 points 3 years ago

I actually appreciate this article. I'm not near where I need to be to invest in solar, but the details of the corporate fuckery that goes on in rooftop solar providers is helpful to learn.

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Staccato 14 points 3 years ago

Oh, shut up. There's nothing about discussing the underlying factors that contributed to this woman's death that is in any way disrespectful to the memory of the victim.

If I were to become a deceased victim, be it of crime, disease, or accident, I would want my death to be looked at enough to see if we can find ways to prevent others from suffering my same fate. To do less would be to negate the value behind my passing.

Less false piety, more conversations.

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Staccato 13 points 3 years ago

Quit making a martyr out of this loser and wannabe terrorist. He deserves to die in obscurity, not have his story told as part of the victim's own tale.

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Staccato 13 points 3 years ago

They're also very well crafted to force the narrative down one narrow, black-and-white path.

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Staccato 12 points 3 years ago

Eh, that may play a role for the big firms, but most of the small to mid sized businesses just lease their real estate. They'd realistically come out ahead by downsizing their offices.

I think what we are seeing is management really struggling to adapt and find reliable metrics for performance management as well as to promote employee retention and engagement without the social bonds of an office culture.

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