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by iammisc 5y ago
Well of course, the anti-racists quite literally believe that 'whiteness' is the gold standard by which every other race, including the asians, who have far surpassed the whites, ought to be held, because deep down inside they bel
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> you can't run out of trivialities. Spot on. I'd add... you can't run out of irrelevant trivialities.
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I don't care about facebook, but can we stop using the word 'algorithm' to describe a machine learning model? An algorithm is a sequence of steps with logic that you can translate into a programming language. An algorithm is
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Children today rarely see the results of their labor. School grades are so inflated there is little correlation with the quality of work and the mark. This causes anxiety because children rarely feel competent and frankly many are not.
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Well yess... Being a human individual in this country entitles you to believe and speak how you want. Nazis are still humans, despite their behavior
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Anxiety and depression is caused by children being allowed to relax and consume too much rather than engaging in productive, achievement based labor.
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It's not optimal. We should normalize doing work on Saturday. I'm fine with not having paid work or making it so that employment is four days a week, but most suggestions I've seen imply that the purpose of the new day is to
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We have parties, large gatherings all the time. Those take a lot of work. Frankly the people who typically tell me this also tend to have less fun than we do. We're constantly drinking partying and having fun with each other. I'm
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I'm well aware. The penitential practices are voluntary. Mother Theresa did not try to run a hospital, but a hospice. Having visited India and seeing street conditions, letting people die with dignity providing them basic necessities i
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This is nonsense, if you look even to the beginnings of Christianity, both the catholic and orthodox churches rejected stoning and the Jewish law very early on. The documentation of the rejection is written about in the bible. If you want t
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The republican party has a big tent too. There are neocons, extreme far right people, religious people, disaffected workers, anti globalists, and increasingly Hispanics and other immigrant groups. These groups often have little in common. J
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I am not joking. Even on the weekends, I'm doing something useful, like cleaning the house (which is actual work), fixing the house, taking care of the car, taking care of the children, etc. All these things are real jobs that would ot
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This is correct. As a salaried employee, I am paid for my loyalty in the way a nurse is not. In exchange for a fixed yearly sum, I promise my employer to basically have their interests at heart and work only for them, which we agree, for re
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Get an office job and tell everyone you have a contagious disease you could spread to them I guess.
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Personally, on my team at work, I encourage this behavior. I see no reason to keep my employees at their desk when there's nothing immediate to do. I tell them to please go for a walk or take a nap if there's something they'r
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Oh yeah, all us Christians are really suffering. Truly we have maximized human suffering. It's just sad when you visit historically Christian countries to witness the maximal human suffering one could ever see in the world. Truly grote
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> We want to believe that outcomes are related to the amount, and not quality, of work put in. Actually, I don't think anyone believes that. People want to believe that outcomes are related to the utility of the work you do, which b
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Personally, I was struggling with mental health because I wasn't allowed to see friends or socialize by government fiat. Now that those inhuman orders have been removed, it's much easier to feel like a human being. But politicians
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I don't want a four day work week. That sounds awful. If they made a four day work week, I'd either get another job, or if that was banned, I'd take on a hobby for pay (And likely get my children involved too). It is not norm
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You claim I'm deflecting after starting the name calling. Perhaps if you spoke using proper language, you wouldn't get such smarmy responses. Claiming the vax was recommended by a 'reality show host' neglects the fact he
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Being a Nazi is a protected class https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp... And having a gay wedding is indeed a choice, and Jack Phillips shouldn't be forced to participate if he believes th
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I don't wholesale disagree with everything she has to say. As I've stated multiple times on this thread, I believe Facebook should be liquidated and its executives, including Mark Zuckerberg jailed. I am referring to these points
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SCOTUS didn't comment on the question, remanded the case back. When another person brought a similar case to the CO board, they found against the baker: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/18/us/jack-phillip
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Snowden advocated in favor of the government following their own law (not spying on people without judicially issued warrants). This 'whistleblower' is asking the government to violate their own law (the first amendment) by bannin
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I was just listening to hannity the other day and the man was constantly talking about how you should talk to your doctor about vaccines because it's the best way to prevent covid. Listening to Cavuto the other afternoon, and heard a s
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These 'conservative' columnists do not reflect the majority of conservative opinion in this country though. NYT columnists tend to be members of the political or cultural elite. There is a large strain of anti-elite sentiment runn
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> The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process. Yet I still on HN people say NyTimes is liberal which I don't belive either. The New York times and WaPo? You mean the ones t
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Tobacco and alcohol have large cultural influence. Tobacco at least should be eradicated mostly and alcohol ought to generally be reduced in usage. However, those are orthogonal problems. The solution is not to embed yet more addictive, har
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The whole idea of 'throwing the book at someone' must end. Either people should be treated equally (i.e., everyone have the same book thrown at them) or the laws that most people aren't charged with ought to be removed from t
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I think it's a bad idea any way you slice or dice it. Either it's an academic legal theory as some claim (in which case it belongs in law schools, not elementary, middle or early high school) or it's divisive as others claim.

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