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« Reply #1681 on: October 05, 2019, 10:09:48 PM »
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« Reply #1682 on: October 05, 2019, 10:12:48 PM »
https://twitter.com/blinkist/status/1122901449997004800

I think Blinkist works for careerist tripe you see in the business or self-help section in bookstores. I don't know if works well for fiction or works that make you make think and wrestle deeply with ideas. Reading is not only about consuming, but digesting and chewing on ideas the author presents. 

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« Reply #1683 on: October 05, 2019, 10:14:44 PM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted

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« Reply #1684 on: October 05, 2019, 10:18:34 PM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted

There's this weird myth in tech that their innovated 'distribution' is just some weird spin on a product or idea that already works. Which is why every year or so, somebody will try to convince you that their private shuttle/bus with an app is suddenly a new idea and is revolutionary. 

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« Reply #1685 on: October 05, 2019, 10:46:44 PM »
I'm sure this service will be quite popular with high school students that need to pass English class but don't want to read The Scarlet Letter [and don't realize that Cliffnotes exists].
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« Reply #1686 on: October 06, 2019, 10:01:28 AM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.

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« Reply #1687 on: October 06, 2019, 10:23:47 AM »
So Blinkist wants to be Cinco food tube for information?


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« Reply #1688 on: October 06, 2019, 12:49:42 PM »
https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum/status/1180617528806170624
Don't worry Ivanka Trump has been granted trademarks to produce voting machines in China so the election is safe from Joe Biden, his crackhead son and their oligarch buddies.
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« Reply #1689 on: October 06, 2019, 01:08:10 PM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.

It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.

It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?

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« Reply #1690 on: October 06, 2019, 01:12:01 PM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.

It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.

It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?

Some people have long commutes and can listen to hours long podcasts/audio books. There's a market created by urban and suburban sprawl and rush hour traffic that seems to extend past what rush hour should be.

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« Reply #1691 on: October 06, 2019, 01:33:44 PM »
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The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has seen a huge increase in visitor numbers in recent years as part of a growing global interest in dark tourism.
And now, intrepid travelers be able to get inside the control room where the world's worst nuclear accident unfolded, Chernobyl tour companies confirmed to CNN.

Those who venture inside the highly radioactive area at the infamous Reactor 4 will be provided with white protective suits, helmets and masks for the brief visits. After leaving, they will be subject to two radiology tests to measure exposure.
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« Reply #1692 on: October 06, 2019, 05:39:06 PM »
is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.

It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.

It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?

Some people have long commutes and can listen to hours long podcasts/audio books. There's a market created by urban and suburban sprawl and rush hour traffic that seems to extend past what rush hour should be.

This would seem to be a market already realy well served by audio books and podcasts.

I think you (or I) might be misunderstanding what this is. From what I gathered they are taking like 200 page self help/Business books, and summarizing into 15 minutes and selling that.

It’s not unabridged audiobooks, but more like abridged like a motherfucker audio books.

Edit: I listen to about 40 hours of audio books a month, and have no idea why I would want 15 minute versions of them. They are either worth listening to or aren’t.

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« Reply #1694 on: October 06, 2019, 11:33:12 PM »
Can we eat the rich yet?
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« Reply #1699 on: October 07, 2019, 10:14:31 PM »
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« Reply #1702 on: October 08, 2019, 01:47:27 PM »
Trust rich people, brehs.
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« Reply #1704 on: October 08, 2019, 04:24:23 PM »
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

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"Almost a decade ago, Warren Buffett made a claim that would become famous. He said that he paid a lower tax rate than his secretary, thanks to the many loopholes and deductions that benefit the wealthy.

His claim sparked a debate about the fairness of the tax system. In the end, the expert consensus was that, whatever Buffett’s specific situation, most wealthy Americans did not actually pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. “Is it the norm?” the fact-checking outfit Politifact asked. “No.”

Time for an update: It’s the norm now.

For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans last year paid a lower total tax rate — spanning federal, state and local taxes — than any other income group, according to newly released data."

When will these rural hicks wake up? They keep dragging us down with their penchant for the voting Rs.  The Suburbs are being lost to the R thankfully. It's just these rural idiots, who are reliable GOP voters.

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« Reply #1707 on: October 08, 2019, 07:57:09 PM »
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1181651251139940352

Same reason he shows up to Toronto sports events where he tries to get more attention than the actual players.  :trumps


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« Reply #1712 on: October 09, 2019, 01:00:13 AM »
I don't fully understand the situation other than reading this:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/List-Bay-Area-Locations-PGE-Power-Shutoffs-562515431.html

But I saw this part: "The outage will mark the largest preventative outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines."

And wondered why does this company have so many faulty lines? Is this much more common than I think it would be? The article points out these fires can be started by normal lines too by virtue of a tree falling into it. Ok, fair enough.

Before going all #latestage on this i guess it's quite possible that there are no trees that would fall into power lines in downtown San Fran and even if they did its not like suddenly 5 blocks would burn up in several hours. I'm guessing it's much more like any typical city. It's mostly a bunch of concrete with a splattering of greenery.

Of course, I'm ignorant not having grown up with constant fires breaking out every half year or so whetei have lived.

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« Reply #1713 on: October 09, 2019, 01:11:09 AM »
seems like mass ineptitude if anything?

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« Reply #1714 on: October 09, 2019, 01:13:10 AM »
I don't fully understand the situation other than reading this:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/List-Bay-Area-Locations-PGE-Power-Shutoffs-562515431.html

But I saw this part: "The outage will mark the largest preventative outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines."

And wondered why does this company have so many faulty lines? Is this much more common than I think it would be? The article points out these fires can be started by normal lines too by virtue of a tree falling into it. Ok, fair enough.

Before going all #latestage on this i guess it's quite possible that there are no trees that would fall into power lines in downtown San Fran and even if they did its not like suddenly 5 blocks would burn up in several hours. I'm guessing it's much more like any typical city. It's mostly a bunch of concrete with a splattering of greenery.

Of course, I'm ignorant not having grown up with constant fires breaking out every half year or so whetei have lived.

PG&E made massive profits off of rate payers that didn't have an alternative choice. Instead of maintaining their infrastructure, they committed to stock buy backs and dividends for their share holders.

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« Reply #1715 on: October 09, 2019, 01:15:31 AM »
So they have a business monopoly and thus decided to stay pat on all their services including maintenance and now have been caught with their pants down?

Got it.

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« Reply #1716 on: October 09, 2019, 01:32:55 AM »
The best kind of market too, once you didn't even have to own anything to sell on it. #EnronDidNothingWrong #FreeKenLay

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« Reply #1718 on: October 09, 2019, 09:04:13 AM »
I don't fully understand the situation other than reading this:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/List-Bay-Area-Locations-PGE-Power-Shutoffs-562515431.html

But I saw this part: "The outage will mark the largest preventative outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines."

And wondered why does this company have so many faulty lines? Is this much more common than I think it would be? The article points out these fires can be started by normal lines too by virtue of a tree falling into it. Ok, fair enough.

Before going all #latestage on this i guess it's quite possible that there are no trees that would fall into power lines in downtown San Fran and even if they did its not like suddenly 5 blocks would burn up in several hours. I'm guessing it's much more like any typical city. It's mostly a bunch of concrete with a splattering of greenery.

Of course, I'm ignorant not having grown up with constant fires breaking out every half year or so whetei have lived.

PG&E made massive profits off of rate payers that didn't have an alternative choice. Instead of maintaining their infrastructure, they committed to stock buy backs and dividends for their share holders.

Very legal and very cool.
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« Reply #1719 on: October 09, 2019, 09:15:56 AM »
Your electric bill factors in charges for line maintenance. If they aren't using it for that, then they are over billing you. The state should make them maintain the lines or send out refunds.
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« Reply #1720 on: October 09, 2019, 10:34:49 AM »
The areas they're shutting off are further into the hills, not downtown areas.

But yes, they are just run that badly.


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« Reply #1723 on: October 10, 2019, 02:40:33 AM »
This is the logical outcome of years of advocacy for deplatforming by western journalists.
No, it's the logical outcome of doing business in China.

It's only a matter of time until a privatized social credit scoring system comes to the west.
This is tinfoil hat nonsense by and large, but I'll play.

What I see coming instead, somewhat serious about this, are 'incentives' for better living from insureance companies. Sign up to have your lifestyle monitored for reduced rates. Misbehave? (Smoke, sedentary, etc.) Pay more. Everyone who doesn't sign up pays more by default.

having worked for a credit information company that is already experimenting with scraping every bit of information on the internet and trying to connect it with individuals, i can tell you that you are severely misinformed.
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« Reply #1730 on: October 11, 2019, 12:52:02 PM »
Man, sometimes... Vice you guys are real dumbfucks

Edit: Ha! They changed the article title.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7m9g/sex-tourism-women-lgbtq-people-travel

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bonus edit: For what it's worth, I do like Vice, but they sometimes try to be so forward thinking that it comes around back to the worst possible scenario.
Like when Kotaku decided to publish the story about videogame characters used in porn and for whatever reason they decided to upload images about underage characters and all that. For a split second I had to double check I wasn't looking at some Vice article trying extra hard to be progressive while accidentally being totally fucked up.
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« Reply #1731 on: October 11, 2019, 02:55:34 PM »
The author's twitter lol

https://twitter.com/bitch__coin/status/1179797579422302208

Seems like good advice.  :cac
 

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« Reply #1732 on: October 11, 2019, 03:17:13 PM »
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I love therapy, but I didn’t love my therapist. She was young, like me, and new – the best I could find with my cheap insurance. I was her first real client, she was thrilled, I was broke and depressed.

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I found the Los Angeles pro-domme Mistress Justine Cross by suggestion of a friend. (...) And for $150 an hour, she was going to help me.

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I don’t lack the agency to think for myself, or work productively without direct supervision and instruction. I do, however, enjoy being told what to do, which is something I’d always been somewhat ashamed to admit. I love mean, beautiful women, and I love when they boss me around.

Unlike my previous therapists, my dominatrix life coach isn’t afraid to hurt my feelings – she’s brutally honest and has no time for my excuses.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/03/therapist-dominatrix-life-coach

I mean good for her and yeah therapy isn't necessarily the first, only, be-all end-all option but  :PP
Being told what to do by a mean, beautiful woman for a mere 150$ an hour isn't exactly a one size fits all solution either.

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- Have you tried a planner and no TV as a punishment ?"
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« Reply #1733 on: October 11, 2019, 03:19:55 PM »
The author's twitter lol

https://twitter.com/bitch__coin/status/1179797579422302208

Seems like good advice.  :cac

Read the article. She was looking more for a life coach than a therapist. She says she left therapy feeling worse than when she went in. That's a sign that either the therapist isn't good (possible) or that you two are not a good mix (possible, happened to me ). Either way, she was right to stop those sessions as they weren't productive. So, eh it's just some spicy article for the "women and sex" part of a news site. Wouldn't so much claim it being slag against psychiatrists/psychologists.

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« Reply #1734 on: October 11, 2019, 03:25:37 PM »
I think the article's tone is a bit off and sounds a bit airheaded, honestly.
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« Reply #1735 on: October 11, 2019, 03:32:39 PM »
I agree that it could have been framed differently than making it seem as if "therapy= not good", "dominatrix= good". But reading through it, it seemed like she didn't need therapy so much as a little guidance in her life. I guess it came to her via a dominatrix   :yeshrug

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« Reply #1736 on: October 11, 2019, 03:35:54 PM »
"Sex workers are the best coaches, counselors, and healers there are"


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« Reply #1737 on: October 11, 2019, 07:42:11 PM »
https://twitter.com/DustinNosler/status/1182802298281443330

Former President of the Florida/Miami Marlins too. What a tool.

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« Reply #1738 on: October 12, 2019, 08:35:35 AM »
https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1182290925109891073


It's hilarious.  Right-wingers love to talk about the oppressiveness of the other ISM, yet it's Capitalism that is responsible these press clampdowns lol.

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« Reply #1739 on: October 12, 2019, 01:26:27 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/business/boeing-ceo-chairman-role-muilenburg/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-10-12T17%3A22%3A07&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social

Speaking of companies that focused more on Stock buybacks and shareholder value instead of needed R&D. Boeing can't get their 737 MAX flying again.