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by detcader 8y ago
What is the purpose of specific, separate pronouns in speech to begin with? It's clear they arose in languages hundreds or thousands of years before any current understandings or politics of how and when they are "supposed" t
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I don't even understand what half the words here mean and the alienation of human beings still comes through. We can offer advanced college calculus in public high schools but we can't teach basic finance. I don't think anyon
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If we casually allow that there are "unwritten" rules, then we accept that every government is merely a dictatorship ruled by whichever individuals have the most access to physical power. It would be great if everyone could by exp
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Generic checklists for Pull Requests are great. It's easy to write a Tampermonkey script that lets you paste a prewritten checklist into a new blank PR description, reminding you to do linting, run tests locally, and so on.
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I don't see how all journalism is not inherently self-serving to the journalists' own narratives to a non-zero degree. I don't believe you can prevent that. Glenn Greenwald did a good job making the point in an interview from
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Whistleblowing always makes it more difficult for the human rights violators. Some of these people will finish their workday in government or tech companies and be with families and friends who really don't care about their actions, bu
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It's more accurate to say "the king". People still want a king. I hope Trump critics can start identifying this soon...
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To paraphrase someone else, marriage has, historically, been a pretty atrocious institution for women. Maybe as women as a class become educated and conscious of history, there is now an ambient awareness of this.
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Assistant professor from Long Island, now writing from LA, thinks we should not reconsider entrusting billions in taxpayer's money to the richest man in the world. He should debate David Sirota, or Nathan Robinson.
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Why are corporations moving out of the US to different countries? Why can't they stay?
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Will New York Fund Amazon Subsidies or Student Debt Relief?(capitalandmain.com)
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David Sirota writes that Amazon Cuomo is offering something like a billion dollars in tax incentives but a Democratic Assemblyman is now introducing legislation to block it. Source: https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-f
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A boycott of a country with a government and military killing unarmed protesters and carrying out other human rights violations? I don't know that this exchange is going places right now... For something positive, I appreciate all you
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My point is exactly the opposite of saying the two are comparable... The idea is that when Electronic Intifada's webhost or their donation processor or Twitter decides they want some positive PR, more and more they can safely say &quot
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I wasn't really invoking his opinions on Gab specifically, but I would be curious to know them. My point was more like: What happens to journalists like Singal when any writing deviating from to the most mainstream of progressive frame
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If you're familiar with Jesse Singal's journalistic work I think it's straightforward for us to consider what was meant above there. The question is of "Fascism" Scope Creep, no? Accepting that big tech companies ca
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And decades into Chomsky's campaigns to tear down the mythologies of the nobility of modern governments, people in the tech community continue to get all confused and offended when self-identified socialists use euphemisms like "s
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What if one day you learned of an injustice you started really caring about? If you wanted to do some blog writing critical of someone powerful? Would you feel free to speak or associate then?
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I haven't read much in detail on this, but it seems to me like an unintentional stress test for asylum seeker accommodations. Doesn't really matter how you consider Assange as a person. If you agree his claims for asylum are valid
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Use of slot machines make businesses money. Use of voting machines...
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Or, having children. Natalism -- the positive and negative values constructed around having vs. not having children, the pressure put upon women to reproduce until they biologically can't anymore in most (really all) countries -- as
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It's mind-boggling that it has to be limited. What are universities for? Every day every university should have hundreds of guests thinkers and grad students streaming through doing paid speeches and Q&As. If half of them are Alex
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161 comments and no one has mentioned Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept's prolific coverage on this issue? I'll do a quick websearch and fix that. Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and
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It is more specifically the case that the idea of free speech as a prized element of a society is under threat, than the actual practice of free speech. We need to be mindful of separate things: actual individual free speech events happenin
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Totally agree. I just hope people will take this sentiment and make it more formalized. But people will have to be up to that task. An explicit movement to refuse money from US allies who violate human rights would have to include Israel --
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The intent is good but I feel this is a pretty futile angle. On an aggregate scale if you don't take authoritarian money, your competitor will and then they will have more money than you. Luckily these days we have a system of checks a
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Looking into this it looks like the Koch brothers just... installed this guy with millions in PAC money? Sounds like a campaign finance reform issue?
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I found the Atlantic story really interesting. Thanks for sharing
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If a poor person asked me for money, why wouldn't I give them a dollar if I could afford it? If I couldn't afford it, why wouldn't I just tell them the truth like "I have student loans" or something?
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I agree with the "Always tip" mentality. But maybe the problem is deeper than tipping. I'm interested in Nathan Robinson's thoughts grappling with the service industry as a whole, e.g. in his essay "Service With A S

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