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by wfo 10y ago
An assault of against the entire legitimacy of the judicial branch is hyper radical. Naming the news media the enemies of the American people is hyper radical. Illegally ordering legal permanent residents be detained without due process is
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No, the idea was to dig up private information about people in retaliation for them doing their jobs because the things they write don't reflect well on Uber. The first article there is taking a public PR interview that someone chose t
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No, universities are run by boards of directors like every corporation and a president/CEO. Tenured faculty has some vote (but NEVER a controlling or even large vote, they often have to fight to be included at all in serious decisions)
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In some sense the language is the compiler and the compiler is the language; the language is much like a human language, used for its utility in expressing things (ideas, programs). You can tell if your human language words work by determin
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Burning a book isn't ordering all other books of its type be burned, but it sure sends a message -- let's destroy this representation of knowledge because it contains knowledge or thought I don't approve of. It's entirel
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The DoE collects a huge amount of nationwide data. If any policy, rule, or idea that was based on evidence and is related to education affected you, there's a good chance it's thanks to the DoE. Education in the US is pretty decen
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No, since the inauguration in January the FCC has been essentially sold (perhaps given) to Verizon and is now doing exactly as Verizon wants. Similar things are happening to every regulatory body in the federal government; we are entering a
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No irony here, I don't kingmake, simply deflate arrogance -- one of life's most pleasurable pastimes.
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I've seen a lot of STEM people go on thinking they are kings of logic, reason, even correct thought. All the others in the world are lesser beings, humanities scum who don't understand what /reason/ is, or anything about
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How else would you expect the press to cover that event -- someone who has explicitly stated a plan to enact vengeance upon and hatred for the very idea of a free press receiving unstoppable and unchecked power? Nobody whose job or life dep
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ONE news organization had 99%. More reasonable and measured ones had 60%.
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It's cyclical to be constantly looking back and holding every group to this impossible standard we've constructed for today that is constantly changing. This is the only argument I ever see from Trump supporters: Clinton or Obama
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Green card holding permanent residents of the US who were denied entry without due process are having their civil liberties violated. Everyone who was detained by CBP explicitly in illegal violation of the order of a federal judge had their
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It wasn't a strike for higher wages, it was a strike to stop being banned from the country. Strikes are always political. The point of a strike is to say "you need us" and a HUGE proportion of taxi drivers are Muslim. Their f
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Business is politics. Lobbying is rampant and everywhere. When you set wages or try to destroy organized labor that's political. Everything you do when you exercise the power you have as a businessman is a political action.
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When so many horrible things are happening, it's difficult for thoughtful people to agree on exactly which one is the most important.
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Yes? Of course? I'd be ecstatic that he's showing some backbone and thinks it's important to do the right thing? That someone is willing to check Trump's power when he does horrible, horrible things? If Pence wants to be
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So what? One good thing that's come from the Trump presidency is unity. Me and my more conservative colleagues and friends were always cordial and have had healthy debates but we are now in vehement agreement -- against Trump. I'l
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I've stopped giving my money to plenty of corporations. Nobody noticed or cared and nothing happened. I've called a corporation and asked for transparency and data so I can see what they're actually doing. They oddly didn&#x2
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No, extreme inequality is inherently a bad thing, assuming there is no reasonable safety net provided primarily by the rich (a fairly good assumption if you're talking about the US). It always leads to unrest. Wealth is power and power
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Because if you want to actually do science it doesn't really produce profit, it produces knowledge and results which someone else may use for profit decades or centuries later and the idea of "shortages" or "supply"
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Doesn't the very fact that statistics lie in either direction mean that someone with knowledge of statistics (any scientist would be more knowledgeable than nearly every politician i.e. lawyer that we have today) would be crucial to fe
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Nothing you said I disagree with yet your tone suggests TPP is by assumption a good thing simply marketed wrong; yet you've not made a single argument for why it is good. It's not just the US government that did little to convinci
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Nearly everything Trump will do, every appointment he will make, every order he will sign will be very bad for the vast majority of Americans and the country as a whole. He is not an honest, earnest, free-market loving Republican with good
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Beyond ignoring the side effects of prohibition and all the crime it creates one thing about the article I found eyebrow-raising was the dismissive tone they took towards ending the drug war. It's only 20% of the incarcerated populatio
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The point with consent is that you cannot accurately asses consent of a very drunk person. So if she is very intoxicated and says "yes" you should not assume that's real consent. You should make sure she gets home safe and le
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A huge (the primary?) purpose of the educational system is not to teach people how to do things, but rather to rate and rank them for comparison. As an instructor there's always a conflict, you want to provide an accurate ranking of ab
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Except they could say exactly that and none of them do, and over time incidents /can/ be revealed to the public where surveillance was instrumental in stopping terror/hunting down terrorists/preventing attacks but it nev
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Sure, but I'm not sure it's clear that working in e.g. theology didn't help him in his more technical work. Have a broad and well-rounded view tends to help. I don't know a good mathematician who doesn't read, write
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Sometimes "alternative media" is something like the Intercept, full of pulitzer-prize winning journalists who present a view contrary to the political establishment and are adversarial with respect to those in power, in sharp cont

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