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Caveman_Coder

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    Comment #16505818

    They didn't say explicitly...but you have to look at the context of the conversation...perhaps I misread it

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    Comment #16504001

    > "Do you want poor, unskilled, uneducated customers, vendors, employees, neighbors, and fellow citizens? Or skilled, prosperous, educated ones?"

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    Comment #16503676

    No, plus the question is a kind of false dichotomy...they present it as either you're college educated and productive/capable/smart or you aren't...it turns out you can be very pro…

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    Comment #16503382

    A recent reading of Nietzsche made me view what is currently going on socially through the lens of his master/slave morality...it makes watching the "Oppression Olympics" more ente…

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    Comment #16503223

    I don't think it is fair to discriminate against anyone at all and certainly don't think that this "shifting discrimination around" game is going to work well at all in the long ru…

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    > "My "race/culture" is navy submariner, and I always enjoyed watching the few sailors who hadn't had their background racism washed out of them at boot-camp realize that getting t…

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    Comment #16502800

    > "...i replied by disagreeing that it is more, and claim it is the same amount of discrimination, just moved around." How is this an acceptable solution?? So its more like "discri…

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    Comment #16502445

    I loved that book! Excellent recommendation. If you want a good intro to non-PWR nuclear power technologies, I'd highly recommend "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for t…

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    Comment #16498952

    I'm not sure what to make of his statements...they could be correct assessments of his military's capabilities, or they could be completely false...who really knows?

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    Comment #16498836

    TLDR: "With advances in communications and artificial intelligence, it’s not at all impossible to imagine scenarios in which SSN motherships deploy a lethal force of killer torpedo…

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    Comment #16498329

    1. Discrimination is bad. 2. Minorities have faced discrimination the most. 3. Let's discriminate against Whites/Asians to correct #2, even though we accept the truth of #1. I don'…

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    Comment #16498274

    > "She's gone now, instantly, after working there for 20 years and rising to senior executive VP. What is going on in our industry?" Her crime was not having ideological purity...

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    Comment #16498116

    Is it false? You can identify as whatever the hell you like these days...that is a fact.

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    Comment #16497992

    > "So you being poor is justification enough to spread divisive comments and fuel further hatred (on either side)" This is over-dramatic... I'm just saying in today's world you can…

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    Comment #16497918

    White != "upper class" Turns out you can be a poor white (like myself)...just an FYI.

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    Comment #16497894

    Its also systemic bias when you won't even interview men... I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I work…

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    Comment #16497822

    I may have been born as a white male, but I identify as a half black, half hispanic female...should be easy now to find any job I want /s

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    > "Often I can't really tell the difference between affirmative action and reverse racism." There is a good reason for that...its because there isn't a difference. You have to do a…

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    "Extended outages, or retirements, among the region’s nuclear power plants would have detrimental effects. At the same time, having stored fuels like LNG and oil at dual-fuel units…