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   by rexpop 1y ago

   > women received the fruits of their spouse's labor With extreme conditions no legal employer could impose, often including rape and certainly bodily mutilation—to say nothing of tight purse strings.
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   > People game their social scores by being provocative edgelords. Sure, some people are shooting that moon, but that's a tiny fraction of the rest—let alone the lurkers—who are keen on maintaining employment and wedding invitation
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   Has therapy been helpful?
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   Pacific cultures have long oral histories referencing altruistic and cooperative behavior from Orcas.
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   > being socially anxious tends to make you less likeable Citation needed.
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   There is still plenty of color discrimination. Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, Hindus in Pakistan, Christians in Pakistan, Dalits in India, tribal communities in India, migrant workers from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh in M
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   Both are violent, but one is an order of magnitude more violent.
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   I'm sure the developer community would have spent the money if we'd had it, but unfortunately ROI has not trickled down quite so far as promised.
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   by rexpop 1y ago

   Are you referring to Shaun Maguire remarks labeling Zohran Mamdani an "Islamist"? Then you'll love that a16z general partner Katherine Boyle went on Bari Weiss's[0] podcast[1] to help spin the Charlie Kirk martyrdom narr
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    I worked very hard to interrogate and challenge the foundations of the white-supremacist patriarchal "political religion" (do you not know the word "ideology?") into which I was born. This transition was deliberate, and
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Ultimately, the goal of using a labor force with restricted mobility (like H-1B visa holders) is to contain labor militancy and suppress wages. I've found "civic ethic" among these workers to be deplorably low—as evidenced by
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    I feel like you didn't click the link.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Yeah, this guy's Christian cultural ideas include a dependence on misogynistic domestic slavery.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    We're putting too much pressure on the word "for", here. There are no great truths to be found at this level of linguistic imprecision .
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Since when does the PDP-6 implement only dichotomous state?
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    There is no "neutral stance," only ignorance of bias. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    The perspective that nature, including the Everglades, should be "attractive or safe" for human convenience is profoundly misguided and chauvinistic. Nature does not exist for humanity's comfort or aesthetic preferences—its v
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Capitalism historically depends on the unpaid reproductive labor of women in the domestic sphere, work that is socially undervalued and made invisible, which supports capitalist systems rather than liberates women. Instituting a paid stipen
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Daycare involves all of those things.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    My god, but you're a relentless philistine.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    "Swimming naked," "bent... over the barrel," "supporting actors." Do you always speak in grotesque metaphor, or are you capable of referring to concrete phenomena? Congratulations, there is a part of my mind th
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Not the comment, but the administration's facetious sympathy.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Fine, check out my account creation date. I vouch for the anti-Musk sentiment. The guy was literally named after a Wernher von Braun creation.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    This is not at all about protecting Israel. That's just an antisemitic pretense—a way to scapegoat "the Jews" for all this authoritarian crap.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Discrete thresholds can be recognized amongst shades of gray. @%#*+=-:. %#*+=-:.. #*+=-:... *+=-:.... +=-:..... =-:...... -:....... :........ The world may be complex, but it's not noise.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Here’s a simple summary of the main lobbying and campaign spending numbers discussed: - AIPAC : Gave $17 million to 365 candidates in one recent year. - Teachers Unions (NEA and AFT) : Campaign donations grew from $4.3 million (2004) to o
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    If you eliminate formal regulators (rules, laws, authoritative bodies), you haven't eliminated regulation or governance. Instead, informal forms of power take over—those who are most forceful, persuasive, or socially connected regulate
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Average data scientist is a complete Unix dunce. (no disrespect) https://xkcd.com/2501/
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    > This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to leave this country. So go, if you're not going to fight it.
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    by rexpop 1y ago

    Deeply, deeply deranged to suggest that Israel—a $600B economy—is "wagging the dog" of our $30,500B economy.