• envis10n [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Holy shit that went from bad to gulag in a microsecond

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    children are the property of their parents

    you're gonna be property of the state when the time comes if you keep this shit up

  • LeopardShepherd [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    Any of these bazinga brain dipshits who suggests that people would cripple themselves so they don't have to work and get free government money has never spoken to or taken care of anybody with a disability. Nevermind all the other eugenics bullshit I just read too.

    • stewie3128 [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      He is a dipshit, but there is also precedence for people cropping themselves to get on the dole:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon%2C_Florida?wprov=sfla1

      • LeopardShepherd [none/use name]
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        7 months ago

        That's so bizarre lol, tiny town responsible for 2/3 of dismemberment insurance claims. The few people I knew that injured themselves on purpose were opioid addicts fishing for a script 😬

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        The town gained infamy in the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the improbably high percentage of residents who put out insurance claims on lost limbs, to the point that many speculated that residents of the town were intentionally dismembering themselves for the insurance money. Although there is no real evidence to support these speculations,

        Is there?

        If there was really a significant incentive to do this, you wouldn't just see it in one small town. You also wouldn't see it just in a decade or two.

  • flan [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Sure it's not really fair that I make $600K/yr to optimize the ad fill rate by 0.1% and someone else makes $15/hr waiting tables.. but let's not make it too fair.

    • SchillMenaker [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      I can't express with words how much I love this post.

      My younger brother is a lifelong conservative and I'm always trying to chip away at his ideology. I think that the most impactful thing I've ever said to him to get him to question capitalism's organization of labor and resources was something along the lines of "We have incredible modern technology that has almost unlimited capacity to change the way that people live and function in the world, and the people who are the most skilled and educated in developing that technology are spending 100% of their time trying to serve you slightly more relevant banner ads.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      7 months ago

      Christ, imagine we get socialism and all the STEM jobs are still increasing CTR when it could be anything socially useful.

      • 420stalin69
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        7 months ago

        Optimizing the Hexbear tagline to get you, {{username}}, to read theory using A/B testing and funnel analysis.

  • Raebxeh
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    7 months ago

    from each according to their effort x ability, to each according to their effort x log(ability)

    Social fascism with technocratic tendencies

  • HarryLime [any]
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    7 months ago

    After reading this I'm gonna need like ten of those Panera lemonades

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    Dude read 3 lines from Lenin on the desperate comprimise of War Communism and it merged straight with his eugenics core.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Hey man let's debate this in the marketplace of ideas hst-gun