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by bsanr 5y ago
It demonstrates that >conservatives are married to a century-and-a-half-long campaign of doing whatever it takes to try to restrict voting along lines of identity (sex, race, class, location), and that liberals are the ones trying to get
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by bsanr 5y ago
Probably found in the difference between being humiliated and being humbled. https://praveshkoirala.com/2021/11/03/combating-disinformati... https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/
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by bsanr 5y ago
>She began to notice something that looked a lot like what the 20th-century scholars Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm had referred to as “group narcissism”: Golec de Zavala defined it to me as “a belief that the exaggerated greatness of on
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by bsanr 5y ago
>Packing the Supreme Court because you can't trust the justices appointed by the right to vote the right way? As much as I wish we would have breached this point of trust by now, liberals have never actually packed the Supreme Court
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by bsanr 5y ago
>Democratic rhetoric about “Jim Crow on steroids” is precisely about these restrictions such as number of days of early voting—which are still generally more liberal in these states than in advanced western countries. We are supposed to
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by bsanr 5y ago
Cherry-picking restrictive (and, might I say, somewhat off-topic?) policies doesn't change that some form of postal voting is associated with national freedom and wealth, which is both an image I imagine that we'd like to project
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by bsanr 5y ago
Huh. Something must have changed in the last year or so. I could not for the life of me find a gel grid this large for purchase, going as far back as 2018. Neat, thanks.
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by bsanr 5y ago
This is where truth and "truthiness" diverge, I suppose. "Two decades of claims about election fraud" shares character with "two decades of high rates of Stop-and-Frisk detainments of black New Yorkers." The re
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by bsanr 5y ago
Any answer that doesn't include the phrase "Southern Strategy" is suspect. Not that that is the ultimate source of the issue; but that, from that era forward, there is an unbroken through-line of tone and tactic.
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by bsanr 5y ago
That sounds like a description of every American civil rights activist ever.
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by bsanr 5y ago
A reminder, once again, that "identity theft" does not exist. It is fraud, plain and simple, and the responsibility of the businesses which aren't performing due diligence in confirming your identity. 6-figure sums shouldn&#x
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by bsanr 5y ago
...Huh. On an EXTREMELY tangential note, I wish I'd known about this when I was drawing a political cartoon comparing California to a burning building which [redacted] was turning a "Green New Deal" ("Green Dream or what
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by bsanr 5y ago
It is astoundingly difficult to get collapsing gel sheets, and I imagine that it has something to do with Purple existing. I looked into buying just the sheets or a topper after returning the one I trialed. I really enjoyed the feel of it,
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by bsanr 5y ago
More than anything, I'd like a one-handed steno scheme to become available. It would be a game-changer for wearable and XR input. Unfortunately, I think English language input will always be at a disadvantage compared to those that use
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by bsanr 5y ago
Cheap keyboards can't "do" steno. They're unable to register simultaneous keystrokes.
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by bsanr 5y ago
If only. Arguably, part of their secret sauce is their restrictiveness of new users. You have to spend quite a bit of time in-game to gain the ability to even be seen by a lot of other users, and more still to be able to upload avatars and
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by bsanr 5y ago
AFAIK, the main issue is transport, not manufacturing capability. The reason the latter is so tightly controlled is because it's not difficult once the process is known. And African countries are experienced in the former.
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by bsanr 5y ago
Some thoughts, stream-of-consciousness-like. >My first encounter with this game was a text Let's Play and the Wikipedia article, as posted on reddit in October 2008. Reading through both caused my first existential crisis in adultho
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by bsanr 5y ago
Depending on what part of Africa you want to talk about, they already have robust drug manufacture and transport lines in place. Ebola'll do that to you. The issue isn't the stand-up capacity so much as, well, the recipe for COVID
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by bsanr 5y ago
We've got a really big problem on our hands if "privileged" is "divisive newspeak." There's not even the "unearned" qualifier.
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by bsanr 5y ago
>As a former educator I'm going to say it's because when it comes to the skills companies are looking for on average children of upper-middle class people are better if for no other reason than they've generally had much m
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by bsanr 5y ago
Somewhere, from across the bay, blows a wind, and on it wafts the faintest whisper, an echo of an echo, which seems to say, if you listen closely, closely, Institutional racism~ ...Jokes aside - and not to make anyone feel guilty, or to b
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by bsanr 5y ago
I want you to understand how terribly unconvincing this is. You seem to have an agenda, but not necessarily the facts to support it, so you're engaging with hand-wave-y generalization and, "Just trust me"-level rhetoric. Thi
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by bsanr 5y ago
Huh. Never noticed the swastikas before.
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by bsanr 5y ago
This is goalpoast-moving. You should include the average payout of retirement planning in the private sector, for comparison. I will be shocked if we find a substantial difference, or advantage to the teachers. >Many lower quality teache
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by bsanr 5y ago
Another post in the thread questioned why this happens in otherwise "civilized and enlightened" societies. My personal response - because we're not - lead me down a train of thought to Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter. The com
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by bsanr 5y ago
Teachers don't have summers off. They engage in work-related training, administrative duties, and other labor (e.g., teaching summer school courses). They're also required to pay for far more of their required equipment than other
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by bsanr 5y ago
Most of the people here simply don't care that most of their peers are languishing at 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 their starting salary, years into their careers, despite engaging with our education system equally. In fact, I think
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by bsanr 5y ago
The lack of self-awareness on HN is galling but terribly predictable.
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by bsanr 5y ago
>The problem is that the consciousness bestowed on us is just barely sufficient; if we are to achieve inner freedom, it is necessary that we become more (much more) conscious than we generally are. If men and women learn to occupy their

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