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by burfog 6y ago
Differences will be ranked, and they will be used to form teams. You can't stop human nature. At best, you can divert it to something less problematic, like nationalism. If everybody is on Team USA, then there is no room for racism. We
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by burfog 6y ago
That just isn't how humans learn. You think you are teaching to not hate, but they learn that hate is normal. They want to be normal. You teach that diversity is important, but they learn that they are the undesirables or that they don
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by burfog 6y ago
Human minds don't work that way. They learn, but not always what you intend for them to learn. If the kid is white, possible learning outcomes include: a. self-hate, leading to depression and self-harm b. reading between the lines, lea
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by burfog 6y ago
It's backwards. I can imagine preferring Python syntax. I can't much imagine wanting Python slowness, which is inherent to the language semantics. People can disagree about syntax, but who wants slowness? Converting is probably ju
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by burfog 6y ago
Focusing on race is what keeps people focusing on race. It's fundamentally divisive. Teaching children to think of everything in terms of race is the biggest factor in perpetuating racism. I suppose there is a market for that, and you&
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by burfog 6y ago
Getty and LACMA are not good. Los Angeles does however have good museums: the Battleship USS Iowa Museum, Fort MacArthur Museum, Mission San Fernando Rey de España, La Brea Tar Pits, and the California Science Center. Chicago's Art Ins
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by burfog 6y ago
They really are related. Modern art museums are something you endure to complete assignments for unpleasant humanities courses that are required for your degree. Most of the content is disgusting or boring. I'd much prefer to see a Sat
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by burfog 6y ago
Correct standard English would be "after he is there" and "to care for him". The masculine singular form is always used when the sex is unknown.
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by burfog 6y ago
The SFMoma & DeYoung are not first class museums. They have modern art. New York may beat San Francisco, but it is not particularly good. The winning city, without any doubt, is Washington, D.C. Also beating San Francisco: Houston,
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by burfog 6y ago
He jumped to a conclusion, not realizing that the NSA had plenty of perfectly legal reasons to have split off copies of backbone fiber trunks. A great example is point #4, "Some beautiful misdirection", in https://blog.
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by burfog 6y ago
275 miles of wall have been built as of August 10. https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-... It is fair to include replacement of vehicle-only barriers and other ineffective junk. That had be
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by burfog 6y ago
That's what they want you to think. :-) There's also point #4, "Some beautiful misdirection", in https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everythin... discussed 3 days ago at https:/
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by burfog 6y ago
Probably for this: "we skew white, male, and affluent. Those, as he sees it, are his people." That appears to be an accusation of racism, sexism, and classism. He was in the public eye for decades, but didn't get those sorts
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by burfog 6y ago
Not that he was great, but the vilification of Nixon is disproportionate. It's clear where historians would place him relative to Obama, but Nixon didn't weaponize the intelligence agencies (state assets) against a political oppon
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by burfog 6y ago
"widely considered" by the biased haters who write history? Whatever they say, the opposite is usually true. When they say "bad at the job" that should be read as "good at the job". Likewise, when they say &quo
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by burfog 6y ago
When historians make "worst 10 Presidents" lists and "best 10 Presidents" lists, usually it is pretty accurate to swap "worst" with "best". The lists are really just a display of the politics of the p
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by burfog 6y ago
She is well-protected and has been for some time. You could have predicted her being chosen by the fact that all sorts of info about her previous career was getting scrubbed from the Internet. (she would pile on criminal charges for black p
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by burfog 6y ago
Outgoing? Here in real life, off the internet in a swing state, 100% of the people I know have become Trump supporters. Opinions on his response to the viral pandemic include "fine", "irrelevant because not his problem",
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by burfog 6y ago
The really old toilets didn't cause spray. They simply filled the bowl to the top with water, then let the weight of the water do the work. The somewhat old toilets didn't spray very much. It wasn't notable. It didn't cr
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by burfog 6y ago
Can confirm: “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once,” That doesn't help any. Much worse though, and not mentioned, is that the high-pressure spray used in water-limited toilets has been proven to launch fec
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by burfog 6y ago
Too conveniently, it bans a photo of Virginia governor Ralph Northam. It protects him. The infamous photo shows him in blackface, with his then-girlfriend beside him in full KKK gear. (and uh, did they just have KKK gear lying around the ho
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by burfog 6y ago
I always find the terminology strange. If there is only one party permitted, and that one party is supreme, then how is that a party? It looks like government to me. Maybe the translation to English is just wrong. The "party" isn&
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by burfog 6y ago
It's not illegal in California. The major parties do send people out to harvest ballots. Nobody can tell what happens with the votes. Some people's votes are sure to be discarded. Some people hand over unfilled ballots, with or wi
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by burfog 6y ago
In theory, a bad signature at in-person voting could be cause for arrest, and we could actually do it. With the mail-in voting, the person isn't present. You can't possibly find the person. No matter how obvious the fraud, there i
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by burfog 6y ago
That argument is weak, but not insane, for in-person voting. For vote-by-mail though, how could anybody go to jail? The ballot shows up. It is accepted or rejected. If rejected, then what? Are we going to pick fingerprint DNA out of the pap
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by burfog 6y ago
I like that logic. It works great for the 2nd amendment. You'll agree that an ID requirement for firearms is unacceptable, yes? Constitutional protections for voting are far more limited.
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by burfog 6y ago
There is an implied identification that is effective. Some neighborhoods vote one way, and other neighborhoods vote the other way. Postal workers can purposely misplace/delay/destroy the votes for a whole neighborhood.
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by burfog 6y ago
Your address, or your name, will be enough to determine how you most likely voted. The mailman sees even more. If you live in a condo and drive a Prius with a "Coexist" sticker, you probably voted one way. If you live in a single-
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by burfog 6y ago
That makes catching people impossible. We can't even determine the level of fraud, so faith in our voting system is eroded. Even if you believe that there is no fraud, you should be deeply concerned that many other people are losing fa
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by burfog 6y ago
There is no such thing as large-scale signature verification. If a close match were demanded, people would complain of disenfranchisement. People don't sign the exact same way every time. Realistically, the workers are tired and they d

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