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by moate 7y ago
>>The point of all of this, I feel is that to many people, the epiphany the article is making was quite obvious, although it is neat to see this quantified. Weirdly that runs contrary to what the study found actually. They mention tha
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by moate 7y ago
From a sociological standpoint: Because you're doing bad social science. When you're talking about values/cultures, those things are inherently rooted in a culture. Saying "all men X" is almost entirely useless beca
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by moate 7y ago
But the articles title just says "men" and "women" not "straight/heterosexual men/women". Seems like a more accurate title would include the fact since you're talking about people in relation to
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by moate 7y ago
Social conditioning? Let's start at the basics: What do you think "gender identity" means exactly?
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by moate 7y ago
What are the key features you're looking for here? I mean security camera have been around forever. If you want something that backs up to the cloud instead of a local drive, there's tons of those as well. AFAIK The NetGear Arlo s
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by moate 7y ago
I mean, why not? Wouldn't it be reasonable to stoke a desire for that in order and use the resulting frustration as a way to continue to keep a segment of their consumers frustrated with government overreach and limitation on 2A? There
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by moate 7y ago
Blizzard isn't obligated to anyone but Blizzard. Isn't that the point of capitalism? They just get to do what they want (assuming it's legal) and "the market" will decide if they're doing the right thing. They
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by moate 7y ago
He worked for a company with a union, and was still fired. I still don't understand your point here. Yes, he says the layoff had benefits, but that seemed more like a "silver lining" than a "I'm glad things happened
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by moate 7y ago
Just trying to understand: you think that somehow unions make it EASIER to layoff/fire someone? That management would somehow assume it's easier/less costly to fire people when they know those people will have a lawyer review
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by moate 7y ago
US- No, they're not required (or expected) to support unionization. There are specifics about how they're allowed to oppose it (saying "unions will hurt the company" is fine, saying "if you organize we will fire you
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by moate 7y ago
Will they? Wouldn't you need to not only do them, but do them better than average? So it's not just that you need to work hard, it's that you need to be working harder than average. But also if someone was already ahead of yo
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by moate 7y ago
IDK man, I only have so many hours in a day. Saying "why weren't you actively engaged in this cause yesterday" isn't really saying much. Some people were pissed with Blizzard before this for <reasons> and this is
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by moate 7y ago
Of course they are. And if everyone wants to protest them because of that, so be it. This is the thing about the whole "free speech" or "private platform, private rules" debate. You can absolutely do whatever you want, a
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by moate 7y ago
>>Companies growing so that they can be worth more when their investors sell them is the whole point of businesses in general Eww. I thought it was about trading products and labor for currency and vice versa. The investor class is ju
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by moate 7y ago
I was looking for this comment, and was going to post it myself if nobody else did. Please don't encourage the surveillance state to go around and keep a DB of all your genetic information. It doesn't end well.
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by moate 7y ago
Let's just agree to disagree on what constitutes good supporting evidence and move on.
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by moate 7y ago
OOF. That's not how this works sir. Did you read the article? Some quotes: “They said to target homeless people because they’re the least likely to say anything to the media,” the ex-staffer said. “The homeless people didn’t know what
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by moate 7y ago
Let's ignore India specifically, and call out "the whole rest of the world that isn't the US, Western Europe, and Israel". Why isn't it fair? You're saying "the best vegan cities in the world" and ign
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by moate 7y ago
I agree with your "Where is Europe" sentiment, but lists like this aren't super helpful. The fact that western site somehow doesn't have a single Asian city, despite veganism tracing it's roots to India, in their to
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by moate 7y ago
>>If 2 men ask for a pink cake with chocolate frosting and a straight couple ask for a pink cake with chocolate frosting, there's no inherent difference in the product, and thus in the production. The only difference is who the c
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by moate 7y ago
Good dodge! Why is "creating a cake to be used by gay people" different from "hosting an event for gay people" in your mind? Why shouldn't you be able to skip out on doing either if you don't believe that they&
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by moate 7y ago
Bob isn't into pronouns, but our limited human understanding demands them.
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by moate 7y ago
Why do you feel that the person cited in the article below does not have the right to have their deeply held religious freedoms protected, while the rights of the cake baker involving the gay couple does? https://www.vox.com&#x2F
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by moate 7y ago
I guess as a dadaist I just find metaphorically dead frogs hilarious. Or metaphorical dissection hilarious? The point is, sometimes the joke is that the joke isn't the joke.
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by moate 7y ago
There's so much to unpack here, IDK where to even start. "I don't see color" doesn't feel helpful to many people of color. If you believe that there are prejudices, and you want to fix them, saying "everyone im
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by moate 7y ago
>>The question is really how to add transparency and systemization to the process in a way that cannot be gamed. You can't make a system that can't be gamed if there's people making judgement calls involved. You can&#x2
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by moate 7y ago
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/01/730386096/federal-judge-rules... Also links to an SC case that will likely be cited should they decide to take up this one (which seems unlikely IMHO).
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by moate 7y ago
I mean if you just stop mid-sentence you can make people say all sorts of things they didn't actually say. >> Because iirc pretty Thanks for the compliment! Let's address what was said, and what I meant. Here's the part
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by moate 7y ago
From my understanding it was pretty basic "Prosecution didn't do their job, and they did they're job SO poorly I have to dismiss this because everyone is staring at me because this is such a high profile case" situation.
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by moate 7y ago
I like to believe that the US government wouldn't fire the first shot, that it would be citizen aggression against them that would spur them into action. But who knows. In the Bundy incident(s) no shots were fired. I believe that'

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