danharaj

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by danharaj 6y ago
Ah but did you know how brave you are for existing? Imagine... I couldn't exist like that ... but you ? So brave... your courage... to just stand there and exist. Wow. I'm so inspired. I tell my wine tasting friends how brave al
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by danharaj 6y ago
Unimaginable? Why? The Stonewall riot happened in 1969 and it wasn't the first action by and in support of transgender people in the US. In what year would it have been imaginable, for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by danharaj 6y ago
Unfortunately it comes at the same time that the administration rolled back healthcare protections for transgender people. Must be terrifying for someone to make your basic humanity a political football. SCOTUS rulings are much more durable
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by danharaj 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518123 Previous discussion. This one won't be any different.
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by danharaj 6y ago
> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Leader/Follower Coordinator/Worker Central/Auxiliary Conductor/Player We're making a metaphor here. There are many metaphors one could pick to describe a situation where one unit calls the shots and the others coo
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by danharaj 6y ago
I certainly don't think it's Big Brother* at work here but it is worth pondering what it means that communication is so centralized that the idiosyncrasy of a single point of access can affect billions of people. For every quirk t
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by danharaj 6y ago
What Orwell described is a matter of degree, not a different state of affairs. His criticisms were of the mechanisms of power enabled by the mechanisms of media in the era of industrialized civilization. His efforts were towards a future wh
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by danharaj 6y ago
all cats are beautiful
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by danharaj 6y ago
Neat! I feel like wrapping my head around the 6502's indexed indirect addressing mode a few weeks ago well-prepared me for this article :)
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by danharaj 6y ago
Panta rhei
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by danharaj 6y ago
All the discussion on this submission tells me is that it's not enough to disagree with others, one also has to ridicule them and emphasize how stupid they are for having a position one doesn't understand. Maybe even tie it to a g
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by danharaj 6y ago
Is "lifestyle" the most appropriate word you could choose for "access to healthcare and education"?
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by danharaj 6y ago
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." - George Orwell (1946)
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by danharaj 6y ago
"... The demonstration, an irregular event created by the demonstrators, nevertheless takes place near the city centre, intended for very different uses. The demonstrators interrupt the regular life of the streets they march through or
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by danharaj 6y ago
There's a lot to unpack here.
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by danharaj 6y ago
> I remember a time when 'innocent until proven guilty' was a guiding principle of public conversation It's a guiding principle of jurisprudence, not conversation. Don't be so pompous as to think the level of your dis
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by danharaj 6y ago
Who's "we"? Before we can even begin, let's dispose of the notion that the government serves "us".
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by danharaj 6y ago
The boardroom and the legislature are like one room divided by a curtain.
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by danharaj 6y ago
What are you talking about?
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by danharaj 6y ago
Do you think this is the first time in history that there are very polarized political opinions? How do you explain it in the past? Maybe polarization comes from... polarizing circumstances?
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by danharaj 6y ago
Here's some possibilities: There's a lot of experts out there, and depending on how the people who fill your feed pick and choose them, they can make them say anything they want. Some experts might change their minds when confront
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by danharaj 6y ago
Just a quiet reminder that accounting for other peoples' actions with "partisanship" and "tribalism" is just a very easy way to stop thinking about their reasoning or motivation. If someone explained your behavior a
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by danharaj 6y ago
Can you name two things that are not connected?
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by danharaj 6y ago
Do you think it is possible that there are truths that cannot be articulated in words? Is it possible that there are meaningful experiences that cannot be easily conveyed by language? There are many parallels one can draw between accounts o
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by danharaj 6y ago
There certainly exist people who in their last moments sacrifice everything for something greater than themselves. If that's not an absolute sacrifice then no, there probably isn't. But in the small we are always compromising on s
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by danharaj 6y ago
They didn't say there is one global unique absolute moral principle that anyone can hold. They're saying you can only hold one , because necessarily everything else must be compromised in favor of it.
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by danharaj 6y ago
There are several hundred people making demands and cheering outside of my window right now. That reminded me that I read this.
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The Nature of Mass Demonstrations (1968)(marxists.org)
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by danharaj 6y ago
If you can't translate the meaning you haven't translated the phrase.

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