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by cobraetor 6y ago
And SCOTUS has planned to look at the cases in two days: > The United States Supreme Court will be looking into election fraud lawsuits during its Feb. 19 conference. These lawsuits include two cases filed by the Trump campaign and one c
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Also given the fact that Trump's rallies were attended to in extremely larger numbers compared to that of Biden's, and the new White House videos being downvoted heavily in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/W
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by cobraetor 6y ago
This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden. https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob... > Overall, 18% of American
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by cobraetor 6y ago
The link you provided does not support your statement. It is about financial scams, and not disinformation per se. Specifically it reports, "Older adults were the least likely of any age group to report losing money to scams. But when
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Are they really successful though? In Canada for example the laws are quite controversial, regardless of political affiliation: > The controversy around the issue lies in the reasoning behind Canada’s top court decision that proclaimed B
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." Brilliant quote illustrating schadenfreude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> [David Gerard] also frequently edits the LessWrong Wikipedia article, always towards criticism (in violation of WP:AXEGRIND) Wikipedia is an interesting subculture of its own. Here is a fun fact involving its cofounder, Larry Sanger: h
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline. That's interesting. Gab.com's timeline is public and i
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by cobraetor 6y ago
She, not he. > Colleen Oefelein, who identified herself on Twitter as an associate literary agent with the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, appeared to confirm her termination in a tweet on Monday morning. > "Well thanks Twitt
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by cobraetor 6y ago
They started out as a Mastodon node, and then got blocked by the wider Fediverse. https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline. That's interesting. The public timeline on Gab is visible t
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by cobraetor 6y ago
I find it quite odd that actual diversity doesn't necessarily coincide with a claimed interest[1] in diversity. You don't advertise like all get out about diversity, and yet your team is pretty diverse. But look at the author of t
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It is quite interesting to note that the author of this post, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, works as a principal engineer at a company named Hangar. Take a look at their Team page at https://www.hangar.is/team and judge for yourself h
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Why would talking about DEI have potential for unintentional landmines?
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I agree that it is definitely something they should bring up as early in the interview process as possible. If a company strongly identifies with neoracism[1], I'd like to avoid wasting my time interviewing with them. And I'm a PO
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I think nobody disagrees that talking about diversity is divisive. But talking about it using critical race theory terminology is.
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That's interesting. As a non-native English speaker, I was surprised to read it as well. Do American natives really think that non-native accents indicate low intelligence?