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by bubblewrap 7y ago
"the way you used it is exactly how a racist would use it to mock a black person." I still don't see what exactly is so mocking about it. Yes, I was perhaps "conjuring up" a stereotypical scenario. So what? Clearly,
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I've never heard of AAVE before. Wikipedia claims it is "natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians" https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
The example on Wiktionary given for momma is "My momma's so great: she bakes me cookies every week." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/momma As I said, I am not a native speaker, so I don't really know
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Why are many characters white? Because many writers are white. Should white authors write books with non-white heroes? Wouldn't that result in an outcry about cultural appropriation and things like that? Never mind that it would presum
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
One of those silly toxic grievance ideas, that you should only enjoy fiction when the protagonist looks like you, has the same gender and so on. Do real world PoC even ever obsess over white female dolls with blue eyes? It was just a work o
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
The legal framework could be wrong, though. I thought this is about emotional upheaval and hating big corporations, not the law. If it is about the law, why even discuss it, instead of waiting for the courts to sort it out?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
That's what the pregnant woman claims. The manager could have disliked her for other reasons or considered her unfit for leading people for other reasons.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Oh dear - no, strictly speaking, they are not. Nobody is.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
So the area where you live was never hot and humid before?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Sure, people are free to want anything. Acting on their wants may be another thing.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Sure, they are free to operate as they please. And people are free to dislike the way they operate.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Things that are projected to happen 10 to 12 years in the future seem to have a pesky tendency to happen 10 to 12 years in the future indefinitely.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Still, it is a pretty extreme scenario. And it is nothing new that some places on earth are uninhabitable or have become uninhabitable.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I'm pretty sure people are already living in places that are too hot for survival without technical aids. For example African deserts. In that light, I am not convinced that this article is more than fearmongering. It's also just
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
The choice would be looking for another job. A choice that slaves didn't have. By your definition, everybody is a slave, who is not so rich that they can afford to stop working. As for Amazon's Fulfillment centers, I'd like t
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I suspect toilet rules are strict because people are prone to abuse the system. Would be nice to have a warehouse operator for an AMA some time.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Slaves couldn't quit their jobs if they were unhappy about it. That is one of the defining aspects of slavery.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
"Ice flows are melting faster than average rates observed over the last three decades" This is actually normal for averages - some years are higher, some are lower. Otherwise it wouldn't be an average. Maybe the state of affa
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I thought gas was comparatively efficient, compared to other fossil fuels?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I still don't quite see the issue you have with my comment. I personally find it a good argument against Socialism, or at least a good reminder that Socialism is not an automatic solution to the world's problems. And is it really
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Some more specific dangers other than "the rich will get richer" would have been useful to mention. As with most AI scares, people forget that AIs only replace the even more faulty human brain. Bias in AI can be debugged and worke
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
No I said the protestors claiming there is an easy solution is the problem. They believe everything could just be switched over to renewables at no cost, in fact, they think it would be cheaper to do so. You do the same. You claim it is &qu
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Cool, but also energy efficient?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
It seems to be news for the person blaming capitalism for the woes of the world, though. So discussion is not welcome? Why can't people just ignore threads they are not interested in? Afaik a lot of stories repeat on HN, so the "n
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Isn't it common knowledge that the energy storage problem still isn't solved. What solution do you think exists?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
I'm not the one claiming there is an easy solution. I think Bill Gates also said the people claiming there is an easy solution is the biggest problem with fighting climate change, so maybe read his essays on the topic.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Can you give a citation? Where does this happen? Is it really just capitalist unwillingness to deliver food, or are these people in the hands of dictators, and it is capitalist unwillingness to sacrifice soldiers to topple them? And do capi
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Sorry I don't understand your criticism. Is it not allowed to discuss capitalism or socialism, it is automatically an "ideological battle"? That doesn't make sense imo.
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Sure - so the problem with capitalism is that it allows populations to grow too much? Or in what sense is capitalism to blame?
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by bubblewrap 7y ago
Solar apparently hasn't become viable after years of subsidization. And the problem of storing energy is still not solved. There is no solar power at night. Subsidization of coal would of course be equally wrong.

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