bob_roberts

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by bob_roberts 4y ago
The author's main complaint is that the ACLU has prioritized "immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, reproductive freedom, and racial justice." But the opposition to these issues (aka the Republican party) is rolling in dark money.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
I prefer going to the office at least a few days a week, because (a) I like to socialize with other humans, and (b) I want to get out of my "home office", aka corner of the living room. I work with a distributed team, so I definit
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> These are simply numbers that we have collectively settled > upon. Many a Utopian project began with a premise like this. You can say the same thing about spelling or the calendar, both of which "logically" need reforming.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
Netflix does this annoying thing where "Continue watching", "My list", "Trending now", and "Watch it again" appear in randomly different orders each time you log in. It would be like if Word randomly
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
fwiw, I found it relevant. It's obviously not _exactly_ the same thing, but "sending an HTTP GET request to a URL" is similar to "viewing HTML source" in that both are totally normally things to expect from a user,
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
For a cloud-based app, that might literally just be at the application gateway. Beyond that, everything could be whatever protocol.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> traditional pronouns Nobody is banning traditional pronouns.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
Item two entries down from this one: Sicily hits 48.8°C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe (I know there's some question about that reading, but the previous record is 48°)
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> This is just a consequence of feminization of society. I'd say you're using misogyny to justify what sounds like very typical toxic masculinity.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> Why should someone "come out" as anything? Because the choice is either to hide important aspects of yourself, or else come out, whether that's explicitly by saying something, or implicitly by your actions. In my case, i
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> Such a small percentage of the population That's not a good argument for the left to stop defending trans people's rights.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
You shouldn't assume that nonbinary and trans people "choose" their identity. They might choose to acknowledge it, to themselves or to others. At least, that's been my experience. It was a realization, not a choice.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
I don't know if the connection is that direct or causal, but I'm NB and went through a punk/goth phase in high school, and part of the appeal was that it's an "acceptable" way to be gender non-conforming. (At l
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
Technical writer here. I avoid saying something is "simple," because whether it's simple is subjective and is relative to the reader's background knowledge. So at best it's unhelpful, and at worst it can be insultin
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> then it isn't making things substantially worse At least in the United States, any encounter with law enforcement can potentially end in violence, so anything that makes it easier to get a questionable warrant will make things wor
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
My kid went thought a phase of really liking "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." Probably about the same age. And I think you're right -- it's the anticipation of seeing what the next animal / color combination will be. Anoth
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
I love that part, and also "goodnight nobody" - the book starts out being very concrete (saying good night to all the things in the room) then expands out to encompass everything and nothing. It feels at once poetic and childlike.
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> Trans peoples existence certainly has been politicized To expand on this - If a trans person has a coworker who consistent and deliberately mis-genders them, there's no way for the person to have a discussion about it that's
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by bob_roberts 5y ago
> They're not necessarily ethnic The first list you posted has a bunch of "funny" East Asian names. That stuff was racist in "Sixteen Candles," there's no excuse for it in a modern workplace.
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by bob_roberts 6y ago
True - but arguably Trump was too slow to invoke it and it wasn't broad enough. And states had to bid against each other to get PPE, only to have the Feds then seize confiscate some of them. My main point was we should have had a coord
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by bob_roberts 6y ago
> our leaders In the United States at least, that's a bit of a cop out. Lockdowns were applied at the local level and were originally meant to buy time and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. The Federal government could have