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by mejari 10y ago
Why are you stating that they didn't follow the "standard channels" when the linked letter explicitly states that they had been doing exactly that for a long period of time? Are you calling them liars?
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by mejari 10y ago
What is your reasoning to state so unequivocally that the goal of this is not to make Uber a better company? Do you agree at least in theory that there is some amount of time of attempting to influence a company in private without success a
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by mejari 10y ago
Isn't the grandparent quote stating the opposite of what you've said here?
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by mejari 10y ago
I don't think it raises any questions about strawmen descriptors of the "modern left" at all. The pearl-clutching over "ess jay doublyous" far outweigh any impact they have in real life.
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"cash club members can win in wonderful ways" You're proving my point exactly. I never said there wasn't an insinuation that if you play you could win, just that there is no guarantee given. See my other reply for exam
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by mejari 10y ago
>No one said casinos advertise that you will for sure walk out with a lot of money I don't see the difference between what I said you said and what you said. You were obviously saying they implied that someone will definitely walk o
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by mejari 10y ago
>I never claimed otherwise. Did you read my post? Yes, I did. You said >Movie theaters also don't advertise in such a way that suggests will walk out with a lot of money. in response to someone comparing movie theaters to casinos
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by mejari 10y ago
I don't believe casinos are allowed to advertise that you will walk out with a lot of money either. Only that you might . Restaurants advertise in such a way that suggests you may have the absolute best night of your life and meet a
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by mejari 10y ago
Cerberus grew more anti-alien throughout the series.
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by mejari 10y ago
Well, we're not there now, so the best we can do is do what we can do now, and promise ourselves to do what we can then. Maybe we will, maybe we'll fail, but there's literally nothing we can do about that now, so why let cyni
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by mejari 10y ago
You managed to write a lot about the fact that they are missing something, but didn't even provide an avenue to help them start to try to understand.
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by mejari 10y ago
The additional risk is the assumption of protection. Someone who doesn't use this site and knows they are under watch may decide not to leak the information because they're aware of their risk. They could get a false sense of secu
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by mejari 10y ago
That takes courage.
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by mejari 10y ago
If your "evidence" is that people in public positions are removed from public positions because of public backlash, then that is no evidence at all. Public opinion often rules out over actual facts in such cases.
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by mejari 10y ago
He asserted that, yes. He didn't really do much to explain his view, other than just repeating that it was "revenge" and "pique". Do you agree with his assessment, and can you provide reasoning for it?
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by mejari 10y ago
That's a thing he did, how can it be seen as sabotage?
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by mejari 10y ago
What action has Obama done that can be seen as "sabotaging the next guy"?
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by mejari 10y ago
That was not the goal of the report. It also doesn't support Vanilla being better than Chocolate.
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by mejari 10y ago
But at least if it's a poorly maintained driver the company can blame the driver and not change their practices.
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by mejari 10y ago
"Lineage" can have a connotation of people talking about the great things their ancestors have done and attempting to somewhat attach themselves to those deeds, as well as an opportunity to look down on people of "lesser bree
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by mejari 10y ago
I guess Tina didn't like her roses.
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by mejari 10y ago
It was explained by the grandparent. They used the sticky to abuse the upvote system by getting everyone to upvote the stickied threads. It breaks the organic upvoting of content to the front page by forcing the thread to the front page of
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by mejari 10y ago
Which is generally what most people like. But if you only want the insightful, in-depth comments you're more likely to get them in a subreddit dedicated to those types of comments then randomly in a more general subreddit. There are ev
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by mejari 10y ago
True, but if your users are filtering out parts of the conversation you'll never reach a point where it's obvious there should be another community created, you'll just have multiple communities talking past each other.
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by mejari 10y ago
But you can accomplish the same thing by creating new more moderated subs. That's why we have /r/AskHistorians in addition to /r/history. If the sub isn't specific enough the solution shouldn't be to falsl
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by mejari 10y ago
>> And this wasn't done out of hatred, it was done have consistent and continual abuse of those mod tools to antagonize the rest of the community. >Oh really? Then why not apply it to every subreddit? Because every subreddit w
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by mejari 10y ago
Can they not do exactly that with their subscriptions? Unsubscribe from AdviceAnimals and subscribe to AskHistorians.
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by mejari 10y ago
The answer is we have that debate as a society. I was asserting that there was a line of demarcation, because you asserted that there wasn't with your claim of "Darwinism".
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by mejari 10y ago
>Please stop offering false dichotomies as opposed to your slippery-slope "where does it end?" argument? Unless you think that there should be no regulations at all, you agree that there is some line before which there should b
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by mejari 10y ago
Geez, at least give me a chance before you decide what I can't do. The difference is pretty basic: Having a "negative impact" requires value-judgement, having a cost does not. In terms of economics it requires a broad view of

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