cassalian

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by cassalian 5y ago
There's been a lot of question about the motivation for this feature. Am I the only one that thinks this could be related to things like the EARN IT (or something similar). Here's an article from a year ago on EARN IT: > Theore
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by cassalian 5y ago
I'm doubtful of the harms of misinformation and the role it plays in persuading people's opinions (I believe people are fairly intelligent rather than undiscerning parrots of thought). However, if I were to accept the claim misinf
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by cassalian 5y ago
Thanks for the link!
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by cassalian 5y ago
Could you provide the source for the supreme court agreement? It seems to me that forcing someone to get a vaccine would just as much violate their individual liberties so I'm rather curious what issue the supreme court was specificall
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by cassalian 5y ago
Yes it does - I do not believe in the "rules for thee, but not for me" type of thinking
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by cassalian 5y ago
Why should society be concerned with rehabilitating the most violent of offenders? To be a bit more specific, assume we are talking about a parent that has brutally beaten their child to death, or someone who has knelt on someone else'
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by cassalian 5y ago
8th graders are typically 12-13 years old, not 10 - 10 year olds are typically in the 6th and 7th grade.
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by cassalian 5y ago
My sister is still in school and the anti-cheating software gives her a lot of anxiety - not that she's a cheater or anything, but because it is well known that this software flags non-cheaters as cheaters. For example, she is not allo
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by cassalian 5y ago
> I see it as a currently-necessary annoyance, as the least bad option... shutting down education until the pandemic's over is unfeasible. Is it necessary though? Have you considered there are ways other than testing for a student t
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by cassalian 5y ago
This is a lie of omission: > Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts... partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks. From wikipedia ( https:&#x2F
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by cassalian 5y ago
I tend to agree that the world generally is more dull than people like to believe. However, I'd say that mostly applies to people trying to make more ordinary events more extraordinary. But in the case of covid, we already have an extr
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by cassalian 5y ago
So by your logic, it would be okay for a twitter employee to modify a tweet from of the president's account to declare war (or to any number of things that would have very real repercussions in the real world)
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by cassalian 5y ago
It appears that reddit prefers that people believe it is the original author's words when they edit someone's post: > "I messed with the “f*** u/spez” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods f
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by cassalian 5y ago
Reddit's response can be found here: https://np.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/mbqgx2/a_clarifi... > We’re seeing a number of good questions regarding where our policies around public informati
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by cassalian 5y ago
The EU was hit especially hard too, is that somehow the US's right-wing's fault too? Maybe the fact that the virus is incredibly contagious is at fault for there being a global pandemic...?
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by cassalian 5y ago
> are you implying that the act of deciding to have a long lockdown necessitates that the decision makers do not care about children Not quite... I'm referring to the fact that society has often gotten quite worked up over "thi
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by cassalian 5y ago
Anyone else find it strange that a country that has often fallen in line with "think of the children" arguments for hypothetical dangers appears to be completely uncaring about very real dangers of social isolation that are impact
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by cassalian 5y ago
It's nice that you have been able to deal well with the situation this last year, but try to remember that your experience is not necessarily representative of the whole: > The districts, large and small, rural and urban, serve more
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by cassalian 6y ago
People seem to blame the people giving out loans or the people receiving them. However, isn't this all the colleges fault for dramatically increasing their tuition over the last 20ish years? Student loan forgiveness would be nice for t
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by cassalian 6y ago
> It may be something entirely different though, point is it is not hard to come up with a context where these slides are not criticizing the color of people’s skin. I agree that your above scenarios could change the context. However, gi
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by cassalian 6y ago
The coco-cola incident made national news, I imagine there are better articles out there; I simply grabbed the first one on google - I should have sought out a better one to link to. However, from the article, you can see several of the sli
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by cassalian 6y ago
edit: Misread the article and grabbed the first name I saw. This edit fixes the reference: "The seminar entitled 'Facing Racism' , given by Robin DiAngelo , was presented through LinkedIn Education publicly, although not free
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by cassalian 6y ago
There are people on the left that assume that if you have white skin, then you must act a certain way, and that way of acting is wrong. This is based solely on the person's race, no individual characteristics need be considered. If you
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by cassalian 6y ago
So you'd like to make lying illegal...? I have an amendment to show you, it's actually the very first one!
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by cassalian 6y ago
Remember when the left said they wanted to unify the country? I guess squashing all opposing viewpoints is one way to do that... Maybe they should get some help from Russia and China, I hear they have a lot of experience in dealing with &#x
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by cassalian 6y ago
I do not think it's easy to convey to someone what this last year has been like for a lot of people who live alone. As such, I can't really blame the crowd that pushes for more intense lockdown measures - their motives for doing s
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by cassalian 6y ago
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by cassalian 6y ago
Facebook is not a public space at this time. As such, they have the right to kick anyone off their platform without reason - just as you may choose who to invite inside your home. To those who are arguing on free speech: your argument has n
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by cassalian 6y ago
I'm not necessarily advocating to remove the lock downs and instead simply throwing our hands up and going "oh well!", but I can't help but wonder whether there is something better than the current system. I hate this vi
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by cassalian 6y ago
> I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at this as part of “cancel culture” (a concept I ve

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