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by istjohn 6y ago
I believe the Ohio ruling was based on Ohio's own state constitution.
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by istjohn 6y ago
My anecdote is from Columbus, Ohio, so I'd say a lot of states do considering Columbus' latitude.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yes, there was segregation before Brown. But it was not so pervasive and near-universal in the way it became after. There were many places where whites and Blacks did live in the same areas. These places may have been segregated, but it was
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yes, this is true. Thus Somalia's ascendant tech scene. No pesky state to get in the way of innovation.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I agree it's a worth exploring. Just spitballing, part of it may be the cost of maintaining old buildings, particularly when changing demographics lead to over-capacity in some neighborhoods and under-capacity in others. It may also st
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by istjohn 6y ago
No, that's simply false. White flight was about racism. Period. And it was not "a tiny minority acting in a bad direction," it was one of many ways Blacks were systematically oppressed at the time, see, e.g., red-lining, empl
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by istjohn 6y ago
Go look at the schools in poor Black neighborhoods in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnatti. You will find buildings in disrepair, lacking basic things like air conditioning. Last year, Columbus City Schoo
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by istjohn 6y ago
Children do not thrive in stale, lifeless institutions that treat them like machines to be programmed with knowledge. They require opportunities for creativity, play, exploration, and also nutritious food and exercise. Miserable, sickly chi
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by istjohn 6y ago
That part jumped out at me, too. > “There were wealthier people on the upper floors,” says Dragonas, “people who had just arrived from the countryside further down and poor students in the basement. That sort of vertical stratification
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by istjohn 6y ago
I remember when I first got glasses as a kid. I was thrilled with how crisply I could see all the little branches in the trees when I looked up. It was a total blessing for me, but I can see how it could feel overwhelming for someone, too.
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by istjohn 6y ago
For any other confused Americans: Git is a term of insult with origins in English denoting an unpleasant, silly, incompetent, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. As a mild oath it is roughly on a par with prat and marginally less
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by istjohn 6y ago
Let me try again. Think of Step 4 like this: --- STEP 4 REDUX RELOADED Imagine a powerful argument. Let's call it "The Decider." "The Decider" is a series of logical steps that allows us to go from A to B, where A i
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by istjohn 6y ago
That's debatable. Consider this quote: > It’s worth repeating something else Bari Weiss said [in my April 13-19 column, “Columbia Whitewashes“]: “We are doing this because we believe in the rights of all Columbia students to dissent
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by istjohn 6y ago
How have the authors prevented many diverse points of view from being heard? You're going to need more than "they signed onto an open letter published in a magazine that has unpaid interns."
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by istjohn 6y ago
This is what-about-ism, not a substantive objection. One need not point out every obstacle to open debate in order to identify one important obstacle to open debate.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I support the Harper's letter and sympathise with many of Weiss' criticisms, but I agree that she flirts with cancel culture territory herself with her language about a hostile work environment. Do you want robust debate or not?
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by istjohn 6y ago
No, her complaint is that there is an orthodoxy at all, instead of openness to debate and willingness to consider divergent opinions. If you're going to make the case that her stated complaints are made in bad faith, you need to bring
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by istjohn 6y ago
It would really be incredible if Apple devices were the only device with unbreakable glass screens. That's why phone cases are ubiquitous. Why should they pay for your negligence? You might have a point if they refused to replace the s
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by istjohn 6y ago
> If you assume S(n) is true, n being any natural number, what good does it to to prove that S(n+1) is also true since it is included in the initial assumption imho. Read the explanation on induction at the bottom if you haven't yet
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by istjohn 6y ago
The real victim there wasn't McDonalds, though, but all the people who spent additional money at McDonalds to play a rigged game.
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by istjohn 6y ago
I think it's more nuanced than that. There are excesses[1]--I'm skeptical that this was one of them. [1] https://twitter.com/jenbrea/status/1271148784316108800
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yeah, she lost me there.
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by istjohn 6y ago
There are plenty of real world situations where startup and warm up times don't matter.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Thanks! I love how enthusiastically you engaged the wrong-headed comments on this article. I'm often tempted to roll my eyes and get on with my day, but I really do think it's important that these statements aren't allowed to
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by istjohn 6y ago
Interracial marriage does not eliminate race, but in my experience as someone in an interracial marriage, it does greatly ameliorate the harms of racial divisions in society. It closes the empathy gap, allowing a large circle of people on e
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by istjohn 6y ago
My parents are not like this at all, so it's not universal.
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by istjohn 6y ago
As someone married to someone from a different language and culture, I can say that those differences are not as insurmountable as they might seem, and the effort to overcome them is repaid many times over if you enjoy expanding your horizo
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by istjohn 6y ago
Agreed. I'm ignorant of Indian culture, but I am married to someone from a very different racial and ethnic backround than my own. My experience has led me to believe that intermarriage is one of the most powerful ways to break down cu
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by istjohn 6y ago
You're right to point out the absurdity of dividing the universe of people into two groups: white and non-white or white and "POC." But humans have evolved to be suspicious of those who aren't in their tribe, who are dif
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by istjohn 6y ago
They are storing liquid air at low pressure, so container tensile strength is not a limiting factor at all.

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