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oldpainless posted:Let me know when this guy gets beyond theoretical work and does actual work More like oldcontextless
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Mega Comrade posted:Having said that I can totally imagine Harris massacring an entire population out of spite and hated while riding a dragon
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Re: Prester Jane advocates the murder of healthcare workers It’s the same bullshit you see in twitter mobs, and in certain threads on here too. First an argument is divorced from context. Then the argument is abstracted to a single sentence: “Prester Jane says we should blockade PPE factories”. Next absolutism is applied: “Prester Jane advocates the murder of healthcare workers”. The last step, though I haven’t seen it in this case yet, is essentialism: “Prester Jane is an advocate of murdering healthcare workers. It’s disingenuous character assassination
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I, for one, am stone-cold stunned that my fellow leftist goons would make bad faith interpretations of posts
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prester jane rode a wave of adulation to opine about things far outside of her area of expertise, but regardless it's not hard to convince politics goons you know what you're talking about if you can read and regurgitate some longform articles and spice it up with calls to violence to give it that bite of raw street authenticity
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luxury handset posted:prester jane rode a wave of adulation to opine about things far outside of her area of expertise, but regardless it's not hard to convince politics goons you know what you're talking about if you can read and regurgitate some longform articles and spice it up with calls to violence to give it that bite of raw street authenticity content for the thread
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Oh I didn't realize she was a goon. I thought she was like an author or public personality or whatever.
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https://twitter.com/lazycrybaby_/status/1313863762957529088
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Oh God those poor bastards. https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1314326047299719169?s=20
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Mak0rz posted:Oh I didn't realize she was a goon. I thought she was like an author or public personality or whatever. She has a blog and a Twitter, but is probably best known for posting here.
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Oops https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1314332497782738944?s=20 News story here until they take it down. https://deadline.com/2020/10/vice-president-mike-pence-tests-positive-has-coronavirus-after-donald-trump-1234594074/
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Liberals: The Waifus of Meatspace
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LordSaturn posted:I was willing to take this at face value, but then Best Korea told a conflicting story and I decided to look into it Yeah, I took that to far, I apologize.
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https://www.newsweek.com/marine-making-racist-threats-viral-video-under-investigation-1537673 things are gonna be bad for this rear end in a top hat
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Wholesome IOSM https://twitter.com/HenpeckedHal/status/1314334896588951552?s=20
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https://twitter.com/TheEpicDept/status/1314266954627256320?s=20 Do not, my friends, become addicted to water
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The two genders: Anime Girls - Liberals. Skwirl posted:https://twitter.com/TheEpicDept/status/1314266954627256320?s=20 Oh hey it's the raw beef guy.
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OwlFancier posted:The two genders: Anime Girls - Liberals. Everyone knows the two genders are Canada and women.
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I really like anime girls They are so pretty Sometimes if I’m nice to them They’ll show me anime titties
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Captain Monkey posted:Wholesome IOSM The replies to that one have a lot of other great stories: https://mobile.twitter.com/UnacceptableOne/status/1314427017518034945
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Subjunctive posted:Serious question: what’s the difference between “block all the entrances to a PPE factory” and The term doesn't seem to be used in English, or maybe it is called something else, but at least here in Denmark, a "blockade" is a union strategy in which all union workers are prohibited by the union from working for Company X in any capacity, even the ones currently employed by other companies. This differs from a normal strike in that Company X can't just hire scabs to replace their workers, since they can't even purchase goods and services from other union companies. So, it's like a general strike but targeted at a specific company. Unfortunately, the misconception that this involves big, burly union workers physically scaring away innocent service providers is very widespread and leads to "blockading" having undue negative connotations. Edit: I guess Solidarity action is the closest English term. SimonChris has a new favorite as of 10:11 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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SimonChris posted:The term doesn't seem to be used in English, or maybe it is called something else, but at least here in Denmark, a "blockade" is a union strategy in which all union workers are prohibited by the union from working for Company X in any capacity, even the ones currently employed by other companies. This differs from a normal strike in that Company X can't just hire scabs to replace their workers, since they can't even purchase goods and services from other union companies. So, it's like a general strike but targeted at a specific company. You might not see the actual term in English, but you definitely do see the action. I'm sure there are plenty of examples, but I immediately think of this Jon Bois video touching on it as a strike tactic for NFL players: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymSrDfLhW8
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In addition to not being used that way in english, blockade wasn’t what Jane said. She specifically said “block all entrances to a factory” which sounds pretty lunatic. ... yes, and this person was describing the differences between "block all entrances" and "blockade."
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https://twitter.com/IGNUK/status/1314557992990318592 IGN is not the idiot.
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Scratch Monkey posted:What does that mean? I assume that each year's version of FIFA is basically the same game, probably with new players to match the teams current compositions, but the same underlying game.
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Scratch Monkey posted:What does that mean? The Review posted:”[...]EA copy and pasted last year’s FIFA onto Switch again this year – once again saying it has the same gameplay “without any new development or significant enhancements” on its store page for the full price of $49.99/£44.99[...]" e: EA Sports games on xbox and playstation tend to at least get nominal gameplay changes or upgrades. This one did not, and is probably just a full-priced roster update.
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Matt loving Yglesias, ladies and germs. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1314633744096071681
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Matt loving Yglesias, ladies and germs. TBF all that cocaine probably does help them work hard
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MattY says a lot of dumb poo poo but he's got a point here. We absolutely waste the talents of smart and industrious young people in finance/adtech/consulting/etc. by making those jobs so lucrative. Tax policy may or may not be the right way to fix it, but we'd all be better off if some of the people going into trading were spending their careers on antibiotic development instead.
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ultrafilter posted:MattY says a lot of dumb poo poo but he's got a point here. We absolutely waste the talents of smart and industrious young people in finance/adtech/consulting/etc. by making those jobs so lucrative. Tax policy may or may not be the right way to fix it, but we'd all be better off if some of the people going into trading were spending their careers on antibiotic development instead. DGMW, the "free market" allocates labor terribly and rewards things that aren't societally useful. Many finance people aren't overrewarded because they're doing intellectually taxing things, they're overrewarded because they know the right people and how to manipulate them.
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Banking is only a small part of finance, and not all that representative of what people are doing. And even in that world, there's a big difference between the crowd who enter as analysts and the ones who survive to VP.
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ultrafilter posted:Banking is only a small part of finance, and not all that representative of what people are doing. And even in that world, there's a big difference between the crowd who enter as analysts and the ones who survive to VP.
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There's a lot of "labor theory of value" arguments that start from here or merge into it off a different freeway We should pay janitors the highest because they work the hardest and they are the most needed by society We should hire only the best and the brightest to be, like, security screeners at the airport and spend all day staring dully at a monitor etc
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idiot: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1314343175960567808 many possible responses here, but i liked this one https://twitter.com/DaleGrungus/status/1314599283241488384
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I suspect (pulling this out of my rear end, with no research) that the majority of rich people (Yglesias's claim) in "finance" are doing customer relations/sales, not research. I just got out of a finance job (yay!), so while I don't have a complete picture of the industry, I have some idea of how things look. The tl;dr is that it's very hard to separate out customer relations as a distinct thing because so many jobs involve it, but a lot of the most lucrative positions in trading are moving pretty hard towards a quant/tech approach. It used to be that getting hired as an analyst just required nice hair and the ability to operate a spreadsheet, but in the past few years the number of positions that don't require programming experience has been shrinking fast. That's going to have a transformative effect on the banks in the next decade, and from there it'll spread out. Equity trading is already very highly automated, and some parts of the bond market are heading that way. But it's not just a question of who's technical and who's not. A lot of bond trading is resistant to automation for various reasons, but there's still a lot of money in it, and the people who are doing that could be doing something with actual social value. Take away the disproportionate rewards and you take away the disproportionate draw. (To be fair, not all bond trading is valueless. The market for municipal bonds makes it easier to for schools and local governments to raise money and that does have good effects. But there's absolutely no reason for securitized reverse mortgages to exist or for anyone to be making money by trading them.)
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Doc Hawkins posted:idiot: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1314343175960567808 Honestly both of these are kinda true
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