lsiebert

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by lsiebert 6y ago
If someone avoids certain social situations or conversations out of anxiety that women might suddenly think they are awful, might that not say more about them than about women? When people talk about accusations of sexism like they are a hi
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I wonder about how much corporate jargon is a signal of belonging to an in group, and how that might contribute to discrimination on the basis of race or social class. I think we should save jargon for things that we don't already have
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by lsiebert 6y ago
What heavy progressive bias is that?
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I'd go farther than even that. I'd say that by talking about mistakes without blame, I think we actually avoid people making mistakes because folks can learn from other's mistakes, and see them as something they could just as
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Ah that's because at many companies if you make a mistake you are a mistake. Which is BS tbh. Everyone makes mistakes. I think with politicians and political appointees, it's a little different because that's very much a publ
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I think that's basically what I said? I'm not sure I'm getting your point.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
It's not been shown to be effective, there's no reason to change it, and it can be harmful to the mental health of LGBTQ+ folks. That's what the American Psychiatric Association says: " https://www.psychiatry.o
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by lsiebert 6y ago
It's dehumanizing and problematic to classify people's healthy bodies as anomalous or defective. I don't see how your appeal to tradition is sufficient to justify your view. Science generally accepts that the identities it di
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I suggest you read up on intersex people if you think biology is straightforward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex As for diagnostic criteria, they vary from country to country. Here's whats in the DSM 5 h
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by lsiebert 6y ago
When people talk about things as constructs, they aren't saying that they are completely artificial or fake. They are saying that our understanding of gender is a construction, built on top of human bodies which are incredibly complex
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Do people who transition and later regret it explain transgender folks who are happy to have transitioned? Not really, because they are different groups.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
You can still buy this book from the publisher if you really want to. You shouldn't buy it though, not if you want a real look at the experiences of the majority of transgender people, the views of the majority of the medical community
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by lsiebert 6y ago
intent may be a mitigating factor for some, but the harm should be judged by those harmed, should it not? If they can't speak to the harm, who can?
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Honestly this should be permission based, like you click a button to authorize disabling it in the browser.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
There's also been an increase in violent hate crimes. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/16/935439777/fbi-report-bias-mot...
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I think if you are white, you can engage with this entirely as an intellectual debate, or think of it as not a big deal. It's easier then to forget that it's a word still used regularly by people committing violent hate crimes aga
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Recording cops while music is playing should be a fair use under US copyright law, right? So it's mostly about the take-down system and it's abusiveness.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
If your normalize getting it done and exclude people who don't from opportunities, you incentivize people who want to participate, not just in receiving the benefits, but in participating in the group. I think of it much the same way I
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Telling people what they did wrong so they can correct it is appropriate. You don't have to tell them how you detected it, and keeping them banned until they fix it is fine. Also at minimum I'd think I'd allow them access to
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by lsiebert 6y ago
You know, if I was providing support, I'd consider it a point to make it as easy for customers as possible to know what to do. Like if I banned them I'd include how to appeal/fix and how to get more info.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
The people who don't get the vaccine aren't just hurting themselves. We need herd immunity for people who can't take it, or for whom it won't benefit. There are definitely people who may not benefit as much from the vacc
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by lsiebert 6y ago
When there's enough people vaccinated for herd immunity so there isn't community spread. Sadly it didn't have to be this bad. Compare the US to New Zealand.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Looks like they were voting on senators in 96, passed a measure in 98, and had their first all mail vote in 2000. Apparently it also saves a bunch of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Three states exclusively use mail in ballots (starting with Oregon in 2000 I believe so at least 20 years), and if there is epidemic of criminal kneecapping going on, I feel like we'd have heard about it by now.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I can only assume you live in a place in gotham pre batman, or vice city, or maybe a third world nation with super corrupt police.
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Do you get a lot of interference putting mail in the mailbox where you live? Because it's not really a big thing in industrialized nations like the US, afaik. It's pretty easy and quick for me to mail stuff. Convenient too, I can
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Looks like they restored some but not all of what they took down. https://swp.org.uk/1049-2/
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by lsiebert 6y ago
Personally I just give everything the Trump administration says high scrutiny. Just lie after lie, mistruth after mistruth, so that it's hard to believe anything that someone outside them doesn't back up. Especially on computer se
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by lsiebert 6y ago
And yet they believe outright lies, lies repeated by GOP leaders, journalists etc, who at the same time denigrated the main stream media and scientists, eroding trust in neutral institutions. Evaluations are hard to make when all the source
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by lsiebert 6y ago
I think if you look into the history of hate speech, the internet and social media (defined broadly to include BBS systems and internet forums), you'll see this has been a constant problem. One that groups like the NAACP and others hav

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