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by falcolas 3y ago
> Otherwise, you wouldn't see the biological differences in track and field performances between males and females, given how much football relies on physical attributes like size, strength and explosiveness. I will grant you this.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Is there a reason they should not? Or at least have representation? With such a small subset of the population, statistically there wouldn't be an even mix. But IMO there should be at least some representation of every "protected&
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by falcolas 3y ago
Those NBs are really making some inroads into MIT then, aren't they?
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by falcolas 3y ago
No, I'm not saying that - and it's rather disingenuous to even infer that statement from my post. However, if an 85 year old with arthritis and glaucoma wants or needs to join the workforce, they should have the opportunity an
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by falcolas 3y ago
> So on and so forth for literally every slice of life you can think of; you will never find anything that reflects the demographics of the underlying society. Aside from discrimination built into the slices of life, sure. To use your NF
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ironically, when it comes to nursing, no small part of the gender difference is because of discrimination against male nurses by doctors, nurses, and patients. Until that's addressed, we can't even begin to assert that Nursing is
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by falcolas 3y ago
The policy was based on several factors, of which race was one. And helping some groups of people - yes, sometimes the grouping is determined by race - is not discriminating against everyone else. In other words, lifting Asians, Blacks, Haw
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by falcolas 3y ago
> is the end goal that every industry, workplace, and residential are Well, if we follow the meritocratic ideology that everyone has the same opportunities available to them, it would be a natural conclusion. There is nothing that inhere
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by falcolas 3y ago
> They should have lost the publics trust over that alone. Public opinion - let alone public trust - does not matter to a Supreme Court justice; they're appointed by the government for life. There's literally nothing the public
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by falcolas 3y ago
> AA had a purpose and place at some moment in time. I think that moment has passed. Given how women and people with disabilities are still largely absent from these discussions and who still face massive challenges in breaking into some
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by falcolas 3y ago
> I hate this supreme court for overruling their own decisions Yeah. Based off the various deep dives I heard about a year ago, the court is supposed to strongly favor leaving prior court rulings in place, but the current justices decide
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by falcolas 3y ago
“… realigning key departments to help deepen engagement with our readers…” And nothing deepens engagement with readers like eliminating your full time writers. Who doesn’t simply adore getting a different voice for every regurgitated AP new
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by falcolas 3y ago
IIUC, it only circumvents politics due to existing treaties. Those old treaties are likely ripe for revision with the extensive commercialization and the increasing number of countries capable of launching payloads into space. https:/
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by falcolas 3y ago
Heh. Your average human driver will have zero fatal accidents in their driving career. The fatalities happen in the margins, in the fractional percentage points. Arguably, this makes autopilot, with its singular set of fuzzy logic, worse th
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by falcolas 3y ago
I’d say at least 5 years since it’s debut. Long enough for the rough edges to be softened, to show that people are willing to maintain it, for detractors to have pointed out legitimate issues, for the tech to become stable. I’d prefer 10 ye
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by falcolas 3y ago
> At no point do they just throw their arm on the backside of the passenger seat, and turn around to look out the windows while keeping one hand on the wheel. It is as if this movement, this posture, is completely new to them. As a point
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by falcolas 3y ago
> opting out of data sharing can be done via an app. Oh, the irony. As the owner of a new Toyota who received a phone call from our dealer because Toyota contacted them about a (routine) maintenance alert from our vehicle… the car /
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by falcolas 3y ago
As someone who fully supports ejecting toxic relatives - including fathers and mothers - from their adult lives, no, they should not feel bad if they can't or won't accept their parents' toxicity. Keeping toxic people in your
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Can you think of anything feminine that takes more strength than motherhood? Sure. Enduring this kind of misogynistic classification of their womanhood when they don't have a child (regardless of the cause). The idea that someone
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by falcolas 3y ago
> You don't see a lot of women trying to defend their masculine sense of pride by picking fights Why limit this only to "masculine" pride? You absolutely see women picking fights to defend their pride. We just call that be
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by falcolas 3y ago
The plain text of the constitution, while interesting, is of no use for driving real world behavior without the centuries worth of interpretation and precedent set by the Supreme Court.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Nice marketing piece. It’s too dangerous to release until enough buzz is built about how dangerous it is. Then it will be released (or “leaked”).
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by falcolas 3y ago
Input wise, a throat mic would work. They can rest on the side of your neck and generally only hear you. There’s probably even Bluetooth ones available out there. Storage wise, I’d personally just go with a publicly stored (and archived) cr
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by falcolas 3y ago
TODO: Find new doctor.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> I assumed that Oceangate was attempting to make deep sea submarines more affordable. Why? Especially when their target audience is/was billionaires with plenty of money to spend on novel experiences. I imagine their pricing takes
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by falcolas 3y ago
And their failures cause those same countries non-trivial amounts of money. Consider the Coast Guard and Navy efforts for this latest event.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Given how orcas were wearing dead fish hats for a year or so, then abandoned the practice entirely, "for the lulz" isn't necessarily wrong.
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by falcolas 3y ago
From the byline: “Accuracy is debatable” Another case of AI hype and clickbait headlines meshing nicely.
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Yet we won’t lose that history if Reddit loses its users and mods. New history will be found in the same place as old - surfaced via Google (discord excluded).
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by falcolas 3y ago
From the end of TFA. “If ultrapure water was consumed continually, epithelial cells would be steadily leached (or perhaps instantly in the case of the goldfish’s respiratory system).” Basically it would scour cells from you digestive system

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