why_is_it_good

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by why_is_it_good 2mo ago
> What you fail to realize is that Tourists bring money to your city. They buy drinks from your favorite bar. Lunch from a struggling local cafe They also raise prices to an international average in city centers, that become exclusion zo
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by why_is_it_good 5mo ago
> Storage: At least 22 GB of free space on the volume that contains your Chrome profile.
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by why_is_it_good 8mo ago
That works both ways. Human chains are all that justifies your existence, having abandoned being a hunter gatherer.
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by why_is_it_good 9mo ago
You mean murder, before capital understands its critics are as moraly bankrupt as capital itself, and deploys killbots?
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by why_is_it_good 10mo ago
So you just want a larger police force than them.
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by why_is_it_good 10mo ago
The mistake is in expecting anything positive from a company, brand or celebrity. And then phrasing it as if it's a problem?
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by why_is_it_good 2y ago
> Excuse me? Really thoughtful comment, that shows us the core of your objection: nothing. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins...
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by why_is_it_good 2y ago
_in which it is implied capitalizing B in black is both provocative, and that this kind of provocation is not interesting_
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by why_is_it_good 3y ago
Some slopes are slippery and some people have the cause of their deeds in their [material] characteristics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
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by why_is_it_good 3y ago
> radical feminists are socially conservatives Bold claim. > MW: conservative: tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions LGBT advocates who want to keep LGBT institutions to advocate from, are then co
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by why_is_it_good 4y ago
Yes, different context. But for the same idea to exist in both Adam and Freedom Georgia's peoples: self segregation. Freedom Georgia wants a black owned town. They do it because they think of it as proxy for "safe for black people
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by why_is_it_good 4y ago
There are differences. But also things in common. Both statements get to "like me" by using skin color (or race) as proxy. And so we learn "people (un)like me" are people of the same color, and now you see they are the s
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by why_is_it_good 4y ago
I agree it would be a poor argument if used as argument. It wasn't. Funny you use "other people do X too". You agree those Georgians are self segregating. I'm using it to explain the news to other people, not to argue fo
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by why_is_it_good 4y ago
And we, as a society, now condemn getting away from groups defined by their race/skin color, and flocking together to others who are less likely to hate you? https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/fre
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by why_is_it_good 4y ago
If people can learn from your face, so can cameras. It's not so simple.
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by why_is_it_good 5y ago
Now we discuss "claims of oppression by identities", yet before it was just "identities". Before identity was enough, when called out you switch to specific oppression. Almost as if you didn't care either way: befor
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by why_is_it_good 5y ago
> Black and native trans women suffer more Not by virtue of its blackness, indigenous or sex status, but only in relation to other people. If other people were to praise blackness, indigenousness and being non-man, it would not suffer, b
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by why_is_it_good 5y ago
To praise weakness and call it merit.
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by why_is_it_good 5y ago
> As a general rule The whole movement of correcting social wrongs is made by barking at a social hegemons. And now we come full circle as people seem to believe there are general rules again, except they are the opposite of the rules th
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by why_is_it_good 5y ago
And they better not think about it, lest they think wrong and end up in the situation OP mentioned and you chose to dismiss.
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by why_is_it_good 8y ago
> Given the choice, some of your customers would rather interact with a machine than speak to a member of your support team. Some do. Some don't.
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by why_is_it_good 8y ago
Or makeup.
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by why_is_it_good 9y ago
I am amazed at how bad this situation is. > Something happens. > /pol/, being /pol/, flipped the switch that generates semi-random information around a subject, seasoned with bias-of-the-day > some posters on &#
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by why_is_it_good 9y ago
Found another submission for this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14934581
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by why_is_it_good 9y ago
> The document said that improving racial and gender diversity is less important than making sure conservatives feel comfortable expressing themselves at work. I'm all for skill over diversity, but "making conservatives comfort
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by why_is_it_good 10y ago
"now you have to buy" I fail to see why. Do they also have to "secure" a handle in every social media/service/website/platform that allows registration? An email account in every provider? Register their c