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by deciplex 10y ago
Is anyone going to actually address the thought experiment itself? The 20% is "obnoxious people who hijack civil discourse and decorum to allocate outsized influence for themselves" and yes they exist on the left and the right. I
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by deciplex 10y ago
The people fighting for racial and gender equality, and gay rights, had to face a hell of a lot more adversity in getting a fair hearing, than anyone on the far-right has ever had getting their views in the mainstream for policy considera
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by deciplex 10y ago
I suppose it goes from one to the other around the time that the minority has actually successfully dominated the discussion well out of proportion to their numbers. I think the far-right in America has been successful at this via movement
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by deciplex 10y ago
By inspecting whether they are actually being oppressed, or just being discouraged from being overbearing assholes. Also bear in mind this is not an act of Congress. This was a popular subreddit where some unpaid mods decided to go nuclear
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Yet, if you had invested in bitcoin 5 years ago you would have outperformed Berkshire Hathaway's lifetime performance. Berkshire Hathaway's net income last year alone was 24 billion USD. I don't think you would be able
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by deciplex 10y ago
Just a quick thought experiment out of curiosity: Say you've got a tribe of 100 people, and 80 of them basically agree on most things, and amicably sort out their disagreements when they don't, and are able to work together most o
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Sure, in an ideal world where we had full knowledge of human biology and an ability to edit the brain, we'd treat gender dysphoria simply by making people believe they were the "correct" gender. But lacking that ability
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by deciplex 10y ago
> The problem is you can't control countries... by a border so that approach simply doesn't work. Countries are kinda defined by border control, in some sense. Unless you're posting from some alternate reality where th
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by deciplex 10y ago
> Hell, the government could step in and recruit people and companies to falsely claim that they were ransomware victims who paid up, but never got decryption keys and were screwed over. That could put a damper on ransomware psychology.
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by deciplex 10y ago
You can still chart the history of a single molecule in theory, you just can't tag two molecules and tell them apart later without context. I guess that's another way of saying "the only true quantum configuration is the enti
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by deciplex 10y ago
Ah yes, Big Eco. They will surely crush us underfoot along with the struggling Big Oil, which merely lacks the vast resources which would certainly be required to refute this obviously bogus science.
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by deciplex 10y ago
They are all close enough in mass for colloquial use though. It doesn't affect your understanding of this article if a ton / tonne is 1000 kg, 1016 kg, or 907 kg. I agree with the parent tho - let's just all start using metri
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by deciplex 10y ago
Could be, but more likely the opposite: the species will be at a disadvantage compared to its competitors in the wild (which are, naturally, optimized for survival and not correcting humanity's mistakes). It will not thrive on its ow
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by deciplex 10y ago
If by "out" you mean they're out having a post-trial lunch because they already turned in their verdict decades ago then... yes.
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by deciplex 10y ago
I can think of a few Senators . Right now the federal government claims the right to detain American citizens on American soil indefinitely and without trial. Look up 2012 NDAA Section 1021. The Senate is debating, right now , whether to
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by deciplex 10y ago
Sorry, what is the charade? Do white people ignore the problems of minorities in the US or not? If so, is pointing out the fact of it promoting hate? At any rate, he did not call him a racist. That's not really up for discussion since
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by deciplex 10y ago
The fact remains he did not call him racist, whatever you believe he implied. For someone who claims to try hard at being charitable, I think you should take that into consideration. At the very worst if dsfyu404ed is calling Kyle Loveless
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by deciplex 10y ago
Don't fall for the trap of believing civil rights and due process are something only law-abiding citizens deserve. At this point in America enough people think that if you're accused of a crime basically from that point forward an
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by deciplex 10y ago
First of all, he didn't call him racist. Secondly, pointing out that for some reason long-standing problems suddenly seem to get a lot more attention once they start negatively affecting white people is not promoting hate - it is ca
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by deciplex 10y ago
Without commenting on the particular circumstances here, it seems to me that the nominating process for a political party ought to be at least a little bit undemocratic. At the very least, current office-holders in the party ought to have
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by deciplex 10y ago
> It's rarer than most people think that accusations of sexual abuse are falsely raised, but it is still a possibility. Disclaimer: it seems to me the claims are true. That said: I don't think the above observation has a grea
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by deciplex 10y ago
I mean, they also granted a monopoly on ICBMs to nation-states as well. What's your point? Some countries passed some laws?
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by deciplex 10y ago
I refrained from calling you a racist even after you said the obviously racist thing. Moreover you first implied I'm racist out of the blue, because I disagree with a SCOTUS Justice who happens to be black. Also: > The belief tha
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by deciplex 10y ago
I already laid out the case for affirmative action which has nothing to do with any inherent racial ability whatsoever. Your reply: > What if the "privilege" you think you see is actually a difference in average ability or pre
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by deciplex 10y ago
Nice subtle accusation of racism, person-who-literally-thinks-that-some-races-are-inferior-to-others.
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by deciplex 10y ago
Promoting university enrollment for disadvantaged students really, like fucking really , is not the same as enslaving them. Likewise segregation was bad for a host of reasons among which was social isolation and misappropriation of resourc
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by deciplex 10y ago
The "status quo" can be discrimination against men even if a small minority of schools actually implement this policy. If one tech company out of one hundred had a policy in place whereby female employees were required to come to
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by deciplex 10y ago
It brings a little value, in the form of a single data point. Not "none" otherwise no one could talk about their experiences ever, without being accused of wasting everyone's time. Also, there need not be more than 50% of sch
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by deciplex 10y ago
Unfortunately fighting discrimination purely by working to eliminate instances of it and revert to a gender-neutral (or race-neutral, or sexual orientation-neutral, etc) method of operation does not work. You must counter discrimination by
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by deciplex 10y ago
Any reason for that? I mean, it's anecdotal evidence, sure, but it's not the first time I've heard such a story about how men are treated in the teaching profession. It's only one data point, but even a single data point

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