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by kaitai 6y ago
FWIW, I agree with you.
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by kaitai 6y ago
It seems to me, though, that this is social cooling just as insidious. "I can't complain about the work 'sexy' on this corporate release because someone will think I'm a SJW." "I can't push back on us
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by kaitai 6y ago
Well, how many Klansmen attended Black churches and universities, befriending Black folks all the while and... uh... ok, I can't really see the great outcome here other than the Klansman not being a Klansman anymore. I'm proud you
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by kaitai 6y ago
Well, in my corporate job, there are meetings where I don't espouse my controversial view about an architecture or modeling decision, because... the same thing? I'm sure that's also true in the Church of Scientology and a lot
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think this is a completely illogical thing you're arguing. Trans person: I feel (this way). a non-equivalent statement from an anti-transness-person: You are wrong to feel that way; your feeling is false and what you are doing is wro
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by kaitai 6y ago
This is in part a reply to you and in part a comment on all the sibling comments. There are many cultural assumptions that are built into the comments here. Worth examining. * "What, you’re against X? Sorry, come correct or lose your p
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by kaitai 6y ago
Uh, when I go to that page I don't see the word "union" anywhere on it. I tried searching for "union" on it and didn't get anything either. Where's the union part? I am truly confused. How did you get the
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by kaitai 6y ago
This is straight BS from my experience. My local Dems are spending time on the Temporary Protected Status groups, especially Liberians who've been here since the 1990s, Haitians who don't have a home to go back to, Nepalese. They&
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by kaitai 6y ago
I gotta disagree with the "just marry an American" advice; sure, it makes some things easier, but due to a paperwork mistake in 1979 or so my mother-in-law was almost deported two years ago after being married to an American and l
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by kaitai 6y ago
In school, we (I'm in the US) spent a whole high school semester on Greece and Rome. In elementary school we had a unit on Mayans/Aztecs/the Inca, and we had a unit on ancient India, but not in high school. For some reason Ch
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by kaitai 6y ago
But that's the thing -- most successful businesses (as opposed to youthful adventures that paint one as 'innovative' on a resume) are started by older founders who have a depth of experience in their field. As parent of a 3
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by kaitai 6y ago
If the family you'd fall back on lives in Section 8 housing and you don't meet several criteria and become an approved occupant, you can't go back to live with them. If you stay with them, they will lose their housing. This a
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by kaitai 6y ago
I thought that was a poorly-researched article. I'm most familiar with the Holy Land Deli situation, and actually talking to employees and customers results in articles like https://sahanjournal.com/news/as-holy-la
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by kaitai 6y ago
If you're a person who, while reading, is constantly arguing with the author and digging into their and your point of view, you may find this article and method of reading shallow. The method of "surgical reading" is most sui
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by kaitai 6y ago
Cardiac arrest is a significant "side effect" of COVID-19, leading to death. Hospitals are better equipped for that. Kidney problems are popping up in some folks post-infection; that's also better dealt with in a hospital.
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by kaitai 6y ago
One difficulty is that while there have been improvements in treatment resulting in less ventilator and ICU usage, and we've substantially increased number of ICU beds in many areas, we're still seeing staff attrition. In my metro
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by kaitai 6y ago
That's why the Paleolithic had shorter lifespans than moderns... no gyms....
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by kaitai 6y ago
The number of cases has nothing to do with the amount of testing! The number of reported or confirmed cases is correlated with testing. That's a significantly different statement, and also tautological and essentially vacuous. Aver
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by kaitai 6y ago
It requires coordinated societal action, which is definitely the same as the death of Freedom and Liberty and thus is to be avoided.
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think it's purely a media thing. When the public health folks I know have been modeling, they've been modeling with a primary eye toward number of ICU beds needed and number of ventilators needed. For instance if you look at ht
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by kaitai 6y ago
To try to make more explicit a point I tried to approach earlier: A Black person can't just crucify themselves over injustice in the world and thus fail to get all their own mission done and expect it to accomplish what was desired. Go
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by kaitai 6y ago
The strategies we use to optimize our own possibilities for success encompass one set of options (and what you say is pretty much what I think, too, about the 'woman in tech' issue). Then the strategies that will optimize success
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by kaitai 6y ago
I haven't read DiAngelo's work yet. I'm reading some of Ibram Kendi's books, though, as a friend recommended them. Here's an article from 2017 about some of his work and thought: https://theundefeated.com
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by kaitai 6y ago
I gotta say A Mathematical Theory of Communication is not an obscure brain teaser, and has had quite an impact.... so your reply doesn't really reflect what the previous poster was asking about...
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by kaitai 6y ago
I meet regularly with 2 people in the same room in one city, and me and one other person in the same room in another city (4 people, 2 locations). Google Meet is unfortunately entirely unusable for this purpose. It will select one person to
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by kaitai 6y ago
As a mathematician, I have to say that a good definition comes first :) I don't know if my definition is good, but I have a working definition of 'cultural appropriation' that says something can only be 'cultural appropr
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by kaitai 6y ago
I think this article is a lot more nuanced than you give it credit for. In talking about blackface alone, the author talks about Al Jolson but also John Howard Griffin and his book "Black Like Me". Very, very different! It feels l
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by kaitai 6y ago
Yes.
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by kaitai 6y ago
Hey, just wanted to say thank you. I'm in the Twin Cities (Mpls/St Paul MN) and I've absolutely been on Broadcastify for hours in the last week. On Friday/Saturday night things were getting pretty wild near my house, and
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by kaitai 6y ago
The cameraman was literally standing where directed to stand by the police.

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