• leguna (72)in #minimum • 2 years ago

  How's that $15 per hour minimum wage thing workin' out for ya?

  Flippy the Robot is on duty. A burger-flippin', fry-dunkin', non-complainin' "employee" for burger joints is now on the job in about a hundred locations, including some White…

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• leguna (72)in #shehulk • 2 years ago

  These kinds of authority-based mic drop articles defending trash always seem to fit the same pattern.

  Instead of addressing actual criticism, the authority/article cherry picks a couple of different criticisms and then merges them into a strawman that no one really argued. In…

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• leguna (72)in #ehrlich • 2 years ago

  "If reality doesn't match my predictions, that's reality's problem."

  Biologist Paul Ehrlich aptly demonstrating why blindly believing what scientists say, or mindlessly "following the science" is a bad idea. His peer-reviewed book wrongly…

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• leguna (72)in #hate • 2 years ago

  Hate crime means it is aggravated.

  From a review in the Guardian of Till: "Till-Mobley died in 2003, never having found justice, although last March, President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-lynching…

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• leguna (72)in #gender • 2 years ago

  Even left wing HuffPost admits to the gender dynamics.

  Even leftist organizations like HuffPost admit that the corporate world requires women to adhere to masculine traits to climb the corporate ladder and that this takes time away…

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• leguna (72)in #dating • 2 years ago

  Why understanding the relationship / dating marketplace is relevant even for married older people.

  Just because you get married doesn’t mean the game stops. In fact for a man that’s when the game really gets going! We should always be studying how to improve our relationships…

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• leguna (72)in #dating • 2 years ago

  Peak ages (for mating value).

  Women 19-27

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• leguna (72)in #gender • 2 years ago

  You know what’s more societally programmed than women wanting male provisioning and being a nurturing mother?

  …Women thinking they need to be men. You’ll find no bigger mental societal programming by almost any other movement. Women who embrace their feminine nurture characteristics…

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• leguna (72)in #abortion • 2 years ago

  Productive care and suicide rates.

  This study showed that state abortion restrictions are associated with increased suicide rates for women of reproductive age. They looked at the period from 1976 to 2016 and…

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• leguna (72)in #rian • 2 years ago

  A rant on Rian Johnson.

  Seriously, stop shitting on the guy. I haven't seen Glass Onion yet; but, I've seen everything else that the dude has made. He's a solid filmmaker. Nobody would have any…

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• leguna (72)in #speed • 2 years ago

  Speed limits and marginal safety.

  IDGAF who owns what roads, speed limits save lives and are a great source of increasing safety in our road systems, whether private or public. The evidence clearly shows that…

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• leguna (72)in #normalized • 2 years ago

  Looking normal is not the same as acting normal.

  This works for so many things: Find the gay person. Find the trans person. Find the immigrant. Find the atheist. Find the poor person. Find the person with a mental…

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• leguna (72)in #tv • 2 years ago

  Bob's Burgers and South Park lead the pack in watchable holiday episodes.

  I've gotta say, of my favorite animated shows, Bob's Burgers and South Park have had the most consistently watchable holiday episodes -- at least for an irreverent jackass like…

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• leguna (72)in #babylon • 2 years ago

  Babylon : My thoughts on it.

  To be honest, I was pretty deeply disappointed by this film. I have liked Damien Chazelle's other work, which has largely focused on the theme of how far people are willing to…

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• leguna (72)in #china • 2 years ago

  A humanitarian crisis in the making.

  It will be interesting to see what mutations come out of this among a very large population with relatively weak immunity. Especially after the Chinese New Year. We will likely…

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• leguna (72)in #computing • 2 years ago

  Some musings and questions on ChatGPT and art generating AIs.

  I got my computer science degree a few decades ago, even studied AI. At the time, I was deeply skeptical of predictions for what AI (and nuclear fusion research) would accomplish…

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• leguna (72)in #chatgpt • 2 years ago

  Lots of people are scared about AI.

  I think it's overblown because AI has been the easiest villain for film & TV writers to rely on. Imagine if all the artists in the 1800s wrote stories about how bad the light…

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• leguna (72)in #racial • 2 years ago

  "Go back to Bahrain"

  I did not sell myself to Bahrain for $6000 worth of all expenses paid luxury trips. I just rented myself. I was cheap. When you consider the Qataris bought Beckham for $10…

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• leguna (72)in #nfl • 2 years ago

  Since I'm a Bills fan, I don't want the 49ers to win the Super Bowl.

  That said, I want them to go as far as possible with Brock Purdy. Let's be real, the Deshaun Watson contract fucked up the quarterback market. Over the last decade, it's been…

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• leguna (72)in #grinch • 2 years ago

  Why was The Grinch (2018) so expensive to make?

  $315,000 was how much the Grinch cost to make in 1966. $1 in 1966 is the equivalent to $8.76 today. $2,759,400 is the cost today. Just to compare 75 million was the…

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