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by anamax 5y ago
> I don’t think we’re going to agree here, even though I’ve tried to find common ground a few times. You've repeatedly said that "check your privilege" is used in ways that it isn't used and denied that it is used the
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by anamax 5y ago
>> In other words, you tell people "no, you don't get to go to college/university". >Why would you say that? Because you wrote "All who qualifies through grades or tests." That implies that folks who
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by anamax 5y ago
> But when describing an experience, and particularly when trying to provide advice to others to do similarly, or when trying to glean information from your experiences that might be applicable to others… yes, check your privilege to se
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by anamax 5y ago
It's not the "correct" term if you know that the recipient thinks that it means something else. (All communications happens at the receiver.) It's dishonest because they think that you're promising something that t
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by anamax 5y ago
The point of mentioning the court case is that case and statutory law are NOT a slam dunk for "LEOs are required to act." in even cases where "the rest of us" would expect. The last I heard, the LEOs in that case were p
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by anamax 5y ago
> That is all. What we’re discussing isn’t, at its core, a “hot-button political topic.” You are making it that. The phrase was invented as a political tool. Disagree? Provide cites. I'll start - https://checkyourprivil
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by anamax 5y ago
They're not scare quotes. I'm writing about word choice, so it's appropriate to use delimiters to make it clear exactly what word I'm writing about. Most people think that "vaccine" has a specific meaning. It
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"Anyone finds out" means "it gets press". There's a case working its way through the courts where LEOs disarmed someone at the behest of some thugs and then watched him get beat to death by said thugs. The LEOs are
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by anamax 5y ago
> I agree that definitions matter, and it’s important to have a clear discourse on policy implications of public health research. And yet, you insist on using "vaccine" to push mandates, knowing that most people think you'
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by anamax 5y ago
In other words, you tell people "no, you don't get to go to college/university". The US doesn't do that. And yes, there are free and/or very low-cost colleges in the US. ( https://www.sjcc.edu/
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by anamax 5y ago
I get that you want to be a white knight but you're defending malice, said defense being that you can imagine that "Check your privilege" being used differently than it actually is. And, you've yet to explain what good c
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by anamax 5y ago
There are "tourists," well-off people who "slum" as social workers or on projects. Managers can also do well. And then there are the fraudsters.
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by anamax 5y ago
> But it’s misuse shouldn’t change the meaning of its intent. The use is the intent. And it's used as a weapon. Notice when it's used, and when it isn't. (You'd never say it to a black or brown person. Did I have &
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by anamax 5y ago
Bull. I've seen "check your privilege" used to shut people down, to shame them, etc. I've never seen it used as a positive thing. It's telling that you really want to say that no black person has privilege. You&#
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by anamax 5y ago
There are many food programs as well as meals at schools in the US. Before you write "food deserts", the data isn't as clear as you think it is. (The "researchers" ignored food stores.) More to the point, stores g
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by anamax 5y ago
> Government funded university tuition (student debt is only in the form of upkeep). And how many people get to go? And who chooses which majors are available? If you have a pulse, you can get into a US college/university.
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by anamax 5y ago
Are you suggesting that Banksy's sins have some relevance to whether or not he's correct on this point? If not, why/how are those sins relevant?
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by anamax 5y ago
> They are saying you should consider if and how your privilege helped you out Yes, they are. "Check your privilege" is often used to say "you didn't do that." Even if you assume that "privilege" is a
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by anamax 5y ago
> You are equating guilt with acknowledging privilege, and those aren’t the same. When someone says "check your privilege", they're saying that you've done something wrong and should feel guilty.
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by anamax 5y ago
> Since profits are a portion of the value generated by labour That's simply not true. Profits = revenue - costs. Revenue, what buyers pay, is based on perceived value. That perceived value may come from labor, but it can also co
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by anamax 5y ago
I'd love to have a public health leadership that is trustworthy, but it would be foolish to trust them if they're not. Feel free to point to anyone in the public health leadership who has acknowledged that things might not work as
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I take it you discount everything associated with Isaac Newton as well.
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by anamax 5y ago
> That's literally opposite of how accounting works, if you reinvest everything, your profit is 0%. Wrong - Profit is revenue minus costs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_(accounting) and all of the ot
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by anamax 5y ago
> Such automation wouldn’t be sustainable under capitalism because the rate of profit would drop even further I get that you don't like profits (even though investment to do automation requires profits), but automation reduces costs
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by anamax 5y ago
> The people chasing him were responding to what they thought was an active shooter situation Even if we assume that they actually thought that, they attacked someone who they had no reason to believe was involved in said "active sh
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by anamax 5y ago
> Public health leadership is flying in the dark about the evolution of the virus. And yet, it says that it knows all. Which reminds me - are eggs good or bad this month?
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by anamax 5y ago
Civilization relies mostly on people doing things that they don't love. Plumbers may like to plumb, but they don't like doing it in bad conditions or as many hours as they do. Same for farmers, construction workers, garbagemen, a
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by anamax 5y ago
Eggs, comrade, eggs. Specifically your eggs. No, there won't be omelets. What are you, some sort of kulak?
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by anamax 5y ago
You "forgot" where the guys who were killed chased and attacked the guy who shot them. You also "forgot" the guy who was shot in the arm had just pulled a pistol with that arm. As to the "political protest", t
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by anamax 5y ago
Some C extensions run even when they don't have the lock. Also, the OS gets to run. If you have a lot of parallel computation, Python may not be a great choice. However, if you're managing a lot of IO with not much computation,

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