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by wfo 11y ago
I could be accused of many things. I didn't say they are trying to persecute anyone (though I think there's an argument to be made there), I said they obstruct efforts to help those who need it. And they undeniably do. Their justi
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by wfo 11y ago
Anyone who has ever thought about protesting has been effected by free speech zones -- they have effectively killed protesting. Anyone who has made a public (or not so public) statement critical of the government has been effected by no fly
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by wfo 11y ago
Because it takes a whole lot of energy to constantly invent imaginary earnest justification after imaginary earnest justification for a group of people who consistently come out against making life better for the less fortunate at every tur
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by wfo 11y ago
Well, the fact that the killings are secret means that all we know is that there are nonzero of them since we know there is at least one; if you choose to believe the number is tiny then that's fine but don't act like it's kn
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by wfo 11y ago
"You may speak freely, but men with guns will escort you to a cage where you may do so in a place nobody can hear you"
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by wfo 11y ago
The person you're responding to stated very few opinions (essentially "things will get even worse") and some well-known facts. The tone and style of rhetoric is a little heavy but there is absolutely nothing extreme about any
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by wfo 11y ago
Stalin doesn't own the word 'disappeared'. It's the word you use to describe a policy of taking someone off the street, refusing to acknowledge that they are in custody, denying them access to the outside world and their
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by wfo 11y ago
What part of "secretly taken and deprived access to the outside world and denied their civil rights for days where the authorities refuse to admit the person is in custody" doesn't describe "disappeared"? I'll
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by wfo 11y ago
If their facts are correct (and I think we would be remiss in our duty as citizens if we do not give serious attention to every negative thing said about the police at this point until proven otherwise), stating they were "disappeared&
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by wfo 11y ago
That actually supports my argument: boarding schools are just helicopter parenting by proxy and even more extreme. Parents send their children away to professional helicopter parents to socialize only with the other helicopter parented-chil
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by wfo 11y ago
I did just fine because I liked to read too, but I talk to younger students and that is something that has fundamentally and seriously changed. Things are MUCH more competitive now than they have ever been, and everybody is studying the sys
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by wfo 11y ago
Signalling and networking and group association and stereotypes are inherently human and have remained the same for the past 6000 years of human history no matter the changes in technology. You can't just throw out contentless buzzword
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by wfo 11y ago
Dean complains about helicopter parents at Stanford and yet admissions essentially requires incoming students have helicopter parents. To get into a school like this you need to be exclusively focused on exactly the arbitrary criteria that
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by wfo 11y ago
They gave two simplistic answers from the same perspective, and I think you have to share their perspective to think there's a difference between them. And neither actually answered the question, which was "On the question of bank
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by wfo 11y ago
Interesting that the questions and the "right" answers select for a particular political perspective, notably the question about banking. It's particularly pertinent but also very politically charged and any answer will be co
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by wfo 11y ago
There are research universities and teaching universities. If you want to go to a college that focuses on teaching calculus 101 they exist though I don't know why as a budding mathematician you'd want to sprint full speed away fro
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by wfo 11y ago
It's true; while his grievances are valid in effect he's putting forth a very good argument for the MBAs running the show in the administration that are frothing at the mouth to cut faculty, hire adjuncts and pay them nothing, whi
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by wfo 11y ago
That's the case at every university; students are, for the most part, whiny entitled drunk and high children -- especially in intro classes. Giving their opinions influence over an adult's career is absolutely insane. The skillset
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by wfo 11y ago
The left wingers already lost because they don't have the money and power. There's never been a lot to gain in making things better for the people who need help (the goal of left wing ideology), and a lot to gain in making things
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by wfo 11y ago
Companies are absolute dictatorships generally owned by a very tiny class of wealthy elite capitalists. Calling them "groups of people" is deeply dishonest.
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by wfo 11y ago
If you are allowed to redefine any word you want and completely remove it from its common usage and any vestiges of its actual meaning then you are certainly free to say something like "it's not clear to me than an ethnic group th
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by wfo 11y ago
So apparently having a life outside of work is now a left-wing political issue? All the conservatives I know and spend time with have hobbies too. What does socially disadvantaged even mean? Autism spectrum disorder? Having nothing interest
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by wfo 11y ago
Your bathroom habits are a major part of you too, but that doesn't mean you bring them up in normal polite conversation. People aren't interested in hearing about your work (especially if it's in tech and they are not) just l
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by wfo 11y ago
When you move to a new place, that place has a culture. If you want locals to like or accept you, you should try to at the very least understand if not adopt part of that culture. It works the same everywhere. In a small town it's much
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by wfo 11y ago
I think threatening to ban all secure communication in a psychotic unrealistic policy position and having important "serious" people like the director of the FBI push for it isn't really intended to get it codified into law,
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by wfo 11y ago
Seattle has never been particularly welcoming to newcomers; people there tend to be insular and it can be hard to make friends if you don't already know people (even before the amazon/tech stuff -- plenty of articles about 't
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by wfo 11y ago
Academics isn't really that bad. It's full of many of the smartest people in the world trying to do things which are fundamental but aren't seen by the market as important and can't be funded any other way besides charit
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by wfo 11y ago
No, it's insane to sit back and let the market force people to disfigure and destroy themselves for the profits of wealthy capitalists: to destroy humanity in order to sacrifice it at the altar of capitalism
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by wfo 11y ago
You hit the nail on the head; these early marks are meaningless. These are barely mentally formed children. We do everything we can to avoid having them be responsible for their choices because honestly they aren't ready to make seriou
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by wfo 11y ago
So someone has a database of art phrases and madlibs them together next to pieces of art? Are we supposed to feel superior to people who create art now? I don't. Why is it that people who claim to be 'analytical' always just

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