LostWon

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

That's highly subjective, but the fascinating book The Dawn of Everything argues otherwise. There are even parts about the anthropological evidence some peoples just up and changed systems every so often (yes, non-violently). Our problem as people in the modern era is many can't imagine anything else, not that no one ever did.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The appropriate, historically accurate comparison is to student protests against South African apartheid and he knows it. Reportedly, those very protests grew into the strong boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement that ended apartheid in South Africa. This is what he fears and what corporate media is actively trying to prevent.

Only people with no information on either the actual history or current situation are going to fall for this baseless slander. Sadly there are probably still a number of those around.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah that phrasing was especially egregious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I did that work, they encouraged everyone to put people on hold when looking anything up because it reset your call timer and made the numbers look better.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wouldn't be surprised if there is an oversupply due to it being a popular field people want to get into, due older people loving the work too much to retire, and due to nepotism/favouring of inexperienced friends/kids of friends in the hiring processes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Someone answering above reminded me a couple of big online platforms will limit your traffic if your content contains certain words from an arbitrary list. So they probably self-censored to make sure the content would be seen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

OK. Thanks for sharing. 🥰

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Thanks for taking the time!

On the pop front, I'll just point add there was also a widespread misconception for a very long time (mostly in the past now I think, but still out there) that schizophrenia was the same as dissociative identity disorder.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'd've liked to see "schizophrenic," "antisocial," and "psychopath" among possible others, but this is indeed pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is that the newspaper that got their papers stolen or were raided or something the day they were going to run a story on the local sheriff, or is this a whole other bizarre confrontation between cops and print media?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I found the last one a lot more authentic-sounding and a decent compliment, honestly. But I don't know, are people really expecting to say/hear flowery speeches along the lines of a bad pick up line?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

They probably mean grammar, since most Google operators do work. If there's a specific difference in search syntax (other than bangs) though, I'd love to know what I've been missing.

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