cobraetor

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by cobraetor 6y ago
Please stop speaking up on behalf of African Americans without consulting their own opinion on this matter. I'm one and not even my Black friends care about this silly posturing from White progressives. We are frankly getting tired of
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Claiming without evidence that African Americans are offended (not to mention it is patronizing to them) by a term like "master" is subjective reality. Cancel culture, which grand parent is referring to, is real. You will find man
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> Is it more accessible? As in, is this change driven by complaints from actual people who feel excluded by the terminology? As far as I'm aware, none of the projects making these changes even claims that, it's all speculation
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by cobraetor 6y ago
This shouldn't be a controversial take. It is Occam's razor after all. We know that before the tech industry became popular and a way to make good money, women displayed little to no interest in being associated with programming
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Welcome to Hacker News, where anything critical of Silicon Valley's religions (climate activism and veganism), no matter how well-reasoned and factual, gets downvoted to death.
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by cobraetor 6y ago
In other words, it is all about social skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAe867evM18
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Who is the "we" here? The woke and the neoracists? Do you realize that the platform on which you speak, and censor others, was created by the very people you aim to condescendingly ostracize?
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> This is why I watch with increasing alarm the current trend to “cancel” meat. But this is not a new trend though. See The Global Influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Diet: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444&#x2F
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by cobraetor 6y ago
If you can't connect all of this to the larger pattern of Woke propaganda in America, then I don't know what to tell you. Look up Christopher F. Rufo just for one example and how this propaganda is taking roots in schools and univ
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Texas too. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/11/02/s...
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Great recession? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession
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by cobraetor 6y ago
What was the cause of the big spike around 2010? What approach did the then US president take about it?
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by cobraetor 6y ago
You are misrepresenting my comment, which I wrote only because you said "I feel like I've learned literally nothing from any of them". I indicated that affect, not consciousness, is imagined. Furthermore, I indicated (which y
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Try eliminating the following assumptions a) Consciousness depends on affect b) Affect is real, and not simply an imagined experience. In other words, question the validity of the above. Are they in fact true? How do we know them to be true
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Apparently Thursday (March 4th) is significant to QAnon believers. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-56260345 <quote> Before the 20th amendment of the US Constitution - adopted in 1933 - moved the swearing-
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> Wonder what new measures they want to push, for "safety" against "domestic terrorism"? Doubling down on stifling free speech of course. https://reclaimthenet.org/democrats-level-up-their-censorshi...
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Here is more information on them from Sharyl Attkisson, an expert in analyzing media bias, “This started, and I traced this in my second book, ‘The Smear,’ to Media Matters … the left-wing propaganda group that supported Hillary Clinton, Ba
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by cobraetor 6y ago
"Tone policing" was the rationale behind Linux Foundation kicking out of Charles Max Wood from their conference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21484347
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> It’s interesting to read the pro Chinese propaganda on HN And the president of the United States himself dismissed Uighur genocide as being part of China’s ‘different norms’. https://nypost.com/2021/02/17&#x2F
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> the subtitle, though, which seems more factual and less interpretive Not true, if you read the linked paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/712972 > The reason for the typically l
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Yes, it can be done at various levels of subtlety as well as at group levels. Why else would we have such words describing adult behavior as "workplace bullying", "online harassment", "domestic violence", &quot
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> I call bullshit. Teenagers aren't complete in their development yet. That's why you can, and should, train and teach them. You are absolutely right. - If you were an anti-bullying organization, what methodologies exactly woul
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Coinbase already took that stance. I'm not aware of any other companies that did. * https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp... * https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/202
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> It's impossible to work on the ethics of AI without involving politics. Wouldn't that conflict with Google's no-politics policy? https://www.businessinsider.com/google-community-guidelines-...
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Not really disagreeing with you, but Hacker News guidelines prohibits making negative comments about a person. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Everyone is biased, so it would be far more productive to just
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> "fight like hell". I think taking quotes out of context does not present things as they actually happened or provide a fair analysis. We have to be careful of cherry-picking. Here's the full context: “fight like hell, a
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by cobraetor 6y ago
> Hate speech inciting violence Interesting, but what I don't understand is ... if Trump clearly incited violence, why was he not convicted? Would you say that the American justice system is not fair? *edit: responding to comment fr
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by cobraetor 6y ago
* https://quillette.com/ for heterodox views * https://reclaimthenet.org/ for news on free speech and cancel culture * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNdA_qZp4eQP5orJ1BsRBWA for wisd
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by cobraetor 6y ago
These are great questions, and here's my attempt at answering or elaborating on them. > how do you define hate speech Ira Glasser explains it precisely: "When people say they want to ban hate speech, what they mean is they want
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by cobraetor 6y ago
Would you consider this person[1] to be transphobic? He is not a conservative and yet holds similar views to that of Shapiro. [1] https://blog.alexgleason.me/gab-block/

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