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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Logically, this take seems confusing. Why wouldn't Disney have been advocating for having this special arrangement revoked themselves if it would have been a $100+ million subsidy for them? From my admittedly limited understanding of t
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
The question has to be, why is there open hostility to the nuclear family by this and other movements? Why is there a negative statement about it needing to be disrupted/dismantled? Why can't there just be a positive statement abo
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
They removed references to it from their website (I believe after backlash), but here's an archived link to it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200715132542/https://blacklive... The relevant bit: &g
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I've had a difficult time trying to find any context on that part of the ledger for this decision. Most of the stories I've seen are slanted in a partisan direction. From what I can surmise from this link [1], it sounds like the p
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I dislike everything about the situation. Government officials using their power to attempt to hurt private companies who disagree with them. The whole narrative behind the bill in question is plain stu
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I've also seen similar behavior on interview loops. I also would love for there to be fear of engaging in illegal discriminatory behavior for companies. However, as an individual person, the cost/benefit equation on whistleblowing
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
To be clear, that's not my logic, it is of my previous employer. I don't think trying to index hiring decisions to the broad population distribution is a good thing. But if you HAD to index to a population distribution, I think it
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
There are two moral views that intersect here in this poster's views (which they are communicating subversively through sarcasm): 1. "It's perfectly okay to discriminate against people based on things they can't control&
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I can also attest to this, I just left a pretty well-known tech company who leaned hard into DEI in the wake of the summer 2020 protests. The exec team essentially set up quotas, with every race+gender group getting priority over white male
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I really like the framing you used: 'exclusionary forms of inclusion'. Really encapsulates it well.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I sometimes wonder whether our goal of making everything as convenient & frictionless as possible is part of our problem. By serving some of our short-term interests, are we jeopardizing our long-term interests? I'm personally ok
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Any direct quotes/sources to substantiate that a “Twitter as root cause of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” claim was honestly made?
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
+1 on communities/social tools for groups. I think one of the great challenges with the internet is that global broadcasting aspect of it. Knowing that something you say could spread across the world, and potentially hurt your prospect
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Got it. So to sum it up: Elon Musk, who: -Is CEO of an electric car company and produces solar panels to help mitigate climate change -Donates mostly to Democrats personally and through his companies -Did not donate to Donald Trump, and sai
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
None of my questions have been addressed, so I'm guessing you are pretty deep into your theory. I do wonder whether there is any piece of evidence or logical thinking through probabilities/incentives that would alter your theory o
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Again, why would Elon Musk, with net worth near 300 billion dollars, go through all this trouble to maybe save 0.01% of his net worth in fines in some hypothetical scenario? The ROI seems absolutely terrible for that theory. And why when Tr
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
It's really fascinating seeing all the conspiracy theorizing going on with this offer. You have a number of really creative threads going on here. To step through this... So we have someone with a net worth near 300 billion dollars tha
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Surely there is both a status quo and survival bias going on with the existing leadership/management team. When you have an outside person who wants to change some fundamental things about the company, it seems natural that there would
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I don't immediately buy the logic of "Stock A hit a peak of $X last year, therefore that is the correct price/valuation, and not the lower price it is right now" If Twitter was worth more, it'd be worth more. With t
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
This is fantastic, well done!
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
> No. The purpose of social justice is to ensure equal opportunity, not equality per se. Who is the authority on the 'purpose' of social justice? Or is what you state just your opinion? Perhaps this is just the circles I am aro
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I directionally agree with the author, but I wish they had defined what they meant by 'fair', since the concept is so prominent in their post. The meaning of that word seems to vary depending on a speaker's intent and underly
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Ultimately, it's up to you to decide the point of it. You are the universe made self-aware, packaged in a meat suit with some primitive impulses that just so happens to be living in the most convenient/low friction environment f
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
This is an okay analogy on the surface, but there is another dimension to the student loan debt situation. The borrowers are not the poorest/most vulnerable of the population. They are disproportionately from upper income brackets.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I do think Elon will provide a valuable counter-balance to the current monoculture that drives Twitter. But I do not believe Elon in of himself can really resolve Twitter's ills (by my subjective assessment). Twitter and other social n
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
How do you determine whether someone only cares about themselves? How do you determine whether someone doesn't only care about themselves?
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I'm not sure that I'm the authority on describing current health insurance systems, and if I attempted to describe it here, I'm not sure if I would stand by it completely upon further investigation and reflection. My understa
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
I'm sensing a theme here in creating strawmen. My advice to you would be attempt to steelman opposing views. Attempt to find synthesis between your initial notions and the best parts of the opposing views. To answer you question at a h
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
Not sure if that was an attempt at a steelman or a strawman, but I think you are missing critical distinctions for the group that you are addressing. People, in general, don't enjoy when powerful monopolistic entities directly ration a
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by FFRefresh 5y ago
> No need to write an article about this. To clarify your underlying principles here: Are you broadly suggesting there should be rules for what type of articles can be written on the internet (presumably that align with your values)? Are

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