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by xphilter 4y ago
So none of those people would qualify for ubi. Sounds like they were grifters. Why punish poor people because your circle of friends lack an ethics?
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by xphilter 4y ago
Could someone who knows more than me please share why this matters at all from a competition standpoint? If quality content is written, it can be self published online for essentially free. Sure, it might be harder to get a sizable advance,
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by xphilter 4y ago
Not really. As the owner of a site, the government controls its own speech and is not under any obligation to show “both sides” of an argument. Sure, it can’t only show your comment vs mine, but it can definitely choose which propaganda to
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by xphilter 4y ago
Uh the warrant was for her role in kidnapping. It’s a bit misogynistic to think a woman couldn’t play a part in a lynching, I’d say. Glad you’re coming up for excuses for some lady you’ve never met before; keeping the system that kept her o
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by xphilter 4y ago
Ah yes, people getting jobs is what caused inflation. Not the trillions printed and given to scammy upper classes through fraudulent PPP loans and artificially low interest rates.
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by xphilter 4y ago
Sure, but there’s still no supply of homes. There are presently 2 houses for sale in my neighborhood of about ~750 homes. I don’t have historical data, but 0.002% seems very low for spring.
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by xphilter 4y ago
And? You think this statement talking about the process of math education is being taught in k-12? (Even if it were, what is wrong with its premise?)
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by xphilter 4y ago
Please explain how its hyperbole. If it’s not approved for the school…are teachers allowed to use it? If they’re not allowed to use it, isn’t it banned? Or are you saying because private citizens can buy it at home it’s not banned? If the l
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by xphilter 4y ago
The State here is literally the State of Florida that is using its power to ban materials that it claims (without evidence) contains something bad, called “crt” (without even describing what is bad). And they’re not the bad actors in your m
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by xphilter 4y ago
Did you actually read the sources? They don’t remotely support any claim of “crt brainwashing” or in-class materials are filled with “crt.”
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by xphilter 4y ago
Ok. Provide them. Full context as well, no cherry picking. Consider this me calling your bluff.
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by xphilter 4y ago
So, if you apply some critical thought here, you might observe that the equitable math may be talking about the right answer in terms of the process. Not questioning whether 1+1=2 is wrong, but whether it make sense to test students on that
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by xphilter 4y ago
How do you know the math textbooks contain “anything remotely related to race”? Because the State tells you?
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by xphilter 4y ago
Exactly. If this group of folks is saying “we won’t even show you the things we are seeming is evil” why would they have any credibility in your mind?
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by xphilter 4y ago
Why do you believe Florida here? What’s more likely, that a math book is trying to “brainwash kids through CRT” or known political exaggerators are exaggerating?
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by xphilter 4y ago
So, instead of HN commenters to ask Florida offer evidence that these math books contain CRT (whatever that even means here) people go off on the typical tangents. Let’s get some facts straight: Florida is banning books, blaming it on CRT,
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by xphilter 4y ago
Maybe because you’re throwing some junk out here on HN, you can offer up a citation? Who says 1+1=2 is racist, exactly?
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by xphilter 5y ago
I passed on a case like this years ago -- a restaurant claimed Google hijacked the listing, it turns out they had signed a B2B deal with some food delivery/ordering app that had, in the terms, the right to share this info with others,
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by xphilter 5y ago
Poor education below middle class (I’d argue even for middle class, compared to international peers). Poor access to medical care below middle class. And then poverty, generally.
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by xphilter 5y ago
So pro/rel. I think Mexico’s soccer league has a multi year relegation system like this already.
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by xphilter 5y ago
So pro/rel for baseball? It’d be amazing if it happened for baseball before soccer in the US.
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by xphilter 5y ago
If masks didn’t work, surly we’d all have anecdotes of people catching covid while wearing a masks. I literally have not heard of a single story. Everyone I know who has caught covid was maskless (not even stories of people wearing masks po
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by xphilter 5y ago
So which ideas are you okay with banning? Are you the person who gets to decide? If not, then who does?
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by xphilter 5y ago
Which radical political ideologies?
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by xphilter 5y ago
Oh, I didn’t mean as compared to general population. I meant for themselves. Presumably the vaccine would give folks some confidence in getting out more (if not, then why even bother getting it?)
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by xphilter 5y ago
Who cares? I think these are non controversial statements: (1) if you’re vaccinated, common sense suggests you’d be more likely to go back to normal as compared to pre-vax (increasing chances of getting covid), (2) the vaccine never preven
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by xphilter 5y ago
So are the fraudsters poor people (before the payout obviously) or are they just fraudsters? Maybe we just need a better system.
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by xphilter 5y ago
That doesn’t even make sense. If police aren’t trustworthy, why would someone report a crime. Suppose I want to report a crime in my house, that would involve inviting police inside. If I know them to be corrupt (maybe they go snooping or d
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by xphilter 5y ago
Thank you for the citation. But your citation (on purpose or not) basically says the opposite of the parent comment. It seems even “serious” crime stats are manipulated by police: “ A common thread running through many of the incidents of p
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by xphilter 5y ago
Right. To me you come across as a coward unwilling to be racist in the open. What is intellectual about what you said exactly? You’re ignoring history and the underlying reasons for things to support your cowardly worldview. And please, how

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