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by robonerd 4y ago
> What Netflix just did wasn't pushing back against this fictious overly powerful activism As far as I can gather, the walkout happened. The activism in their company isn't fictitious and this memo is a response to it. Of
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Certainly. Southpark made a name for itself by being a show kids really wanted to watch although/because their parents really didn't want them to watch it. It's been controversial since it first aired.
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Right. This memo is directed at offended Netflix employees, not offended [ex]Netflix customers. Conservatives on facebook complaining about Netflix being too woke and weird (Cuties, etc) isn't what this memo is about. This is abou
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They will of course, and I think few people actually have a problem with the general principle of shying away from controversial content if you drill into the specifics. For instance, I think fairly few would be surprised or offended at
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What they mean is they want the selection of content to be done by the people specifically hired and empowered to select content, using the official channels created specifically for this selection process. What they don't want is mob
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'Was', heh. Bart makes delinquency look cool and in the 90s I personally saw a fair few young boys my own age emulating Bart and getting into trouble for it. I think the Simpsons is appropriate for teenagers, but not much young
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by robonerd 4y ago
If Erdogan blocks Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO and those countries are subsequently subjected to Russian invasions, I think Turks will be reviled as dishonorable for millennia. Absolutely abhorrent.
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> I also don't think the hyperbolic use is restricted to the US. Strictly restricted ? Of course not. But for what it's worth I've been told by numerous Europeans that they perceive casually throwing around extreme h
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What you are describing is called a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ). The specifics of what sort of attributes might be covered for what jobs is something courts hash out, but broadly: if you're hiring workers for a warehou
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Yes, I agree. That's probably why hintymad shared the context of not being raised in the US.
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> No, but it helps corporate create an image of a fun, playful workplace Nah, all of these corporate 'pet names' are applied unilaterally, by the executives to the workers. Condescension is the point. The application of suc
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> Yeah, but it's the rank and file employees who will now think "I'm not there to defend myself against being fired if I take maternity/paternity leave" If an executive is gunning for a rank and file employee,
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Being so proud you lose your sanity? That's quite odd. It's an insane amount of hyperbole.
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Cyberpunk is a call to action: seek social reform before this happens. Solarpunk is the opposite, Solarpunk encourages people to believe that everything will turn out well in the end after green technology saves us from our past follies.
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> Now the company has to continue to operate without his influence until the deal actually closes. What do you mean by "have to"? Do you mean there is a legal obligation?
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Cyberpunk is nothing if not a rebellion against our own world and status quo. Liberal governments are put under the thumb of for-profit corporations, which continue to develop and unleash new technologies on the public without any thought
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> artistic movements and styles are also some type of socio-political movement Cyberpunk was social and political commentary from the start. Solarpunk is too, but feels less genuine. It feels like a corporate feel-good aesthetic desi
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Cute? I am challenging your perception that Republicans let their "hateful fringe" take over. The data shows that Republicans have actually been getting more progressive. That this trend isn't fast enough to suit you is be
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Even if a split was pragmatically warranted, the fact that the user directory was chosen is without a doubt a quirk, an accident of circumstance that has since been perpetuated out of tradition (or less charitably: cargo cult mentality.
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What if I want to run fsck on a drive image owned by my user? If I can run /sbin/fsck, I can rightly run that on such a file without using sudo.
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sbin as "static binary" is an ahistoric retcon, like claiming usr means 'universal system resources' . (It means 'user' and was the original /home.)
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> republicans have let fringe hateful ideas become their platform. In 2001, 23% of Republicans/Republican-leaning Americans supported same-sex marraige. By 2019, it was 44%. Among white evangelical protestants specifically, it
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> "eFootball" (US-exclusionary) Calling it 'football' might confuse some fans of American football, but I really doubt any American fans of 'soccer' will be confused, let alone excluded.
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It is the job of congress to write up and pass laws concerning matters I will never understand, and for which I am grateful that I am not obliged to understand.
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Then that's the way the cookie crumbles. What do you want me to say? Throw away the constitution because congressmen are idiots, lets do direct democracy and all pretend we're experts on everything? Nobody can be informed on eve
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> If you are a citizen of a free country with freedom of speech and voting rights, everything is your responsibility. I vehemently disagree. America is a representative democracy. We vote for representatives in the legislature and
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> Best legal definition I've heard involves death. When is a person considered dead? Even that can become fiercely political.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_and_activism_in...
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> "Heard of" is different from knowing the exact meaning of the precise date is falls on. Not least because it falls on a different date every year for anybody using a secular calendar..
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Incidentally, about a third of Republicans and about a third of Democrats disagree with their party about abortion. This difference is not reflected the congresspeople of those parties, who are more united in their position than the peop
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Having met my fair share of Germans, I find it hard to believe that SUSE is so overtly antisemitic as this one-sided account makes out. The Germans I've met all go into anaphylactic shock at the slightest whiff of antisemitism, or any

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