joijoiwejrr

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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> Latinx employees Is there an affinity group for the overwhelming majority of "Latinx" people who don't use or like this term?
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Well did he email his management with a list of demands they weren't willing to meet, saying that he'd resign if the demands weren't met? Because that appears to be what Gebru has done.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> the leaker was also fired Really? I never heard this, and I followed the Damore drama very closely at the time. It's an interesting detail; do you have a source?
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Eh, I'm not sure what point I was trying to make, and to be clear I don't think your comment was racist. Culture is obviously correlated with race in some respects. It's when you start talking about the reason behind some o
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Well whether or not you think the quote is true, the only point I was trying to make is that the truth of the quote doesn't depend on who said it.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
This is correct.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Fact check: James Damore never said this in his own defense and afaik didn't publicly reveal that he's on the spectrum until the Guardian wrote a profile of him months after the initial controversy.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Ridiculously, people are starting to use this term in the UK too, even though white people are the indigenous ones here.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> By "African-American" here I mean descendants of slaves who lived in the USA, and are thus severely disadvantaged because of it, having actual wealth stolen without any legal means available for recovery. I do understand tha
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> What makes you think POC are equivalent with woke activists? It's actually the opposite of the truth; "woke" activists/SJWs/whatever you want to call them are disproportionately white.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> culture is strongly connected to race. In another context this statement would be seen as overtly racist.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
That quote is often attributed to Voltaire, but, sadly, it actually belongs to Kevin Alfred Strom, a white nationalist.[0] Doesn't make the quote less true though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Str
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
But far less carbon-efficient than just not buying so much unnecessary crap in the first place.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> They don't publish unsubstantiated trash Ever heard of the 1619 Project?
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
I used to have fun filling in those reCAPTCHAs with incorrect answers. They would show you two words, and it was always obvious which word was the actual CAPTCHA test and which was the OCR input, because the former would be warped into a fu
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
From Wikipedia: > Octopus lifespan is limited by reproduction: males can live for only a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch. ... Octopus reproductive organs mature due to the hormonal influence of the
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
What happens if the person is driving at high speed when the signal comes to shut the car down? Does it only take effect when they park? Do they get a warning before parking that the car will shut down when they do?
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
It's funny, because I always hear people talking about how creepy and stupid all these personalised ads are, but I have honestly never noticed. I've been blocking adverts on every device I use for almost as long as I've been
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
What if people already have enough pointless junk? My problem is not that I want to see ads that are more "relevant", it's that I don't want to see ads. I don't care what you're selling. If my problem that you&
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
D'oh. My "5 to 10 points" was off the top of my head based on some numbers I saw being thrown around last week but I didn't bother to double-check. Thanks for keeping me factual. I wouldn't say "the models are
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
I posted this elsewhere in the thread but even without exit polls we can make some reasonably solid conclusions from geographical voting data: https://sweep.thedispatch.com/p/the-sweep-dont-trust-the-exi... At this poi
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
It astonishes me that anyone can think "cancel culture" is a right-wing myth.
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Biden won by razor-thin margins in the swing states, underperformed his polls by 5 to 10 points across the country, and got crushed in several states which pollsters had said were competitive (e.g. Texas). Meanwhile the Democrats lost seats
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
It's what the exit polls say, although the main lesson we've learned this year is not to trust polls. What's clearer is that Trump made big gains in areas of the country with a high Latino and Hispanic population - e.g. Santa
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
All "lived experience" means is "anecdotal evidence, but I'll call you a racist if you disagree."
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
Fossil fuels are already going catastrophically wrong: their continued use is the greatest threat to life on this planet in the history of humanity. Compared with the certainty of carbon-induced climate catastrophe, I'll take the ris
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> The tories were also voted in with nuclear power in their manifesto, albeit only in one small section. I'll bet my life that fewer than 10% of the people who voted Conservative last December had any idea what the manifesto said ab
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by joijoiwejrr 6y ago
> You can't go to the police for someone making racist or sensitive insults. You can in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23128956