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by door 9y ago
yes, piracy is good. if you think artists should be paid give them money directly, or go to shows and buy merch. nearly all intellectual property barriers make no sense in a post-internet world. we effectively live in a world without intell
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by door 9y ago
a good rule of thumb is just to never make any comments about a female coworker's body. it's very easy to cross over to unprofessional territory and make someone feel uncomfortable or degraded. that's the rule I've follo
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by door 9y ago
>I'm sorry, but "stories" don't mean anything to me are you human
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by door 9y ago
This is an increasingly outdated view. http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/02/24/sex-biology-redefin...
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by door 9y ago
I was a STEM major (physics) and I work in tech. I'm attacking from inside, not outside. I think that there is a specific culture in STEM whereby white men who are incredibly gifted and successful in math/science/whatever thi
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by door 9y ago
no i made a distinction between commenting on the attractiveness of a woman's body and something that is purely aesthetic and non-sexual (clothing and makeup)
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by door 9y ago
that's good, most women don't really want unsolicited comments from strangers on their appearance, and frequently experience unwanted comments. I know women who literally every time they go out get catcalled.
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by door 9y ago
both "myths of gender" and "delusions of gender" were written by scientists. the fact that you still think of sex as a binary difference between xx and xy shows how far outdated your ideas about the science of sex differ
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by door 9y ago
that's because data isn't 100% appropriate for social sciences. you can't measure everything. shocking as it may be for STEM majors (full disclosure: i have a physics degree), people's feelings and subjective experiences
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by door 9y ago
your intentions don't excuse inappropriate behavior. if you really didn't intend to say something that made someone feel disrespected, your response should be "Oh, I am so sorry, I won't make that kind of comment in the
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by door 9y ago
>Furthermore, commenting directly on the awesomeness of someone else's body is also not sexual. Have you never admired a femal athlete, the way you admire a male athelete? I am bisexual so the analogy doesn't quite work lol. an
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by door 9y ago
straight men commenting on the attractiveness of women's bodies is pretty blatantly sexual. what other reason is there to make that kind of comment? "pure aesthetics"? like Wow Jessica from accounting's body is consisten
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by door 9y ago
> I've seen people driven out just for saying someone else looks good in a bathing suit. understandably, as that is extremely unprofessional and sexual harassment
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by door 9y ago
i don't think it's subjective to say that nazism is reprehensible.
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by door 9y ago
if you think that calling racism or nazism horrible is "subjective" then you clearly have no solid principles and this conversation is over i think you're wrong about christianity, and we can debate whether or not advocacy of
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by door 9y ago
no one is saying you can't say things, they are just saying you can't say things in certain places. there have ALWAYS been regulations, both legal and market, on what you can say on tv, radio, in newspapers. 50 years ago you could
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by door 9y ago
thats the nature of the free market - if you don't like patreon, start your own more nazi-friendly site and see how it goes (hint: poorly). the state is unique in that it has a monopoly on regulating speech - a state should have very v
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by door 9y ago
even the most insane libertarian couldn't defend that position. by your definition doxing, targeted harassment and child pornagraphy is "free speech" free speech means everyone can participate in a marketplace of ideas, where
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by door 9y ago
transactions are public but if no one knows that a public key is yours it's difficult to trace. and like you said, there's tools to anonymize your bitcoin transactions completely
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by door 9y ago
no, but the impact of something like, reducing coal by 10% and increasing nuclear by 10% is. the advantage is a slight reduction in emmisions and a slight increase in the possibility of a severe nuclear disaster. that's certainly a deb
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by door 9y ago
keeping 10+btc in coinbase is immensely stupid. don't keep your bitcoin in exchanges. it defeats three of the main appeals of bitcoin: autonomy, trustlessness, anonymity
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by door 9y ago
it's not irrational to prefer probabilistic, long-term problems to maybe once or twice having to evacuate new york or tokyo
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by door 9y ago
i want all those things. my point was "if you dont like the system, leave" is a bad argument
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by door 9y ago
theres a difference between inequality in the sense of "a junior developer makes 60k, a senior developer makes 100k" (what you're talking about, and which is totally fine) and the inequality that actually exists, whereby a sm
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by door 9y ago
i don't want to live in the woods, i want a world in which people who make iphones don't kill themselves
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by door 9y ago
no individual capitalist forces someone to work, no, but the logic of the market necessarily leads to poverty and exploitation. the market is not democratic, those who control more wealth and capital necessarily have more power.
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by door 9y ago
it's bad that a single person has unaccountable command over a billion dollars
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by door 9y ago
nearly all technological improvements are built, at their core, on work that was done by publicly-funded research or volunteer/non-profit work. the internet is a good example
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by door 9y ago
billionaire capitalists are not good news for humanity
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by door 9y ago
people abuse the system bc the system fucks them

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