In other words, witch hunts are cool because sometimes witches don’t have some specific credential. It's awesome to bully non-credentialed individuals into silence.
There is scientific consensus that men are, on average, taller than women. There is absolutely no scientific consensus that men are better wired neurologically for software engineering than women, which is what James Damore wrote.
How could there be, when even positing the idea gets you fired and blacklisted?
He says AWS is a pain to deal with. He doesn’t offer a single example or link or comparison to back that up. The whole thing is XYZ commentator says XYZ new company reminds him of XYZ old company. Ok, thanks for that, but I can't really use that information because it isn't really information at all.
It's not about health care. Health care for the needy is the sales pitch. The taxes get collected. The money doesn't get spent on health care for the needy, it gets spent on other stuff (like government worker pensions). The needy still need health care, so the sales pitch is repeated. More taxes. Not spent on health care for the needy. Needy still in need. Sales pitch. Taxes. Misspent. Needy. Sales pitch. Taxes. Etc. Etc. Etc.
How many future opportunities did you mention versus how many historical grievances? How many angry people versus how many happy ones?
Why should students come here to work only to have their earnings taken from them endlessly for 1000 things in the name of “health care” for others? And if you want to keep your own paycheck so you can save enough to avoid always living “paycheck to paycheck” you are evil because [story about poor kids - who are always needy because someone always happens to get to the tax money ahead of them].
What were the reasons students should want to come here again?
So everyone should just smile and pretend that we have no serious issues with the environment, racism, and a system where the rich are above the law, and buy laws that benefit them only?
Are those the only things that matter? Are they the things that matter most? How is your life improved if a rich person gets arrested? Do you think you'll get a free one-week vacation stay in their mansion or something?
A country where a significant proportion of people not only don't understand basic science, but refuse to believe it?
You should mind your own business about what other people understand and/or believe. Minding everyone else's business is guaranteed unhappiness, so it's no mystery why you're so sour.
A country that has the highest if not the highest number of citizens in jail as a percentage of the population?
You seem to want to add rich people to that population, for some reason.
Do you want a smaller government with fewer laws and fewer opportunities to violate those laws? I don't think you do. You can't have a bigger government with more laws, and more minding everyone's business, and also have fewer people in jail for violating those laws.
Can you blame anyone in the rest of the civilized world for being freaked out...
By definition, people who are “freaked out” are emotional and not rational. So yeah, I definitely blame them. It’s been a year. Get a grip for fucks sake.
Chinese students want to study hard and become doctors and engineers, not fucking crybaby snowflakes studying Lesbian Alternative Dance Theory when they're not out making a fucking nuisance of themselves.
Lots of people concur with that preference. Unfortunately, university culture seems increasingly hostile to such people.
Campus protest videos can be seen on Chinese video sharing sites and social media. There are Chinese language discussion threads about the state of the American college campus. The sentiment is overwhelmingly negative.
That's perceptive. Are you saying Chinese students want to learn and prosper rather than pick sides and scream at people? And that's leading them to not want to come to US universities?
...U.S. student's don't want to work too hard. Given the choice between STEM graduate degrees and MBA's, the U.S. students are opting for the MBA's.
US students who went to government schools probably got a mediocre education from mediocre people who spend their days going through the motions waiting for summer and retirement. When did US students ever see educated people as role models?
That's the current reality of higher ed.
Higher ed is a hostile environment. It's easier for foreign students to deal with it because they're protected by their subculture and relative isolation from the hostility.
Someone who doesn't need a student visa to avoid some relative misfortune will eventually decide to leave and go get a job. Working at a job isn't a paradise, but at least they want you there. It's about work and accomplishment rather than hate and politics.
The political left taught me that hunger-gatherers are the only people who have absolute property rights. Everyone else in the world must pay their fair share, but indigenous hunter-gatherers apparently have a perpetual, inviolate right to exclusive use of enormous tracts of land and all that land's resources, with zero responsibilities toward the rest of us. It was even the theme of the movie Avatar.
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Do you really think AT&T, Comcast, and their like, really NEED more money in order to "improve and expand"? They're swimming in cash right now
That’s how you think people make decisions? "We're swimming in cash, let's do random shit without regard to ROI."
In other words, witch hunts are cool because sometimes witches don’t have some specific credential. It's awesome to bully non-credentialed individuals into silence.
The only hope for advancement in the field of neurobiology is C++ hackers posting psuedo-sciency bullshit on internal company forums.
The witch hunts must end for there to be hope for advancement.
If it had been a real scholarly work (i.e., not psuedo-sciene bullshit) and presented in the right forum (e.g. a journal of neuro-biology), then
Then he would have been fired and blacklisted quietly, before the research was even started.
He was not trying to advance the state of the neurological science, his memo was not a scholarly work.
That doesn’t address the question of how such scholarly works can be accomplished when merely suggesting the idea gets a person fired and blacklisted.
There is scientific consensus that men are, on average, taller than women. There is absolutely no scientific consensus that men are better wired neurologically for software engineering than women, which is what James Damore wrote.
How could there be, when even positing the idea gets you fired and blacklisted?
Millions more will be diagnosed now that the numbers have been adjusted to sell more prescriptions.
It's a good time of year to troll Americans about their food.
He says AWS is a pain to deal with. He doesn’t offer a single example or link or comparison to back that up. The whole thing is XYZ commentator says XYZ new company reminds him of XYZ old company. Ok, thanks for that, but I can't really use that information because it isn't really information at all.
It makes sense when you understand taking offense Is a tactic to exert power over others.
Because (affected) empathy is merely being used as a tool. When using it doesn't advance the cultural goal, it gets left in the toolbox.
Get off my lawn!
Anything that involves a lack of physical activity is likely correlated with depression.
It's not about health care. Health care for the needy is the sales pitch. The taxes get collected. The money doesn't get spent on health care for the needy, it gets spent on other stuff (like government worker pensions). The needy still need health care, so the sales pitch is repeated. More taxes. Not spent on health care for the needy. Needy still in need. Sales pitch. Taxes. Misspent. Needy. Sales pitch. Taxes. Etc. Etc. Etc.
How many future opportunities did you mention versus how many historical grievances? How many angry people versus how many happy ones?
Why should students come here to work only to have their earnings taken from them endlessly for 1000 things in the name of “health care” for others? And if you want to keep your own paycheck so you can save enough to avoid always living “paycheck to paycheck” you are evil because [story about poor kids - who are always needy because someone always happens to get to the tax money ahead of them].
What were the reasons students should want to come here again?
So everyone with different beliefs from you is stupid. That’s very enlightened. Congrats. You must be a super happy person.
So everyone should just smile and pretend that we have no serious issues with the environment, racism, and a system where the rich are above the law, and buy laws that benefit them only?
Are those the only things that matter? Are they the things that matter most? How is your life improved if a rich person gets arrested? Do you think you'll get a free one-week vacation stay in their mansion or something?
A country where a significant proportion of people not only don't understand basic science, but refuse to believe it?
You should mind your own business about what other people understand and/or believe. Minding everyone else's business is guaranteed unhappiness, so it's no mystery why you're so sour.
A country that has the highest if not the highest number of citizens in jail as a percentage of the population?
You seem to want to add rich people to that population, for some reason.
Do you want a smaller government with fewer laws and fewer opportunities to violate those laws? I don't think you do. You can't have a bigger government with more laws, and more minding everyone's business, and also have fewer people in jail for violating those laws.
More emotional and irrational as those who would allow a known psychopath, sexual predator and child predator to reach the oval office ?
Why grade on a curve? Panicky people who can't get it together, even after an entire year, don't have a credible perspective. Fail.
Can you blame anyone in the rest of the civilized world for being freaked out ...
By definition, people who are “freaked out” are emotional and not rational. So yeah, I definitely blame them. It’s been a year. Get a grip for fucks sake.
Chinese students want to study hard and become doctors and engineers, not fucking crybaby snowflakes studying Lesbian Alternative Dance Theory when they're not out making a fucking nuisance of themselves.
Lots of people concur with that preference. Unfortunately, university culture seems increasingly hostile to such people.
Russians are supposed to be PRO Trump.
Russians are an all-purpose bogeyman. They're the duct tape of changing the subject and avoiding addressing reality.
Campus protest videos can be seen on Chinese video sharing sites and social media. There are Chinese language discussion threads about the state of the American college campus. The sentiment is overwhelmingly negative.
That's perceptive. Are you saying Chinese students want to learn and prosper rather than pick sides and scream at people? And that's leading them to not want to come to US universities?
Crying about global warming
Crying about “victims”
Crying about taxes.
Crying about the past.
If it stinks like orange shit, it probably voted for orange shit.
Why wouldn't a foreign student want to come to the US to hear this bullshit 50 times a day?
...U.S. student's don't want to work too hard. Given the choice between STEM graduate degrees and MBA's, the U.S. students are opting for the MBA's.
US students who went to government schools probably got a mediocre education from mediocre people who spend their days going through the motions waiting for summer and retirement. When did US students ever see educated people as role models?
That's the current reality of higher ed.
Higher ed is a hostile environment. It's easier for foreign students to deal with it because they're protected by their subculture and relative isolation from the hostility.
Someone who doesn't need a student visa to avoid some relative misfortune will eventually decide to leave and go get a job. Working at a job isn't a paradise, but at least they want you there. It's about work and accomplishment rather than hate and politics.
Oh so both sides are to blame where have we heard that one before
Every time anyone sensible observed 2 sides of any dispute.
The political left taught me that hunger-gatherers are the only people who have absolute property rights. Everyone else in the world must pay their fair share, but indigenous hunter-gatherers apparently have a perpetual, inviolate right to exclusive use of enormous tracts of land and all that land's resources, with zero responsibilities toward the rest of us. It was even the theme of the movie Avatar.