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by david38 6y ago
This happens to me all the time. I’m from Central America and am constantly told about the plight of “brown people” south of the border. I’m reminded how hard working “they” are, and various other saintly qualities. It’s as if we are chi
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by david38 6y ago
Why do you single out poverty and bias in minority groups? What about say, Appalachia? You think the white people living there were born with a silver spoon in their mouth? Why someone is poor today shouldn’t be rated. It’s not a sufferin
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by david38 6y ago
It’s a step back if you are talking about sex and not gender expression. Not everyone is from the US or a Western country. The broader question is would it be allowed even with that. If it was done for safety reasons, you can make an argum
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by david38 6y ago
Virtue signaling is when it’s unnecessary. Working for a nonprofit or being a vegetarian isn’t virtue signaling. Dropping either in a conversation where it wasn’t related to the topic is. Constantly broadcasting as well. Putting “Crunchy m
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by david38 6y ago
It’s because the target was a three year old. Also, your comparison is way off. Not all police departments are the same. Unarmed doesn’t mean “not a threat” or “can in no way be a threat”. I can simply approach you in an angry manner and
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by david38 6y ago
You propose to eliminate the concept of status? Impossible. Even monkeys have it.
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by david38 6y ago
Funny, I see the left do that all the time as well
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by david38 6y ago
Your alternative title is biased. You inserted your assumption that * not having a paid job = non-working * these are all wives. The title just says women * that the husbands are unwilling participants in this. I guarantee you many husban
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by david38 6y ago
Dying isn’t a “you problem” when those dying aren’t adventurers. I’m not talking about bleeding heart stuff. This is the same as like in Latin America where the poor are literally allowed to die. Guess what? They get guns, knives, whatev
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by david38 6y ago
Except this isn’t true. If the temp is 0, a family with a baby doesn’t have that right polar camping gear, then one of two things will happen * someone will take them in * they will end up in the ER when their child gets cold A good percent
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by david38 6y ago
Yea. I am a programmer and sometimes think of what else I could have done. I remind myself I don’t hate my day to day, and often enjoy it. I remind myself that many other careers are available to me as a hobby since I can afford cameras, pa
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by david38 6y ago
There’s always one who takes any comment and has to act like that gatekeeper. You don’t own suffering. You’re not it’s gatekeeper. It’s not for you to decide if one person’s proposed situation doesn’t take into account the situation of on
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by david38 6y ago
Overtime is remembered a lot less than you think. I have family in the trades and they much prefer their union jobs to my programming one. Yes, I get paid more, but I also work more, in an area where I can’t afford a house.
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by david38 6y ago
I have lived here for ten years and have never seen a cop pull a gun and actually threaten someone without provocation. Pulling a gun is one thing, actually threatening to use it is another. It’s a difference in how police are in the US vs
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by david38 6y ago
Using third party tools doesn’t lock you out of them. Nothing stops you from the collecting that data before sending it off. Every company outsources something fundamental. Does Google mine its own metal? Generate its own electricity? Ev
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by david38 6y ago
Indeed. It’s now been reframed as “freedom from government prosecution”, not from organized canceling.
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by david38 6y ago
This sort of attitude dominates today. All companies are evil. All white people are guilty. All men are guilty. All black/gay/women are victims. You just have to dig deep enough. If you don’t agree, it’s because you’re privileged
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by david38 6y ago
I assume you also have negative views of veterans, anyone who has worked in most agricultural situations, sold bottled water, carbonated drinks, food supply chain, loans, etc.
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by david38 6y ago
Something can only be racist and talked about if it happens to select people. /s If people spoke more in terms of wealth than color, a lot more people would be on board.
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by david38 6y ago
You read a lot into that. Neil Tyson said something similar a while back. Twitter isn’t generally the place for academic discourse. Saying something you don’t like doesn’t have to be followed up with research every single time. Contributin
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by david38 6y ago
You should definitely be open about it. Lots of girls in school have no exposure and think a field is hard to get into because they don’t know anyone there. People forget how “far away” something looks to people not in the know.
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by david38 6y ago
Unrelated to the article, but let’s not forget that leeching of estrogen into the ecosystem. This is a real thing and very measurable by ecologists. The US Army also tests such things as sperm count and has seen a rapid decline. So the rea
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by david38 6y ago
Except in science this is largely untrue. There is very little Stanford can teach you about computer science that Berkeley can’t. It’s been shown that the class someone ends up in is far more correlated with their parents than their colleg
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by david38 6y ago
There is no definition of fairness that a substantial majority agree on. Equality of opportunity? Equality of outcome? Low penalty for failing? Low penalty for breaking the law? Eye for an eye?
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by david38 6y ago
10x isn’t just 10x. Everyone knows that low numbers can be skewed wildly. Most people don’t mitigate risk as much as possible. Even hospitals don’t don’t do this. Hospitals routinely give unnecessary c-sections, drugs, etc to save THEIR
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by david38 6y ago
This is a meaningless statement. What country? What time period? What state? Hospitals all over have wildly different rates of success. The color of the mother wildly influences the outcome as well. Some states are very strict with home
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by david38 6y ago
This is why you have a plan. You actively check for the usual suspects and know exactly where you’re going in case of an emergency.
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by david38 6y ago
Not surprised. I live right up the street. Palo Alto is so progressive and woke that they assume every woman is a likely victim. Unless the husband is a minority I suppose, then it would be politically incorrect to ask.
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by david38 6y ago
That’s what arbitration is supposed to be. Independent. Yet, it’s not. If you don’t side with the org that butters your bread, you lose the contract.
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by david38 6y ago
Violence as a part of combat, that is to say, in furtherance of a political objective, provided the violence is against combatants is mostly ok in video games. Straight up torture - a person who is captive, has already surrendered, etc is n

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