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5y ago
How does he intend to shake off his reputation as a close confidant of Jeffrey Epstein (after he was convicted), which included multiple staff of his foundation visiting the home of the sex offender. [1] Does the world really need to take a
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5y ago
Why do you think your anecdotes trump an international study on the matter?
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5y ago
>That is not to say C students cannot be successful, but as discussed in the article Normies, Status, and Substack, if they are wildly successful financially and or in terms of social status, it’s due to a combination of luck (like inher
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5y ago
Schools are structured to benefit girls, and the deck is absolutely stacked against boys. The vast majority of teachers are female, and they mark boys worse for equivalent work. [1] Boys generally require more physical activity than girls,
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5y ago
>you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong They were wrong though, multiple key polls in battleground states were far outside their margin of error, indicating methodology failures or bias. As an example, the
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5y ago
This is a clear shot across the bow of Dorsey's empire. Given Square's huge portion of their revenue coming from readers, things have to be looking bleak over there. Square is down 61% since October.
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5y ago
According to some studies, up to 1% of prisoners in the U.S. are innocent. That would mean 23,000 people wrongfully imprisoned. In my experience, false positives in fraud and risk models are lower than 1%.
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5y ago
This strikes me as a strawman argument, considering the OP article clearly states "unruly", which is not inherently violent. Tourette's Syndrome sufferers could often be considered unruly (I posted examples of them being puni
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5y ago
Why did you underline half of the definition and pretend that's the whole thing? (hint: the "because" is important)
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5y ago
Did you read the definition at all? I don't think you did. Because the definition doesn't say that. "a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art,
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5y ago
Your mistake here is wrongly assuming "censorship" means it must be government doing it. Censorship does not mean that, and your definition is deeply flawed. [1] Words are important, and you can't just redefine them to suit y
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5y ago
The justice system has thousands of false positives and throws innocent people in jail for decades sometimes. As a whole, society accepts some level of error margin in every facet of society. After working in risk and fraud, I've seen
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5y ago
For how long should society punish mental illness? Because this proposal is essentially punishment for mental issues. Not the first time airlines have attacked the mentally ill, they especially like to target children. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [
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5y ago
The GoFundMe Team themselves donated $150 to a criminal who brought a molotov cocktail to a protest to (in his words!) "start fires". [1] When they fund domestic terrorists, it's fine. [1] https://twitter.com/
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5y ago
Predictably, the people desperately trying to redefine "censorship" from its dictionary definition show up. Censorship is not inherently a government action, your post is contrary to the actual definition. [1] [1] https:/&#x
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5y ago
You hit a flag for suspicious behavior and they can't tell you exactly what was suspicious because this allows fraudsters and criminal networks to adjust their operations accordingly. People don't just get terminated for no reason
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5y ago
The sources are rarely stolen. I used to work in this area for a large e-commerce company and generally what happened is a retail partner would have a sale on gift cards (15% off or something like this), and organized people who did this fo
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5y ago
If it was outsiders causing trouble, it certainly wouldn't be the first time. Progressives have staged false flag campaigns concerning racism before, as recently as November. Democratic political operatives dressed up as Charlottesvill
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5y ago
DoubleClick's ad domains are hard coded into Google Chrome [1], so that additional telemetry is sent to their ad servers on every request. You cannot disable it. It's never disclosed to users. When you use Chrome, you're lite
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5y ago
>I already said this isn't true. But you didn't prove it. Your source doesn't mention it, mine does. At this point, it's merely conjecture on your part. I cited a source for my claim.
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By calling the vaccine "rushed" and implying it can't be trusted, they sowed vaccine doubt and encouraged anti-vaccine ideologues. I posted the receipts, they repeatedly questioned whether the vaccines could be trusted -- pub
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The Trump admin closed the borders with China in late January and was accused of being racist and exaggerating the risk by news media and the Democrats. In fact, they're the only people who took it seriously at all. Then OWS was partly
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5y ago
The CDC recently dropped to 50% public trust, after repeated failures, mixed messages and outright lies in some cases. They lie and then act incensed when the public stops believing them. Given the massive damage they've done, I'd
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5y ago
I think the key question is why does Apple consider it okay to make moves like dropping the headphone jack for merely cosmetic reasons, whereas dropping obscure 30 year old formats that do all kinds of psychotic stuff (like run code) for se
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5y ago
There is no clear, undisputed test for coronavirus. Does this mean testing is not effective? Notably, testing for gender has an accuracy rate that is orders of magnitude more reliable than all conventional coronavirus tests, including multi
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5y ago
Intersex people are 0.018% of the population using the precise definition (not the wishy-washy definition that has been debunked from your study). [1] So a city of 1,000,000 people has merely 180 intersex people in it, the rest conform to t
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5y ago
Apple has to comply with the same laws as everyone else. Microsoft got hit with antitrust multiple times for their OS, and were even forced to advertise browser competitors in some markets. What you are suggesting is in fact special treatme
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5y ago
Your mistake is falsely claiming ivermectin is "dangerous", when it has been an FDA approved drug for humans for decades. When taken in advised doses, the worst ivermectin is is harmless. So, your rebuttal for CNN and friends lite
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5y ago
Note that "dangerous misinformation" changes entirely based on what the orthodoxy is currently promoting. Particularly, CNN/MSNBC/NBC/AP all promoted the "masks don't work" lie promoted by the CDC at
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5y ago
The vast majority of the population used to work in manual agricultural work, until it was largely automated to the point we're down to <1% in agri employment. The result of this huge wave of automation was not profit for agricultur
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