Frondo

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by Frondo 7y ago
The parent poster is referring to race-motivated lynchings, of which there have been thousands over the decades.[1] [1] https://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/
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by Frondo 7y ago
Sushi! I knew someone would bring it up. :) It's also usually prepared in some way, whether it's flash frozen or treated with vinegar. But, I guess my point is that the evolutionary argument doesn't really make sense in a wor
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by Frondo 7y ago
From an evolutionary perspective, we have evolved: we use tools and process nearly anything we eat anyway. Plants are the only thing we eat with minimal preparation, and only some of those. When was the last time you had raw beef? for me, i
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by Frondo 7y ago
I was in Canada recently and tried one of the Tim Hortons "beyond sausage" sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches. From the "beyond meat" people. Had I not known what I was eating, I wouldn't have known it was plant-ba
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by Frondo 7y ago
This is absolutely true -- you don't see drug researchers on yachts. The people actually doing the work aren't rich as avarice, it's the people who turn their work into a "business". People doing groundbreaking work
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by Frondo 7y ago
This reminds me of the great first novel of Russian author Victor Pelevin, Omon Ra. The protagonist joins the Soviet space program (fully automated moon exploration!) and [spoilers ahead] learns that the full automation is physical labor by
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by Frondo 7y ago
As for why people there might be so reluctant to embrace it, I think Upton Sinclair's words: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by Frondo 7y ago
I rented a Ford Ecosport for a road trip earlier this year and made good use of the unlimited miles package ;) It had the idle shutoff feature, which I didn't realize at first but figured out after a stoplight or two. Through a few wee
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by Frondo 7y ago
Getting into a doctor in the US requires long waits, too! The last time I bought insurance, I decided to get a long-overdue checkup, so I went hunting for a doctor in-network. There goes one afternoon, just calling around to GPs to see if t
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by Frondo 7y ago
No, and until 2008's Heller vs DC decision, private gun ownership was not considered an established right. America's status as a gun-loving nation is a relatively modern invention, and entirely one devised by gun manufacturers. It
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's important to Americans because it's been sold to us as a fictitious part of a national identity. The gun industry has very successfully crafted this narrative, to the point where so many people take it for granted now, but it
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by Frondo 7y ago
I lived in Oregon--which has had exclusively vote by mail for decades--for a while and never heard anyone bring up vote selling as a risk to election integrity. No one (journalists, legislators, etc) ever claimed it was happening. The state
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by Frondo 7y ago
If you'd like to post anything refuting the fact that the Proud Boys are a white supremacist group, please do so. None of these statements: 1) they have non-white members so they can't be, 2) the founder has a non-white wife, 3)
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm glad you didn't dispute that they're a white power group; for interested readers who waded this far into the comments, here are some useful links: * https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/pr
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by Frondo 7y ago
I spent a bit of time living in one of the post-Soviet central asian states, and after a while there this was a conclusion I came to, too. Living in a dictatorship, but feeling more personal freedom than I ever had in the US. On a day-to-da
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by Frondo 7y ago
I wouldn't forget the time the Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on the Black liberation group MOVE, killing several of the members and destroying three blocks of a dense residential part of the city: https://mashable.com&#
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by Frondo 7y ago
It's not just gamergate that uses that ambiguity -- think of how the "okay" symbol ("o" formed with thumb and first finger, remaining three extended upward) has been repurposed as a white power gesture; all of the g
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by Frondo 7y ago
The interstate highway system cut neighborhoods in half and let people drive right through them. it didn't bring people to them -- better local infrastructure would do that and that's been systematically underfunded for decades.
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by Frondo 7y ago
It does come down to living in a bubble, but the bubble is absolutely huge; as the other replier said, it stretches from coast to coast. We're also heavily propagandized everywhere we turn -- whenever I turn on big media news sources,
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by Frondo 7y ago
mkoryak, your task today is to write us a for-loop that lets us isolate people conducting protected workplace organizing so we can fire them.
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by Frondo 7y ago
In the US, go with "visually impaired." That's an accurate description without any baggage, and it also tells you what needs to be done to make the technology accessible to them. It also describes people who might have limite
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by Frondo 7y ago
Cavities are also found in other mammals; they're not even just a human problem. Something like 5% of dogs get cavities. If you have an older dog and get their teeth cleaned, some might need to be pulled. I even saw something about cav
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by Frondo 7y ago
There's a reason that food safety protocols in the restaurant biz are pretty strict: you don't get a biological adaptation to eating feces by eating a little feces here and there. There's a reason (well, really, several) huma
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by Frondo 7y ago
Along those lines, I've found that I'm much more distinctly odor-free for a few days, after I spend a day at the russian bathhouse. Something about sitting in hot tubs, steam rooms, cold showers (I've never done the arctic po
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm kind of glad someone brought this up. I've known a handful of people who went soap-free (I used to live in a much more granola part of the country) and they insisted they had no odor. That was actually true for one of them. Th
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by Frondo 7y ago
Speech leads to violence, and even a somewhat limited reading of the history of genocides in the 20th century ought to make it difficult to dispute that. If the Hutus hadn't been broadcasting anti-Tutsi sentiment for a few hundred days
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by Frondo 7y ago
I used to be much more of a free-speech absolutist. It wasn't til I started reading about how genocides start that that started to change for me. There is a pretty direct line drawn between speech and violence against out-groups; anyon
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by Frondo 7y ago
Land doesn't vote. Those people should have an equal voice -- that's a democracy I can get behind whole-hog. They don't. They have an immensely outsized voice based entirely on geographical distance to one another. Proximity
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm not sure how much time I'm willing to spend scrolling through and screencapping this stuff, but what you're saying doesn't match what I see at all. I also have all the quality filters off and often click the "sh
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by Frondo 7y ago
I'm not talking about anything they said. I said to look at the people responding to them with sexist harassment.

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