trieste92

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by trieste92 4y ago
Yeah I think I'm done with this website after reading this
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by trieste92 4y ago
congrats, this was probably the most awful thing I've read this week
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I was gaslighting myself for a while that they were just busy, but when I heard about a couple of social things that I wasn't invited to, I realised that the friendships weren't on hold, they were hanging up. I feel this. It&
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I moved to the US (Bay Area) about 10 years ago after having spent much of my youth elsewhere, and to this day, I haven't been able adjust to the lack of informal social interactions compared to where I'm from. I really tried
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by trieste92 4y ago
> It has very high social trust, low inequality, very low crime, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and so on. I wonder how long these metrics will last. Social trust is definitely a new one that's been added after mid 2010s
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by trieste92 4y ago
> You can't solve a culture of pervasive government surveillance by inventing new tech, because that tech will just be outlawed or regulated to death I call bs. New regulation moves slower that the rate at which people can find work
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by trieste92 4y ago
nowhere in that thing do I see any mention of things like work life balance, it's just a bunch of claptrap about "infrastructures of oppression". Whatever that's supposed to mean no wonder it's a small union. No eco
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by trieste92 4y ago
So at this point what's your argument? Change the subject, make up a slippery slope, and then scream about "fascism"? What's your goal here? To be so ridiculous that any sort of compromise is impossible? Hope that works
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by trieste92 4y ago
> against the wishes of both its practitioners Because our wishes conflict with their economic motives > the people receiving the treatment, who say it helps them Again, children who aren't able to consent > Why are you so inv
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by trieste92 4y ago
> "Allowed" is a telling choice of words though! You're advocating for a state-enforced limit on what people are allowed to choose for themselves. To children. What people are allowed to do to children > Which is why th
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by trieste92 4y ago
> The term "transition" as used here is a euphemism that covers interfering with a child's puberty in a way that is likely to sterilize them for life if the treatment persists, and surgical destruction of breasts, and in s
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by trieste92 4y ago
> why aren't experts in the field taking that evidence into account? Money. Build your entire career around treatments for trans minors, and without them you have no career
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by trieste92 4y ago
> but then actually mean something else “kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition” and then introduce legislation to that effect. Minors aren't capable of consent. The treatments have permanent side effects and lead to sterilization.
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by trieste92 4y ago
> The only reason anyone is talking about it is because he’s trying to use it as a cover story Why are people trying to make this guy sound clever and self aware? He sounds unhinged
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by trieste92 4y ago
> The guy has been seriously unhinged for a long time no doubt made much worse by the ability of uber-rich dudes to surround themselves with sycophants. Kanye 2.0
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by trieste92 4y ago
Why are people trying to read some bullshit ulterior motives out of what this guy is doing? He knows what he's doing. There's nothing "clever" about it. Someone talks about these things in this kind of way, it's
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by trieste92 4y ago
"satire" isn't a defense for this guy There's this trend: people say awful, transgressive shit and then say "oh we were only kidding" Also there's another trend: megalomaniac celebrities falling off the fa
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I can’t tell are for effect / satire or whether he’s changed his point of view in a rational way or whether he’s becoming unhinged Why are people here trying to give this guy a way out with satire? His comics are satire, but someo
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by trieste92 4y ago
I read HOD a couple times, which is related to European subjugation of Africa Nowhere in it do I find any sort criticism of the harms that were done. He describes the awful conditions in the Congo, but does not necessarily oppose them The l
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by trieste92 4y ago
Values like this? > A certain enormous buck n*** encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days. Of the n*** I used to dream for years afterwards.
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by trieste92 4y ago
> The problems just show up differently. Social media, online bullying and body shaming hurt girls more than boys. And video game addiction, desperation due to purposelessness and suicide seem to hurt men more than women. Idk. I feel lik
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by trieste92 4y ago
> Social media in and of itself is really just an accelerant for the particular set of social expectations we stack on girls and women around appearance and how that relates to self-worth. Boys have more capacity to transcend social medi
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by trieste92 4y ago
If we're in a place where we no longer need to waste 6 figure salaries on administrators and provosts so they can churn out boilerplate by hand, why even hire them in the first place?
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by trieste92 4y ago
> Charging infrastructure at work and in apartment buildings are currently deplorable in the southeast Really? You would expect the increase in air quality to be something everyone can get behind
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by trieste92 4y ago
I wonder if vertical integration of software and hardware is also the future
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by trieste92 4y ago
I feel torn here between FOSS principles and the quality of MacBook ux. Also the amount of performance you get per dollar It used to be, you bought an Apple product and got less performant hardware for a higher price. Now it's the oppo
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by trieste92 4y ago
> "Don't go outdoors or you might be a victim of a mass shooting like I see in the news almost every day", and you say "that doesn't reflect the reality here" The initial example I gave was this: "caste
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by trieste92 4y ago
??? > "the vast majority of high paying jobs are still in the hands of the top three castes."
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by trieste92 4y ago
Just because there are more female devs doesn't imply that there isn't discrimination. You're ignoring that parent said many of the women are (conspicuously) in QA Just because there are more women in engineering doesn't
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by trieste92 4y ago
Another thing I've noticed aside from caste discrimination (as a white guy) is how much Indians talk about marriage (and the way it's talked about) I saw this post on blind a couple months ago where a woman engineer reported her m

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