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by ss108 4y ago
People (probably correctly) assume you're not a good faith conversant when you say things like "The only people who would get upset by it are those whose entire reasoning is emotional and hypocrite virtue signaling." I find t
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by ss108 4y ago
Looks awesome. I put Gladly into a quick charity check and it didn't seem to come up. What is the corporate name I should use to verify it?
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by ss108 4y ago
I have been wondering whether this would happen in the US with ever-increasing income inequality, lack of trust between police and the general populace (a 2-way street IMO), and other factors. Things are moving more and more in the directio
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by ss108 4y ago
IDK if this makes you feel better, but I hope it does: after 4-5 years of being a dev, I decided to go to law school and now hate the practice of law (law school itself was alright and I did some cool stuff), and now I want to go back to be
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by ss108 4y ago
"Like all agenda driven by emotion and virtue signaling, you can reject with a cursory look at the matter." Is there a clearer way of saying you're intellectually and morally lazy about a topic than calling it "virtue si
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by ss108 4y ago
"Basically, showing empathy towards animals signals you would be empathetic to people too, which makes you a more desireable peer today." Pointing this out not against you (because I know this is rhetorical on your part), but to h
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by ss108 4y ago
> objectively logical, or beneficial to humanity. Well those are two separate things. Anyways, the gist of the "logical" argument (which is a myopic way of looking at things to say the least) goes something along the lines of &
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by ss108 4y ago
Are you missing the fundamental fact that animals are sentient creatures with feelings, etc? Do you only refrain from harming other humans because of the potential social and legal consequences attendant thereto? Otherwise, I'm not sur
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by ss108 4y ago
Why wouldn't I want automatic updates?
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New York is doing pretty solid, IMO. SF seems uniquely bad.
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I think that's a bad analogy that can't outweigh a study (which naturally has its own flaws and isn't proving a rule of physics, but nevertheless...)
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It's a bit of a clumsy joke I think; David French's previous followers turned on him, as explained above. He maintained his moral and intellectual integrity whereas many of his longtime readers and fans betrayed theirs. So it didn
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That's what the algorithm thinks you are now
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It wants to get them to stop the spread of Covid misinformation, which they should already be doing of their own volition. Such great "speech". A real contribution to the public discourse.
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Among other issues, success for him does not necessarily equal a good Twitter for society.
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This is interesting and weird. I mean, I get the logic, but I'm surprised they are that puritanical and willfully-ignorant of the practical consequences of their position.
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Does anyone actually believe that lol
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It's been that way for a long time, IME.
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Interesting, thanks
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"I suspect a lot of the bad practices in the modern JS ecosystem are due to the paradigm of having the same language running in the browser and on the server. This creates conflicting incentives in the way things are designed and deplo
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"As you said, Hawley (Stanford and Yale alumni), JD Vance (Yale alumni), even Trump (from a wealthy family and Penn alumni) are all political elites but also quite popular with the right-wingers. So it's not really about hating th
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by ss108 4y ago
The way I have been using it is basically anyone comfortably well-off and educated, living in a major city. When the political right uses the term "coastal elite", etc.
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I'm not a "leftist", and Disney is a person (my friend).
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Should note of course it's the specific brand of "French secularism" that is a thorny issue. It's a type of secularism that provokes a negative reaction from most Americans as well (though IDK if there has been any poll
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by ss108 4y ago
I think I may make an independent thread about this soon (but my question may be stupid): why does messages use this paradigm of connecting to one's phone directly instead of accessing texts in some centralized fashion? Is that impossi
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I'm not even sure what you mean, but as an American Muslim, I guess it's not my problem.
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Facebook is a straight-up fake news booster that has decided it is interests to spread Covid misinformation and videos casting doubt on the occurrence of actual war crimes and genocides. Doesn't seem to engage in much censorship at all
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Saying they don't have the "cultural infrastructure" to assimilate immigrants sounds like it's letting them off the hook for a lot.
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free speech tho
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Hmm yes, I can see what you're saying, and I do agree with you quite a bit.

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