breakyerself

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by breakyerself 4mo ago
How will you prove and prosecute supposed discrimination? Usually someone who feels discriminated against will get legal representation, file a lawsuit, and use the discovery process to strengthen their case. They can compare their treatmen
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by breakyerself 4mo ago
How?
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by breakyerself 4mo ago
>the clearest evidence we have of anyone doing that at scale in modern times is DEI programs in college Congratulations you found the one place where a black person might have an advantage. Meanwhile virtually every other aspect of Ameri
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by breakyerself 4mo ago
That isn't the premise. The premise is that discriminating is morally wrong. Also when did we change the subject to college admissions?
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by breakyerself 4mo ago
I mean there is a tendency for people in the middle class to go all NIMBY and not want additional housing to be built which drives up the cost of housing. It's good that there's a middle class but there are also things that people
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by breakyerself 4mo ago
There's no such requirement to hire proportional amounts of every ethnicity. There are requirements not to discriminate. Which isn't the same thing. When companies do make an effort to give everyone a fair shot there's a tend
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
Billionares shouldn't exist. We shouldn't just tax them for the revenue. We should tax them to limit the undemocratic power that comes with excessive wealth.
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
Not when AI is directly resulting in increased greenhouse gas pollution. It's all of the above. Any source of greenhouse gas pollution is bad. Cars, planes, ships, AI data centers running on fossil fuel energy. It's all bad.
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
The earth is hotter than it's been in 125,000 years. Warming at a rate dozens of times faster than the fastest periods of natural warming. The oceans are 25% more acidic. The worlds ice sheets and glaciers are losing 1 trillion tons of
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-topics/climate...
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
West Virginia has much lower rates of homelessness and public drug use compared to liberal states despite having higher rates of drug addiction. Because housing is much more affordable. Homelessness rates increase and decrease in direct pro
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
There are other options that are more effective than either of the things you mentioned, but people's feelings get in the way.
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
Pretty sure they were responding to this: "More study is needed to keep this ball in the air." Implying the goal is to keep research money flowing in as opposed to learning things about the world. Which is overly cynical bs.
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
I'm really looking forward to this attitude going out of style. The federal government is abandoning basic research. You won. Fucking move on.
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by breakyerself 5mo ago
So little political will is needed at this point as the economics now favor renewables. Unfortunately most of the political will seems to be leaning towards protecting the more expensive fossil fuel sources of energy.
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by breakyerself 6mo ago
It's a lesson the US won't be able to learn until it has administration capable of learning.
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by breakyerself 6mo ago
They're interested in protecting the profits of industries that line their pockets. It's the most corrupt administration in US history and it isn't even close. Theres some far right ideology mixed in. Particularly from Stephe
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by breakyerself 6mo ago
I don't remember any violent backlash to the Marshal plan.
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by breakyerself 6mo ago
I love Idiocracy, but I have come to sympathize with criticism that it's a bit pro-eugenics.
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by breakyerself 6mo ago
This is awesome. I'd love to see the original escher image scroll through there.
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
I can't imagine trans women who avoided male puberty are statistically any better athletes than cis women. A total ban seems discriminatory to me.
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Tarrifs mostly
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Kamala Harris started out with a surge of popularity. Talking about corporate price gouging and selecting Tim Walz as her running mate who had clear populist messaging. Then the strategists who think like you got in her ear. Told her to sto
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Upon closer inspection it seems it's more a result of decreasing accident rates than increasing homicide rates although that is a factor lately. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-police-officers-die-i...
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
It's also interesting to note that while violent crime and homicide in the United States have been declining for many years interpersonal violence has overtaken accidents as the leading cause of police on the job deaths. It seems unlik
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Policing isn't in the top ten most dangerous jobs. It's usually listed around the 15-25th most dangerous job in the US. Many Americans including myself are regularly in more danger. Also around 40% of police deaths are accidents.
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
TDS is an apt description for anyone supporting this senile, psychopath.
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The oligarchs are evil, venal, and dumb as hell(youtube.com)
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
What are the cycles called? How do they function? A lot of people use the world cycle like other people use the word magic. A mystery pretending to be an explanation. The number of critics of Anthropogenic global warming who actually have e
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by breakyerself 7mo ago
Trump isn't there to help. He wants the oil and he wants a puppet dictator. He doesn't care about the people.

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