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Small Gatherings Spread the Virus, but Are They Causing the Surge?(nytimes.com)
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by adamsea 6y ago
Yeah I looked at that language: 'We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to th
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It's anti-scientific to deny the possibility that biological gender can influence desired career paths. IMHO what is actually being claimed, and which there is academic consensus based on facts around, is that sexism has been
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The argument against affirmative action is that it is very hard to remove preferential treatment once it is in place even if it no longer required. Once you educate yourself with fact-based historical information to understand how un
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by adamsea 6y ago
> You seem to be arguing for laws that treat people differently based on their immutable characteristics - i.e. gender. I think that's wrong and people should be treated equally. That's not what I am arguing. What I am saying i
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by adamsea 6y ago
Look. Culture doesn't change overnight. If you are unwilling to understand the significance of it taking until 1920 for women to receive the right to vote, and the variety of reasons for resistance to the ERA, then, I don't know
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by adamsea 6y ago
Do what everyone else is doing - put up a sign that says "Black Lives Matter". The issue is big enough where it's OK to use the slogan - everyone will know what you mean.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Techies are less suspectible to feelings (they are deaf in some sense) I'd argue "deaf to feelings" actually means more susceptible, just unconsciously so, and to different feelings.
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by adamsea 6y ago
The link you shared - from the Post-Millenial - is troubling. First, when reading it, to me, the language from the BLM site the article discussed did not line up w/what the article was accusing it of. Second, the very beginning of th
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Systemic sexism would imply there is an organized system to disadvantage women. 1. Women couldn't vote until the 1920s in the U.S. The 1940's in France. 2. In the U.S., the Equal Rights constitutional amendment, guaranteeing
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by adamsea 6y ago
> I get that these things are all because women are underrepresented in tech and surely there are challenges for women and sexism against women. However, the examples above still feel like sexism to me. These two sentences contradict eac
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by adamsea 6y ago
How in any possible reality is BLM not a civil rights issue? Did you read about the murder of George Floyd? You're totally wrong.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> Why not encourage employees to represent their beliefs individually, and off company time, by giving them more vacation and flexible working hours instead? Empower the employees to participate in politics without the company taking a s
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. But right now we're in an era of change. Should addressing the existential threat of climate change be a goal for every company, or not? That's one example. The Expensify CEO believed that democracy itself was on the lin
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by adamsea 6y ago
If the workplace did not have its own issues I would agree. But, since, to take one example, sexism is a known problem in tech - and throughout corporate America and society, to be fair - in order to not have a sexist workplace, one would
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by adamsea 6y ago
Sadly these days the ability to read and write is insufficient in order to be an informed citizen because of how complex our media world is. One really needs to have some solid critical thinking skills in order to be able to judge the overa
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by adamsea 6y ago
Do you yourself truthfully believe that Trump wanted to make policy decisions based on the best science available?
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by adamsea 6y ago
Do any down voters want to step up and say they think the Trump Administration has competently handled the pandemic? It's obvious to anyone willing to look at the facts, and to be honest with themselves, that this administration has
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by adamsea 6y ago
Personally I don't trust either which is why I think it's important to have a democratic government, on the federal level, with robust consumer-protection laws, which is progressive, and ideally where it's easy for everyone t
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by adamsea 6y ago
> The government can throw you in jail, seize your assets, raise your taxes; AT&T can't The irony being that, if there wasn't a government (of the people) enforcing law, then, AT&T would have zero issues/problems
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by adamsea 6y ago
You just gave a whole bunch of examples of various courts caring , but disagreeing. And SCOTUS declining a case doesn't mean they don't care either, their decision not to accept the case is a choice in and of itself and a readi
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by adamsea 6y ago
Considering how corrupting power is even in more democratic / power-sharing systems, IMHO I'd amend your statement to read something like "in an ideal world ..." Of course in an ideal world we wouldn't need a benevo
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by adamsea 6y ago
Pretty sure police would be able to do this with private companies too. Certainly the big boys like the NSA (and maybe the FBI?) have. I think it’s more about what laws are in place to pro Ryder folks, whether it’s for a privately-run servi
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by adamsea 6y ago
Is it that the courts don’t care or that you yourself disagree with their ruling and think it was wrong? Which would be fine but isn’t the same thing.
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by adamsea 6y ago
As opposed to AT&T / Comcast? Whoever it is I would like their behavior to be meaningfully regulated under the law.
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by adamsea 6y ago
“The populace” doesn’t really have dollars as leverage for private firms. Certainly not in a fashion similar to voting, however imperfect voting may be. Especially not for monopolies. Plus, as folks in tech from the days of IBM/Micros
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by adamsea 6y ago
As per the parent posters point, the questions aren’t saying “do you want more free stuff or less stuff”? They are saying, “how do you feel about this extremely broad and unquantifiable goal which sounds good to most?” In other words the in
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> That's not an unreasonable decision for a blue-leaning businessperson or scientist to make. I just want to make the obligatory point that the way the Trump administration has handled the Covid response in the US goes beyond red an
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> There's potential for a huge gain in efficiency here ... Of course the market is exited at the long term prospects of that. IMHO this supports the OPs point, which is that the stock market in its current incarnation does not care
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by adamsea 6y ago
IMHO that means that if the U.S. actually had a federal response, if, you know, the Trump administration was actually trying to use the federal government to help the country, that our numbers would be lower. Which, considering the wealth

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