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by choko 6y ago
You just defined "funding by the taxpayer". Since money is fungible, any monies paid toward vendors teaching CRT is defacto taxpayer funding.
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by choko 6y ago
The teaching of CRT isn't banned. You can teach CRT all you like, just don't expect taxpayer funds or government contracts. The government shouldn't be funding racist ideologies or vendors who teach such ideology. CRT, in tea
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by choko 6y ago
It's just a moratorium on taxpayer funding, not a ban. As a taxpayer, I'm ok with the government not funding racist ideology.
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by choko 6y ago
I read the EO and the article. Your analysis is flawed and grossly oversimplified. I suspect you know this and are trying to stir up emotional sentiment because you dislike the current administration.
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by choko 6y ago
The field isn't banned. It's just not being funded by taxpayers. You are being intentionally dramatic and misleading.
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by choko 6y ago
The media has a vested interest in fear mongering and uncertainty. It keeps people tuned in to their publications, increasing revenue.
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by choko 6y ago
I've heard complains from some in various tech industries that parent/child is non-inclusive. I'm not saying I think it should be changed, but doesn't the logic of the people advocating these changes demand that all term
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by choko 6y ago
You should spare the link, since you are making a claim of fact without providing evidence.
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by choko 6y ago
Ok, doesn't change the fact that not adopting vote by mail as a primary method is not voter suppression. I'm not concerned with intent in this case. It also doesn't change that vote by mail has a larger attack surface than in
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by choko 6y ago
Interesting. How do they prevent fraud? The goodwill of man isn't an acceptable answer.
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by choko 6y ago
In what state is mail-in voting accounting for a plurality of votes cast in a national election? That's the only way you could claim that it's the primary method in a given state. Further, mail-in ballots don't tend to lean t
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by choko 6y ago
Could it be that there isn't much fraud around mail-in ballots at the moment because it's not the primary method of voting and mail in and absentee ballots aren't always counted? Might this change if mail-in becomes the prima
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by choko 7y ago
As a legal adult, all of 4 of those marketing drives appeal to me, especially sweet flavors. I don't see how that means they are marketing toward a demographic that is legally unable to purchase their product. To me, this is just anoth
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by choko 7y ago
I hope they can pull it off. I loved the originals.The Wachowskis work since then hasn't exactly been stellar though.
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by choko 7y ago
At his age, even a lighter sentence would likely be a life sentence. I think he knew that, and seeing the rest of his life would be court cases and jail, took the easy way out. Assuming this was in fact suicide, he made a logical choice.
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by choko 8y ago
The "push" to show anti-vaxers as idiots is probably not a coordinated effort. Standard human behavior explains the wave of anti anti-vax (and anti-flat earth) memes, news stories, and social media posts already. These are both un
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by choko 8y ago
I don't see it either. Perhaps some people are seeing it as a swastika due to the nazi moral panic we have been experiencing over the past couple years? It's not unreasonable for a human to make that kind of correlation when there
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by choko 8y ago
One reason is because local government is operating normally, and local government (not federal) functions are what impacts people's lives the most. For all the attention federal issues garner, local government has a much larger impact
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by choko 8y ago
Trump uses A LOT of hyperbole. It can be difficult to know when to take him literally, which is part of his likeability problem. His supporters claim you should take him seriously but not literally. I have a hard time with it, since I tend
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by choko 8y ago
According to the US Census Bureau, poverty in the US has been on the decline since 2010. It's still not below the 2000 levels, but is still declining.
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by choko 8y ago
I agree with you in theory, but there are privileges tied to overall karma. Since many people downvote because they disagree, those with less popular opinions have fewer privileges.
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by choko 8y ago
The upvote/downvote system should be to promote interesting (and factually accurate) discussion and to demote factually incorrect or low effort comments. Downvoting well articulated opinions with which you disagree contributes to the
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by choko 8y ago
When I was in high school (which wasn't that long ago), I had a dedicated class on critical thinking, and a unit on critical thinking in another. It has helped me very much in my adult life in spotting bias and emotional manipulation i
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by choko 8y ago
I respectfully disagree that advocating for changes in the legal framework constitutes inciting violence, unless you use the most broad and generic definition of advocating violence. Thanks for the civil discourse though.
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by choko 8y ago
Same one as you. I can email my entire family just as easily as I could tweet them and with fewer restrictions. Since you have directed this in an uncivil course: In what reality do you live where "email is to twitter as postal mail is
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by choko 8y ago
Social media isn't faster or more efficient than email though. In fact it might be slower due to the amount of clutter and ads encountered when using facebook. The comparison between phones and post doesn't really hold up.
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by choko 8y ago
Lots of people don't use social media and don't miss their nephew's piano recitals. You have many other options for communicating with friends and family that aren't social media. That means the true value of social medi
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by choko 8y ago
I believe that inciting violence against others is wrong, but at no point did I argue that we shouldn't have laws against aggressive behavior. Those are two different concepts.
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by choko 8y ago
That just means the person writing the algorithm becomes the authority. As we recently saw with Amazon's hiring practices, algorithms have bias as well. Granted, a better designed system might not have made this mistake, but since huma
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by choko 8y ago
It's interesting that he is pushing the decentralization concept while at the same time decrying hate speech on the web. Wouldn't a non-centralized version of the web make it harder to police said speech? As a disclaimer, I am not

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