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by xracy 2y ago
2 things: 1. Just because you're not confronted with racism daily doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Boston is considered one of the most racist cities in the US, because once per sports game they scream the n-word at a black pe
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I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it ser
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People will discriminate against people of color because they are visually people of color. Whether or not they 'announce it'. It's utter BS to suggest that the only reason people discriminate against black people is because
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Insurance is made in the margins of charging a healthy population more than you will use for them in the year. The reason "Single-Payer" is "the answer" to everyone's woes, is that in order to make anything close to
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Should say "pick a diverse fandom" > I refuse to believe that if you surveyed ANY fandom and asked them to do a character description of the main character, they wouldn't come to a fairly common consensus overall. Even if
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My point is that if you pick a diverse audience, you will come up with a diverse set of expectations. In Twilight, the main character is not actually described very well. There's an old comic from the oatmeal [1] about how the main cha
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> It's not reasonable to expect characters to be cast the way they are described (or the way most people picture them), or it's not reasonable to expect people to accept a re-envisioning? Asking because I'm not sure which
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I reread the books after watching the show, and I have to say that I am in complete agreement with this take. I think there are 2 things that impact why people hate the adaptations. 1. Some people just don't like adaptations, and they
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Yeah, made for some continuity difficulties that I think they handled pretty well considering the circumstances.
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I see this as a dog-whistle in its most benign form. Which is why hiding behind the 'just asking questions' defense feels like expansion of the 'bad faith'. Additionally, I don't think it's 'bad faith&#x27
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I read their questions as bad faith. But also, I am not here to research your bad takes. I will happily research my own bad takes but the onus is not on me to go prove or disprove every bad take someone makes on the Internet. Is it possible
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On the contrary, I would expect teaching to a standardized test to yield better results in the evaluation of a standardized test like the one mentioned here... Maybe this wasn't the standardized test we were teaching for though?
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Ah yes, the "Idiocracy was/is a documentary" take. That's a strong claim. Do you have sources to back up that claim?
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IDK what you're talking about. Clearly you haven't read: The Giver Divergent The Maze Runner And all other sci-fi young-adult distopian novels where they clearly determine what 4th graders will be for the rest of their lives based
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Why would "COVID" only impact the US? It's a global pandemic? If anything the comment would be exclusively about education policies. Because the education policies around COVID would be worse. But also just looking around at
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The Health Industry has this lovely 3-part structural defense they run behind every time that someone questions why the health industry costs so much. Step 1: "The other 2 entities in the health industry are to blame!" Step 2: Pro
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No one is trying to do this. You're describing a fantasy world. In your head it's a nightmare, because you don't understand how society works.
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The 1st one is only better if judges are unbiased, but they're not, and we need to stop pretending like they are.
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You're a needy crewmate. If I didn't think you were too sincere to be believed as anything else I'd guess you'd found the most effective way to scare people off from voting for Democrats. How do I know you're not
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The argument, is that sometimes you need things to break before you can build something new in their place. I have considered it, and determined I don't want things to break that badly. And again, I'm not courting the self-destruc
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I'm pretty sure Chevron deference includes some deferred powers of congress to presidential administrative agencies. Which is what I'm referring to here. I could be wrong about that. But the rules I'm thinking of are more abo
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> Chevron deference wasn't created by Congress Yeah, but they could've overturned it if they didn't like it. > The main difference is that now unelected judges decide how to interpret the law instead of unelected admini
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Except this has been the rhetoric of the Democratic party since 2008. And people are tired of it. This is not 'gaslighting from a republican troll'. This is legitimate criticism from someone who has been holding their nose and &#x
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The alternative to BuyBacks doesn't have to be a dividend... But yeah, if those are the only 2 options you're thinking of I could see why this looks emotional and irrational. I could imagine 2 other possibilities that I like bette
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You do realize that this is exactly the kind of feedback that people who are tired of the 'vote blue no matter who' refrain have been giving for years, that has been ignored. Like the people who are getting voted for need to actua
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I'm advocating for a balance of powers. Which is why I'm quoting a precedented action by a president. Right now the SCOTUS is grabbing a lot of power for itself that has been delegated to the executive branch by congress in accord
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"Shares are not fungible, these are not NFTs. " This sentence is contradictory. Shares are either fungible (they are), or they're not, in which case they are 'non-fungible', like "non-fungible tokens." In
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I think snarkiness is particularly bad in discussions with people. But my comment isn't directed at a person. It's an invitation for us as a society to think about the long term consequences of stock buybacks. Please see the follo
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I think you misunderstand my comment. Boeing has famously done stock buybacks of $43 Billion for the period of 2013-2019. Now they need to raise $10 Billion in cash. Whether they're doing that by issuing new stock or by selling bought
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We gotta stop giving SCOTUS credit for bad decisions when they make unpopular opinions. SCOTUS is not supposed to make legislation, and if they are going to try and override Chevron from the bench without legislation, then we have to igno

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