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by a_shovel 4y ago
He also supported Donald Trump for president in 2020. On a left-right axis, this is a massive swing, but on a boring-"anti-establishment" axis, it's pretty consistent. So I doubt his support for Sanders was due to a love of l
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I give close to zero weight to self-description of political alignment. It often has a poor correlation with what specific beliefs a person holds.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
See also the response to the article, linked at its top: "Lionel Shriver is wrong—gender matters," by Abigail Maxwell. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/lione...
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by a_shovel 4y ago
53% is pretty close. I recall that the rail unions were divided when they voted on the last deal as well.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The phrase of the day is "ex post facto".
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by a_shovel 4y ago
A lot of very disappointing comments in TA about how artists can't handle disruption, or they think they're special, or take themselves too seriously. The situation is a bit like what happened with machine translation. Art and tra
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I think my joke's been misinterpreted. Sharing personal information isn't the thing that different, it's the private jet location that's different from address and phone number. Having your private jet tracked is not a p
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> sensitive information like his address, phone number or private jet location One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong...
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> What Cinnamon and his team determined revolves around the common denominator of all male chickens, the Z chromosome from the mother hen. This would also be a common denominator with the female chickens. Birds, unlike mammals, use the Z
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by a_shovel 4y ago
maybe tech companies have a left-wing bias because any right-wing employees that happened to get hired immediately say something like this when they meet a transgender employee, and as a result get fired for sexual harassment.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Seeing the mangled remains of artist signatures in these images is poignant in the same way that seeing a ripped-up abandoned teddy bear is. Get some nice picture frames, print them out, and this thread could go in a museum.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Some things that would be good if they happened don't happen
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The Latest Tweets feed on the Android app was completely broken for about a week for me and several other people.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Part of what gets me about relics from the Geocities era, apart from the eye-catching and charmingly amateurish maximalist aesthetic, is that personal webpages were a space in a way a Twitter or Facebook profile just can't be. A prof
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by a_shovel 4y ago
These events show that they weren't opposing suppressing political viewpoints on social media, they were opposing "suppressing" their political viewpoints on social media. Suppressing other people is fine. As soon as one
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This was an entirely predictable outcome. When right-wingers complain about platforms controlled by censorious leftists, what they're usually complaining about is that the platform doesn't take orders for who to ban directly from
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by a_shovel 4y ago
She is advocating for reducing the size of a population that she sees as "damaged" because she believes that they place a burden upon society, and she is advocating this in opposition to that group, who would like to continue to e
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It is a straightforwardly true description of what she said. Here's a link. [ https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/06/03/helen-joyce-transgende... ] It contains direct quotes and video of her statements. Her
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Helen Joyce is an eugenics advocate who has stated that she believes it is necessary to reduce the number of transgender people, even happily-transitioned ones, because she sees them as "damaged" and "a huge problem to a sane
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I have seen trans-friendly people who empathize with people who regretted their transition. The important thing was that that person was not trying to get gender-affirming medical care restricted.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I don't have much personal experience with hospitals, but there's a trend I've noticed across several articles now where the medical system is characterized by an unpredictable and frequent alternation between extreme compete
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by a_shovel 4y ago
For Peterson and the Bee, the situation wasn't that they were given indefinite suspensions outright, but that they were given short-duration suspensions where the timer only started once they deleted the tweets that were found to be ru
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by a_shovel 4y ago
If not a crime, at least it would look way worse in the press than removing some featurless concrete blocks.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
If the goal was solely to ensnare trawler nets, then it could probably be done a lot more efficiently by just sinking some concrete blocks. But by putting sculptures down there instead, it gets media attention and public interest as well,
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by a_shovel 4y ago
If research comes out that puberty blockers are too dangerous to be prescribed to transgender children, then the ethical alternative is not to make them wait until adulthood, but to let them start hormone replacement therapy immediately. I
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm not asking if misleading people about donations is nefarious (I'd call it "dishonest" personally), I'm asking if you think the causes they donate to are nefarious. Judging by the deep partisan slant on [2], &quo
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Wikimedia's donations are used to fund some nefarious things, since their endowment is run by the Tides Foundation > Tides Foundation is an American public charity and fiscal sponsor working to advance progressive causes and po
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> Eventually, the patient’s adult daughter told Lagu that she hadn’t been able to find a specialist who would see a patient in a wheelchair. Incredulous, Lagu started making calls. “I could not find that kind of doctor within 100 miles
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> 200x200 is relatively large for pixel art, but if a single pixel makes this much of a difference it should probably be larger. Huh? Half the point of pixel art is that single pixels make a difference. That art is way above the threshol
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Okay, that's just rude.

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