When Instapundit was suspended for tweeting that if your car is surrounded by "protesters" on a highway you need to get out of there even if it means running some of them down. Meanwhile, on the "black" side of Twitter, you can post all sorts of threatening things because you're part of the "oppressed class" and according to progressive lore, racism is only possible if you have power (which only whites and honorary whites like certain types of Asians have).
So by "detracting from the conversation" I think he means things like posting hatefacts back at whiny activists and celebrities who think it's 1930s and they're the courageous anti-Fascist opposition when the only organized and regimented organizations using violence to stifle politics are on their side.
But to walk through Venice is to understand that human misery exists just outside the frame of your Instagram feed.
* Highest real estate market in the US. Check. * NIMBY, yuppy opposition to affordable housing in SF. Because character. Check. * Prioritizing "protecting" illegals from ICE over protecting the homeless. Check. * Whine about gun violence and mental illness. Check. * Build a bullet train boondoggle instead of massive increase in mental and addiction health facilities. Check.
Mr. Jackson, you and the rest of the chattering class in California are part of the reason why there is so much "human misery" in California. What California needs at this point is to be cordoned off from the rest of the United States and have a leader appointed who will go through the political class of California with the righteous fury of Jesus whipping the money changers in the temple and not stop until California has been culturally reset to factory settings.
If someone went back in time and changed history, you wouldn't even know it. It's pretty much an impossible to falsify argument. So yeah, it could be true, but then Big Foot could be real along with werewolves, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Or how about those sightings of pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea? I mean FFS, if you're going to seriously entertain the time traveler hypothesis, knowing it probably can't be falsified, you can't dismiss things like cryptids either.
But one of the things that as an American gets me about our government is the same people who would propose this will suddenly say "it's not arming terrorists when we discover that they're really misunderstood freedom fighters." Money laundering laws exist in no small part to prevent terrorist groups from self-financing and yet there has not been a single elected official arrested, let alone prosecuted and convicted, for activity that helps violent political groups.
Not going to spoil it, just read this article on Finasteride and tell me as technical folks you don't think the research team should be locked up in a dungeon for the rest of their lives for not factoring in the high likelihood of how replicating that process could bring crippling, life-destroying side-effects. That's not "what were you thinking" territory, it's "were you even thinking about anything other than fleecing your patients?"
You clearly have little exposure to Indians and Asians because if you did, you'd see a huge potential market there. In fact, I could see UMC blacks that I've known be even more open about who they're targeting with it.
The more intelligent they are, the less we have a right to use them as tools, but man is naturally inclined to think of anything he builds as a tool. Most dystopian sci-fi about this subject avoids the fact that man plays God to create slaves, God "plays God" if you will to create new life to live in relation to Him. There is actually an element of justice in man being brought to the brink by this sort of dark creativity.
I’d like us to aim for something closer to what Jon Skeet told me about his experience attending a pride parade (as a cis straight dude): “I wasn’t just tolerated; I was made to feel like the community was actually better because I was there.”
The reason a "cis straight dude" was treated like that is because the more of him there are present at a pride parade, the more mainstream it looks.
Look, no matter how you feel about the sexual issues there, I can pretty much assure you that they celebrated him like that mainly because they felt that his presence was a net benefit to them. Nothing wrong with that, that's normal human behavior. What isn't normal is the expectation that this is just because of you or they're doing it because no benefit is coming their way.
In general, this is how a lot of the vocal women in this field want to be treated. They want people to actively make them feel good, they want people to openly solicit their opinions from day one, etc. I don't think this is necessarily representative of woman as a whole, but the vocal ones are positively addicted to displays of affirmation.
For white and Asian men in this field, that level of affirmation is something we're probably never going to experience. We're closer to "we affirm you by continuing to pay you" than what was described by TFA, and we're fine with that. It is, frankly, bewildering to me, why I should respect someone who publicly displays a need for that level of affirmation. I've worked with plenty of women, and they didn't need it. I've worked with a few who did, and they were terrible on the job. So I don't see any value in this endeavor since it's clearly not scoped to kicking trolls' asses and telling people to focus on being constructive.
Is that that average salary includes data scientists, AI researchers, etc. which command higher salaries than typical software engineers. I would be very surprised to find that the median salary of a SWE at Facebook is $240k unless they bring a very impressive resume with them. The SWEs who just build out new user-facing features with Hack and React are likely not anywhere near that.
Has pledged to open up their jurisdiction to unlimited local competition. They'll grant the franchises and then "hold them accountable" instead of giving the people a chance to vote with their feet and easily switch to a competitor.
This is the ultimate opportunity to use the scientific method to prove which is the superior way of doing this. We have a "sexist/madmen" society in China and a "tolerant, inclusive, sensitive" society in the United States. If the United States comes out on top/stays on top over the next 20 years, the SJWs can declare victory. If not, we can all say that their worldview has been fundamentally falsified by a direct comparison of two very different societal paradigms.
(Yes, my money is on China because China is betting on male aggressiveness and competitiveness whereas the United States is increasingly convinced that there is nothing wrong with men that cannot be fixed by making us more like women.)
Five years from now, none of the major fears like blocking sites they don't like will have materialized, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. will be more one sided than ever. NN advocates will continue issuing dire warnings about imminent discrimination by the ISPs as all of the platform and service providers continue on discriminating because "it's their company" and "if you don't like YouTube's policies, just start a multi-billion dollar video platform that can compete against a subsidized one whose parent should be prosecuted for product dumping under antitrust law at this point."
“It all started by me getting more and more annoyed about how corrupt and cold-blooded the US government are so I decided to do something about it.”
Say what you will about us, and there's a lot to be said about our government, but how many "underage rape gang" scandals have come out in the UK post Rotterham? These are scandals where the authorities knew and not only did nothing, but sometimes pursued the parents for going after the men harming their daughters.
If CWA wanted to do some good, they should have pilfered Rotterham's computers and dropped everything on Wikileaks.
If Rotterham had happened in the US, you can bet your sweet ass, the FBI would have sent a small army in tactical gear and it'd be downright biblical in the sense "and they [local politically correct pols] saw what they [FBI] did and were terrified and never again was this wickedness done in the land."
Does Cook actually know a damn thing about his own market demographics? The people who bought the SE in the first place are more conservative buyers who don't like the new form factor. This is just a big fuck you to the demographic they're trying to target.
Oh wait, this is the same guy who builds a pro-laptop with features aimed at the suits and marketing people, not actual pro users like media workers and engineers who need that 32GB RAM, not super tiny form factor.
For doing their little part to tell my country to stop exploiting people so someone can make a quick buck. Seriously, this is America's original sin. Farming too hard in the colonies? Trap a bunch of Africans and bring them over as slaves. Couldn't possibly expect you to pick your own vegetables and cotton using your kids as the labor. Didn't want to pay a living wage? Encourage people from Europe to flood our borders. Now H1Bs. It's all the same thing.
I hope for their sake, they just aren't trading old shit for new shit.
I would love to move back to a feature phone. Unfortunately, there is no feature phone I can find that has a camera as good as an iPhone 4, let alone a S9 or iPhone 8. A feature phone built like an iPhone SE (touch screen, same form factor and with a solid camera) and that can install some restaurant apps would be a great detox setup.
Because Trump has Comey pretty dead to rights on some leaks of information he was not authorized to share with the press. Trump would have been well within his legal rights and authority to haul Sessions into his office and bluntly tell him to impanel a grand jury under the principle that if we're going to prosecute seamen for taking selfies, we ought to crucify the Director of the FBI for acting like leaks are his discretionary power.
I was a night owl, and then my job started forcing me to do to 7 to 3. That means I'm often up at 5AM to comfortably get ready for work and have a non-shitty commute (ie 30 minutes, not 1.5 hours). I relented and started making a point of trying to be asleep by 9PM every night.
A lot of things mentally, emotionally and physically started bouncing back to normal. I had attributed a lot of it to caffeine, but it turned out that if I get 7+ hours of sleep on a forced early bird schedule, caffeine barely phases me in the mid afternoon. It really is that much about sleep schedule and length, nothing else.
Zuckerberg could not explain why Facebook thought "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" and "Diamond and Silk" were such gross violations of "community standards" that they had to be banned. He also could not think of a single time that someone in their community guidelines enforcement had nuked a prominent left wing group on Facebook.
If a business as easily replaced as a local bakery cannot choose to impose its own standards on how it does business, a business as uniquely situated to exploit the market and block competition as Facebook sure as shit should not be able to do that. By law. (And before anyone cries "well what about a gay couple in Appalachia that can't find a baker." To that I would point out, if a gay couple can't find a baker willing to work with them where they live, they might want to first consider the OPSEC issues with having their "wedding" in that region if it's really that opposed to their orientation)
Take the case of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Or that autistic guy who was tortured live on Facebook this time last year. People like you, yes, like you, are ideologically invested in the idea that it doesn't happen to white people.
Afrikaners get murdered on a regular basis in South Africa by blacks still angry about apartheid. Doesn't get reported either.
A lot of the "anti-black hate crimes" that show up in the media turn out to be hoaxes, just like a lot of the time it turns out that when the facts are in most police shootings are reasonably justified.
There is no poor, pathetic oppressed class and a big oppressor class on issues like this. There are just assholes and their victims. Turns out a lot of black people are assholes just like a lot of white people are.
They'll just follow the usual SJW rule which is "group X is incapable of $type_of_bigotry because they don't have 'power.'" See, if a black man grabs a white man and beats him to death screaming direct racial epithets along the way, that's not racist to them because the black man is a minority thus has no power, thus cannot be racist. Meanwhile, if a white guy from a trailer park, on SS disability screams "die n----" and shoots a super-rich black man that is totally racist because as a white man the trailer park denizen has white privilege.
This is why if actual Communists ever, God forbid, take power, I will have absolutely no sympathy for many of our kulaks (historically, "liberals" and "progressives" were about as hated by actual Communists as monarchists).
They didn't need it to take down Backpage.com for what appears to be at least a "wink and nod" attitude toward child prostitution. I never believed the activists had good intentions because S230 has never protected sites that are either willfully allowing or in open conspiracy with these sorts of criminals.
No one in that region other than North Korea is cool with China. For all of the white progressive derping about "American imperialism," it's rather telling ain't it that even Vietnam is seeking to build a real relationship with us. Let that sink in--a country whose northern half we treated about on par with how the Soviets treated Afghanistan--prefers us to China.
China is colonizing Africa. Look it up if you don't believe me. There are quite a few million Chinese who have moved there in the last few decades and a lot are moving there every year.
The world is going to bitterly regret not standing up to China and aggressively asserting its interests against them.
I recommend Brave to everyone I know because it's as great blockers baked in. Works great on Facebook. I can't remember the last time I saw sidebar ads on Facebook.
Wages should be rising an average of 3%-4% given the tightness of the job market, Chamberlain says
What do you expect when most of the political establishment is fighting Trump's efforts to reign in immigration and the exploitation of arbitrage by corporate America? We have a state--California--engaging in rhetoric and action that would make John Calhoun's heart swell with pride for its open defiance of any federal policy that might limit the flood gates that are swamping the labor market. Heck, we just had the governor of Oregon boast that she would try to start what is tantamount to a mutiny in the National Guard by ordering them to disobey a federal deployment order.
You scratch through the rhetoric, it all comes down to a defense of the organized business and capital interests that profit from a depressed labor market.
This is just another variation of the underlying sin that lead to slavery: the "I'm gonna get mine and I don't care if I have to cheat another man of his due to get it." That's how we got slavery. It's how we have this massive "compassionate" labor exploitation system based on importing tons of people, legally and illegally.
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When Instapundit was suspended for tweeting that if your car is surrounded by "protesters" on a highway you need to get out of there even if it means running some of them down. Meanwhile, on the "black" side of Twitter, you can post all sorts of threatening things because you're part of the "oppressed class" and according to progressive lore, racism is only possible if you have power (which only whites and honorary whites like certain types of Asians have).
So by "detracting from the conversation" I think he means things like posting hatefacts back at whiny activists and celebrities who think it's 1930s and they're the courageous anti-Fascist opposition when the only organized and regimented organizations using violence to stifle politics are on their side.
* Highest real estate market in the US. Check.
* NIMBY, yuppy opposition to affordable housing in SF. Because character. Check.
* Prioritizing "protecting" illegals from ICE over protecting the homeless. Check.
* Whine about gun violence and mental illness. Check.
* Build a bullet train boondoggle instead of massive increase in mental and addiction health facilities. Check.
Mr. Jackson, you and the rest of the chattering class in California are part of the reason why there is so much "human misery" in California. What California needs at this point is to be cordoned off from the rest of the United States and have a leader appointed who will go through the political class of California with the righteous fury of Jesus whipping the money changers in the temple and not stop until California has been culturally reset to factory settings.
If someone went back in time and changed history, you wouldn't even know it. It's pretty much an impossible to falsify argument. So yeah, it could be true, but then Big Foot could be real along with werewolves, vampires, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. Or how about those sightings of pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea? I mean FFS, if you're going to seriously entertain the time traveler hypothesis, knowing it probably can't be falsified, you can't dismiss things like cryptids either.
But one of the things that as an American gets me about our government is the same people who would propose this will suddenly say "it's not arming terrorists when we discover that they're really misunderstood freedom fighters." Money laundering laws exist in no small part to prevent terrorist groups from self-financing and yet there has not been a single elected official arrested, let alone prosecuted and convicted, for activity that helps violent political groups.
Not going to spoil it, just read this article on Finasteride and tell me as technical folks you don't think the research team should be locked up in a dungeon for the rest of their lives for not factoring in the high likelihood of how replicating that process could bring crippling, life-destroying side-effects. That's not "what were you thinking" territory, it's "were you even thinking about anything other than fleecing your patients?"
You clearly have little exposure to Indians and Asians because if you did, you'd see a huge potential market there. In fact, I could see UMC blacks that I've known be even more open about who they're targeting with it.
The more intelligent they are, the less we have a right to use them as tools, but man is naturally inclined to think of anything he builds as a tool. Most dystopian sci-fi about this subject avoids the fact that man plays God to create slaves, God "plays God" if you will to create new life to live in relation to Him. There is actually an element of justice in man being brought to the brink by this sort of dark creativity.
The reason a "cis straight dude" was treated like that is because the more of him there are present at a pride parade, the more mainstream it looks.
Look, no matter how you feel about the sexual issues there, I can pretty much assure you that they celebrated him like that mainly because they felt that his presence was a net benefit to them. Nothing wrong with that, that's normal human behavior. What isn't normal is the expectation that this is just because of you or they're doing it because no benefit is coming their way.
In general, this is how a lot of the vocal women in this field want to be treated. They want people to actively make them feel good, they want people to openly solicit their opinions from day one, etc. I don't think this is necessarily representative of woman as a whole, but the vocal ones are positively addicted to displays of affirmation.
For white and Asian men in this field, that level of affirmation is something we're probably never going to experience. We're closer to "we affirm you by continuing to pay you" than what was described by TFA, and we're fine with that. It is, frankly, bewildering to me, why I should respect someone who publicly displays a need for that level of affirmation. I've worked with plenty of women, and they didn't need it. I've worked with a few who did, and they were terrible on the job. So I don't see any value in this endeavor since it's clearly not scoped to kicking trolls' asses and telling people to focus on being constructive.
Is that that average salary includes data scientists, AI researchers, etc. which command higher salaries than typical software engineers. I would be very surprised to find that the median salary of a SWE at Facebook is $240k unless they bring a very impressive resume with them. The SWEs who just build out new user-facing features with Hack and React are likely not anywhere near that.
Has pledged to open up their jurisdiction to unlimited local competition. They'll grant the franchises and then "hold them accountable" instead of giving the people a chance to vote with their feet and easily switch to a competitor.
This is the ultimate opportunity to use the scientific method to prove which is the superior way of doing this. We have a "sexist/madmen" society in China and a "tolerant, inclusive, sensitive" society in the United States. If the United States comes out on top/stays on top over the next 20 years, the SJWs can declare victory. If not, we can all say that their worldview has been fundamentally falsified by a direct comparison of two very different societal paradigms.
(Yes, my money is on China because China is betting on male aggressiveness and competitiveness whereas the United States is increasingly convinced that there is nothing wrong with men that cannot be fixed by making us more like women.)
Five years from now, none of the major fears like blocking sites they don't like will have materialized, but Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. will be more one sided than ever. NN advocates will continue issuing dire warnings about imminent discrimination by the ISPs as all of the platform and service providers continue on discriminating because "it's their company" and "if you don't like YouTube's policies, just start a multi-billion dollar video platform that can compete against a subsidized one whose parent should be prosecuted for product dumping under antitrust law at this point."
Say what you will about us, and there's a lot to be said about our government, but how many "underage rape gang" scandals have come out in the UK post Rotterham? These are scandals where the authorities knew and not only did nothing, but sometimes pursued the parents for going after the men harming their daughters.
If CWA wanted to do some good, they should have pilfered Rotterham's computers and dropped everything on Wikileaks.
If Rotterham had happened in the US, you can bet your sweet ass, the FBI would have sent a small army in tactical gear and it'd be downright biblical in the sense "and they [local politically correct pols] saw what they [FBI] did and were terrified and never again was this wickedness done in the land."
Does Cook actually know a damn thing about his own market demographics? The people who bought the SE in the first place are more conservative buyers who don't like the new form factor. This is just a big fuck you to the demographic they're trying to target.
Oh wait, this is the same guy who builds a pro-laptop with features aimed at the suits and marketing people, not actual pro users like media workers and engineers who need that 32GB RAM, not super tiny form factor.
For doing their little part to tell my country to stop exploiting people so someone can make a quick buck. Seriously, this is America's original sin. Farming too hard in the colonies? Trap a bunch of Africans and bring them over as slaves. Couldn't possibly expect you to pick your own vegetables and cotton using your kids as the labor. Didn't want to pay a living wage? Encourage people from Europe to flood our borders. Now H1Bs. It's all the same thing.
I hope for their sake, they just aren't trading old shit for new shit.
I would love to move back to a feature phone. Unfortunately, there is no feature phone I can find that has a camera as good as an iPhone 4, let alone a S9 or iPhone 8. A feature phone built like an iPhone SE (touch screen, same form factor and with a solid camera) and that can install some restaurant apps would be a great detox setup.
Because Trump has Comey pretty dead to rights on some leaks of information he was not authorized to share with the press. Trump would have been well within his legal rights and authority to haul Sessions into his office and bluntly tell him to impanel a grand jury under the principle that if we're going to prosecute seamen for taking selfies, we ought to crucify the Director of the FBI for acting like leaks are his discretionary power.
I was a night owl, and then my job started forcing me to do to 7 to 3. That means I'm often up at 5AM to comfortably get ready for work and have a non-shitty commute (ie 30 minutes, not 1.5 hours). I relented and started making a point of trying to be asleep by 9PM every night.
A lot of things mentally, emotionally and physically started bouncing back to normal. I had attributed a lot of it to caffeine, but it turned out that if I get 7+ hours of sleep on a forced early bird schedule, caffeine barely phases me in the mid afternoon. It really is that much about sleep schedule and length, nothing else.
Zuckerberg could not explain why Facebook thought "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" and "Diamond and Silk" were such gross violations of "community standards" that they had to be banned. He also could not think of a single time that someone in their community guidelines enforcement had nuked a prominent left wing group on Facebook.
If a business as easily replaced as a local bakery cannot choose to impose its own standards on how it does business, a business as uniquely situated to exploit the market and block competition as Facebook sure as shit should not be able to do that. By law. (And before anyone cries "well what about a gay couple in Appalachia that can't find a baker." To that I would point out, if a gay couple can't find a baker willing to work with them where they live, they might want to first consider the OPSEC issues with having their "wedding" in that region if it's really that opposed to their orientation)
Take the case of Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Or that autistic guy who was tortured live on Facebook this time last year. People like you, yes, like you, are ideologically invested in the idea that it doesn't happen to white people.
Afrikaners get murdered on a regular basis in South Africa by blacks still angry about apartheid. Doesn't get reported either.
A lot of the "anti-black hate crimes" that show up in the media turn out to be hoaxes, just like a lot of the time it turns out that when the facts are in most police shootings are reasonably justified.
There is no poor, pathetic oppressed class and a big oppressor class on issues like this. There are just assholes and their victims. Turns out a lot of black people are assholes just like a lot of white people are.
They'll just follow the usual SJW rule which is "group X is incapable of $type_of_bigotry because they don't have 'power.'" See, if a black man grabs a white man and beats him to death screaming direct racial epithets along the way, that's not racist to them because the black man is a minority thus has no power, thus cannot be racist. Meanwhile, if a white guy from a trailer park, on SS disability screams "die n----" and shoots a super-rich black man that is totally racist because as a white man the trailer park denizen has white privilege.
This is why if actual Communists ever, God forbid, take power, I will have absolutely no sympathy for many of our kulaks (historically, "liberals" and "progressives" were about as hated by actual Communists as monarchists).
They didn't need it to take down Backpage.com for what appears to be at least a "wink and nod" attitude toward child prostitution. I never believed the activists had good intentions because S230 has never protected sites that are either willfully allowing or in open conspiracy with these sorts of criminals.
No one in that region other than North Korea is cool with China. For all of the white progressive derping about "American imperialism," it's rather telling ain't it that even Vietnam is seeking to build a real relationship with us. Let that sink in--a country whose northern half we treated about on par with how the Soviets treated Afghanistan--prefers us to China.
China is colonizing Africa. Look it up if you don't believe me. There are quite a few million Chinese who have moved there in the last few decades and a lot are moving there every year.
The world is going to bitterly regret not standing up to China and aggressively asserting its interests against them.
I recommend Brave to everyone I know because it's as great blockers baked in. Works great on Facebook. I can't remember the last time I saw sidebar ads on Facebook.
What do you expect when most of the political establishment is fighting Trump's efforts to reign in immigration and the exploitation of arbitrage by corporate America? We have a state--California--engaging in rhetoric and action that would make John Calhoun's heart swell with pride for its open defiance of any federal policy that might limit the flood gates that are swamping the labor market. Heck, we just had the governor of Oregon boast that she would try to start what is tantamount to a mutiny in the National Guard by ordering them to disobey a federal deployment order.
You scratch through the rhetoric, it all comes down to a defense of the organized business and capital interests that profit from a depressed labor market.
This is just another variation of the underlying sin that lead to slavery: the "I'm gonna get mine and I don't care if I have to cheat another man of his due to get it." That's how we got slavery. It's how we have this massive "compassionate" labor exploitation system based on importing tons of people, legally and illegally.