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ReticentVole

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    Incarceration rates, lower life expectancy, poorer wages etc. are mostly explained by the USA having 15% of its population as African American, whilst the other countries are homog…

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    Comment #23716289

    The distinctions between African-Americans and African Migrants are interesting. The migrant groups have higher incomes, lower use of welfare, better academic performance. There ar…

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    Comment #23702758

    Aus and NZ are still in futile COVID suppression mode, so they are unlikely to be taking in a million Hongkies any time soon. I'm sure they'll get around to it though - it will rei…

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    Comment #23699611

    African Americans and Hispanics are hired at lower rates into the IT sector because they have poorer outcomes in school, particularly for mathematics. How does racially-biased hiri…

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    Comment #23699566

    68,000 victims of FGM in Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/female-genital-mutilation-report-shows... First-generation South Asian mothers in Canada give birth to 142 boys for every 10…

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    Comment #23699452

    If Indians are so willing to discriminate against eachother on the basis of their own caste, we should be entirely unsurprised when Indians managers and companies discriminate agai…

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    Comment #23696418

    The ultimate aim of these diversity projects is to lower labor costs - either by psychologically manipulating people into accepting lower wages, by focusing on conflict and alignme…

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    Comment #23668859

    There are a minimal number of excess deaths now associated with COVID, so what is the problem? Allowing the community to acquire immunity naturally during Summer is a good way to m…

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    Comment #23651532

    Mao Zedong, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Mohammed, Nelson Mandela, all responsible for varying amounts of human death and suffering - yet revered or worshiped today.

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    Comment #23629242

    The video game industry is just like any other industry - sex, violence, corruption, success, failure. But because its so consumer-oriented, and probably because everyone who works…

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    Comment #23629206

    An iPhone is a general purpose device compared to an iPod. But maybe Apple has lost the willingness to cannibalise its own sales for the sake of creating stunning new product categ…

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    Comment #23629099

    Elon Musk is there too and he was never on a H1B. This title is misleading and it should be renamed.

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    Comment #23611916

    African Americans are killed by police at the same or lesser rates than other races. However, they are killed at much higher absolute rates because they commit a significantly grea…

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    Comment #23609711

    Why do we need to buy so many devices anyway? Why can't I just plug my iPad or iPhone into a dumb dock with a laptop screen and its own storage and battery, and use the CPU and GPU…

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    COVID-19 is endemic. Even if first-world countries like the ones you mention can control it, it just takes one infected traveller from a 2nd/3rd world country to restart the whole …

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    Comment #23589029

    The H1B is also not designed to support diversity or equality, which is crucial if we consider it a stepping-stone to long-term immigration (which many people want). It would seem …

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    Comment #23585714

    The willpower and genetic heritage of the poor and homeless isn't there. Most people at the very bottom are in that position because of mental or genetic problems. You cannot conti…

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    Comment #23581733

    No excess deaths anymore from COVID-19 in the USA: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm The excess deaths from COVID can be mostly explained by us having no…

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    Comment #23581653

    We need a grand strategy. Our first order of business should be to end the burning of fossil fuels, second order being to establish permanent presence beyond Earth. Otherwise it fe…

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    1440p, 75hz display is perfectly acceptable. If you game, the quality difference between 1440p and 4k is pretty much indistinguishable, but 1440p is much less performance intensive…

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    Preparation for a male-only ethnic bioweapon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon