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by blackbagboys 9y ago
You are of course right. I was offering (sarcastic) advice on how to convey the racist intent of the sentence in a manner that was slightly less crudely obvious.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I care much, much more about people who latch onto extremely minor public nuisances in order to stoke their own racial resentments. The parent commentator was clearly focused exclusively on black kids. Put in your own headphones and get ove
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Just fyi, "gangsta" is such a dated, anachronistic slang term that it's use is now almost exclusively associated with resentful white Fox News types ineptly attempting to dog-whistle "black teens who don't give me t
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Elon Musk Is Not the Future(jacobinmag.com)
3 points by blackbagboys 9y ago|1 comments
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I agree with your observation, but I don't agree with your diagnosis of the cause. I think it's mostly down to the increasing abstraction and ease of using software. When I was a kid, I wouldn't have described "computing
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The American media landscape is being reshaped by the whims of the ultra-rich(cjr.org)
1 points by blackbagboys 9y ago|0 comments
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
The hope is that the "junkies" don't die. If that is all that's accomplished, that's still a success. There doesn't need to be more. Obviously there should be an option for users to enter treatment or receive s
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
This kind of tech has already come to Western ports of entry. Why else would Snap, Inc. have millions of dollars worth of contracts with Customs and Border Protection (alongside dozens of other contracts with DHS, DoD, etc). https:/&#
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German union wins right to 28 hour working week(ft.com)
14 points by blackbagboys 9y ago|2 comments
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
I don't think "hurr durr never seen that before" is an accurate paraphrase; I'd say it was more along the lines of "I've never seen bodywork this shoddy on a modern luxury vehicle."
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Of course, the problem is that people in this position tend to assign high moral virtue to what is essentially their hobby, and then tend to make the jump to thinking that people who are not willing to work 70 hours a week are somehow unwor
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
To the contrary, it can and it apparently has. The question is whether that power can be taken away.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Are you a non-native English speaker? It is perhaps not a very elegant response, but it's perfectly coherent and relevant. Consider the original comment to be the first clause in an 'if-then' sentence, i.e. "IF the cost
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
The argument is that since the Nazi will inevitably punch you, preemptively punching the Nazi is inherently defensive, and thus urging people to punch Nazis is not hate speech. Of course, you may very well ask, isn't it trivial to cons
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
If your desire for more money degrades the quality of life of everyone else in the workforce - you should absolutely be prohibited. Let us suppose, what is at least supposable, whether it be the fact or not—that a general reduction of the
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
What you’re defining is the difference between “smart leaders” and “good leaders”, mistakenly conflating “smart” with “good” which is precisely the parent’s point. You can have leaders who are good and smart, and you can have smart leaders
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
There is no historical evidence linking Joseph Kennedy to bootlegging other than the totally unverified claims of a dying monster 50 years after prohibition ended. It’s a political smear.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
The very last thing we need is another megalomaniacal billionaire handed the reigns to an excessively powerful executive apparatus. People need to remember that billionaires are not your friends. The only thing that can improve society is c
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
It seems like this problem could more easily be solved with a vending machine than a complicated facial recognition apparatus.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
There may not be any evidence that this policy is beneficial for the kids, but the accompanying sense of smug self-satisfaction is probably very enjoyable for the parents.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297128/matthew-doyle-ar... One of literally dozens if not hundreds of incidents
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
This is nowhere in evidence in the article. Disagreement is not exclusion or silencing.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
There is little or nothing in this agitprop essay that actually undermines or even directly confronts McCarthy's original points. There's two irreconcilable philosophical positions at play here: either you believe that there are
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Are there any instances of otherwise financially sound major global corporations being dissolved as a result of EU fines / regulatory action? I suspect if the rubber hits the road in this situation, FB would prevail.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
If you ever do try cocaine I suspect you'll quickly revise your opinion.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
My hope is that the inevitable price-gouging and strangulation of service quality spurs efforts to turn telecom infrastructure into a public utility
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
This seems like an utterly dissimilar phenomenon from the personal, tit for tat honor disputes between people who know each on an individual basis and are enmeshed in the same social network or framework
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
You're missing the point of organizing, which is to ensure that if the workers don't like the culture, they can force the top leadership to make changes to the "environmental conditions"
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
This sounds very similar to U.S. libel laws, except that in the case of public figures you also need to prove malice.
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by blackbagboys 9y ago
Why do we - ordinary workers and students - have to drink the “spinach juice”? Why not the people who have amassed utterly unprecedented amounts of wealth and power?

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