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by a_shovel 4y ago
Oh boy, another cancel culture article. The first two links to the responses are broken, so we can't actually see if the responses were in or out of proportion. The link to Jamie Bouie's response works, which reveals that it not
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That's quite a lot of extraordinary claims to make without providing so much as a single link to a source to back it up.
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> Here was a chance to send the entire world to its room, with a warning: if you attempt to go out and have fun now, you will be literally killing people. I am not convinced that the author is aware of the germ theory of disease.
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The term for a system where automation benefits only the owners of private businesses who own the robots, while not passing its benefits on to the people who formerly performed the automated labor, is "Capitalism". The effects of
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My favorite part is tied between the paragraph where he argues that Trump supporters are the most oppressed group in America, and the part where he says "If they accuse you of being a racist, simply say yes, just for laughs." Sure
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If they buy the dip enough times, eventually they'll hold a monopoly on the world's supply of dip. All the other countries will come begging as their dip reserves run dry and the prices of their goods, unable to decrease, succumb
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The section about the Ox truck was interesting. I found this Ars Technica article about it from 2016 [1]. There's a lot of skepticism in the comments, so I'm glad it seems to be working out. A recurring problem with charity toward
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Ok, I'm arguing that that's not a double standard. You are not obligated to treat the opposite side of a dispute the same way you would treat your own side of a dispute, or would like them to be treated by others. This is just how
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I don't know what you see the double standard to be. Do you expect "tricking people into going somewhere" to be the kind of action where the only acceptable positions are to either be always against it, or always for it, rega
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I've lived most my life in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin. My Granddad would take us down the Chattahoochee River in the summer on his boat toward Apalachicola and we'd swim at the beaches and eat at Boss Oyster
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It's a 1.2% overall improvement. That's the kind of number where it's worth doing in general, and worth using if it's been developed, but not nearly worth the development effort and headache for a wind farm operator tryi
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Persistent capillary rarefication in long Covid syndrome(link.springer.com)
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What I like about Technology Connections is the level of detail he goes into. Another channel might see that old Mr. Coffee machines operate at a higher power level than modern ones, think "huh, weird" (or not even notice), and mo
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There's a certain type of person who either has a very high tolerance for that kind of friction, or can't even notice it. They tend to use Linux as their main OS, own 3D printers, use obscure brands of phones, and post on Hacker N
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by a_shovel 4y ago
One can believe abortion (or laws against abortion, for that matter) to be unjust, while also laws against vigilante violence to be just, and thus refrain from that kind of action. One can also believe vigilante violence against people give
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> It's not reasonable or logical to believe that it's ok for companies to break some laws but not others. "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility t
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This is a fun phrase to google. Try it!
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Related topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-gay_movement
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Quanta is great at explaining deeply technical scientific topics like these. They put the effort into making analogies and comparisons for even the most esoteric theoretical constructs like the ones in this article. I can't judge if th
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You're referencing a bunch of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with either of our comments. Are you sure you replied to the right comment?
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Nah, it's pretty accurate from my experience.
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"Unconscious bias" is a really strange thing to call pseudoscience. What would it even mean for unconscious bias to be pseudoscience? That believing oneself to be unbiased is absolute proof of being unbiased?
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From the description of the second comic shown in the article: > ... Dave threatens to report PHB (Pointy-Haired Boss) to the company’s HR department should he misgender the new engineer. It is then implied that Dave has switched preferr
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I use "diagnose" in the casual sense of "tell someone something about themself", not the strict sense of a doctor identifying a condition. The specific word is irrelevant. The myth is that people realize they are trans b
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> You're a guy and play with a barbie... trans. Less horny, asexual. Setting aside, for now, the fact that these are things that people realize about themselves and not things people are diagnosed with by others... Why are you bri
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That should be grounds for invalidating a law.
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I searched through the article again and I can't figure out what you're referring to.
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For some reason, people have a disproportionate trust in city-building game designers' view of civic planning. Magnasanti is meaningful because it exposes some of the biases and simplifications that pervade the genre. The reason certai
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> You probably wouldn't be satisfied with a "nothing to see here, they're just enforcing their policies against advocating violence." I kinda would, though, but I'd phrase it more along the lines of "Nothi
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> (including some advocating for "after-birth abortions") Could you double-check that? I've never heard this, but I've seen a couple of pro-life groups say that pro-choice groups are advocating for that, as a sort

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