AinderS

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by AinderS 4y ago
Those Dell systems are "not for the general public, and had found their way to the website only inadvertently. The laptops are available only by custom order and only to military, government and intelligence agencies", and the oth
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by AinderS 4y ago
As much as I appreciate the article trying to stem the tide of racism by pointing out the El Paso shooting, I don't think such arguments are fruitful. Firstly, that shooting doesn't mean immigration is good for the US (or, let&#x2
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by AinderS 4y ago
The rise could be due to the bar for "hate crime" being so low that leaving tire marks on graffiti on a public road qualifies [1] (and an even lower standard is used in Canada [2]). Regardless, two things are lacking in the articl
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by AinderS 4y ago
> British colonial rule Keep going. What makes "colonial rule" different from rule by an aristocrat that inherited lands, if people have no concept of nationhood, and one aristocrat is as good as another?
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by AinderS 4y ago
> Back then there was no concept of nations and nation-states, which only evolved a couple of centuries later. Just because the power structures didn't perfectly reflect nations, doesn't mean nations didn't exist. Look at,
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by AinderS 4y ago
> Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase: It's okay to lie everywhere else, as long as they tell the truth somewhere inside the small print nobody reads? And we are su
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To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions(nytimes.com)
6 points by AinderS 4y ago|7 comments
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Census: White and youth population losses contributed most to growth slowdown(brookings.edu)
12 points by AinderS 4y ago|0 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
It's like a bad joke, isn't it? Ask for less immigration, get an expansion of the surveillance state instead.
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by AinderS 4y ago
> Europeans typically are not racialized and do not identify as white, instead as Italian, German, etc. This is obviously false, as shown by the different reactions in Europe to immigration from countries within Europe, to those outside
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by AinderS 4y ago
> The following has no place. I don't follow. Why do the results of their study have no place in the abstract? And merely sarcastically re-stating the findings of the study is not a counter-argument.
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Manufacturing white criminals: Depictions of criminality on Law and Order(tandfonline.com)
13 points by AinderS 4y ago|6 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
That is precisely my point. The ability to prevent you from buying a loaf of bread will be used for control.
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by AinderS 4y ago
According to the article, the main problem of a financial police state where you cannot so much as buy a loaf of bread without permission and surveillance from the payment system, is that not everyone is included.
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by AinderS 4y ago
I don't think norms about politeness are comparable to expert public health recommendations.
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Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What(nytimes.com)
3 points by AinderS 4y ago|3 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
White Americans are descended from Europeans, and the post was talking about being proud to be white, not "white American". Though I don't see why oppression is a requirement for pride - does achievement not suffice? And &quo
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by AinderS 4y ago
On the other hand, those US laws, if they carry comparable sentences as she is facing, are equally unjust. If this case is what it takes to realize how disproportionately cruel the US laws are, and to get them changed, then so be it. I will
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by AinderS 4y ago
No, only those they dislike, and only when they dislike them. They don't object to classifications when it comes to measuring oppression, for example.
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by AinderS 4y ago
That's odd. Their graph shows almost no reduction in immigration during 2016-2020. There's a dip in 2019, but it looks largely compensated by the spikes in years prior. I thought Trump was a xenophobe that promised a crackdown on
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by AinderS 4y ago
> The idea of being "proud" to be white only conjures up one thought for even the most lightly informed about our nation's history. Twice defending Vienna from Ottoman sieges? Retaking Spain from the Moors? The failed last
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by AinderS 4y ago
> While it is true that unsustainable tourism has skyrocketed since Hawaii has lifted COVID-19 regulations, the effects of settler colonialism are an insidious rot that spreads throughout Hawaii’s statehood and colonization. On the other
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Google adds a tag to identify Asian-owned businesses in Search and Maps(theverge.com)
16 points by AinderS 4y ago|59 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
But now the searches are extended into homes. I'm sure schools will argue that the laptops are school property and therefore children (or parents) have no rights on them, but let's think through what is happening here. I hate to u
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by AinderS 4y ago
Given that these laptops are paid for by tax dollars, and the monitoring continues at home, outside school hours, doesn't that make it unconstitutional search? That it's part of mandatory education only makes it worse. Do only fam
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by AinderS 4y ago
> The "DOJ has not found, nor does it allege, that the combination will reduce competition in the sale of books", Daniel Petrocelli, Penguin's lead attorney in the trial, said in a statement. > "We are confident th
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by AinderS 4y ago
> But like ads and product recommendations, internal combustion engines are overwhelmingly used for good Without internal combustion engines (at least until electric replaces them), billions will starve as tractors can't plow fields
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by AinderS 4y ago
> the level of anti-TikTok sentiment seems really weird, it really does just seem like sinophobia "It's so weird how scared people are of falling under the control of a foreign government. Don't they know their own governm
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by AinderS 4y ago
Don't pretend this is a victimless crime. He was tricked into wasting his time due to false advertising, and honest dealers who advertise the full price lose customers to fraudsters.
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by AinderS 4y ago
Submitted because a news article portraying book burning in a positive light was very unexpected. “Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.” - Heinrich Heine, probably referring only to books that you like, so it does not a

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