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by stetrain 9mo ago
I don't think it's as simple as urban vs rural. You can have a small town with a nice downtown or park where people meet and hang out. You can have walkable neighborhoods without giant apartment buildings. Neighborhoods where kids
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Maybe our built environment shouldn't consist solely of isolated houses in isolated gated communities where we drive our kids and sit in isolated cars in the school dropoff/pickup lines.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Absolutely. I consider that to be primarily Biden's fault for not announcing in advance that he would not seek a second term. After that point, I think each decision made was the best that could be done at the time to minimize the dama
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by stetrain 9mo ago
The context was one poll of 130 black Americans in which 26% responded “disagree” to the question, and in response he told all white people to stay away from all black people.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Having had any political experience is more merit for the position than the current president had in 2016.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
I think the equivalent statement, as in one that is preexisting and has political connotations[1], would be "Black lives matter", for which I would not be surprised to see a decent number of "unsure" responses among whit
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Placing outsized emphasis on individual data points that fit your existing narrative is a type of bias. Such as this poll that had 130 black respondents.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Advising members of your race to avoid contact with another race including moving to neighborhoods with a low proportion of that race is not super racist?
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by stetrain 9mo ago
He combined those who disagree with those who were unsure to get up to 47%, and then declared that that meant that Black people were a hate group. I provided the link to the full episode for anyone who would like more context.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
"So I realized, as you know I've been identifying as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team" "But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't want to be a memb
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by stetrain 9mo ago
I'm not sure I would describe this as "deciding to not actively ally": "So I realized, as you know I've been identifying as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team" "But as o
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by stetrain 9mo ago
You missed a few: "So I realized, as you know I've been identifying as Black for a while, years now, because I like to be on the winning team" "But as of today I'm going to re-identify as White, because I don't
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by stetrain 9mo ago
I think it’s interesting how many responses to this comment seem to have interpreted it fairly differently to my own reading. There are many responding about “ignoring racism,” “whitewashing,” or the importance of calling out bigotry. I’m n
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Are you speaking out, protesting, or otherwise taking the actions that you are accusing others of abstaining from?
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by stetrain 9mo ago
The comment does not say to ignore the ugliness.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
I'm not sure the comment is saying to ignore the racism. "...you don’t get to edit out the parts that shaped you before you understood what was happening. The racism and the provocations were always there, maybe, just quieter. The
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Sure. And I know people who have gained "chosen family" in that first 20 years of life.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Personally avoiding consumption and calling for a purge from history are not equivalent. Even calling for a boycott or lack of commercialization of something is not purging from history.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
And I have seen multiple counterfactuals. Even people who are descended from the one who was part of the "chosen family" continue to visit and treat them as family. An adopted child is also a form of chosen family. As is a spouse.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
"Acknowledge the ugliness and try to do better" and purging art and history are different things. The comment you replied to above did not call for a purging of Adams' work or life from history.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
In the context of the above comment I read "avoiding the ugliness" as avoiding incorporating it and continuing it in your own life, not shying away from talking about and addressing it. This comment actually makes a specific point
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Of course. Democracy is always doing exactly what the government tells you to do, unquestioningly.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
That sounds nice, but I don't think there is much evidence that the above is actually what the current administration is doing, or even attempting to do. Having blatantly political messages blasted across websites for national parks an
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by stetrain 9mo ago
The design of the algorithm, and the control over what data is fed into it, would be subject to political motivations.
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by stetrain 9mo ago
Horsepower is pretty cheap in an EV once you have a big battery. The 2026 Nissan Leaf, an economy car and one of the cheapest new EVs in the US at $29k, has 214hp.
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by stetrain 10mo ago
Aren't these datacenters biased majorly towards GPU capacity? Maybe we'll see a resurgence of cloud game streaming initiatives.
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by stetrain 10mo ago
Apple does still sell the M1 through resellers. Also there’s nothing wrong with buying used or refurbished. Apple doesn’t have to keep making older tech for people to continue getting use out of it.
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by stetrain 10mo ago
If you want the latest and greatest you can get it. If an M1 is fine you can get a great deal on one and they’re still great machines and supported by Apple.
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by stetrain 10mo ago
Perhaps, if reviewing and reducing spending is the goal, it should be an actual earnest effort. One that starts with collecting data, analyzing spending, and making recommendations instead of knee-jerk attempting to cancel things and lay of
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by stetrain 10mo ago
The story here isn't about immigration, it's about government censorship pressure on US media companies. Which I think fits that guideline.

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