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by Grieving 5y ago
Despite my extreme objections to the race/gender preference, I enjoy teaching and accepted the invitation to help out at a program like this (not this one in particular). I didn't get the idea that they were highly effective. Sess
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by Grieving 5y ago
Can't read with the paywall, and this is probably contrary to the message of the article, but this interview ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZFzEW7_Q4 ) with a homeless heroin adict made a great impression on me. He
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by Grieving 5y ago
Should the FBI be actively grooming all susceptible people for terrorism? This does not bode well for the the mentally ill, intellectually disabled, and children.
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If that growing middle class becomes dependent on westerners for employment, they will become westernized. Colonization can be extremely 'peaceful'.
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by Grieving 5y ago
I'm being downvoted here, I think mainly because frank admission of facts is considered mean. For reference, I'm speaking as a member of a tiny ethnic group that survived well into the 20th century, including a period of strong re
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by Grieving 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? You named a handful of languages that have survived, most of which are still in decline even if they still have substantial numbers of active speakers. The only one that seems possibly positioned to 'wi
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by Grieving 5y ago
I agree largely with your response, but > And where is the evidence that Colonialists had 'consistent, closer contact' in hew New World, than in Africa? In Africa, Europeans died off rapidly due to local diseases. Consequently,
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by Grieving 5y ago
I assume the person you're responding to is talking more about the aboriginal peoples of the United States. GG&S is an interesting book, but extremely conjectural and ideological, and not well-sourced. Some of the evidence is disto
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by Grieving 5y ago
That blending largely occurred in Latin America, but languages rarely survive such things both in the Americas and generally throughout history. Communication is important enough that the language of whichever group is technologically super
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by Grieving 5y ago
I think it depends on what one considers the purpose of basketball to be. For entertainment and spectacle, high-box-score players are worth more. For pure team competition, RAPM is worth more. The latter is important because you generally w
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by Grieving 5y ago
Can you point to a specific video? I watched livestreams as it was happening, and have seen a lot of the Parler videos. My impression both from the videos and from right-wing twitter in the lead-up to this event, is that some q believers
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by Grieving 5y ago
> I think it is fair to say that no matter how much we go back and forth on this, we are never going to agree. The gulf between what you perceive and what I saw is far too great a chasm to cross. If we carried on, it'd probably get
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by Grieving 5y ago
They literally never did this. They didn't believe that the election was fair, and fought tooth and nail to make sure the results weren't certified. Even the whackiest of Q-believers, stupidly believed (and still do) that it wou
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by Grieving 5y ago
Trump had talked about running long before the initial announcement. My mistake for thinking that the quote I was replying to, which specifically limited the scope to 2014, was accurate. > A week ago, a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an
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by Grieving 5y ago
I hate to break it to you, but I can cherry-pick examples of left-leaning protesters calling for deaths of Trump, Republicans, cops, white people, etc. When people are emotional, they are hyperbolic. Unlike those in the Chaz, for example, t
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by Grieving 5y ago
> My own research analyzed about 1,500 protest-related news stories published throughout 2014
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by Grieving 5y ago
Protesting what you believe to be a corrupt system isn't overthrowing the government, else BLM are also guilty. Illegally protesting inside the capitol isn't overthrowing the government, else AOC would be in prison for leading pro
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by Grieving 5y ago
This is such an inaccurate depiction. "Alt-right" was a catchall label used during the 2016 election for those who were rightish, but didn't see themselves represented by the Republican party. Eventually, media found that Ric
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by Grieving 5y ago
Try checking for something a bit more recent than 2014. Media still attempted to muzzle the craziness of the left at that point.
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by Grieving 5y ago
One of the worst problems of our political discourse (aside from the idea of a single political axis) is the idea that extremism results from distance from the center. There's nothing about this man's political perspective (that w
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by Grieving 5y ago
When I got into software development around 2013-2014, only dialup and satellite internet were available in my area, and nobody had really nice computers (mine was an old, secondhand netbook). As a result, I can't overstate how much I
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by Grieving 6y ago
Lockfiles don't fix a fundamentally broken dev ecosystem. Users of left-pad fell into one of two categories: people who don't understand the most basic programming tasks, and people who do understand these tasks but are so apprehe
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by Grieving 6y ago
Thanks! I'll have a listen on my drive home.
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by Grieving 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read a little about this topic online, and while proponents often veer off into IMO very shaky territory, the basic plot line seems quite solid and backed up by evidence. Edit: Looks like you work on
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by Grieving 6y ago
It's easy to see parallels if you really want to look. The cycle of reincarnation is the thing that Hindus want to escape from (both seek unity with god), and it can be described as monotheistic as well. Just different approaches to th
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by Grieving 6y ago
I'm not a Christian, but a lot of this matches my experience with the overwhelming majority of atheists. There's a severe echo chamber effect and ignorance of both Christianity itself and especially of other religions, to the poin
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by Grieving 6y ago
Taken to its logical conclusion, nothing can be tolerated but tolerance itself. Kind of an inversion of Chesterton's 'Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.'
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by Grieving 6y ago
> By learning Latin you multiply the speed at which you learn romance languages, which will allow you to understand and communicate with a much larger share of the world. As someone else said, you can just as well learn a Romance languag
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by Grieving 6y ago
He went there after Epstein's first conviction. If you're flying to a billionaire sex-offender's private island and get offered a young girl, I'm pretty sure it would raise some red flags. I don't think the part abo
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by Grieving 6y ago
I assume it goes back to the Minsky incident. From what I understand, a trafficked woman/girl at Epstein's island was instructed to sleep with Minsky. Whether or not this was actually carried out is unclear. RMS said to give him t

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