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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> they refused to take any action on it. Did they? My understanding it that DHH acknowledged the list was a mistake, apologised, and made it clear that such behaviour was no longer acceptable.
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> Some other employees I work with would go up to me and ask me questions like "we want to know where you stand on xyz political issue".....and I'm like.....it is really none of your business. They then take that response
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
The Washington Post keeps a database of all reported police killings in the US. I can't see it myself without a subscription to the WP, but USA Today cites the WP database for the claim that 13 unarmed black men (and one unarmed black
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
You're missing my point. Your "old lady" example isn't relevant. I'm not arguing that cops should shoot everybody who swings a fist in their direction. My point is merely that sometimes it's justified to shoo
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Yes, FPTP is the worst. The left might have lost a lot of elections, but I think you can still make a case for the original point the "right-of-centre" are a minority in the UK, even if it's only a narrow majority. The Conser
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
(Someone commented that it's "insane" to say that you should be able to shoot someone if they attack you with their fists and I typed out a long reply, but they had deleted their comment before I could post it, so I'm go
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
And a lot of old-school lefties in the UK consider Blair's New Labour to be centre-right, "Red Tories" etc. Blair might have been left-wing but he certainly wasn't a socialist. The "left" in Britain arguably ha
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
As the old Soviet joke goes: "We have freedom of speech in the USSR too. The difference is that in the USA, you can use your freedom of speech more than once."
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
HN isn't the workplace.
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Thanks. > As long as you express something in a civil way, you should be able to do it without repercussion. To get back the original topic of the thread: an increasing problem in our workplaces is that lots of people don't think
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Did I express an opinion? I'm pretty sure I just quoted a statistic. But since you asked: American police kill white men (including unarmed white men) at the same rate at which they kill black men, once you control for crime rate and p
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Only if you have "incorrect" opinions.
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> Even correcting people who are clearly misinformed on clear matters of fact can cause offense. This is so true. I've seen polling showing that large numbers of people believe that the number of unarmed black men fatally shot by Am
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
That has absolutely nothing to do with modern "abolish the police" rhetoric. "Abolish the police" is a utopian Marxist fantasy that holds that in some hypothetical perfected society we won't need police because ever
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
The latest manifestation of this absurdity is that things like "rational thinking" and "following schedules" are now considered "white culture" and thus it's racist to expect black people to think rational
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Doesn't everybody?
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
So I take it you support the Uighur genocide in China, the Maduro regime in Venezuela, the current covid crisis in India, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar? Or are you doing something to active
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> Isn't that open racism? Not by their new definition of the word. Which is exactly why they've redefined the word.
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
"My employer tracks my biometrics as a condition of my compensation sounds like dystopian scifi. Welcome to the future?
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> a 90k job Basecamp pays SV salaries to all employees regardless of location. https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp/
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> Microsoft may want lower taxes from Republicans, but they also want easier immigration and gay rights from Democrats. That's probably why they donate to both parties: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
You realise that Hey.com and Basecamp are the same company, right?
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
> I get extra subsidy for health insurance at work if I walk 7000 steps a day - $750 per year. Really? How does this work? Your company tracks how many steps you take?
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
DHH's follow-up post says this: > Note that we will continue to engage in politics that directly relate to our business or products. This means topics like antitrust, privacy, employee surveillance. If you're in doubt as to whe
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Oh, c'mon. You think he should never mention his spouse to his coworkers, even in passing? You can't think of any situation in which it would be totally ordinary to say something about "my husband" or "my wife&quo
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
Wait, I'm an idiot. I wrote "less exploitative" when I went to write more exploitative. You're right: to say that it's less exploitative would be absurd. I need to write fewer posts when it's late at night.
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by yerwhat01010 5y ago
I'd also say that the relationship between the average 10th-centry peasant and his feudal lord strikes me as a lot less "exploitative" than the typical employee-employer relationship today.
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by yerwhat01010 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/us/body-minneapolis-prote...
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by yerwhat01010 6y ago
"This issue can be discussed openly without fear of consequence", said throwaway998876
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by yerwhat01010 6y ago
Facebook and Twitter have already shown they're willing to suppress the distribution of news that doesn't fit their political agenda, as we saw with the Hunter Biden story. It's not really a "conspiracy theory" when

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