adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
Because budget is a tool for enforcing accountability when other tools have failed.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Dude you have it backwards because the police in the US historically functioned to support slavery. I bet you didn’t intend it to be but your argument basically blames the victim, when it’s the oppressor who is guilty of a crime - not the o
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by adamsea 6y ago
I question your assertion that police are necessary to reduce violent crime. I’m sharing one reason below. Another is that the police have an atrocious record when it comes to dealing with one of the most violent crimes short of murder, whi
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by adamsea 6y ago
The crazy part is that it’s an unnaccoubtable company making these decisions around managing speech - decisions with will have a significant and tangible impact on the 2020 presidential election. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some sort o
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by adamsea 6y ago
> "How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid" So, actually, I think it's interesting to examine the above headline empirically. 1. I think we all here agree that "anti-racist" is a good thing to be. Even if we're anno
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by adamsea 6y ago
> supporting immigration, both legal and illegal. I'm not sure how to assess or interpret what you're saying. What does it mean to "support immigration"? I'm pretty sure you're not literally suggesting that
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by adamsea 6y ago
Occam's razor suggests un-wise decisions like re-opening bars in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, and undermining currently-accepted best practices like having the general public wear masks, would be the first things one
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by adamsea 6y ago
Is there a sample project somewhere on Github? Would be helpful to see a concrete example of use to get a better idea of it.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Damage to society by denying the role - via inaction, if nothing else - the company he leads plays in coordinated campaigns of deceit and disinformation aimed not just to undermine public discourse but also the functioning of democractic go
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by adamsea 6y ago
What exactly is the propaganda part? Can you provide a specific example, so folks have something concrete to agree or disagree with? And, do you mean with their news reporting, as opposed to their editorials?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Let us review the Ludlow massacre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre I feel like your point, although containin validity, kinda misses the forests for the trees w/regards to what I was trying to expr
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by adamsea 6y ago
I agree about gerrymandering, think the Electoral College is anti-democratic, and see you point about the way the Senate is set up (though that is maybe a bit trickier than the above 2 items). But I feel like this is kind of outside scope o
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure - I agree : ).
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by adamsea 6y ago
It's actually a very efficient website ;)
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I don't understand the desire to assume the most cynical takes on this initiative. Because of Amazon's (poor) history when it comes to exercising corporate social responsibility?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Their ethics correspond with their brand and typical consumer.
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by adamsea 6y ago
OK I admit pique and curiosity at the downvote. There are mathematical models which can be used to measure gerrymandering. And the way in which the Electoral college disempowers lots of people (a vote in an 8 million person city counts less
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by adamsea 6y ago
Hard to tell these days w/coronavirus and the lack of a competent, coordinated Federal response in the U.S.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Is there any evidence the highest-paid players in the NBA themselves want to get rid of their union? I.e, do you claim this is empirically verifiable? Or, is this a hypothetical, rational-actor thought experiment you're conducting?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It's fine to use WhatsApp to praise Obama, Merkel or anything else that is widely accepted in your society etc, but it's a terrible choice if you're on the shit list of the government. That's actually not always tru
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by adamsea 6y ago
That’s not necessarily true - realistically not using google or Facebook, for the average, non-tech person, is in many ways up there with moving from say, France to Germany (I chose the EU to make a specific point about ease of movement) in
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think the difference is in the US there is a strong history of busting up unions specifically to disempower workers. There absolutely are legitimate reasons to not want to join a union. However, “both sides can be right” so to speak, whit
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by adamsea 6y ago
True! So, better governing systems for a union, no? You can’t get rid of power, just redistribute it. As flawed as democracy is, that’s what it attempts to do. Or do we want to get rid of governments? ;) In that case I’ll happily make the s
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by adamsea 6y ago
> > Unions will slow us down, and we'll become more bureaucratic Anyone who's actually had to deal with a union can agree with this point. What about the Writers Guild and the NBA players union? Would the people in those uni
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by adamsea 6y ago
Which is worse, stagflation or death?
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by adamsea 6y ago
> There’s already a lot of civil unrest not from just the BLM protesters but also the people scared to lose their jobs, homes, etc. before that. I just want to point out that the cause of the civil unrest is A) The history of consequence
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by adamsea 6y ago
That’s actually not true about convincing the majority. A minority has had outsize political influence in the US for a decade or two now. Because of the electoral college and because of gerrymandering.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Also — you say the slogan is doing more harm than good. How do you know? Based on your own judgement, based on talking with your friends, based reading articles in XYZ publication, based on “common sense”, based on what?
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by adamsea 6y ago
I feel like the same quote-unquote “normal people” (I think it’s a dangerous term because it’s unquantifiable and can be used to justify anything) you describe here have also been passive contributors to the racial violence of police depart
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by adamsea 6y ago
We could talk about systemic racism in the tech industry ... And, that's, just like, your opinion, man. Clearly a lot of people all around the world agree with me that systemic racism is worth discussing, based on the various protests

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