Bran_son

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by Bran_son 3y ago
> You’ve probably noticed that the marketing for this requirement is vague and confusing, and that’s intentional. It doesn’t do much for you, the consumer. However, it does set the stage for the future where Microsoft begins shipping the
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Legacy and Race Preferences at Harvard(anechoicmedia.org)
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Exported food is eaten, not burned. Hunger won't stop at borders - it's how the war in Ukraine is making food everywhere more expensive.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The Netherlands is the second largest food exporter in the world. Irrelevant. People and housing are bigger net burdens on the environment than farms. Their location relative to human political boundaries doesn't change that. They
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> hire more engineers Ideally ones not in the highest cost of living location on Earth.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Justifying the move earlier this year, Christianne van der Wal, minister of nature and nitrogen policy, said that the Netherlands had to cut nitrogen emissions from farms to build new housing and produce green energy. Closing farms to
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> No physical evidence linked Glossip, the motel’s live-in manager, to the crime. Instead, the case against him was built almost exclusively on the testimony of a 19-year-old maintenance man named Justin Sneed, who admitted to bludgeonin
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> To those saying "Oh I can tell it's fake, obviously!", consider: will your parents/grandparents? Doesn't matter. The best propaganda isn't fake, but truthful. It emphasizes true stories that further its go
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Could you explain how 2) is controversial? I'm not from the US myself - is the amount of immigration not a product of political policy? At least legal immigration, which I believe is significantly larger than illegal. As for 3) part 1
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The controversial part of the Great Replacement Theory is the claim that Democrats are deliberately engineering demographic change for the purpose of changing the electorate so they can gain more power. Of course no Democrat has ever s
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Please read my post more carefully, I wrote (emphasis added) " Social-economic systems that cause below-replacement fertility are in this way much like parasites" The system is the parasite, not the immigrants themselves. They
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by Bran_son 3y ago
It's both, and it boggles my mind how so many can (claim to) be so deluded as to say it's entirely the latter. Notably, their culture has changed dramatically over the last ~300 years (as it has for most nations), yet one wouldn&#
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Immigrants eventually become Japanese citizens though when they themselves settle in Japan That's great if you want to preserve Japanese paperwork and populate Japan's geography, but doesn't help the Japanese people them
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> the latter in the absurdly skewed prison population the US is known for. Are you sure? Since most homicides are intra-racial [1] (despite the impression one gets from those the media choose to focus on), we can use victim race as proxy
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Perhaps a graph of police resources used by race, per capita, could substantiate that claim. Because the article doesn't even make the claim (except perhaps implicitly), let alone offer proof of it.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Conservative policymakers and a cautious public mean Japan is much more likely to look for internal, rather than external, solutions to the demographic crunch, despite projections pointing to the inevitability of more immigration. Supp
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Is "race baiting" really a sufficiently specific description? How often does NPR/NYTimes/Washington Post/CNN/.. highlight the race of white victims, as opposed to PoC?
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The big question for the G.O.P. during the Biden era is whether the legacy of Carlson’s culture wars adds up to a viable platform for a major political party. Translation: please retreat to complaining about regulation and taxes (and s
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by Bran_son 3y ago
You either accept that terrorists and pedophiles will also use your platform, or you relinquish your freedom and retreat to sanitized, corporate- and government- monitored and censored places.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> and was now suing the state. On what grounds? This sounds like a problem with the legal system, not medical transparency. Though I can empathize with medical professionals having to work in the legal system that we have, not a hypothet
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> If you goal to maximize adoption What's the point in maximizing adoption if it requires forsaking your primary goal, which is user freedoms?
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The merchants of doubt dominate media. And spend billions of dollars shaping discourse. Then let them sow doubt. If the case is "we're not sure but it's very possible that continued CO2 emissions will cook the Earth&quot
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Could the deranged British legal system then be turned against those two, with equally vexatious retaliatory lawsuits? Fight fire with fire, as it were.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
To the person spamming threats: Do you think your message is persuasive? If you received such messages, but instead of Scott Wiener, it was someone you knew little about, would you be persuaded? Edit as reply: I'm curious - what make
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The broken thing is that anyone can send any unsolicited traffic anywhere, making Cloudflare a requirement for hosting a website. If a Cloudflare-like service is a required part of internet infrastructure, then each ISP and hosting pro
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Well, until you have an algo that can mind read, "I'm not a spammer guys, gosh!" isn't good enough, I'm afraid. Yet read-only access to websites, which by definition can't be used for spam, is also locked
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> I just never really understood why these tracked math programs were a good idea? Because by sabotaging "tracked" programs as you described, they can claim that "Middle- and high-performing students performed equally as w
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> In addition to suggesting de-tracked math offerings, the draft framework also proposes to incorporate social-justice lessons into math, and to orient lessons toward seeing how math could advance social justice. And this is controversia
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Systemic racial discrimination in academia (despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans 10 to 1 in faculty [1] - curiously few studies look at whether that might be due to discrimination) is a perfectly analogous conspiracy, yet it is acce
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Why does it rub me wrong? Because "your" car is betraying you and obeying a different master. Once you cross the bright line of "items should be loyal only to their owner", things get dystopian very quickly - subscr

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