porous_grey_matter

@porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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Netanyahu is an evil fuck, but this isn't his war, Israel has been doing slow and steady ethnic cleansing of the region for 50+ years.

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When it's right wing domestic terrorism

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn't write "voluntary mandatory"

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Can we please replace the racist slang? I get that there's not currently a better single word for superficial janky optimization but I'm sure one of y'all is funny enough to come up with one

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New as in 1800s, pretty sure some of these other places didn't exist then too.

The thing you're missing is that other people come in and say the same thing as you, and when they listened to them once, they absolutely freaked the hell out, left bad reviews, maybe threatened to sue or something. So you just have to live with that unfortunately.

About half of the equivalent in the US, often less. It's exceedingly rare to make 100k here even in a senior position, although it does exist. Median is 40-50k (pounds, so times that by 1.2 for USD).

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Very optimistic to think ten times more animated films will be good in just three years.

I haven't discussed this here before, you must be thinking of someone else. Anyway, in my opinion, since it's a word explicitly created to make fun of Asian people and Asian cars, like many slurs associating a bunch of different cultures with a staple food, it kinda doesn't matter what someone's "intent" is when they use it.

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Mewfour, obviously

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Barely, and the referendum would've gone the other way any time after 2016.

What is this? Am I on Facebook?

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No amount of infrastructure fixes a drought lmao

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Well yea... If you write "return " that is actually wrong, as opposed to just not having gotten around to filling it in yet

It clearly wasn't "determined". Asian users can speak for themselves, they don't need you to do it for them.

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Straw man, nobody is saying to vote for trump

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That acronym was made up way later, and making up some acronym for an existing word it doesn't magically make it ok or wipe out what it already meant. Sure language isn't static but it still means that thing.

Yeah it is; specifically Japanese cars because Asian = rice I guess?

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Not to mention projection

You sound like someone who thinks the n word isn't if it's in lyrics

the token is only used for governance (and possibly also fundraising)

That should make you just as worried

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Same as it ever was

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This is not remotely why the planet is warming up lmao

While it's probably true that people spend more than they otherwise would (otherwise this wouldn't be such a huge thing), that doesn't follow from Klarna's marketing figure of 45% higher spend per order. It is totally possible that people order more at once but less often. Especially for groceries, buying in bulk is often much better value, but it can be impossible if you just don't have the cash around.

That's not a source. By that metric every American AV has an NSA backdoor. And, ok, both of these are probably true tbh. But Kaspersky publishes extremely good security research and analysis which is just technical and totally possible to verify independently, so there's no reason to avoid those, even if you don't want to use their software.

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I think if you make sure to call someone an "igg", or preferably, a "bliddy igg", then should still be fine

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Sure, yes, but those kinds of positions in the US make 300k or more too. Also, then you work in finance and you have to live with the fact that you are categorically making the world a worse place every day.

I dont think that follows, people can have different needs for different products even if they think in the same way (but i agree with your overall point)

That's not a great argument, there is no evidence those things are somehow connected or not. For all you know it would have been straight back to fascism 60 years earlier if it wasn't banned. The reason AfD has power is that the courts and government support them and let them get away with crime. If the law was actually applied it would have banned that party.

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That's because people in the US don't protest for real, since it's totally toothless there's not much crackdown either

Yes, depending on where you live rent might be similar (London isn't much cheaper than NY or LA) but cost of living is otherwise less. Also, people tend to work much shorter hours (a limit of 37 for me, any extra is returned as PTO) and start with much more annual leave (25 days discretionary, for me, plus public holidays, plus we close over Christmas and new year's). Furthermore there's no health costs to pay etc. On the whole it balances out and I think the lifestyle here is better, but I do envy the extreme salaries of those in the US.

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Estonian vibes

Wait til you hear about the anti defamation league

Joe Biden and the leadership of the democratic party are nowhere near left. Centre right at best.

No, probably not

It's a credit card/payment processor thing, i.e. ultimately it's visa/mastercard, but it's up to the bank to offer to individuals. It's often available in other anglophone countries if your talk to your bank but I'm sure in some places they wouldn't do that. But yeah, years ago is too long anyway.

How did you think of it?

Eighteen generations of mews, to be precise

Exactly, it's not that he, personally, wants to slaughter millions of Arabs, it's just that that's the price we have to pay to preserve the American ability to slaughter millions of other Arabs in the future.

Electromagnetic field (festival/hacker camp) next weekend!