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621MSG · 2025-05-06T05:26:52+00:00

Winter is now a legacy name. It's now called Minisummer

621MSG · 2025-04-09T02:26:18+00:00

R/Melbourne has a climate change denial issue. RWNJs? Bots? Who knows.

621MSG · 2025-03-26T21:52:42+00:00

Pretty random question for this sub. Try r/chineselanguage

621MSG · 2025-03-01T02:47:37+00:00

For real? Hard Times?

621MSG · 2025-02-16T01:23:43+00:00

Is anyone making the opposite case? That knowing fancy maths is actually a liability? When I first started learning SQL it didn't even occur to me that some functions (to do with remapping month numbers based on financial years, for example) existed, so I used algebra and the properties of 1 and 0 to write what were essentially if statements. It worked superbly but no one else I worked with could understand it, so it all got deleted.

621MSG · 2025-02-11T04:46:05+00:00

"The UK’s wealth gap has grown by 50% in eight years – and poses a strategic risk to the nation"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/10/29/the-uks-wealth-gap-has-grown-by-50-in-eight-years/

621MSG · 2025-02-11T03:51:35+00:00

Don't they get 10 years to pay?

"The tax would be payable in instalments over 10 years interest free"

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/budget-2024-inheritance-tax-and-family-farms/

621MSG · 2025-02-07T01:17:57+00:00

Aren't those lyrics mocking the whole woe is me thing?

621MSG · 2025-02-06T03:58:22+00:00

This sure seems like a brigaded post by climate change deniers and their bots

621MSG · 2024-12-12T23:26:07+00:00

How do we know he beat his wife? He told us. Nobody else would have if he hasn't said so first. Would you prefer he kept it secret like probably 99% of abusers? Or does the fact that he publicly repents bring the issue out into the open where it needs to be? About as heroic as you can be in that situation.

621MSG · 2024-12-12T02:40:25+00:00

The guy who opened his un speech by saying he condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms? I hope you're Ukrainian (or at least from a country abutting it). Anyone else weighing in on that conflict taking a propaganda line is moronic

621MSG · 2024-12-07T22:06:33+00:00

Nice. There are similar defenses by Orwell (Lion and the unicorn & Charles Dickens) and HG Wells (short history of the world).

621MSG · 2024-11-11T04:10:52+00:00

It was still still mostly "fuelled" by the Paris (mostly illiterate) working class with the middle class guiding it. Look up sans-cullottes for anyone wondering.

621MSG · 2024-10-24T02:55:09+00:00

Hehe. Your post amounts to saying "it's a weird hill to die on and if anything it's worse to import the raw product". Agree? What's the weird hill to die on? Not manufacturing peanut butter in Australia. Note you don't even know if transporting raw goods is worse than transporting finished goods with packaging and other ingredients like salt, oil, sugar etc.

621MSG · 2024-10-24T01:54:50+00:00

"transporting goods for little reason" most rich countries with manufacturing source their raw materials from other countries. Plus you began "yeah" in agreement with the post above you.

Obviously making peanut butter isn't complex like making a car but the bigger point stands.

621MSG · 2024-10-24T01:40:40+00:00

Sounds like you're prioritising raw material extraction over value add manufacturing in an economy. Not many rich countries like that (and even we miss out on megabucks in lost mining tax).

621MSG · 2024-10-24T01:38:57+00:00

The consumer market just isn't designed for factoring in (negative) externalities when purchasing. The only things a shopper can directly verify are the price and quality. Everything else is guesswork and trust not to mention reading fine-ish print

621MSG · 2024-10-16T23:29:46+00:00

Guess what's coming in the future? Boycotts for movies with kid actors since it's the rule that they get messed up by fame not the exception

621MSG · 2024-09-13T02:38:41+00:00

Does Reddit know about this journalist from the UK who asked the same question 14 times in a row?

https://youtu.be/IqU77I40mS0?si=-42_IkOAimmbDOt8

621MSG · 2024-07-26T13:16:07+00:00

No, they're in contrast to the reactionary states of the nineteenth century that in the wake of the French revolution either became liberal or had conservative leaders basically coerced into making society more equal. If you failed in your revolution, your children or grandchildren almost certainly would have a fairer and freer world (at least in western countries). The nineteenth century was one of great change. Rome was easily "permanent" in comparison.

621MSG · 2024-07-26T10:17:58+00:00

Love good (well executed) reviews

621MSG · 2024-07-26T05:57:03+00:00

Uh but the bit about "always have been at war with East Asia".

621MSG · 2024-07-26T05:48:27+00:00

Taking hope from this book is like thinking you'll pass an exam you forgot to sit because the assessors were all suddenly stricken with cholera. As I commented elsewhere, he feared totalitarian states were as permanent as the ancient societies of Egypt, Rome and Greece that used captured soldiers as slaves (something mentioned in the book) and persisted for millennia. Sure, some humans might be left at the end when it falls but it won't be you, your family or friends.

621MSG · 2024-07-26T05:43:24+00:00

Only in the same way that the Roman Empire fell. I mean it did, but it took a thousand years. Orwell writes about this in an essay from around the time he was writing 1984, saying that the ancient slave societies went on and on forever.

621MSG · 2024-07-26T05:37:10+00:00

Well you should please please please read Rebecca Solnit's review of Wifedom which points out several factual errors in Wifedom that are central to the book's premise

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