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by adamsea 6y ago
> Of course it's dominated by poverty and a lack of good options for young black men ... In the United States poverty in Black communities is a consequence of systemic racism, which continues to this day. W/the “drug war” examp
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by adamsea 6y ago
How many whites people get knees on their necks and choked to death on video?
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by adamsea 6y ago
“ A leaked 2015 counter-terrorism policy guide made the case more directly, warning agents that FBI “domestic terrorism investigations focused on militia extremists, white supremacist extremists, and sovereign citizen extremists often have
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by adamsea 6y ago
If the app runs locally in the browser, you monitor network connections and whatever else for web sockets, etc, to ensure that no information is passed from your browser to the site beyond the initial http request, then, there never would b
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by adamsea 6y ago
> discharges a kinetic weapon ... Is that the same as shooting a gun? ; )
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by adamsea 6y ago
I used to agree but now feel differently. Public culture and it’s impact via media are greater than they were back in the day I think. And I think the social value of these gestures - making boycotting companies behaving like amazon normal,
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by adamsea 6y ago
By not publicly and consistently condemning and/or holding their fellow officers accountable when they should be. The blue wall of silence. To be fair after the murder of George Floyd you did see some officers and police chiefs doing t
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Women Scientists Have the Evidence About Sexism in Science(theatlantic.com)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Quantifying a Johnny Cash song is just missing the point, IMHO :). Plus, of course, there’s no fast road to Heaven - whatever Heaven May mean to you.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> If body count of individual actions was the only metric, I would totally agree with you. You never specified your other metrics ...
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I'm going to tag the news media industry as the major problem. I'd argue your critique would apply not so much to the industry, but to those in positions of power/influence who control and manage how the industry behaves
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by adamsea 6y ago
'In video footage taken before the shooting began on Tuesday night, Rittenhouse and a few other men carrying weapons and wearing tactical vests strapped to their chest can be seen gathered in the darkness near a cluster of armored poli
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“We Appreciate You Guys. We Really Do.”(theatlantic.com)
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The Intercept: The FBI's Secret Rules(theintercept.com)
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree : ). Don't think I'd call myself a Marxist but I think the school of intellectual thought he spawned (as opposed to the totalitarian governments mis-using his name) makes valuable contributions to understanding our politic
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Ask HN: Does Tech belong in Politics?
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by adamsea 6y ago
[EDIT: Sorry if the tone of this in harsh. I see in your original comment that you do say that people should take this seriously, and though there's a lot of noise, there's also signal when it comes to this stuff.] > I dont kno
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by adamsea 6y ago
And white supremacy. Which used to arguably be a stabilizing element of the US, because it was the de facto law of the land. Now that it’s in contention we see white supremacists attempting to destabilize things to maintain/regain said
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by adamsea 6y ago
All we need to do is look at the numbers of deaths which occurred in the incidents we are talking about. “In the deadliest attack on Latinos in American history, a 21-year-old white supremacist last August killed 22 people and injured 24 ot
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by adamsea 6y ago
Nice :). Pun intended, I hope :).
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by adamsea 6y ago
Ahhh, I see your point. Fair. I read about the first third and assumed the rest was just as neutral. TBH I should have looked at the author more carefully - I thought the page was like the NYU equivalent of Stanford’s online encyclopedia o
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree. The FBI should be investigating those masked men in camouflage without any insignia or identification and with guns and rifles who were attacking protestors and hauling people off in unmarked vans in Portland. ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Vox and Fox are not alike. Fox News is notorious. Simply look at the racist or race-baiting things Tucker Carlson says - or what he doesn’t say. There’s no equivalent behavior at Vox of which I’m aware. Fox News is literally a right wing pr
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by adamsea 6y ago
Sunda Pichai was a material engineer without a CS background and then joined Google as a product manager. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai So unless I’m missing something he does not have a CS background o
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by adamsea 6y ago
It’s more like spend one hundred million to make the levy higher _and_ on flood mitigation, versus spend a billion (plus maybe lose tons of money due to economic damage) dealing with the effects of the disaster. Prevention is usually cheape
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by adamsea 6y ago
Of course there are some who fit the description you imply. But there’s a huge range of political ideologies which have been influenced by Karl Marx and his intellectual successors - aka Marxism. Lol I think there was a Marxist hiding under
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO while both political parties are deeply flawed and both corrupted by the power of big money in our system, this whole “partisan divide” thing that makes it sound like there’s no difference between the parties is silly, and inaccurate.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Disagree. From TFA: “... in 2016, the Texas Tribune and ProPublica published “Hell or High Water,” a data-rich project unpacking how a hurricane directly hitting the Ship Channel would kill thousands and devastate the economy. The project r
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by adamsea 6y ago
I didn't know UBI had anything to do with fair ... I thought it was a hopefully-pragmatic approach for creating a just and healthy society in our current era. Whether it'll work or not, I know that's a larger question. Also,
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by adamsea 6y ago
> wealth is supposed to be a measure of one's contribution to society Curious where that idea comes from - source? Haven't encountered it. I know that many people _think_ that, or _feel_ that way, but I haven't read anythi

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