It's not "allowed to ruin" anything when you can be fired from your job and be subject to potential civil and even criminal penalties. Companies like Google can ruin your business by deliberately putting your site on page 138 of search results. Type "James Damore" into Google's homepage and watch autosuggest totally fail to suggest anything. Ignoring PC culture will not make it go away.
But PC culture *is* ruining everything. It's not some kind of false conclusion. Remember when that scientist, celebrating the achievement of a lifetime, landing a space probe on a fucking COMET, was forced to tearfully apologize the next day for his choice of shirt?
Stung, didn't it? Why is a wealthy continent of 500 million totally unable to defend itself and has to rely on a distant country of 300 million for its defense? Losers.
We're talking about why Hillary lost. It wasn't because of TEH ROOSHINS. It was because the Democrats abandoned the white working class and planned to drown them in immigrants. Deal with it, learn, and maybe in 2024 you can win an election again. I mean, fuck, the Democrats are the party of Harvey Weinstein.
Fuck, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey have a lot to answer for. If not for their disgusting antics, we would have had this medicine decades ago. But no, they had to dance around like frightening spectres, "I'm going to dose your kids with hallucinogens, and then they'll never come home to you again! They'll hate everything about you! Muhahahaha!" All so they could try to tear down society, because they deemed it unjust. Fuck those fucking pricks. Their persuasion worked! These drugs were made hugely illegal, even for research, largely due to the scare tactics they used. When you go back and look at the coverage, it's not surprising people reacted this way. We had this increidble medicine this whole time, and they just wanted to use it for recreation. They're worse than Harvey Weinstein in my book.
You're German, you own Europe, why aren't you creating your own reality with family and community? No, you're doing what you do best - get onto an American website and bitch and moan - in English - that the Americans are ruining everything. Everyone's sick of your shit. Fuck off, European.
The US fought the Cold War and risked nuclear annihilation on its own soil to keep the Russians out of Western Europe, and mitigated ethnic tensions in the region, and all we got in return was European complaining about how stupid and greedy the US is from the very guys who fucked the world up in the first place. It's a total farce and it's high time it came to a screeching halt.
James Damore did not say what most people think he said. He did not say women are unsuited for tech jobs. He did not say women only have tech jobs due to affirmative action. That is all bullshit piled on by those mau-mauing him, in an effort to expel someone whose questioning made them uncomfortable.
Why it made them uncomfortable is the fascinating part of all this.
It makes them uncomfortable because it shatters the brittle shell of their enforced narrative, which can only be kept by keeping everyone from saying anything against it. It is very much a "the king is naked" situation. If James Damore is allowed to say men and women are different, the entire project of feminism shatters.
And yet everyone who doesn't live in academia or in a social justice echo chamber knows that men and women are different. If you think statistically different from men means inferior, then YOU are the misogynist.
Typical five to ten year old rhetoric on China. Xi Jinping has been leading a yuuuuge crackdown on polluting factories this last year. Supply chains are being disrupted left and right. Skies are getting cleaner. There are benefits to being a communist authoritarian oligarchy. There is no debate or lobbying, you just tell people what to do. An environmentalist's dream.
Look, TEH ROOSHINS didn't cause Hillary to lose. Hillary lost because she ignored the Democratic blue-collar heartland. Trump showing up doing 3 a day events in the rust belt saying "we will never forget you again" while Hillary didn't show up at all is what won him MI, PA and WI. Win those states and Hillary is president today.
It's so sad to see smart people dissolve into "blame the foreigners", the oldest trick in the book. It's not healthy. Believing in the backstab legend is what got the Nazi party started. The American people are hurting, and Trump was the only answer available other than Hillary's "more of the same, but harder."
Look, you people are seeing TEH ROOSHINS in every post, on every thread. If you think Slashdot has any reach anymore, you're sadly mistaken. Most stories barely get double digit comments these days. The whole "blame the foreigners" thing is such an obvious dodge to avoid accepting that Trump voters might have had a point. We all know Podesta came up with this dolchstoss-legende within 24 hours of Hillary's loss, right? You people are seeing TEH ROOSHINS under your bed, and it's honestly kind of sad seeing such great minds succumb to paranoia.
It's almost like raising your children since birth bathed in Communism, to irrationally hate America as the source of all your troubles, is finally backfiring on them. And now that they're cozying up to the exact same enemy that has been blamed for every ill in their country, they have some rejectionists who finally have real-live American government in their reach. Whoda thunk it? Wow, that is a totally unexpected development!
Nah, blame TEH ROOSHINS. It was them! It's worth a literal act of war, one that TEH ROOSHINS were desperately trying to stave off, in order to stop the US from dominating a country they were obviously always going to dominate.
You'd think in a country that literally went through McCarthyism, that people would be more suspicious about blaming TEH ROOSHINS for our problems. Especially the Left, they were the victims of this vile crime! Serious WTF here. We all know, right, that Podesta penned this dolchstoss-legende the day after Hillary lost the election. Right? Please tell me we know this.
Honestly Hillary would fit in great with Republican establishment like Bush. You could change nothing about her except her party and I can guarantee the rest of Slashdot would consider her the worst candidate in history and be absolutely flipping out. Imagine if her actual crimes got half the coverage of imaginary fake Trump stories.
Quick question for you: when you watch a movie, do you watch the movie? Or do you watch the director moving the camera around, the lighting, think about what they were thinking when they wrote that particular sentence in the script, etc.? Because I think almost nobody does that. We just watch the movie. It could not be of less interest to us if it's a tracking shot or a helicopter shot.
*facepalm* journalists in Cuba get a carefully presented view of Cuba. You think they're going to be allowed in the prisons where they keep the right-wingers? Sheesh.
The rioting I referred to was in America, genius. If that much anti-American hate lies among domestic communists, it's not a jump to conclusions that Havana feels the same way. They have more in common with each other than they do the rest of America, that's for sure.
I'm pretty sure paid political ads have to be identified as such, and the funders identified. The ShareBlue army of shills pretends to be normal people. That's why they're so destructive to democracy. Their goal is to be, and I quote, "ungovernable" and cause so much chaos that America is seriously harmed. It's treason from within that is the real killer, TEH ROOSHINS simply lack the capability to do any real damage.
Man, I am getting really worried about you people. You have GOT to let the whole "blame the foreigners" thing go. It is causing you to jump to entirely unsupported conclusions based on zero evidence. After McCarthyism, I really thought that today's Left would have been inoculated against this sort of thing.
Cubans have been raised on a diet of anti-American hate since before you were born. Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is the most likely. Hell, Americans are even rioting because they hate our government, and they're commies too. Why's it such a surprise their comrades in Havana feel the same way?
Have we really forgotten to thank Correct The Record for Trump's historic election victory? They single-handedly turned every online Hillary supporter into a suspected paid shill, all for the low, low price of $6,000,000!
Joke of the day: Hillary Clinton was asked if Harvey Weinstein's behavior reminded her of her husband. She said: "Close, but no cigar".
Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain - even kill neurons - and shorten your life.
Your body's immune system includes little proteins called proinflammatory cytokines that cause inflammation when you're physically injured. Under certain conditions, however, these cytokines themselves can cause physical illness. What are those conditions? One of them is chronic stress.
Your body also contains little packets of genetic material that sit on the ends of your chromosomes. They're called telomeres. Each time your cells divide, their telomeres get a little shorter, and when they become too short, you die. This is normal aging. But guess what else shrinks your telomeres? Chronic stress.
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech - at least certain types of speech - can be a form of violence.
That's why it's reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school.
I know! It were TEH ROOSHINS that did it! Because I'm easily persuaded, fail to think critically, and fall for the oldest trick in the book, "blame the foreigners". It must have been them, because that satisfies my emotional needs! I'm going to check under my bed for TEH ROOSHINS before I go to sleep tonight, you never know where they might be!
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You and your outrage culture are the problem.
It's not "allowed to ruin" anything when you can be fired from your job and be subject to potential civil and even criminal penalties. Companies like Google can ruin your business by deliberately putting your site on page 138 of search results. Type "James Damore" into Google's homepage and watch autosuggest totally fail to suggest anything. Ignoring PC culture will not make it go away.
But PC culture *is* ruining everything. It's not some kind of false conclusion. Remember when that scientist, celebrating the achievement of a lifetime, landing a space probe on a fucking COMET, was forced to tearfully apologize the next day for his choice of shirt?
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So, what you're telling me is that all of the affected customers will not be receiving updates, and they'll have to buy a new device?
What a tragedy. By which I mean, the refusal to provide updates will result in greatly increased sales.
Stung, didn't it? Why is a wealthy continent of 500 million totally unable to defend itself and has to rely on a distant country of 300 million for its defense? Losers.
We're talking about why Hillary lost. It wasn't because of TEH ROOSHINS. It was because the Democrats abandoned the white working class and planned to drown them in immigrants. Deal with it, learn, and maybe in 2024 you can win an election again. I mean, fuck, the Democrats are the party of Harvey Weinstein.
Fuck, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey have a lot to answer for. If not for their disgusting antics, we would have had this medicine decades ago. But no, they had to dance around like frightening spectres, "I'm going to dose your kids with hallucinogens, and then they'll never come home to you again! They'll hate everything about you! Muhahahaha!" All so they could try to tear down society, because they deemed it unjust. Fuck those fucking pricks. Their persuasion worked! These drugs were made hugely illegal, even for research, largely due to the scare tactics they used. When you go back and look at the coverage, it's not surprising people reacted this way. We had this increidble medicine this whole time, and they just wanted to use it for recreation. They're worse than Harvey Weinstein in my book.
You were obviously referring to Google's face-heel turn a few months back. That convinced a lot of people Google was evil.
You're German, you own Europe, why aren't you creating your own reality with family and community? No, you're doing what you do best - get onto an American website and bitch and moan - in English - that the Americans are ruining everything. Everyone's sick of your shit. Fuck off, European.
The US fought the Cold War and risked nuclear annihilation on its own soil to keep the Russians out of Western Europe, and mitigated ethnic tensions in the region, and all we got in return was European complaining about how stupid and greedy the US is from the very guys who fucked the world up in the first place. It's a total farce and it's high time it came to a screeching halt.
James Damore did not say what most people think he said. He did not say women are unsuited for tech jobs. He did not say women only have tech jobs due to affirmative action. That is all bullshit piled on by those mau-mauing him, in an effort to expel someone whose questioning made them uncomfortable.
Why it made them uncomfortable is the fascinating part of all this.
It makes them uncomfortable because it shatters the brittle shell of their enforced narrative, which can only be kept by keeping everyone from saying anything against it. It is very much a "the king is naked" situation. If James Damore is allowed to say men and women are different, the entire project of feminism shatters.
And yet everyone who doesn't live in academia or in a social justice echo chamber knows that men and women are different. If you think statistically different from men means inferior, then YOU are the misogynist.
Typical five to ten year old rhetoric on China. Xi Jinping has been leading a yuuuuge crackdown on polluting factories this last year. Supply chains are being disrupted left and right. Skies are getting cleaner. There are benefits to being a communist authoritarian oligarchy. There is no debate or lobbying, you just tell people what to do. An environmentalist's dream.
Look, TEH ROOSHINS didn't cause Hillary to lose. Hillary lost because she ignored the Democratic blue-collar heartland. Trump showing up doing 3 a day events in the rust belt saying "we will never forget you again" while Hillary didn't show up at all is what won him MI, PA and WI. Win those states and Hillary is president today.
It's so sad to see smart people dissolve into "blame the foreigners", the oldest trick in the book. It's not healthy. Believing in the backstab legend is what got the Nazi party started. The American people are hurting, and Trump was the only answer available other than Hillary's "more of the same, but harder."
Look, you people are seeing TEH ROOSHINS in every post, on every thread. If you think Slashdot has any reach anymore, you're sadly mistaken. Most stories barely get double digit comments these days. The whole "blame the foreigners" thing is such an obvious dodge to avoid accepting that Trump voters might have had a point. We all know Podesta came up with this dolchstoss-legende within 24 hours of Hillary's loss, right? You people are seeing TEH ROOSHINS under your bed, and it's honestly kind of sad seeing such great minds succumb to paranoia.
It's almost like raising your children since birth bathed in Communism, to irrationally hate America as the source of all your troubles, is finally backfiring on them. And now that they're cozying up to the exact same enemy that has been blamed for every ill in their country, they have some rejectionists who finally have real-live American government in their reach. Whoda thunk it? Wow, that is a totally unexpected development!
Nah, blame TEH ROOSHINS. It was them! It's worth a literal act of war, one that TEH ROOSHINS were desperately trying to stave off, in order to stop the US from dominating a country they were obviously always going to dominate.
You'd think in a country that literally went through McCarthyism, that people would be more suspicious about blaming TEH ROOSHINS for our problems. Especially the Left, they were the victims of this vile crime! Serious WTF here. We all know, right, that Podesta penned this dolchstoss-legende the day after Hillary lost the election. Right? Please tell me we know this.
Honestly Hillary would fit in great with Republican establishment like Bush. You could change nothing about her except her party and I can guarantee the rest of Slashdot would consider her the worst candidate in history and be absolutely flipping out. Imagine if her actual crimes got half the coverage of imaginary fake Trump stories.
Quick question for you: when you watch a movie, do you watch the movie? Or do you watch the director moving the camera around, the lighting, think about what they were thinking when they wrote that particular sentence in the script, etc.? Because I think almost nobody does that. We just watch the movie. It could not be of less interest to us if it's a tracking shot or a helicopter shot.
*facepalm* journalists in Cuba get a carefully presented view of Cuba. You think they're going to be allowed in the prisons where they keep the right-wingers? Sheesh.
The rioting I referred to was in America, genius. If that much anti-American hate lies among domestic communists, it's not a jump to conclusions that Havana feels the same way. They have more in common with each other than they do the rest of America, that's for sure.
I'm pretty sure paid political ads have to be identified as such, and the funders identified. The ShareBlue army of shills pretends to be normal people. That's why they're so destructive to democracy. Their goal is to be, and I quote, "ungovernable" and cause so much chaos that America is seriously harmed. It's treason from within that is the real killer, TEH ROOSHINS simply lack the capability to do any real damage.
Man, I am getting really worried about you people. You have GOT to let the whole "blame the foreigners" thing go. It is causing you to jump to entirely unsupported conclusions based on zero evidence. After McCarthyism, I really thought that today's Left would have been inoculated against this sort of thing.
Cubans have been raised on a diet of anti-American hate since before you were born. Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is the most likely. Hell, Americans are even rioting because they hate our government, and they're commies too. Why's it such a surprise their comrades in Havana feel the same way?
Have we really forgotten to thank Correct The Record for Trump's historic election victory? They single-handedly turned every online Hillary supporter into a suspected paid shill, all for the low, low price of $6,000,000!
Joke of the day: Hillary Clinton was asked if Harvey Weinstein's behavior reminded her of her husband. She said: "Close, but no cigar".
Words can have a powerful effect on your nervous system. Certain types of adversity, even those involving no physical contact, can make you sick, alter your brain - even kill neurons - and shorten your life.
Your body's immune system includes little proteins called proinflammatory cytokines that cause inflammation when you're physically injured. Under certain conditions, however, these cytokines themselves can cause physical illness. What are those conditions? One of them is chronic stress.
Your body also contains little packets of genetic material that sit on the ends of your chromosomes. They're called telomeres. Each time your cells divide, their telomeres get a little shorter, and when they become too short, you die. This is normal aging. But guess what else shrinks your telomeres? Chronic stress.
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech - at least certain types of speech - can be a form of violence.
That's why it's reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html
I know! It were TEH ROOSHINS that did it! Because I'm easily persuaded, fail to think critically, and fall for the oldest trick in the book, "blame the foreigners". It must have been them, because that satisfies my emotional needs! I'm going to check under my bed for TEH ROOSHINS before I go to sleep tonight, you never know where they might be!
The maximum sustainable population of humans on planet Earth is 500 million. We have 15 times that many and they're only growing.