However, the term "White Nationalist" is semantically and massively wrong (but then, so would "Black Nationalist" or "Asian Nationalist"...) After all, what nation is titled as "White"?
I get that stamping out racism is a good thing, but seriously, folks - at least don't mangle the language while you do it.
Racist has become so watered down that it has lost all of its emotional punch. It's not enough that someone is Racist; now they're a White Nationalist despite not being white nor advocating for a white-only nation.
Polarization and echo chambers have created a situation where no one bothers to even listen to those who disagree. Instead, everyone who you oppose is all one big nebulous group. This is where you get people claiming there are black "White Nationalists" or "Neo-Nazi" Ayn Randian Objectivists (Ayn Rand was of Jewish ancestry, as were many early influential objectivists).
Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a real thing other than a HUGE example of IRONY.
Sorry if you can't enjoy the irony but that sadly is how irony works a lot of the time.
The GGP implied Trump is somehow at fault for a plane crash by a Boeing Jet operated by Ethiopian Airlines and certified by the FAA is somehow Trump's fault because he golfs too much:
Do you guys know who the director of the Federal Aviation Authority is right now? Nobody does, because Trump has never gotten around to appointing one. To be fair, he's been very busy with the golf co-championship and everything, and it probably just slipped his mind.
If that's not TDS, I don't know what is. This is straight up Thanks, Obama! meme-level
In a story about women's increasing presence in technology they cut all the interviews with women in favor for an interview with a man. It's like doing a documentary about wineries and having as your main interview the CEO of Coors.
If the point of the piece is about how wineries are unfairly discriminated against in the alcohol industry, then a interview from a direct competitor supporting that point lends more gravitas to the argument.
It's more a question of "I'm so oppressed, give me money" vs "the oppression is bad enough that even people who gain from it are speaking out" than it is some feminist conspiracy theory of patriarchy.
My list was by no means supposed to be exhaustive. My intention was to give everyone else access to the API so they can form their own opinions. I suppose I could write up a script to generate a google sheet from every news source on google news / slashdot / reddit, or something, but I'm far too lazy.
If it makes you feel any better, I'll drop the dailyKos one here.
For a tool that claims they care about transparency they really do their best to prevent you from looking up a list of sites and their ratings.
If anyone is interested, I dug into the code for the chrome extension and grabbed their API URL so you can look up sites without having to install their extension:
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and managed to be the best selling Far Cry in history.
Are you guys getting your talking points from somewhere? You're like the 3rd or 4th person in this thread claiming Far Cry 5 had a similar controversy.
Far Cry 5's "controversy" was literally the opposite case. Gaming media was upset it WAS NOT the white supremist murder simulator they wanted it to be. The "controversy" was that it WASN'T political, not that it was. And surprise surprise, gamers at it up.
For example protesters might want to display photos of aborted foetuses, which might make a lot of other people not want to or even be unable to participate.
When they got wind that TfB was making a sequel to UQM, they sued.
This is literally the opposite of what happened. Stardock reached out to Paul & Fred regarding buying the IP and wanted them to collab on it. They declined. Years later, when Stardock was about to release their Star Control, they again spoke with Paul & Fred. Paul & Fred stated they ALSO had a game they planned to make, to which Stardock said "awesome, let's cross-promote! Here's our intended announcement date" which P&F used to pre-empt Stardock's announcement with their own.
P&F initiated all legal challenges. Due to the nature of Trademarks (defend it or lose it), Stardock had no choice but to counterfile because otherwise they'd lose their trademarks.
Normally, I would agree with you. I think gridlock should be the natural state of congress. However, it feels like the country is sliding into decay and if something isn't done, it'll be too late (if it isn't already).
They tried to protest at that "Occupy Wall Street" thing and were shut down by the FBI & provisions in the patriot act.
I was kind of with you until this point.
This is the first I've heard of the FBI and Patriot act being the downfall of Occupy Wall Street. It was more likely the disunity of different groups and the decentralized approach. As much as we all love purely democratic and leaderless movements (and I'm being serious here, there's something inspiring about a large group of people coming together), they're too easy to hijack. Moderates get driven out by those willing to be louder and more extreme. Occupy took on a very left-wing, anti-GOP bend despite the status quote being very much bi-partisan (with Wall Street even backing Democrats more than Republicans). If they stayed focused on the banking corruption, they easily could have gained the support of Tea Party Republicans (or at least avoided antagonizing them and solidifying them as opposition).
Then you had the Progressive Stack. What better way to promote unity for economic reform than by using a racist divide-and-conquer approach.
Agreed - the only legitimate way to reconcile this is for both parties to admit to manipulating the system for their own gain, and to the detriment of the American People.
So... what you're saying is we're gonna just have a bunch of loud grandstanding and talking past each other while ignoring real issues?
Does restricting someone from shitting in their own room have a zero-effect on their freedom? I don't understand the point you're trying to make, and I have a minor in philosophy.
For example, if someone wanted to stay cooped up in their basement all day and read books, are you saying locking said person in a basement and forcing them to read books would not be a restriction on their freedom? Or are you saying actions as a result of unexamined motivations are not a question of "freedom"? Are you saying animals or even low-IQ people can't be "free"?
It honestly sounds like you're just applying your personal beliefs about ethics without having taken any of those humanities courses you were talking about. Hint: there has been a lot philosophy about meta-ethics since Sokrates.
It'd probably avoid a lot of complication to just take that box off the form entirely.
True, but then so would taking off race / ethnicity. But then you can't track demographics for discrimination issues, etc. Additionally, just because some people are bald, it doesn't mean a line saying "hair color" is discrimination against people with alopecia. Some people don't have hands or eyes, does that we should get rid of finger prints and iris scanners?
Oh? Care to look into all the wonders of Mother Nature in determine sex and gender? There are several dozens of things that go towards making penis or no-penis an incredibly stupid way to make these determinations.
Are you saying you want to limit recognized-trans status to people who are intersex only? The majority of trans* people are not intersex, XXY, etc.
Strong had first seen the documents twenty minutes earlier and also said he had no personal knowledge of their content;[38] he later claimed he had been told to assume the content of the documents was accurate.[39]
According to Hodges, when Mapes read portions of the memos to him he simply stated, "well if he wrote them, that's what he felt," and he claims he never confirmed the validity of the content of the documents. General Hodges later asserted to the investigatory panel that he told Mapes that Killian had never, to his knowledge, ordered anyone to take a physical and that he had never been pressured regarding Lieutenant Bush, as the documents alleged.
Forwarding through a gmail account is very unfriendly from an IT admin side. It requires an authorization step on the recipient side, and is then managed outside of the GSuite Admin Interface.
The default settings for google groups are either wide-open or overly locked down. Internally, we have a step-by-step guide we follow every time we create one to make sure we don't miss permissions and expose data publicly.
I think it's important to be mindful with your terminology. Tesla's Autopilot is not a self-driving system. It is cruise control. Conflating terminology causes nothing but confusion and undue misconceptions about emerging technologies.
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of operations such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems.[1]
No (sane) person thinks autopilot is supposed to take a plan through an obstacle course of other aircraft. It's merely to assist a pilot to keep a heading, altitude, etc.
Yeah, if only he could have gotten a massive tax reform bill through congress... if that happened there would be a clear opportunity to actually do something about amazon not paying any taxes.
Oh wait, that did happen... so either the new tax plan fixes this problem in which case what is trump bitching about, or it doesnt' do shit to fix this problem and he is just being a blowhard to distract from other shit.
TIL the President has the power to write and pass tax bills through congress.
Failing to pay them properly means they don't feel invested in the future of the company. So they do the absolute minimum for minimum wage.
...open an Amazon storefront for them, and talk up your friendly in-person showroom, with stellar after-sales support. Oh you need better staff retention and expertise? And you don't want them to look like they're getting by on 6 hours' sleep after their third part-time job of the day? Pay more. Pay benefits.
It's lack of skill in business management that puts "many thousands of retailers out of business!" First rule of business: distinguish your service or your product.
Because one thing's for sure: you ain't gonna out-compete a multi-billion dollar retail business in your mom & pop 2000 sqft on the stripmall.
This is hilariously bad advice. The overhead for smaller businesses is much higher than for Amazon, not to mention the cost of a storefront.
"Pay more! Offer extra free support! Have a big showroom!" - These three (hugely expensive) ideas are all relatively free on Amazon's side - no sales associates, online reviews from consumers, and a webpage and screenshots. You're proposing a huge increase on cost when retailers ALREADY can't compete with Amazon's prices.
"Citi said that in addition to the policy for new clients, it is starting talks with current clients on their practices and if they do not adopt changes the bank will help “transition their business away from Citi.”
From a financial standpoint this would be called shooting themselves in the foot.
The biggest possible hit they'll take is fallout from boycotts from gun groups. Looks like it's already all over social media: https://twitter.com/Citi/statu...
Sheep often move en masse, as though there was some coordination in effect.
Perhaps that's news to you.
Do you think these policy changes for companies like Citigroup and Youtube happen overnight? I'm sure these companies have been working on these for a while - it's just strange they ALL get announced within 24-48 hours of each other.
I'm not saying there's a conspiracy. I'm just pointing out the timing is coincidental.
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However, the term "White Nationalist" is semantically and massively wrong (but then, so would "Black Nationalist" or "Asian Nationalist"...) After all, what nation is titled as "White"?
I get that stamping out racism is a good thing, but seriously, folks - at least don't mangle the language while you do it.
I've been musing on this lately, as accusations of being a "White Nationalist" have become extremely bizarre. For example, claiming "White Nationalists" love anime or that multi-racial groups like the Proud Boys are "White Nationalists".
I think there are two main points with this:
Trump Derangement Syndrome is not a real thing other than a HUGE example of IRONY.
Sorry if you can't enjoy the irony but that sadly is how irony works a lot of the time.
The GGP implied Trump is somehow at fault for a plane crash by a Boeing Jet operated by Ethiopian Airlines and certified by the FAA is somehow Trump's fault because he golfs too much:
Do you guys know who the director of the Federal Aviation Authority is right now? Nobody does, because Trump has never gotten around to appointing one. To be fair, he's been very busy with the golf co-championship and everything, and it probably just slipped his mind.
If that's not TDS, I don't know what is. This is straight up Thanks, Obama! meme-level
In a story about women's increasing presence in technology they cut all the interviews with women in favor for an interview with a man. It's like doing a documentary about wineries and having as your main interview the CEO of Coors.
If the point of the piece is about how wineries are unfairly discriminated against in the alcohol industry, then a interview from a direct competitor supporting that point lends more gravitas to the argument.
It's more a question of "I'm so oppressed, give me money" vs "the oppression is bad enough that even people who gain from it are speaking out" than it is some feminist conspiracy theory of patriarchy.
My list was by no means supposed to be exhaustive. My intention was to give everyone else access to the API so they can form their own opinions. I suppose I could write up a script to generate a google sheet from every news source on google news / slashdot / reddit, or something, but I'm far too lazy.
If it makes you feel any better, I'll drop the dailyKos one here.
- Not Trusted: Daily Kos
For a tool that claims they care about transparency they really do their best to prevent you from looking up a list of sites and their ratings.
If anyone is interested, I dug into the code for the chrome extension and grabbed their API URL so you can look up sites without having to install their extension:
- Trusted: CNN
- Trusted: Daily Caller
- Trusted: The Independent
- Trusted: Mother Jones (lol)
- Trusted: Huffington Post (lol)
- Trusted: The Daily Beast (lol)
- Trusted: BuzzFeed News (ok this is just sad)
- Not Trusted: Breitbart
- Not Trusted: Daily Mail
Looks fair and balanced to me.
Far Cry 5 had similar controversy and managed to be the best selling Far Cry in history.
Are you guys getting your talking points from somewhere? You're like the 3rd or 4th person in this thread claiming Far Cry 5 had a similar controversy.
Far Cry 5's "controversy" was literally the opposite case. Gaming media was upset it WAS NOT the white supremist murder simulator they wanted it to be. The "controversy" was that it WASN'T political, not that it was. And surprise surprise, gamers at it up.
Someone said he had small hands and we got a bizarre boast about the size of his penis at a public rally out of it.
Excuse me, but that was at the GOP national debate. Not some generic rally. And it was fucking hilarious.
His political opponent, Marco Rubio, had been going on and on at rallies saying "Trump has small hands... and you know what that means, right?"
For example protesters might want to display photos of aborted foetuses, which might make a lot of other people not want to or even be unable to participate.
Interestingly, Marine Le Pen (sometimes called France's "Trump") was prosecuted for doing almost exactly this (posting pictures of ISIS victims in discussions about ISIS and Islam).
I'm curious to see where the line actually settles for this in the Western world.
When they got wind that TfB was making a sequel to UQM, they sued.
This is literally the opposite of what happened. Stardock reached out to Paul & Fred regarding buying the IP and wanted them to collab on it. They declined. Years later, when Stardock was about to release their Star Control, they again spoke with Paul & Fred. Paul & Fred stated they ALSO had a game they planned to make, to which Stardock said "awesome, let's cross-promote! Here's our intended announcement date" which P&F used to pre-empt Stardock's announcement with their own.
P&F initiated all legal challenges. Due to the nature of Trademarks (defend it or lose it), Stardock had no choice but to counterfile because otherwise they'd lose their trademarks.
Don't take my word for it. Brad Wardell posted their email correspondence. https://www.stardock.com/games...
Normally, I would agree with you. I think gridlock should be the natural state of congress. However, it feels like the country is sliding into decay and if something isn't done, it'll be too late (if it isn't already).
They tried to protest at that "Occupy Wall Street" thing and were shut down by the FBI & provisions in the patriot act.
I was kind of with you until this point.
This is the first I've heard of the FBI and Patriot act being the downfall of Occupy Wall Street. It was more likely the disunity of different groups and the decentralized approach. As much as we all love purely democratic and leaderless movements (and I'm being serious here, there's something inspiring about a large group of people coming together), they're too easy to hijack. Moderates get driven out by those willing to be louder and more extreme. Occupy took on a very left-wing, anti-GOP bend despite the status quote being very much bi-partisan (with Wall Street even backing Democrats more than Republicans). If they stayed focused on the banking corruption, they easily could have gained the support of Tea Party Republicans (or at least avoided antagonizing them and solidifying them as opposition).
Then you had the Progressive Stack. What better way to promote unity for economic reform than by using a racist divide-and-conquer approach.
Agreed - the only legitimate way to reconcile this is for both parties to admit to manipulating the system for their own gain, and to the detriment of the American People.
So... what you're saying is we're gonna just have a bunch of loud grandstanding and talking past each other while ignoring real issues?
So, the wildfires in rural areas of California are caused by urban homeless people?
It's possible for two different things to be symptoms of the same problem.
NOT hate speech: Mohammad had sex with a 9 year old girl. -- This is a widely accepted historical fact.
No. Pretty sure the "fact" just is that the dude married a 9 year old. Marriage back then meant something entirely different.
He married her when she was six. They consummated the marriage when she was 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Does restricting someone from shitting in their own room have a zero-effect on their freedom? I don't understand the point you're trying to make, and I have a minor in philosophy.
For example, if someone wanted to stay cooped up in their basement all day and read books, are you saying locking said person in a basement and forcing them to read books would not be a restriction on their freedom? Or are you saying actions as a result of unexamined motivations are not a question of "freedom"? Are you saying animals or even low-IQ people can't be "free"?
It honestly sounds like you're just applying your personal beliefs about ethics without having taken any of those humanities courses you were talking about. Hint: there has been a lot philosophy about meta-ethics since Sokrates.
It'd probably avoid a lot of complication to just take that box off the form entirely.
True, but then so would taking off race / ethnicity. But then you can't track demographics for discrimination issues, etc. Additionally, just because some people are bald, it doesn't mean a line saying "hair color" is discrimination against people with alopecia. Some people don't have hands or eyes, does that we should get rid of finger prints and iris scanners?
Oh? Care to look into all the wonders of Mother Nature in determine sex and gender? There are several dozens of things that go towards making penis or no-penis an incredibly stupid way to make these determinations.
Are you saying you want to limit recognized-trans status to people who are intersex only? The majority of trans* people are not intersex, XXY, etc.
Maybe you should buy Twitter, and then it will behave the way you want it to. Isn't private ownership great?
Today I learned publicly traded "private" businesses are supposed to be immune to criticism from anyone but billionaires. Good to know.
Please drop some more insightful commentary on us.
Why make up misinformation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Forwarding through a gmail account is very unfriendly from an IT admin side. It requires an authorization step on the recipient side, and is then managed outside of the GSuite Admin Interface.
The default settings for google groups are either wide-open or overly locked down. Internally, we have a step-by-step guide we follow every time we create one to make sure we don't miss permissions and expose data publicly.
I think it's important to be mindful with your terminology. Tesla's Autopilot is not a self-driving system. It is cruise control. Conflating terminology causes nothing but confusion and undue misconceptions about emerging technologies.
That's literally what autopilot is though.
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft. This allows them to focus on broader aspects of operations such as monitoring the trajectory, weather and systems.[1]
No (sane) person thinks autopilot is supposed to take a plan through an obstacle course of other aircraft. It's merely to assist a pilot to keep a heading, altitude, etc.
Yeah, if only he could have gotten a massive tax reform bill through congress... if that happened there would be a clear opportunity to actually do something about amazon not paying any taxes.
Oh wait, that did happen... so either the new tax plan fixes this problem in which case what is trump bitching about, or it doesnt' do shit to fix this problem and he is just being a blowhard to distract from other shit.
TIL the President has the power to write and pass tax bills through congress.
Failing to pay them properly means they don't feel invested in the future of the company. So they do the absolute minimum for minimum wage.
...open an Amazon storefront for them, and talk up your friendly in-person showroom, with stellar after-sales support. Oh you need better staff retention and expertise? And you don't want them to look like they're getting by on 6 hours' sleep after their third part-time job of the day? Pay more. Pay benefits.
It's lack of skill in business management that puts "many thousands of retailers out of business!" First rule of business: distinguish your service or your product.
Because one thing's for sure: you ain't gonna out-compete a multi-billion dollar retail business in your mom & pop 2000 sqft on the stripmall.
This is hilariously bad advice. The overhead for smaller businesses is much higher than for Amazon, not to mention the cost of a storefront.
"Pay more! Offer extra free support! Have a big showroom!" - These three (hugely expensive) ideas are all relatively free on Amazon's side - no sales associates, online reviews from consumers, and a webpage and screenshots. You're proposing a huge increase on cost when retailers ALREADY can't compete with Amazon's prices.
"Citi said that in addition to the policy for new clients, it is starting talks with current clients on their practices and if they do not adopt changes the bank will help “transition their business away from Citi.”
From a financial standpoint this would be called shooting themselves in the foot.
This is just Citi throwing a minority under the bus for free publicity. From what it looks like, this is only for corporate accounts (that is, if your business uses Citi as your bank). I imagine gun retailers are a drop in the bucket for them.
The biggest possible hit they'll take is fallout from boycotts from gun groups. Looks like it's already all over social media: https://twitter.com/Citi/statu...
Sheep often move en masse, as though there was some coordination in effect.
Perhaps that's news to you.
Do you think these policy changes for companies like Citigroup and Youtube happen overnight? I'm sure these companies have been working on these for a while - it's just strange they ALL get announced within 24-48 hours of each other.
I'm not saying there's a conspiracy. I'm just pointing out the timing is coincidental.