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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by jksmith on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:24AM (#33880284)
Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse. Technology ushering in a decentralization effect. And that's fine. Work at home. Communities buy micro reactors, Starlink ready to go. Low carbon produce that doesn't have chemical shit all over it. Maybe testosterone rates go up, maybe cancer rates go down. Probably a good idea all around.
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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by woodruffw on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @09:38AM (#33880570)
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/N1KvgtEnABY

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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by rbanffy on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:26AM (#33881506)
I guess a lot of people got triggered by the first words and never finished reading after the downvote.

Such an amazing movie...

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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by adolph on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:54AM (#33882062)
The downvoters know the truth. rbanffy, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, rbanffy, __children's_ice_cream__.

You know when fluoridation first began? Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, rbanffy. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by shkkmo on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:39AM (#33882865)
HN readers don't like low value joke / sarcastic comments.
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Re:Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453B by woodruffw on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:10PM (#33883473)
I'm clearly biased as the GP, but I think quoting General Ripper is roughly the appropriate response to someone making a throwaway comment about testosterone rates.
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