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A blunt, clumsy move, that will do nothing to slow the takeover of education, that has already progressed from merely implicit discrimination [1] to official, explicit discriminati…

You should distinguish between "primary cause" and "primary spreaders" ("primary" because there is rarely only one). Does the virus starting in the wilds of Africa have any bearing…

> For instance, if you have the belief that men and women should not be educated in the same classroom together, or that women should not be educated at all, that's a political opi…

> It is to filter out people who haven't put sufficient thought into incorporating diversity into their teaching practice, no matter who they are. This is important to universities…

> India’s copyright law is more progressive than many developed countries In developed countries, each update to copyright makes it more restrictive, not less. So maybe the right w…

And how would they collectively decide whether to fire the police or not? Maybe via.. voting?

Can it save to local disk? How does it differ from the browser's built-in "save page as"? Does it work on video?

> marketing department > heart Um..

The list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#In_popular_culture is shockingly short.

> credentials which we liberals have been making steadily more stringent by doing our best to excommunicate racists, male chauvinists, homophobes, and the like. They're excommunica…

Can you elaborate, for those unfamiliar with Office 365?

> It's unjust to discriminate against a young graduate today, and have them pay the price for bygone injustice. That implies the price will ever be paid (and perish the thought tha…

Obvious and false, according to the data: https://diegobasch.com/homicides-vs-gun-ownership In fact not only is "less guns -> less homicide" not true, it's not true even if you loo…

Even before clicking on the story, I knew there would be a "gun-related homicide" vs. "gun ownership" graph, and not an "all homicide" vs. "gun ownership" graph. Do we want to mini…

Why? Further integration steps are necessary as the “time is calling for it” and the “people are waiting for it,” Bullmann said. Oh, I see. Hard to argue against such rock-solid re…

> Is this true in most European countries? Sort of. For an example that's not exactly worker rights, Hungary has a fertility rate of 1.52 births/woman, far below the replacement ra…

Would equal representation achieve a 50/50 split? The article doesn't say, but I am skeptical that the part of southern Ontario covered by this union is 50% "Indigenous, Black or r…

> aimed at improving the representation of Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers Globally, whites are a minority. But since that's becoming true of more and more places locally…

> Your job is gone due to automation, immigration, or globalization? It's entirely reasonable to reach for the conservative button to make things go back. Populists promising your …

> Well, 1. and 2. is about contracts between McDonalds and their franchisees, so if a franchise owner feels unfairly harmed by this restriction, then they can sue McDonalds, it's n…

Could you explain more? Because this sounds like it should be very illegal. My understand is that shares represent partial ownership of the company. So what gives one set of shareh…

> blocking information that later turns out to be correct. They're not even claiming the censored posts were incorrect, merely "misleading". I.e. they are compelling people to use …

I agree. Lets put it this way: I'll be surprised, but not shocked, if the assumption turns out false.