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  1. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You see, the moderators' lived experiences make them feel that your posts are violent.
    You can't argue with that because arguing against moderation judgment is exactly what violent flamebating people do.
    You just need to accept that you are a bad person and apologize for your violence.

  2. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My grandfather was tortured by marxists.
    I won't feel "safe" as long as marxists draw breath in this world.
    My lived experience trumps everything so I can't be proven wrong nor can my reality be subordinated to any other.
    Also, because I'm a progressive mind-reading psychic, all marxist thought and speech, however benign on the surface, carry implicit violence that only I can determine and everyone has to defer to me as to where, how, and to what degree they manifest in regular everyday speech. I don't care what you say, only what you "imply", and I know exactly the kind of evil bigotry you're implying with those sweet saccharine words of goodness. Now, I think you sound like a bad person. If you disagree or protest, I'm going point out how that's exactly what bad people do when they are called out which then proves you're bad. /s

    I'm a minority Asian so down modding me is violence, all you mod point privileged shitlords I know who you are.

  3. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're judging someone by completely ignoring what that person has straightforwardly written, and basing your conclusions entirely on what is implied, or more accurately what you cynically infer.

    I think you'd have to provide some proof that you are indeed a psychic mind-reader.

  4. Re:Imagine yourself as an overseas applicant on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    The Chinese sentiment on Trump is general ambivalence, coupled with the usual chatter about how American democracy is really an aristocracy.

  5. Imagine yourself as an overseas applicant on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're researching schools because you want to study well and succeed.

    Are you put off by:
    A). What Trump said about illegal immigrants from Mexico and about Muslims?
    or
    B). Viral, million view videos of activists storming libraries, disrupting campus, screaming at professors, screaming at fellow students?

    Now imagine yourself as a parent who will be footing the bill. Are you put off by the former or the latter?

  6. Drop in Chinese whiz kids or drop in Fu Er Dai? on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd say it's probably the latter. See, whiz kids get scholarships. Even the international ones can get scholarships and stipends.

    Fu Er Dai (kids of nouveau riche) however, need to pay full price, and often do it with a newly bought American house paid in full with cash by their parents. Now, with US housing prices at historical highs, coupled with the Chinese economy cooling off, not as many families find it a good investment.

    Add to this the growing perception that overseas degrees aren't worth all that much (mainly due to the fact that every dumber-than-a-brick Fu Er Dai has gotten one), and you can easily find explanations to the dip in numbers without alluding to Trump's rhetoric. And that's even without pointing out the fact that the trend started before last year's election.

  7. Does Ye Recall Ye Olde Slashdot Of Yore? on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Bush era Slashdot understood that to defend the rights of terrorists didn't make one a terrorist supporter, nor did fighting back against those who wanted to judge accused terrorists by a different standard make one a terrorist sympathizer. Now, we have self-styled "liberals" who mock principles and wallow happily in double/triple standards.

    Gen X Slashdot was clearly superior to Millennial Slashdot.

  8. All for nefarious reasons, right? on 9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Nah, I have a fake account because some websites have a Facebook integrated comments section. Yes, I do have an overriding need to throw out my 2 cents like every other self important prick on the internet, but I don't want spam in my regular inbox or identity thieves connecting the dots in my life, so sue me. If websites didn't use Facebook and had a more traditional comments system I'd still sign up with a pseudonym and a throwaway email address.

    This need to identify yourself online, and the whole "you're a coward for not attaching your real life identity to what you say online" sentiment... Where does it come from? Old people who don't understand basic security measures online? AOLers who think they're in some safe walled garden? Actual retards?

  9. DRC about to get some freedom ASAP on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks like the Democratic Republic of Congo is going to need to be liberated through aerial bombing and troops on the ground real soon.

  10. Re: "violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My grandfather was imprisoned and tortured by Marxists. Our family of educators was largely dispossessed because of their associations with anti-revolutionary entities (western friends and colleagues). Despite what they did on the personal scale and their policies that resulted in millions dying, I still don't believe I have a right to initiate force against people who hold Marxist beliefs. Am I in the right or in the wrong here?

  11. Re:The key is not getting caught on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the article says they were facebook accounts that offered financial help to organize pro-BLM protests.

  12. Re: Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    air pollution overlay

    Uh... I don't have the funds to move out of an industrial area and it would trigger me to see this information

  13. This fact about missiles and the adversarial nature of the US-Russia relationship is as true now as it was back in 2008. Yet those who defended Romney's remarks about Russia and Putin were a tiny fraction of the current mass typing incessantly of "KGB shills" and "traitors". Going back as recently as the Crimea invasion and the dispatching of navy ships off the coast of Syria, none if those things triggered as much backlash and grandstanding as email hacking and Facebook ads have now. Why are people rolling their eyes at this spontaneous new breed of patriots and nationalists rising out of the left? Well it seems they only discovered their sentiments exactly 11 months ago.

  14. Short view, Long view on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Freedom leads to mistakes in the short term; critical thought and independence in the long term.

    Censorship leads to safety in the short term; naivete and dependence in the long term.

  15. Up next on CNN with Don Lemon: Could a black hole have altered the shooter's brain waves?

  16. What are the options? on HP Enterprise Let Russia Scrutinize The Pentagon's Cyberdefense Software (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Use off-the-shelf product to save money, but another big customer might also audit the code (the current predicament)
    2. Use custom product so it's unavailable to others, but ultimately relying on obscurity
    3. Go open source and have politicians and media have a heart attack about how "now everyone can access the source code / Trump is giving our source code away for free"
    4. Export ban on this software while you use it, again relying on obscurity

  17. No one is making the claim that you should blindly trust the tribe on the other side of the mountain, but that those who allege that the current chief is the product, or even a pawn, of that other tribe need to have more evidence besides pointing to some wooden signs along the river.

  18. The thrill is gone on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Growing up in the 90's this site was exciting like a secret club with all the science and tech info that regular people would never talk about, or the news might pick up only months later. Now it's a place to catch days old mainstream news, too many of them non-tech, too many of them political.

  19. KGB boss: Dmitry, SEO is not a skill, why you apply to KGB? You dumb son of potato, I only laugh. Go back to Siberia, come back after learn real programming.

    Dmitry: CYKA BLYAT I SHOW YOU HOLD MY VODKA!

    *two weeks later*

    CNN: "We project Trump will win the state of Michigan"

    KGB boss: Hyello everybody, this is our new department manager Dmitry.

  20. Re:There are many Comrades here... on Russia Reportedly Bought Thousands of Facebook Ads Sought To Stress Racial Divisions (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    >7 digit user accusing 6 digit users of being shills

  21. Impressive ultra efficient Russian propaganda on Russia Reportedly Bought Thousands of Facebook Ads Sought To Stress Racial Divisions (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looks like a couple thousand dollars worth of foreign ads tipped the balance against a billion dollar campaign run by a powerful well-connected establishment.

    ... and I can't even get a 2% clickthrough rate on my adwords

  22. Re: It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Firing a man is also discriminatory. Of course your reasoning (as well as mine in following yours) is that firing someone for damaging company reputation is in no way precipitated by what their gender is.

  23. Re:It's because of social justice activism on Google Hit With Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    hmm... If we embrace this reasoning, we are forced to also support the act of firing these three women in the story for defaming Google's policies on promoting people.

  24. Anonymous survey? on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    FTA: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/f...

    We gathered a random sample of all individuals listed as founders or CEOs of companies in Crunchbase in 2013, 8,499 individuals in all. We then manually searched for emailaddresses for these individuals. In most cases we were able to gather personal email addresses

    Most of them probably said what they thought the researchers wanted to hear.

  25. So negative stereotypes fulfilled by white male actors have resulted in disproportionately more white men filling those jobs in real life.

    Hmmmmm.....