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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Why not give it a shot? A) because the evidence of institutionalized discrimination in the field is scanty at best. B) because the techniques suggested for "giving it a shot" frequently involve cruel social manipulation, elimi
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Well said. Men are never on bad dates or in awkward social situations they'd like to get out of gracefully. Why, the very idea is just absurd.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's weird how it's never Chinese or Russian data that gets dumped all over the Internet by these self-proclaimed hacker vigilantes, just American data. Yeah, that's what it is. Weird.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Firefox for Android works quite nicely, in my experience -- better as a browser than mobile Chrome, which surprised me as I had little faith in Mozilla's products before trying it. And installing uBlock Origin was a trivial matter of d
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"The neutrality of this article is disputed." Man, no kidding. And there's an enormous difference between supporting an aid organization that is religiously based, and opening actual mosques and employing imams.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Yes, you would be wrong in saying that. Really, where would that idea even come from?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What country do you live in? Does it have any enemies? Would you be upset if some local corporation sold breakthrough military technology to that enemy?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. That still doesn't change the fact that if you keep aggressively lecturing people about it, they'll stop watching your network.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's easy to nod along and say "come on, stop complaining, you need to be aware of this stuff" when you already agree with the views being peddled. If Colin Kaepernick and friends had been taking a knee to protest against abo
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
How is that relevant to the parent comment? The fact that the percentage of black coaches in the NFL is somewhat less than the percentage of blacks in the overall American population could be the worst injustice ever in the history of the w
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I don't think the solution is to run on explicitly giving more power to the slaveholders.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Rants like these are of little meaning as long as the people who insist the government is run by slaveholders keep voting for politicians who want to give the government more power. Put your ballot where your mouth is, guys.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's their job to care about this issue.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I agree, it is! But that still doesn't mean people (or, at least, swing voters) actually care.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That was a very strange article with all the near-wishful "igniting speculation about a Clinton defeat" stuff. The whole emails issue has been inside baseball, politics-wise. Insiders and pundits love yelling about it but average
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"Fact-checking" doesn't work, because now you've got a single exploitable point of failure. All your ideological cronies have to do is get control of the fact-checking department.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Being extremely principled is exactly why many of these companies and/or their engineers might be tempted to put their thumb on the scales. After all, this election or this issue or this whatever is just so super important that it woul
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I don't think you can just gaze at a dam from the visitors' center and accurately deduce how much renewable energy is being produced by hydroelectric power across one of the largest countries in the world. Why, even buying a souve
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Please value the safety of children, the elderly, and women. Why only them?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Why would we expect public organizations to be any more efficient than private organizations? We wouldn't expect that, of course, but there are a lot of people out there who do assume as an axiom that any publicly provided resource
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Men tend to make more money than women. Seven dollars a month may not be a big deal to you, but it is for some people. How is this also not an argument that health insurance should pay for food? People (including women!) pay way more p
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Find the people who are claiming that the sea levels will rise and destroy our cities, and attempting to sell you things based on that. Buy stock in their company.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I get all my scientific knowledge from comics on the Internet too.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Is that the UN whose human rights councils are always headed by the worst human rights abusers on Earth? Just checking.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And as we all know, if there's any nation whose official economic statistics are completely trustworthy, it's China. Why, even if China's famously open and transparent government did feel the urge to mess with the statistics,
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Until Obamacare came along, it was common for health insurance in the US to not cover birth control -- yet it often covered Viagra. Birth control costs literally $7 a month. You can get it from almost any pharmacy in the nation. Compla
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Heck, we didn't even invest in "shovel ready" projects. 90% of what we were told was "infrastructure" spending went to shore up state entitlement budgets.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Presumably they don't want to put themselves in the business of determining if a primary source is legitimate or if some random pseudonymous writer's original research is accurate. Not an unreasonable desire! Except instead they&#
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's the lowest-effort of low-effort virtue signaling, that's why. Look at me, I'm so not racist, unlike all you racisty racists who have the gall to talk about a subway line instead of something I care about.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Even "just the facts" is a fallacy. Wikipedia has simply outsourced its fact-checking to the news media, which is... well, how to put this... not very interested in facts.

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