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by xracy 3y ago
This person gets it. They read what I wrote. Definitely didn't just respond to a straw man version of what I said. /s
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by xracy 3y ago
They don't even show it as a percentage of articles. It's suspicious to me that they went for the hockey stick curve to demonstrate their complaint rather than adjusted for the number of articles that they are sampling from.
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by xracy 3y ago
I mean, I listen to a lot of NPR for entertainment/humor/etc... WWDTM, PCHH, This American Life, Planet Money. If the complaint is about #2, then I don't see it in these NPR shows. So I'm assuming they must be talking ab
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by xracy 3y ago
Yeah... I don't know what you think I was saying. But I'm making the case that the news should cover issues that people actually face... And that an uptick in representation of different people's viewpoints and experiences is
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> But he shows it is not based on these things because surveys also show that people significantly overestimate the number of black people killed by police. What is the proper number of people to be killed by the police that we shouldn&#
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by xracy 3y ago
Steven Pinker? Is that you? I guess we can call it then. This is good enough. No reason to improve from here. We should definitely just live with a perpetual war in the middle east. That seems fine. World Hunger is good enough. Racism is mo
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by xracy 3y ago
Is this discomfort with the state of the world? Cause I think the goal is that you feel inclined towards action on that. The state of the world isn't... all good. We've got some serious issues right now. And it seems like a lot of
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by xracy 3y ago
Hot take... How many other news sources discuss race? I think this is an under-discussed topic for how pervasive a problem it is in our country. And I think we do ourselves a disservice by trying to hide from it. The more we talk about it,
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by xracy 3y ago
What is the purpose of this article? Is it to highlight that the IRS needs funding? Or is it to encourage people to not pay their taxes? It's weird to me that people don't see paying taxes as a social obligation to support the cou
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by xracy 3y ago
> lol if you don't think corpo Dems aren't in bed with capitalism then I have a bridge to sell you. ^I'm curious which part of my comment makes you think I said this? It's not something I believe, and it's certai
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by xracy 3y ago
> It's not everyone though, just the majority If the majority of people are misunderstanding what I'm saying, I'm a bad communicator. If your complaint is actually just that people misunderstand you, this is the only thin
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by xracy 3y ago
> It's confirmed as common because I see it 20x a day on reddit and even in person when these issues come up in conversation. This sounds like a you problem... If everyone is "mischaracterizing" your statements, then you&#
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by xracy 3y ago
> if you look at my previous message, nowhere did I say they are the same. This is dogwhistling on your previous point. The appeal to "both sides are bad" is kinda pointless when one side is attempting to overturn election resu
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by xracy 3y ago
I feel like you have to be pretty far from reality to think that if this would impact the wealthy in any meaningful way, that they would also let it happen. This person's view of "voluntary spending" vs. "involuntary tax
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by xracy 3y ago
crosses fingers "Please let the answer be not much longer, please let the answer be not much longer" opens article "Son of a..."
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by xracy 3y ago
I can appreciate being a fan, but we need to move fandom into the realm of "While I like this, I don't need to defend every single thing that goes wrong with a brand I'm a fan of." I bought a Tesla a few years ago. I get
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by xracy 3y ago
I don't know many people who read the dictionary definition of things. I think the wikipedia definition feels much more likely. See my other comment for why I don't think it's "reasonable to assume" what he meant.
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by xracy 3y ago
Felt like a pretty clear dog-whistle to me. Especially since the rest of the behavior around it looks like a dog-whistle as well. "How could you say it means this thing. I've never heard of that thing before! I meant it in this ot
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by xracy 3y ago
Damn, gets Michael Hobbes with the throw-away: "Michael Hobbes, who makes a very good living as a professional debunker despite having an accuracy batting average about equal to what my batting average would be in an actual Major Leagu
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by xracy 3y ago
tl;dr The infographic misrepresents its own data source. The following is how I proved this to myself in roughly stream-of-consciousness how I followed what was happening. I had questions about how this is averaged... I know that in Seattle
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by xracy 3y ago
I feel like... 10 years... might be the right amount here. But honestly, I'd be inclined to see how bad it is if the answer is like 3 years. not about to jump right back into it with "42 years" That's still half a lifeti
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by xracy 3y ago
Hot take, People have spent wayyyy too long assuming they know better than their customers what they want, and oftentimes use this as an excuse to justify ignoring what customers want. Asking your customers what they want is a really good
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by xracy 3y ago
oh, well, I guess since everyone is doing it, that makes it okay, and we can't imagine a better world. Let's call it a day, accept our lot in life, and move forward. I hate the sentiment that because things are bad somewhere t
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by xracy 3y ago
please reread my comment. You have missed the point of it, if you think I'm asking farmers to fix this.
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by xracy 3y ago
It's wild to me that people see problems like this, and think to themselves "Yeah, it's okay that we overwork people for no money, but there's no other way to turn a profit for this, so this just has to be the way the wo
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by xracy 3y ago
You got any of them datas to back up those claims? Or did you get that from the school home.
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by xracy 3y ago
interesting... I wonder how one... traffics... in stolen artwork like this. :D
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It really isn't...
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by xracy 3y ago
> anecdotal evidence suggests this is not the case. Ah, and we all know the plural of anecdote is "data". /s Oh wait... The fact that you said this, suggests to me that you were the odd-person out on a hiring committee, an
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by xracy 3y ago
I see you believe in compliment sandwiches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPVnOonSO-s&ab_channel=VivaL... Saying that something was "cheap crap" except for one performance, is not really constructive to any

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