cosmiccartel

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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
This sounds like the worst of both worlds. Vehemently pro-choice employees are unlikely to be placated, and pro-lifers are going to boycott the company anyway.
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Regex Dictionary(visca.com)
90 points by cosmiccartel 8y ago|6 comments
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?&q
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
That's a good point. Most likely that would have been the work of some low-level employee at a regional office trying to boost their numbers.
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
I remember seeing one of these signs in 2013. I was immediately intrigued since, outside of facebook and craigslist, there was very little web activity in my state, much less my impoverished hometown of 4000. The fact that the town's n
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
You have the theory reversed. It's that hookworms caused lethargy, which was perceived as laziness. As a result, the southern accent has become associated with laziness. Personally, I think it's more related to negative opinions a
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
It used to. > Generally, we remain neutral as to the content because our general council and CEO like to say that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar&
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
You're confusing the First Amendment with the principle of Free Speech. When it comes to privately owned forums, they may have absolute control over what is acceptable to say, but those who disagree with their policies are perfectly
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Giant Ant Hill Excavated(youtube.com)
2 points by cosmiccartel 8y ago|0 comments
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
It is presently endemic among the left rather than the right. That doesn't mean it's intrinsically related to the other ideas associated with the left. > Rejection of the mainstream as an ideology just leads to the acceptance
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
> Identity politics flying the flag of "free thought, only so long as you reject the mainstream and the left" still seems to me to be identity politics. The rebuke here is aimed at the left's hostility to dissenting politi
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
To your first point, all I can say is that I doubt it. I see a lot of moderate liberals becoming more conservative. It's anecdotal, of course, but it's everywhere. > the best way to describe what you call conversion of libera
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
> It's not like these members of the inaccurately titled "Intellectual Dark Web" are actually interested in changing anyone's mind. This is incredibly disingenous. That is exactly what they're trying to do, and q
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
In other words, several diverse groups of people, engaging in respectful disagreement, are complaining about another group for being disrespectful in its disagreement. It sounds like your Model-T reference is being applied in the wrong dire
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
Am I missing the racial component here? It just sounds like a very religious woman who was concerned about them wearing metal shirts. I've had people freak out over the same thing, as have my metalhead friends. All white.
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by cosmiccartel 8y ago
> Lately, I've had a text editor opened up separate from my code editor where I kind of document my train of thought - especially on fuzzy, complex stuff. I do something similar. I have a dedicated to-do app, but I like having a mor
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
Just want to point anyone looking to test their own VPN to https://ipleak.net/ . That's been my go-to, and it seems more comprehensive than the linked service.
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
In a study on rabbits, all seven were successfully reversed after 14 months. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/pf-sro033117...
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> There's a difference between advancing your political beliefs and not accepting the current status, and participating in antisocial behaviour in response I'm a little unclear on what you're talking about here. What antis
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I actually agree with a lot of this. If I thought that 15 random wild-west fantasists could pull of a coup, I'd see more of an issue with the right to own guns. But the point isn't that when the government comes for me in particul
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I have a racially ambiguous look and jarringly foreign name, and haven't experienced much other than innocent "what [race] are you" and "what country are you from" questions. The biggest issues I had when moving to
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> There are very few high paying jobs > There is limited access to medical care > Local government ineptitude has a very real daily impact > Small tax base means surprisingly high taxes, but real struggle to maintain infrastruct
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
If you actually listen to conservatives, we are continuously, clearly saying that we care about _illegal_ immigration. We want to vet who we allow into our home.
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> It is quite another to have "outdated" (for lack of a better word) moral beliefs There are plenty of better words. "Unfashionable" works. > anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-<whatever> I find it interesting tha
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
The point is that, in the South, sweetie isn't a gendered term. I'm a man and get called sweetie every day in a non-demeaning sense. When used pejoratively, it's essentially "bless your heart" condensed into a noun.
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Don't Talk to the Police [video] (2012)(youtube.com)
3 points by cosmiccartel 9y ago|0 comments
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
On the topic of people just being there for the money: Obviously, that's the primary reason for just about any job, but I think I get what you mean. Your team treats your project, which you've sunk a lot into, like a chore to work
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I can guess your meaning of "free speech folks", and I'm one of them. I don't think she should have lost her job. All along, our central argument has been that the pendulum swings both ways. The same means which are us
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
For anyone interested, "Cultural Marxism" refers to the application of Marxist critical theory to the social sciences, particularly issues of race, gender, culture, and identity. Current mainstream leftist memes, with a focus on i
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> "Cultural Marxist" means "Jewish" -- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism Association fallacy -- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Association_fallacy As your page

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