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by r_smart 10y ago
If I were to guess, I'd say the problem starts much sooner than high school. I think the coddling begins right away, and continues until college, where it suddenly stops. I think this is at the heart of the problem, and we're just
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I'm confused. Did she spring the porn on them? Did she just hit play as soon as everyone sat down without preamble or context? The students had no opportunity to object or excuse themselves beforehand? If that's how that actually
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At least in the world of electrical engineering, you are quite incorrect. There are masters and slaves all over the place around here.
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>Just a culture that promotes being aware of common triggers. I'd argue we pretty much already have this. Most people are aware of when a delicate topic is delicate and will treat it as such or avoid it, depending on the context. Tr
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The other implication of this that never gets acknowledged: If modern US colleges are all these horrible things and widely known to be left leaning, then why are the students mostly all leftists? Isn't there something rotten in the i
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Have you ever listened to Ben Shapiro? That the content of his talks can be labeled as hate speech is the very problem with the idea of having hate speech be a thing. It rapidly becomes "Anything that disagrees with the majority, reg
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I would argue that it is worse. If you are on someone's back, in a rear naked choke your entire body is set to controlling the person you're choking and you are defenseless against other attacks. Not just attacks from behind; you
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Interesting, thought I would argue that's not Yoga as a martial art, rather as a component of training. We don't say jogging is a martial art even though most every professional fighter has jogging as part of their regimen. Tai Ch
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> I'd say that not having 360 degree vision is a terrible shortcoming Well now you're just being silly :) >Do not underestimate the power of a takedown to the cement I'm aware. I practiced Aikido for 10 years and BJJ fo
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Now that I've thought about it, I'd be willing to bet money it's somewhere in "The Foot Fist Way". How could it not be?
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Is that from something? I feel like I should recognize it. I always think of ConAir when this comes up. Clearly the best treatment of the issue possible.
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Agreed, but coiling yourself around someone and rolling on the ground is a terrible position to be in when that someone has friends. The reality of most street fights is it's just drunk people being idiots. That usually means friends a
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Yeah. One thing you don't learn enough about when you train in martial arts is that you can get royally screwed by the law. If a decent lawyer convinces a judge you're a deadly weapon (and a missing eye might help support that), t
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On the street, techniques that rely mostly on inflicting pain aren't so great. This is why chokeholds and debilitating joint locks are preferable. You may not feel the pain (for whatever reason) but your arm is still broken and no long
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>Why learn Tai Chi or Yoga? To my knowledge Yoga has never been practiced as a form of combat. Tai Chi is rarely taught as such. To actually answer your question, look at why those things are taught: wellness. >why are people still pl
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>Doesn't sound like a pro-privacy activist... Well, funding putting cameras in the sky supports that certainly, but what do pensions and charter schools have to do with privacy?
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I can't reply to your reply, so you get a parallel reply. While I agree banning people for saying barely offensive stuff is reprehensible, I also tend to try to err on the side of 'more freedom'. They can do whatever they wan
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The cheap way out for me is to say those people are no longer employees :) Being honest though, yeah businesses will do shitty thing to employees when their interests don't align with the employees. That said, I've worked for heal
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Sorry, I seem to have misunderstood a crucial part of what you were saying, which is: using the data as evidence in court. I also dug around to see if the FBI has any surveillance apparatus like what the NSA is doing and didn't come up
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I don't want to derail you too much, but I'd argue that Twitter should just be open about what editorial decisions they've made (they don't have to justify it if they don't want). Then people can decide whether they
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You seem to still be confusing the concept of free speech with the legal enshrinement as such. They are different. One is a philosophical idea, and one is a legal protection. I understand they often are muddied, since it's usually gove
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Sorry, I meant it to mean that the CEO represents the interests of the employees in that the employees do well as the company does well. Yeah, they get less of the yield than those at the top, but if the company isn't doing well it put
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No worries bursting my bubble, I learned a bunch, so that was cool. I'll have to take a look at the private K-12 schools in my area. I assumed they were going to the benefit of whoever owned the schools.
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Isn't the FBI also conducting similar kinds of surveillance activities as the NSA, though not as broad in scope?
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The CEO of an oil company represents all of the people that work for that company, and the many people who are investors in that company (often including pension funds, which are beholden to those same teachers in the union). It's disi
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My argument against you from the same example: Look how uniform young people were in the decision (obviously the people who spend the most time using social media).
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Free speech and the first amendment are different things. People aren't being unreasonable when they moan about the curtailing of free speech on Twitter. That said, I don't have a strong stance either way on this particular issue.
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Why does somebody always have to come and make this argument? Nobody is arguing what Twitter is doing is illegal, but rather whether they should do it or not. The legality of their actions is clear and obvious. This seems similar to the tir
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It is curious how overlooked the money unions dump into lobbying is. They are spending massive amounts of money lobbying DC, but nobody seems to talk about it. The people that complain about companies who run private prisons lobbying congre
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Why not detail this smarter way? I don't see how you get around choosing between 1.) all at once, do it almost never or 2.) Semi-regularly, but in smaller batches. It's the act of introducing the periodicity that damages morale so

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