mrbuzer
Re:Tell HN: I would pay for that..
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:59PM (#6119307)
oxyclean
Re:Quora's "India Problem"
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:49PM (#6119282)
Melting pot... fuck that noise.
Re:Do websites need to be experienced exactly the same in every browser?
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:46PM (#6119271)
no. but they should function in every browser.
Re:Hypothesis: The purpose of Google Chromecast is to gather data
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:33PM (#6119225)
I honestly don't care if google knows I like lesbian chick flicks.
Re:The American-Western European Values Gap
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:27PM (#6119199)
Yes because men and women find child rearing to be equally fulfilling socially and psychologically... because evolution obviously made them that way. /s Why be a wife and a mother women you can be a scientist busting their ass for making your university or corporation the next 1 billion dollars. Or why not be a model or a booth babe? Or better yet why not flip burgers and answer phone calls at a call center. These give meaning to lives!
Re:The American-Western European Values Gap
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @11:17PM (#6119163)
> American women are not told that they must do anything but being a housewife. They are actively encouraged to pursue careers that at one time women were basically forbidden to pursue. Most of those careers are compatible with motherhood as much as they are compatible with fatherhood.
Especially black American women who have to look forward to being a bitch, a mother, and a low wage worker. Liberation for the win. This rhetoric is about reducing people to workers and saying that because people can't serve a corporation they are not being themselves because the desire that corporations create for women to be something in the public sphere competes with similar jobs which they held in the private sphere.
Liberation is freedom from work to do whatever you choose. Liberation has not held up to this ideal as it's a lie. The whole point of women's lib was to increase the work force so that the capitalists can have more people in the economy and the government can tax those people and get richer and so on.
Re:Greenland’s ice sheets are disappearing faster than anyone predicted
on Sunday July 28, 2013 @08:39PM (#6118772)
Atta boy capitalist!
Re:Glenn Greenwald To Testify Before Congress On NSA Surveillance
on Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:17PM (#6114687)
What can he inform congress of that congress can't ask the NSA? I wouldn't be surprised if this were a trap.
Re:The biggest thing nature did to fight climate change is no longer w...
on Saturday July 27, 2013 @01:22PM (#6113640)
In the third world there is lots of pollution, over population, lack of food... But all of that does not keep people from producing yet more people. In a similar way the entire world does not stop and reconsider what they are doing instead it just keeps going hoping that technology will come in and save us from whatever problems we have created for ourselves. In fact that's really all humans do on the planet, create problems. They are problem engines.
Re:The biggest thing nature did to fight climate change is no longer w...
on Saturday July 27, 2013 @06:08AM (#6112403)
We can talk about the psychological factors or we can simply tell it the way it is which is that economic growth increases the need for energy. Most production of energy and production of things cause by-products that are not a natural part of the system, in another words pollution. Pollution interferes with the natural functioning of the system. If we did not need to support such a large population or economic growth we would not be creating all this pollution. Therefore we could as a species inhabit the planet much longer (there are obviously natural sources of pollution that work on much longer time scales). Because we don't act responsibly and instead of taming our psychology we have let it loose on the world in the name of economic growth (and power of the current ruling elite) we will as a matter of course cause more and more pollution which will at some point start reducing the carrying capacity of the planet which will lead to smaller and smaller population until our species goes extinct. That's the natural course of humanity. Many people believe that more technology will save us, but is life really worth living being hooked up to a respirator with a miserable polluted planet barely capable of supporting life? Many people in the third world seem to think so, they keep producing even more misery.