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by a_shovel 5y ago
That paragraph starting "People pretend that this never happened" is a jewel of dishonest writing. The author never specifies any particular piece of "woke insanity" that it applies to, so the author isn't responsib
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The Florida Department of Health recently released new guidelines stating "Social gender transition should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents." [0] For those unaware, "social gender transition", in add
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Absolutely. It's been repeatedly noted that every transphobic attack is a recycled homophobic attack. Even before I was told that, I found it obvious that the surge in transphobic rhetoric was a response to the gains and eventual succe
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by a_shovel 5y ago
You have no idea how many people would call your non-binary friend a "gender extremist" for the brief interaction you described here.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Oh boy. One of these articles. From the title I was expecting "the new homophobia" to refer to the striking parallels between 20th-century homophobic propaganda and modern-day transphobic "concerns", but no, I was not
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by a_shovel 5y ago
"Frames them in a very negative way" is overly charitable. Often she just calls the subject of the video a pedophile and identifies their place of work.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Um, what the fuck? It’s the job of “journalists” to find and dox pseudonymous social media accounts and link their professional info? Yeah. > Libs of TikTok has become a powerful force online, shaping right-wing media, impacting ant
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by a_shovel 5y ago
No idea what you're talking about regarding "prioritizing communicating their own sexuality". We're talking about an account that proposes every out gay person (i.e. every gay person they can find out about) ought to be
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is just not true. Lots of her tweets include extremely bigoted commentary to make sure her audience gets the intended message. Here's a couple of examples from her page. > "Any teacher who utters the words 'I came ou
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The New York Post is a poor source for anything. Please read the article Lorenz wrote [0] before coming to a conclusion on this story. "Libs of TikTok" is a far-right hate account that directs harassment toward LGBT+ people, often
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I just want it to look good when I have the window set to half a screen wide at 1080p. There are some websites that'll switch to a mobile design when it's that narrow, and it's incredibly annoying.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Okay, what you've done here is you've responded to a criticism of a particular type of study by linking to two examples of that kind of study and a Wikipedia section that cites one of those same studies. Forgive me if I feel like
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by a_shovel 5y ago
It's obvious that that's not the point. > To suggest that macular degeneration has genetic causes is to make an empirically testable proposal; to suggest that “grit” or “openness to experience” has genetic causes is to make a
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by a_shovel 5y ago
You seem to be claiming that the authors of the article secretly believe that "intelligence is totally independent of genes", which isn't supported by the article itself. You then call the ideology of a hierarchy of intelli
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by a_shovel 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver At first, it seems like a magic shortcut to math. Instead of doing difficult logic stuff, just turn your problem into a binary Turing machine with n states where it halts if
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I have the feeling saying an NFT can be worth 2.9 million dollars is misleading, since it doesn't really apply to article's audience. An NFT has only ever, and maybe will only ever, be worth that much to at most two people: The
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Honestly, no. The law-school subject, a certain set of proposed changes to education relating to race in U.S. grade schools (not even getting into which set of changes), and the thing Republicans are opposing are all called "critical
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends ... have plenty of screenshots and evidence of times when the platforms have made enforcement decisions unfair against them for innocuous things they've said merely questionin
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Everyone always focuses on a person who is being offended, [and] their tender feelings... I think it is high time we spend a bit more time on those who offend... Few things set me off like hearing hundreds of thousands of people ch
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Perhaps "has a comparison relation to"? So for any two numbers x and y, x ⋚ y is true, but "square ⋚ pentagon" is false.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The context here is definitely "do this if you feel like it". This is a list of suggestions posted under the "Equality, Diversity & Inclusion" header. Mandatory policies just aren't posted in that section of a u
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by a_shovel 5y ago
The reason the person you're imagining is a one-trick-pony with no thoughts beyond claiming oppression is that you're the one imagining them that way . This isn't a real specific person, it's a caricature in your head o
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Called it. No imperious mandate from on high, just some reasonable suggestions on a website. A ton of HN regulars seem unwilling to apply a microsecond of skepticism to these articles.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Nobody described in either the article or the original source from the Telegraph seems to have made any of these claims. So I'm not sure why you're asking these questions here.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I would have liked to find the original material the article and its sources refer to, but no luck on that. Still, there's lots to criticize and clarify in the article text itself. > The Durham University guide insists that academi
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by a_shovel 5y ago
That sounds interesting. Do you have an article or something about that?
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by a_shovel 5y ago
One important benefit of Windows is that nobody has ever told me "submit a patch" after I complained about some part of Windows.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> But it's the kind of thing you would see in a CS textbook, not just come up with on your own. Well, LeetCode is a CS-textbook-problems kind of site. You use it however you like. While I was searching for my first job, I spent some
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Hereditary wealth is, indeed, probably the greatest privilege, but it does nobody any good to pretend that it's the only one.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Software defects are not harmful. Backwards long jumps are just a bounds-checking error, and without them, it would take over five minutes to beat Super Mario 64. The A-Button Challenge wouldn't be possible at all if it weren'

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