elemenohpee

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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Too bad you chose to be ignorant :/ The scientific evidence is not on your side, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I agree, I don't think it's about ignorance either, and I don't think the author was trying to make that point.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
In all the examples you gave the reason is some unfortunate tragedy and not a part of his identity that we as a society are trying to become more inclusive of.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
There are a lot of muslim cab drivers, even in progressive areas of the country. I think it would not be uncommon to find ones that are uncomfortable with homosexuality.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
The author never said that he wasn't in the mood for small talk. Gay people shouldn't feel any pressure to not engage in this normal human behavior.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Maybe he welcomes the small talk but finds the process of correcting false assumptions laborious? I get what you're saying and I don't think you're trying to be homophobic, but realize that that attitude often comes off the same as "I don'
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Notice that all the examples he gave were cases where a stranger made an assumption that put him in the position of either telling them he was gay or lying about it. It's interesting that commenters here keep having to invent a scenario wh
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Your comment makes zero sense in the context of the submitted blog post. Where did you see anything approaching the exchange "Hey, how's it going." "I'm gay."?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
If you read the blog post, you would see that it's much harder to avoid than a "robotic ninja fetish". Simple small talk can often lead to it being brought up, and it's counterproductive to the goal of an inclusive society to expect him to
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Maybe, but the point is that he shouldn't. And besides, that's harder than it sounds. Like he said, even small talk about kids or whatever can lead to it.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
I don't mean to be presumptuous, but are you straight? Not feeling compelled to tell people about your sexuality is a luxury afforded to people who fit into the norm. It's what LGBT activists would call "privilege", and it's something tha
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Yeah, how does that work? If someone uploads a photo they took of me to Instagram, can Instagram now sell that to an advertiser and use the image of me without my consent?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
DNS issue? I can ping some of their IP addresses but not others.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Woah, downforeveryoneorjustme says: Huh? http://www.facebook.com doesn't look like a site on the interwho.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> The 'never lift your finger from the screen' thing works very well Really? I can't get it to work at all. It looks like it tries to predict the entire sentence, and if it gets lost it just drops the whole thing. I would much rather
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
What taxes are you talking about that are much higher than in prior periods? I've heard from a lot of investors that high taxes don't really impact their decisions. A good investment is a good investment. High taxes on middle class peopl
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Not everyone can or even should be a programmer.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Yeah, I got a call from a recruiter when I was out to lunch with non-programmer friends. The fact that I was annoyed by it drew some death glares.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> You can't really control the amounts of pressure and negative influence you get in life. The entire premise of OWS is that we can. Another world is possible.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
That's great that you went to all that effort, but I still think you're missing the point. This is not about "putting the man on his ear". You're the only one who sounds like a pseudo-anarchist here. It's the same noise we heard about ho
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Because it's a signal to all these debtors that there's a significant segment of the population that doesn't want to play by the old rules. It shows that they can count on their fellow citizens to help them out when they are down on their
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
This is not necessarily connected to the Sandy relief efforts, and there's nothing wrong with different parts of the Occupy movement working on different problems. There's already enough houses, we don't need to build more. What needs to c
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
With a straight face, you're going to tell me that the reason there was such a brutal crackdown on OWS was that people were smoking pot and there were isolated incidents of rape? Also keep in mind that the Tea Partiers were carrying around
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
That's what you want my argument to be, because it would be much easier to dismiss. In reality what I'm saying is that I don't think it's right to have a society that puts crazy amounts of pressure on people and simultaneously refuses to
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Not sure what DUIs have to do with this. I'm thinking about the guy who lost his job, and the closest position he could find was 50 miles away from his home, which he can't move out of without losing a lot of money. He's exhausted from th
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
You're still only thinking in terms of the market. This action is about raising social capital.
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> People need food, shelter, clothes, toiletries, warmth That's exactly what Occupy Sandy provided, in some cases better than the Red Cross or FEMA could: http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/ This is an action by Strike Debt. OWS didn
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
Yeah, no. http://assets.clearbankruptcy.com/infographics/leading-cause...
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
The issue is also, is it really entitlement to ask for a level playing field and a functioning democracy?
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by elemenohpee 14y ago
> Civil liberties and free speech are supposed to be the cornerstone of American democracy and yada yada, but people suddenly feel extremely threatened when people want to exercise them. Notice the government doesn't get their panties i

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