_hilro

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by _hilro 5y ago
Surely it's more than that. /s I mean the NYTimes[0] gave a glowing interview to the creator/designer of AOC's 'Tax The Rich' on September 21 but never once mentioned that the designer owes a considerable amoun
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by _hilro 5y ago
He's "CTO as a service" Imagine turning up to a job and this guy is in charge of decisions...shudder.
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by _hilro 5y ago
Eh,some people who work security/work in retail like to stand up for common decency in the neighbourhood and have a backbone so they confront the thief. > Allowing your LP staff to use physical force is not going to solve retail the
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by _hilro 5y ago
> uses his name to sell artwork Sure, because that's the extent of his corruption.
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by _hilro 5y ago
Quite funny you should say that as I had just written this comment on the other related thread: > I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet. EU & US & every other regio
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by _hilro 5y ago
> This is especially bad for activists, whistleblowers, and the politically persecuted No, it's not. There's no need for hyperbole. They can always go through an intermediary.
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by _hilro 5y ago
I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet. EU & US & every other region in the world are different. As it stands, the global internet is dominated by US cultures & law
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by _hilro 5y ago
Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO said: > Several of you have also asked where we draw the line on hate. We don’t allow titles on Netflix that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe The Closer crosses that line. I recog
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by _hilro 5y ago
The more people that aggressively call out con-artists and bullshitters, the better. He learned a lesson that day and there was subsequently less shittery in the world from then on than there would have been. Win win for decent humans.
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by _hilro 5y ago
That money from corrupt officials goes straight to the US real estate market. Miami.
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by _hilro 5y ago
Whilst the main story of the focus is the case involving black kids, the story also details the case of a white kid wronged by this person. If stats were available to show black children in general were targeted, the piece would have includ
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by _hilro 5y ago
> I am saddened, that all the folks frightened by a world more equal immediately resort to imaginary persecution as a first reaction. What a dumb comment. More equal according to racial distribution and 0 other things. Color of your skin
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by _hilro 5y ago
> The problem with the G&T program was that it did a better job of selecting for parental affluence (the ability to pay 4-5 figures for test prep for your toddler, and the time to navigate a byzantine system) than for inherent differ
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by _hilro 5y ago
For the program to be racially segregated using your above definition(ignoring common usage), then the program itself would have to have separated the races in the program . The NYTimes article isn't an 8 year old writing their first
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by _hilro 5y ago
Eh, from your own words: > What they did was to put schools and school zones in ways that happened to line up with strong demographic differences in swaths of the city. Using geographic lines which correspond with race to determine entry
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by _hilro 5y ago
Spend any amount of time greater than 0 reading books and articles which use the word segregate. Segregation/segregate is defacto used as a noun/verb with intent behind it.
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by _hilro 5y ago
> Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives. Species do not exist genetically /s
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by _hilro 5y ago
> word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design' My entire comment does not rest on a false premise. 1) My comment commented on the use of the word segregation and it's implications. * and 2) the fact that
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by _hilro 5y ago
> How else are we gonna detect the asshats if they don't tribalise themselves at Poly Prep? Maybe we can just judge them by what they put out in to the world? Such as naming their personal blog something really pretentious? Or yo
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by _hilro 5y ago
> If a school system or program doesn't have enough black kids in it, it is by definition segregated. No, it is literally not "by definition" segregated. Using the phrase 'by definition' is not that powerful a mo
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by _hilro 5y ago
> But the highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students. Wow, using a word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design' sure lays bare their hand. Just to be clear, there
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by _hilro 5y ago
2012... FTA: > Note: This episode originally ran in July 2012.
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by _hilro 5y ago
FTA > "The defendant knowingly and willingly aided and abetted this at least by conscientiously performing guard duty In what world is this a case to charge someone with abetting thousands of deaths by performing guard duty...>50
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by _hilro 5y ago
> Our European visitors are important to us. alt: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/07/tesla-moves-its-headquarters...
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by _hilro 5y ago
Is this what you're referring to?: > In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, specifically the embryonic diencephalon; thus, the retina is considered part o
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by _hilro 5y ago
you are 100% correct!
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by _hilro 5y ago
No. They feed signal in to the brain. You wouldn't say your nostrils or mouth or skin or ears are part of the brain. Why would eyes be different?
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by _hilro 5y ago
> for instance the FF/FG coalition in Ireland has been unable to do anything about housing, because any actual action is going to annoy _somebody_ Ireland has a ridiculously high percentage of population dependent on government sup
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by _hilro 5y ago
> just "Yang is like his peers" Given the assailant was black, I doubt most politicians would get involved or publicise it.
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by _hilro 5y ago
The word is bitch so the sanitised version would be B** Why portray the bad word as 3 letters - it doesn't make sense.

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