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by a_shovel 5y ago
Each sentence, though individually false, comes together to produce an overall point that is also false. A lack of a disadvantage others have is a privilege. The point of calling it a privilege is to emphasize that white people benefit from
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The OK sign is only racist if it's being used by racists to signal to other racists that they are racist. This remains true if you replace "The OK sign" with any other innocuous act or item. These kinds of statements are the
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is another reason I'm so skeptical of the lab leak theory. People with no knowledge of epidemiology are willing to portray routine actions as horrific ethical violations, and it's difficult to tell when they are.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
From a Bayesian perspective, it's difficult-to-impossible to evaluate the probability of these events without in-depth knowledge of genetics and/or epidemiology, and they could easily be highly correlated. The alternative explanat
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I don't understand your point. If a genius takes the class, then they'll get a good grade in any grading system. I'm talking about a student who starts off poorly and does badly on some early assignments, then improves dramat
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> For example, students who come into a course with little prior knowledge earn lower grades at the start, which means they get a lower final average, even if they ultimately master the material. I'm not sure this is the worst f
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by a_shovel 5y ago
One important difference is that, even when you don't specifically claim so, one can assume that you have been to the restaurant down the street enough times to observe a trend, whereas BitwiseFool's post seems to be pure speculat
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This should link directly to it: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-ne...
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> Second, this article compares being trans with being gay. They're two different things entirely. The only "right" gay people wanted, above being left alone, was equality in law Presenting this as a difference is a lie.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> And that's reddit... where there are no conservatives left. I don't know if that's true. I'd always hear Reddit was more conservative than most other sites. I've noticed that people of every political alignme
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> You don't get to go to the government and demand compelled speech because people think you're ridiculous. That's the thing, I don't actually see trans people advocating for things like that. For example, I've
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by a_shovel 5y ago
My understanding is that these concerns are, at best, overblown. [1] explains it better than I could. [1] https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/addressing-concerns-over-...
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I think you ought to tell the women who beat her that they had no chance of beating her. In the NCAA Division I Women's Championship, she competed in the 100 yard, 200 yard, and 500 yard Freestyle events. She won only the last of those
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> The current approach is radicalizing people against trans. I have seen no evidence in support of this. There's plenty of anecdotes of people saying it happened to them, but no evidence of a widespread trend. I remember when &quo
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by a_shovel 5y ago
It's really odd to see a transgender person attacking people for having "ridiculous pronouns" because most LGBT people, in activism or otherwise, have a solidarity-based approach. That's why it's LGBT and not separa
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Your source is a site solely dedicated to anti-transgender propaganda. Every second headline on the front page is "transgender person commits crime". The headline for this article even invents the unwieldy term "Male Who Iden
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by a_shovel 5y ago
That's an entirely reasonable position. It acknowledges that "male" and "female", while useful concepts, are ultimately just a classification system that not everyone will fit into neatly; and if they don't, it
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> People have 2 arms and 2 legs with 5 fingers/toes at the end of each. This is a fact, not changed by the fact that indeed there are some people with more than 5 fingers/toes, some with fewer or even none at all. Those people
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by a_shovel 5y ago
This is fascinating. This kind of design that most players don't ever consciously notice, but which improves the unquantifiable "feel" of a game, is the most beautiful part of game design for me. Would also like to note this
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> We tend to criticize things that we think are almost right, so close to right that we’re worried other people will accept them. > This is a compliment. If someone criticizes something you wrote, you should feel gratified that y
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I'd say these articles are the thing spinning random disputes into sound bites.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
> All of sudden, critical race theory was more than mainstream in America’s law schools. It was mandatory. Starting this Fall, Georgetown Law School will require all students to take a class “on the importance of questioning the law’s n
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by a_shovel 5y ago
When their initial theory of cough count produced a trend line that didn't really work well, with some major outliers, they introduced the implausible, ad-hoc mechanisms like the Thriller Tripler effect and the Batman effect to make it
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I fail to see the problem. What content does the form of a sequence of tweets exclude? Run-on sentences? Does that sentence really need to be a hundred words long?
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> Who would have though that Vladimir Putin would become the world's most successful doctor and cure the world of the pandemic overnight. I remember when people were saying this about the George Floyd protests, to make the point tha
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Skimmed the paper on Scihub. It looks like it's mostly a review of other studies that either show statistical correlations or are about hormone levels. I.e. it directly supports their point that sex is just being used as a proxy for th
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Looking back at this, yeah, I agree with the criticism that the last line is overly harsh. I try to be lenient to people with unconscious bias, and this doesn't help with that.
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Everyone has biases, that's just a fact. Something can only be unbiased in comparison to something else that has the same biases. Having biases doesn't make you evil. Yeah, I only considered English language sites, not other langu
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by a_shovel 5y ago
Yeah, it's probably wrong to assume much about a lack of support for Chinese-character names on an English-language website, so I removed that. (But if you don't have a good reason not to, you should support it.) Accents and pun
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by a_shovel 5y ago
I think the lesson to take from these lists is that covering every edge case for many real-world situations becomes asymptotically difficult. You can get 95% with no effort at all, 99% with a bit of thought, 99.9% with some effort, 99.99% w

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