phry | 6 years ago | on: California bans private prisons
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phry | 6 years ago | on: Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly Calls for Shelving IPO
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phry | 6 years ago | on: We Have Ruined Childhood
you're completely deranged. socialism/communism is barely mentioned at all in the public school system, and never in a positive light. the genocide of native americans was not discussed outside of a cursory mention of the Trail of Tears. watching 'Roots' was about the depth of instruction on slavery. I never heard a single critical word about the US from any teacher, and I was in the public school system all the way through college. I never even had to read Howard Zinn, the classic conservative boogeyman, a single time for any class.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Extreme climate change has arrived in America
the far-right in Europe is resurgent largely on the back of anti-migrant racism and hysteria, and that's with a crisis involving 5-6 million people. now imagine things with 25 million people, or more, and not just focused in Europe. it's going to be very bad.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Social exclusion fuels extremism in young men
literally all of them? toxic masculinity is not about the traits themselves being inherently bad, it's about them being elevated to the point of excluding other things, and the unhealthy ways this manifests in society.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Supercentenarians are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates
their agenda is less non-White people in the US. it fits with that perfectly.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
You sound like a sociopath.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Chaos in Hong Kong as hundreds of masked men assault protesters, journalists
Gandhi was hardly the sole arbiter of Indian resistance. In fact their success in fighting colonial rule was dependent on the reality that there were people like Bhagat Singh who were willing to and did use militant tactics.
phry | 6 years ago | on: The insulin racket: why a drug made free 100 years ago is recently expensive
> The use of force by the state to entrench the position and profits of a particular business
This is a natural and obvious end following from the foundation of capitalism, which is the existence of private property ensured by the state.
phry | 6 years ago | on: Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession
> Drugs in the UK exist but not in an epidemic. Teenagers and students smoke weed and then move on
this is not at all true from my understanding of MDMA usage in the UK
phry | 6 years ago | on: Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices
> A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.
oh for sure bud
"The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...
phry | 6 years ago | on: The Thing
there was a post on here a few months ago detailing something very similar, but for video, not audio. I can't recall the name unfortunately.
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found it
phry | 6 years ago | on: I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
mutual aid is a wonderful thing
phry | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: 300k lines of Java UI code running native in browser at desktop speed
> nor can you make downhill skiing accessible for four-limb paraplegics
BS, we can and already have. here's a paraplegic person dropping in on one of the steepest in-bounds runs in the US.
quit being so dismissive.
phry | 7 years ago | on: Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness
absolutely, and the scary thing is that
> I’m just one giant disaster away from this kind of thing.
this is true for the vast majority of Americans, given that somewhere between 60-70% have less than $1000 in savings
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...
phry | 7 years ago | on: Fuck The Vessel
> it’s very proletariat.
I think you have your terminology backwards here, I figure you meant bourgeoisie
phry | 7 years ago | on: Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
'Per Thomas Piketty roughly 60% of America's wealth is inherited, meaning most of America's riches are owned by people who didn't work for them.'
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1092536441819648000
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/AlvaredoGarbintiPiketty2015....
phry | 7 years ago | on: Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
capitalism IS control, at the most basic level control of private property ensured by the state
phry | 7 years ago | on: The N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
access to people and information
phry | 7 years ago | on: Everything Is Going Deep: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
somewhat unfortunate vicious cycle it seems like, engineers either don't consider the ramifications of what they build or are willing to handwave it away, until it all starts to come back around
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> When New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics.
> The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...