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by Dig1t 2y ago
I watched this video and honestly did not find any of her points very compelling. Her best point is basically her own subjective opinion that Feynman does not belong amongst the greatest physicists of all time like Newton and Einstein. And
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It’s honestly the best type of technology. It’s something that everyone has to implement because their products will be inferior without it. But it’s not something you can use to build a monopoly easily, and since everyone has to do it ther
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> Some of them are other peoples tax dollars that do want this. Well then those people can take their money and donate it directly to the causes they care about. They do not need to use my tax money for it. Yes actually some of this mone
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“Advocate for improved quality and access to services” The “services” here is gender affirming care. What does it mean to “advocate”? Why are my tax dollars being used for this? Yes it is vague, the vagueness just helps to strengthen the ar
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You can look them up on the actual government website: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_72052024FA00001_7... > ACTIVITY TO STRENGTHEN TRANS-LED ORGANIZATIONS TO DELIVER GENDER-AFFIRMING HEALTH CARE This is
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lol these are my tax dollars! I’m sorry, I have nothing against gay people, but I do not want my tax dollars going to sex change operations in Guatemala. We have people in CA affected by fires, people in Carolina who still need help rebuild
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That was actually granted under the Biden administration and it has since been removed under the new Trump admin.
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Just run a thought experiment 1. Job posted, anyone can apply 2. Candidate applies and interviews, team likes them and wants to move forward 3. Team not allowed to offer because candidate is not diverse enough 4. Team goes and interviews a
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At my job I am not allowed to offer a job to a candidate unless I have first demonstrated to the VP of my org that I have interviewed a person or color. This is literally the textbook definition of discrimination based on skin color and it
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> We are also talking much more rightly about equity, >it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place. And since we didn’t start in the same place. Some folks might need more: equitable distribution - Ka
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I'm not sure what you mean by "care for our own people". I would say that providing an abundance of meaningful work that can feed a family is one of the best ways we can care for our own people. We have unions and high wages,
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Yes it certainly is. You can see the effects of the free market in many industries which have been decimated by globalization. We used to be able to get a manufacturing job which would provide for a family, but decided it was okay to allow
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>Those numbers are drops in the bucket compared to the cuts they plan to give themselves. I don’t know where you get this from, there is no evidence of this anywhere. They are talking constantly about paying down the national debt as one
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We did not vote to send our tax dollars to other countries for these things. People are outraged that their hard earned tax dollars are being wasted on stuff like this. I think you know that, there’s a reason these items are being downplaye
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So the government has hired some people to audit the government. They have read only access to the government data. They are posting every single recommendation they make for spending reduction on their website AND on Twitter for transparen
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They are absolutely wasting a lot of money: >$3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans >$5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda >$6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world” >$6.3 mi
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>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Why can’t there be a proper audit? The person in charge of the Pentagon is Pete Hegseth (not Musk) and he said in a speech today that they have a goal of finally passing the audit.
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According to the DOGE tracker: https://www.doge-tracker.com/ It looks like they are targeting 2T in savings as a goal.
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I definitely agree. Their goal is to balance the budget and reduce the national debt (which ballooned to 36T under the previous administration). Reducing waste at the Pentagon is absolutely necessary if they are going to achieve that goal.
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President Trump says he has directed Elon Musk to audit The Pentagon(twitter.com)
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“Legal migration” as in the CBP One app? The US government ran ads in Haiti and other nations in French teaching people how to apply to come to America as asylum seekers. The US government flew huge numbers of these people into the US and a
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It’s obviously completely legal actually. The president has the power to do this. Reducing bureaucracy, rooting out corruption, and shrinking government waste also polls really well. Democrats should be much more careful about positioning t
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I mean it’s raw data, putting “findings” in quotes does not change the fact that this is concrete evidence of corruption. These are taxpayer dollars: LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE
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The Lutheran organizations were facilitating mass migration. The money was being given to them to help bring in millions of people from places like Haiti. https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1887267531267940517 They ar
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I resent others trying to police my language, especially when the language is not offensive. People who do this obviously get joy out of bossing other people around and pretending they are being virtuous.
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I’m not trying to what about anything, I’m actually a fairly extreme free speech absolutist. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy, the people complaining the loudest are the same people who exuberantly censor people they disagree with. These
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Here’s a relevant XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1357/ I was shown this back in college when I raised concerns about how cancel culture was stifling the free exchange of ideas and when I argued against the idea that spee
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Yes, we have mandatory linter rules which won’t let us check in code that contains the word “whitelist” or “blacklist” or “master” because they are somehow racist. I work at the biggest tech company, which employs hundreds of thousands of p
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Absolutely correct. We’re still not allowed to use “whitelist” and “blacklist” because it’s somehow racism. We have linters which bar us from checking in code with these words and a bot which scolds us publicly in chats. Now the same people

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