divided

7 ms·

1.
by divided 4y ago
Comparing size without considering population will only lead to bad conclusions. Could you imagine someone claiming cancer deaths in Germany aren’t a problem because it doesn’t have near as many deaths as the US, it’s not even close? Sounds
2.
by divided 4y ago
> Oh, please. These issues were not about child exploitation. Your original statement conveys the FBI should never ask Twitter to take down accounts. My response was such that there _are_ good reasons for the FBI to ask Twitter to take d
3.
by divided 4y ago
> The FBI should not be asking Twitter to take down accounts. Period. Have you considered the real consequences of this? If the FBI for example finds accounts linked to child exploitation, drug trafficking, or terrorism; should they not
4.
by divided 4y ago
That's a good devil's advocate, but it's worth pointing out minor children consent (with parental consent, too) to surgeries all the time. Whether that's cancer treatments, surgeries to repair bone fractures, plastic sur
5.
by divided 4y ago
Thanks for the notice, I will try to do better.
6.
by divided 4y ago
Well, it’s sorta helpful to better understand your mindset. Of course you don’t see any connection between the Enlightenment and trans rights. It would suck to realize one’s ideological underpinnings are the same as those that have been on
7.
by divided 4y ago
I commend you at your attempt at humor. It’s a solid approach when losing an argument.
8.
by divided 4y ago
A trend that has lasted decades? Try at least centuries. Egalitarianism and tolerance is a cornerstone of Enlightenment thinking. Constitutions gave power to the people over kings. Capitalism gave individuals a chance to rival the power of
9.
by divided 4y ago
Be a friend and share a few examples.
10.
by divided 4y ago
To be fair, this isn’t the sort of argument you’d want to make with any historical knowledge. At some point in history, a lot of extremely bad opinions went from “almost everyone” to “vast majority” to an ever shrinking minority. Just to na
11.
by divided 4y ago
The peer comment to mine by dragontamer sums it up better than I could. I’m not saying problems didn’t exist before Elon, but Musk has been a net negative for the company who thus far has only managed to make a bad situation worse.
12.
by divided 4y ago
I respect your choice and to each their own, but to characterize Elon as a wartime CEO when he’s caused 80% of the crisis is a very generous characterization. His “leadership” thus far has been sporadic, ill thought out, and reckless.
13.
by divided 4y ago
I agree, I was misinformed. Too many articles state both acquisition or $1B fine were viable routes for Twitter, but other sources with more solid analysis look to contradict that.
14.
by divided 4y ago
I was aware that Twitter went to court to complete the deal, but I admit to being misinformed as much of the analysis I read stated both avenues ($1B fee or force the acquisition) were viable. For example, Dan Ives, who is often quoted in a
15.
by divided 4y ago
Fair enough, I'm not versed on the legal in's and out's and it appears you're correct. I knew Twitter sought to close the deal, but most of the analysis I read claimed they could have chosen the $1B instead, as if both w
16.
by divided 4y ago
I see this differently. Elon attacked the credibility of engineers at Twitter by publicly making up a lie about their incompetence and shouting it out with the biggest megaphone in the world. Imagined another way, if your manager went to Tw
17.
by divided 4y ago
Where have you been? I think you may be uninformed on this. Here's some details: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/technology/twitter-musk-b... . Later when Elon sought to pull out of the deal, Twit
18.
by divided 4y ago
Cherry picking? I think you’re confused. I chose the same year YOU chose to say police per capita was down 11.6%. In that same time, property crime is down 51% and violent crime down 35% for a combined reduction of 49%.[1] So we have a whop
19.
by divided 4y ago
Violence is bad. Yes. I can’t believe that has to be argued. The glorification of violence in your posts here is disturbing. State sanctioned violence on innocent people is especially bad, but even guilty people should have their day in cou
20.
by divided 4y ago
I don’t think this is surprising. Police killings are more likely to happen when the officer feels threatened. Research regularly shows we’ve been conditioned to see Asian people as less threatening than white people.
21.
by divided 4y ago
Most murderers are not caught in a shoot out with police. And murderers account for such a small number of police interactions that it’s a little bizarre to extrapolate the murder rate would strongly correlate to victims of police violence
22.
by divided 4y ago
First, I don’t think there’s just one metric to use, and it’s a tall argument to say funding of all things should be ignored. Second, I think the stat you focused in on probably doesn’t tell enough of the story, either. Crime rate is HALF w
23.
by divided 4y ago
> Instead we ask too much, cut funding and criticize the outcomes. The movement that was partially aimed to stop asking so much of police officers by distributing those responsibilities mentioned in your first sentence to others (Defund
24.
by divided 4y ago
At this point it takes intentional ignorance to believe there’s a chance that all police violence is legitimate. Not only is there a glut of video evidence to the contrary, but internal investigations and courts have conclusively resolved t
25.
by divided 4y ago
Depends on what you mean by same geographical locations, but that can vary a lot. If you’re looking over 100’s of kilometers, there will be both poor and wealthy districts. If you’re looking within a single city, there will be poor and weal
26.
by divided 4y ago
Did Lula also have more support in the polling in those places that used those older models? I assume those districts would be the poorer districts, and Lula did have more support among the low income, correct? I think you’re looking at cor
27.
by divided 4y ago
If Brazil is anything like the US, there are many, many safeguards in place whenever an election machine is certified and used. Baseless means without evidence. So when a politician is yelling at his fans that the machines overturned the re
28.
by divided 4y ago
Was the research group meeting about politics or did this randomly come up during them? And honestly it wouldn’t surprise me for college students to bash Biden as well. Why associate your political beliefs so strongly with one man? Surely s
29.
by divided 4y ago
I feel like this was a tongue-in-cheek proposal, but why would we want to be the thought police here? These are, after all, students sharing their beliefs with other students. Conservatives have spent decades demonizing higher education as
30.
by divided 4y ago
This sort of response encapsulates the conservative victimhood complex. Whenever any data or research comes out that contradicts their viewpoints, the go-to is to assume bias and dismiss it without addressing its actual merits. The writer i

More ›