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FederatedSaint

@ FederatedSaint @lemmy.world

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  • The master race condition

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  • Why abolish the word slave? I've heard of people advocating for abolishing the word "black" also. It's crazy to me. I don't understand how using the word at all somehow advocates for human slavery.

  • A Cool Guide For Excel

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  • Once you start to learn Excel, you quickly realize the depths of the functions and understand that a one pager called "everything you can do in Excel" is laughably optimistic.

  • Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more

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  • I don't know the economics, truly, but there are a LOT more expenses involved in running a large business like Uber on top of driver wages, such as technology service and hardware costs, programmers and central admin/customer service, rent or cost of buildings including utilities, insurance, taxes, fees, consulting and auditing, cybersecurity, legal, and probably quite a bit more I can't think of. Running a business is friggin expensive.

    Definitely not defending paying workers less, just trying to explain why they still might not be in the black even in your scenario.

  • Kentucky GOP lawmakers override governor and undo efforts to prevent renter discrimination - KVIA

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  • No none of that is the reason why, it's just because they and you are racist! /s

  • Rational Self Interest

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  • If you've ever read atlas shrugged and not rolled your eyes or went, "god this is insufferable" then you might be a Republican lol.

  • Rational Self Interest

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  • I fuckin HATE ayn rand, but those workers are being paid for their labor, they're not slaves. If that labor provides a little profit or a lot of profit is up to good or bad business practices of the company they're working for, and doesn't need to be shared with them outright, unless it happens naturally as a result of supply/demand making their labor more valuable (because otherwise they'd just go somewhere else where they will be paid more).

    The crux here is that for this to happen appropriately, we need to be living in an ideal world with appropriate laws, no corruption, exploitation, loopholes, bribing, lobbying, etc. and we do not currently live in that world, so the above is just theoretical.

  • If we can ban trans medical procedures, why haven't we banned circumcision?

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  • Hot take: I have never regretted being circumcized and never met anyone who regretted being circumcized so banning it doesn't make sense for that reason alone. Some parents pierce their children's ears without their consent, some give them frenectomies, pull teeth, reshape heads, bind feet, or do a variety of other "elective" procedures so I'm not sure why circumcision has so much hate.

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets

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  • Dude you're arguing opposite your position. The internal consistency of your argument has broken down.

    You say above you're against a rule like "no one else can have orange stuff because I don't like orange stuff" while at the same time arguing "everyone else has to like pets because I like pets." Can't you see how that's hypocritical?

    And to be clear, you completely misrepresent my position in the first place. I'm not for requiring anyone to do anything. I'm against requiring landlords to allow pets. If they want to allow pets, great 👍.

    But if a property owner wants to advertise their community as quieter (no barking), cleaner, with less poop and pee on the grass, and less dander in the air, then why would you prohibit renters from seeking a nicer place like that for them to live?

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets

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  • Pets don't need to be "part of the human experience" any more than drugs do. They're optional and some people choose to have them and some don't. Some people don't like pets and don't want to be forced to live around others' pets.

    Have you even thought for a second that some people might CHOOSE housing based on the fact that a community doesn't allow pets? And by "mandating all landlords allow pets" you are eliminating housing options for these people? God you people are like religious zealots and think everyone should be forced to believe in the same things you do.

    Friggin crazy fascists. "You're going to like my pitbull (oh he's harmless and you're dog-racist if you believe otherwise) and now I want to force you to raise your kids around my untrained shit factory and step in his crap and listen to him bark constantly or you're a horrible person."

    Holy hell I hate you with the passion of a thousand suns.

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets

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  • Not all humans want pets. And those humans don't like to be forced to live among other people's pets.

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets

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  • Fucking NO god damn it we hate people like you SO MUCH

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets

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  • Or they can just not allow pets wtf?

  • Meet Graham Rule

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  • Ok I was prepared to start white-knighting here and tell you to fuck off for making fun of a disabled person but then I thought I'd search this up first and...well, carry on.

  • Do you collect anything? How did you start?

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  • My wife and I collect souvenir lapel pins from places we travel to. We write the date on the back, and keep them in a shadow box on the wall in chronological order.

    It's nice as it's not very expensive to buy them, and they don't take up a lot of space to keep, and we have a nice little history of our travels at a glance.

  • What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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  • He shook for two minutes.

  • Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking.

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  • Should have*

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    Redefining Fiction and Nonfiction

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  • Yeah it's strange, I've never been under the impression that people thought fiction wasn't useful. It is almost universally lauded and adored. OP is just making up things that don't exist so they can "solve them?"

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    Redefining Fiction and Nonfiction

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  • This trend of calling everything "toxic" is out of hand. "Toxic positivity" made me scratch my head, and now there's a "toxic productivity?"

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    Redefining Fiction and Nonfiction

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  • This was never a problem in the first place.

    Equivalent to OPs post:

    "I'm going to teach MY students that trees are actually really great, instead of hating them like everyone else!"

    Like, wtf no one hates trees, just like no one devalues or thinks fiction is "fake."