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by yucky 4y ago
FYI - there absolutely was an approved "Disposition Matrix" which included assassination targets, some of which (like Anwar Al-Awlaqi) were American citizens.[1] That's not a conspiracy theory. [1] archive - https:/&#x2
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by yucky 4y ago
Isn't this the same Seymour Hersh who we have to thank for exposing the torture at Abu Ghraib and the secret post-9/11 US assassination program? Your take seems disingenuous.
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That would require talent. It seems that the reason these hacks continue to piggyback off of existing art and demand its "modification for diversity" is because they can't create anything novel or unique on their own. This is
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by yucky 4y ago
...but the university is doing exactly that - forcing diversity for diversity sake. The play was written to be all male and they refused them the venue as a result of no women being called to audition for a role that isn't for women.
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by yucky 4y ago
I know we can't expect an apology, and that's fine. But will they ever at least admit they were wrong?
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by yucky 4y ago
Tried a couple different articles and got "No summary. Sorry, but we were not able to summarize the following page." Not sure if the tool is down or what would break the functionality of it on a normal 1,000+ word article.
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by yucky 4y ago
> There's zero repercussions or compensation if the state wrongly removes your child. This is horrible and there should be more uproar about it. The lifelong trauma associated with that for the child (and the parents) is imm
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by yucky 4y ago
So then why would we assume innate ability (physical or mental) isn't a cause elsewhere that we see unequal racial or gender representation?
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by yucky 4y ago
> 1990s music also sucked. Quite the opposite. The 90's saw the grunge era end that shitty hairband decade of the 80's and the first half of the decade caught the tail end of the Golden era of rap as well. Even the pop
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by yucky 4y ago
This argument assumes the resulting inflation hasn't helped the rich and hurt the poor. But it has.
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by yucky 4y ago
The "all things considered" must be doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Medicaid is almost universally hated by health care professionals. Many places won't take it.
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by yucky 4y ago
Well anything that requires strength and speed will filter out all females, and most males. Which is what we see in professional sports that are open to all genders.
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by yucky 4y ago
Both? I mean, that's not a gotcha if you meant it to be.
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by yucky 4y ago
> when the diversity of a workforce does not match the diversity of its surroundings, that is a problem, because it suggests that people are being filtered out for some reason other than their relevant abilities. Maybe that reason i
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by yucky 4y ago
> But even I am for government funded healthcare. Who in the hell is against it? Anybody who has ever had to deal with Medicaid?
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by yucky 4y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that the NFT boon was driven largely by the free COVID money people were given, combined with everyone trapped at home and bored.
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by yucky 4y ago
Not using any punctuation and relying on pictograms instead of definable words, and then getting hung up on who (and how many people) respond to a social post, and in what way and with what timing? Holy shit, no wonder they're all so p
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by yucky 4y ago
"No special favors" for member banks is hard to swallow after seeing the fallout in 2008 for everyone except those responsible. That's not a defense of crypto, it's an acknowledgement our banking system is corrupt. It&#x
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by yucky 4y ago
> The Fed does not print money for it's own personal/private use or to directly benefit it's members. You're referring to the small handful of people on its Board of Governors, but the member banks are private
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by yucky 4y ago
I think all of the workarounds proposed here are just more evidence of why standups are stupid.
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by yucky 4y ago
Isn't this what the Fed does? Not that they're in the same league, but it feels like the same sport.
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by yucky 4y ago
> An unrestricted LLM trained on all data of humanity (including all the pirated books/research papers) would be one crazy beast. Oh you mean the one the NSA uses? Yeah for sure.
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by yucky 4y ago
> and they are free The advertisers on Google would tell you otherwise. You are the product, ads are shown to you and you likely will click on one or more of them. Of course everybody says they don't , but the majority of pe
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by yucky 4y ago
> By raw statistics, white men still wield most power in American society (and thus the world), and so the progressive culture that is dominant in media is the culture being written and put into vogue by people who are white men if
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by yucky 4y ago
How is actual media representation not an "actual statistic"?
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by yucky 4y ago
> I think this is ridiculous, LGBTQ is a minority. Odd, I don't get that impression when I watch Netflix. Or consume any mainstream media for that matter.
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by yucky 4y ago
> We now know that the Russian air force is much less capable than some believed it was. I'm fairly certain Russia has not bothered to unleash their T-50 PAK's against Ukraine, so that remains to be seen doesn't it
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by yucky 4y ago
> Also also: are movie trailers that depict a gun being loaded with a > 30 rd magazine now banned? Or movie trailers that show any kind of modified weapon? How about video game footage? No, of course not. There is no reason to
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by yucky 4y ago
Learn to mine. Just kidding, had to say it though.
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by yucky 4y ago
Some of his points are correct, but it's an opinion piece written by a med student. Not exactly groundbreaking.

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