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by Crake 13y ago
"I know people who work in haute-couture shops." Me too, or costume production, rather. It's insane how much they have to work for so very little pay. It's hard to tell if they're happy or unhappy, overall--they seem proud of their work, bu
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by Crake 13y ago
I'm already intimately familiar with institutional discrimination, thank you. Please be more cautious in assuming things about people on the internet.
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by Crake 13y ago
That first part would be a hilarious application of ~affirmative action.~ Most people like AA until you apply it equally to other things, which is when the sense of how ridiculous it is becomes hard for even the most determinedly discrimina
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by Crake 13y ago
I got an arduino Uno, it was about $20 on amazon! http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-UNO-board-DIP-ATmega328P/dp/B0...
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by Crake 13y ago
Ooh, good question!
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by Crake 13y ago
Congratulations, sir. I just about lost my shit laughing when I saw the arduino in the first picture. Good work, it's really cool seeing people doing interesting projects like this. The maximum number of lego presses is something I might ne
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by Crake 13y ago
Thank you.
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by Crake 13y ago
Well, according to Feminism 101, everything in society that is bad is because of the Patriarchy. So even if it is a class war, men are still to blame for it. I...don't agree with this, but they make the same jump in "logic" over and over ag
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by Crake 13y ago
This isn't the way to do it. I'd be really offended if someone explicitly added me to the speaking roster just because of my genitals, just as much as I'd be annoyed if they explicitly denied me because of them.
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by Crake 13y ago
I saw Neil Degrasse Tyson speak a few months ago. In his talk, he mentioned how strange it was that he was always referred to as "a black physicist," since he had always thought of himself as just "a physicist." I feel much the same way.
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by Crake 13y ago
"Make no fucking mistake that you occupy your cushy tech salary, your mid-level management job, your paltry access to power by permission of the patriarchy." Oooh, it's one of those tumblr-style feminists. You always know you're in for a ps
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by Crake 14y ago
Agreed. The white girl who didn't get in might have been rejected based on a combination of factors, but she IS legally discriminated against because of her race in college admissions, which is a reasonable complaint. IIRC, putting "black"
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by Crake 14y ago
A long way indeed, and mostly in a terrible direction. :/
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by Crake 14y ago
"...and the people voting for the likes of her have been deliberately deprived of a decent education." I really wish this were the case, but political views remain relatively static in the face of increasing levels of education. (see: http
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by Crake 14y ago
Frankly, this post makes you look really ignorant of the actual experiences of disadvantaged people in America (of which I am one, by the way). Maybe you should check your assumption privilege. I like to swear a lot when I'm at home, but th
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by Crake 14y ago
Just a passerby here, but the majority of my entertainment comes from my $50/month internet connection, and I spend waaaaay more than 30 hrs/month on it.
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by Crake 14y ago
I know a lot of people who have for profit degrees. I can't think of even one that's not stuck in a dead end low paying job, constantly complaining on social media about how they can't seem to find a job that will put their "talent" to use.
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by Crake 14y ago
"We took the land from people we exterminated, took slaves " I speak standard english, but am part of a minority group that has been tortured and killed for thousands of years. You don't speak for me. Or for my friends, who aren't all part
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by Crake 14y ago
Good to see you around here. (I gave up on metafilter.) I also agree that language variations are interesting...but AAVE is clearly not its own language. The suggestions flying around here that it ought to be treated like a second language
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by Crake 14y ago
This is what happens when you take postmodernism crazy think that comes out of the liberal arts departments and apply it to things in the real world. Nothing can be right or wrong anymore. Everything is just your opinion . These people hav
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by Crake 14y ago
You can consistently apply bad rules. For example: Your knot write about you're ideas. You're comment says your opinionated about what people should right. Your and you're are consistently misapplied by people everywhere, whether by consis
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by Crake 14y ago
This.
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by Crake 14y ago
Should we put other native speakers of english with an inability to write a sentence with correct grammar in with the ESL too then? Based on this map of American dialects, it seems like standard english is the lingua franca of many differen
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by Crake 14y ago
I personally do not really mind "alienating" the "earth is 5,000 years old" crowd by not respecting their complete and total disrespect for science and logic. If your wife told you that she was pregnant, but it wasn't your kid--would you be
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by Crake 14y ago
" Do they meet the student who is struggling with the financial aid application because her father is claiming her as a dependent but isn't actually giving her any financial support?" Having been in a situation similar to this, I can say th
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by Crake 14y ago
I had no idea what a PSAT was until I showed up in the morning one day and they shoved it in front of me at 7AM in the morning. I'd gotten 2 hours of sleep and was a wreck because of my difficult home life and felt like I was going to throw
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by Crake 14y ago
For a lot of people, it's not just tuition though. You'd probably double or triple your calculated cost there if you included cost of living, which is something a lot of disadvantaged students have to worry about. Plus, if you have crappy p
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by Crake 14y ago
I'm at a community college (because I have no money, not because I'm stupid) and am presently trying to transfer to two "elite" schools. One says pretty explicitly that they don't guarantee that they meet full need for transfers, even thoug
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by Crake 14y ago
That's pretty impressive. Makes him sound a bit like Richard Feynman, actually.
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by Crake 14y ago
This reminds me a little of the old man in The Shawshank Redemption who was unable to live outside of the prison he'd spent his whole life in. :( Do you know why the guy in your grandfather's story wanted to go back in?

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