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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Really, why does anyone take the NYT seriously anymore? It seems that barely a week goes by these days without some new way in which they discredit themselves. If you were a conservative "anti-woke" mole who'd infiltrated the
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
I've never heard of Nick Land but this 'person X is bad because nasty person Y likes him' smear tactic has got to die. Osama bin Laden cited Noam Chomsky in some of his anti-America diatribes, does this mean Noam Chomsky shou
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Holy shit, I never noticed that link until now. You, sir, get an upvote that I will most certainly not be withdrawing.
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Where in Europe do you live? Credit card chargebacks are an extremely well-known and common concept in the UK, and I've hardly ever used personal wire transfer to pay businesses except for auto-recurring transactions like rent, insuran
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Yes, except keys aren't distributed uniformly. Some people foolishly generate their random key using low-entropy seeds e.g. "English words". There are already people running scripts which look for these kind of easily-guessab
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
> I would upvote your comment but havent yet found out how Click the little upward-pointing triangle next to the username at the top of the comment. When the triangle disappears, you've upvoted. Upvotes can't be undone.
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
That's not what he said. Chiropractic is a sham because it isn't science; the scientific method fails to show evidence that chiropractic treatments are effective. "If alternative medicine worked it would be called 'med
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Not really. Expanding rights to religious freedom means taking away certain right for others, see eg the gay wedding cake debacle. Expanding rights to "gender self-ID" treads on certain women's rights, see eg single-sex priso
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Ever heard of the 1619 Project? The NYT published historical falsehoods as the central claims in one of their highest profile publications of the last decade. That publication was then pilloried by professional historians and widely critici
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
That's a fair rebuttal, fine.
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
It would only be a protection racket if the cops were conspiring with those who commit the robberies. Lots of businesses pay for security for all kinds of obvious reasons; just because the cost of security is deemed to be lower than the cos
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Seems like that's exactly the solution they're going for, since they're closing the store that's in a high-crime area.
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Have you heard about the federal courthouse in Portland that "protestors" laid violent siege to for weeks? If not ask yourself why you don't know.
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
This is another good article on the M&B fallacy for those who are interested: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
I've been following this story quite closely and afaik I know the email Gebru sent that included her 'do this or I quit' ultimatum hasn't beenade public. The email you link to is an an earlier email that, like you say, w
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
"gaslighting" does have the specific meaning you describe, or at least it used to, but these days it's mostly just used to mean "saying something I disagree with." It seems to come from a special kind of narcissism
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
I think a third explanation is more likely: management already had reasons to want to get rid of her and her 'do as I say or I quit!' email provided a convenient excuse to do so. From the type of things people are saying on r&#x2F
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
I wish I could give you two upvotes
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
The problem as I see it is not one of punching Nazis but identifying Nazis. The people I see who are the loudest advocates of Nazi-punching tend to be the same people who reflexively use "Nazi" to refer to anyone they disagree w
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Maybe more enforcement isn't the solution? Traffic stops are far more common in the US than the UK, but the US has far higher road deaths, even when you adjust for the fact that Americans spend more time travelling by road. Maybe the c
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
30 v 35mph is not a trivial increase. It's nearly 20% faster. And kinetic energy scales quadratically with velocity. According to a popular UK road safety campaign, if you hit a pedestrian at 35mph you're 2.5x more likely to kill
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by whoooooo123 6y ago
Really? American police kill about 1000 people a year and the vast, vast majority of these killings are totally justified cases where deadly force was used to stop an imminent deadly threat. On the other hand about 36,000 people died on Ame