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> I'm actually going to bookmark this conversation as a discussion piece because there's a lot to unpack here, you've been very candid. Funny, you've got the same attitude of conde…

> Why don’t any other characters have to explain what makes them unique from the rest They do. Geralt has a huge back story that explains why he's ripped and has a bunch of scars a…

Okay, so if Jason Momoa was the one who auditioned best for T'Challah you would say that's a good casting? Because I would say having the supposed leader of a kingdom of black peop…

> Maybe there's a recessive gene that causes some tone difference. Maybe there's some historical war that caused the blahblahblah migration of the whoseits to the whatsits. I'm not…

> They're Nilfgaardian and Elves Right, but the show casts all other Nilfgaardians and elves as white people. If the show casted all Nilfgaardians as black people or gave a story r…

> There's no sense in which they are black except for the literal colour of their skin That's the _point_. The writing is completely unrelated to the actors being black. They were …

Many of the characters have been changed (in personality/storyline and in ethnicity) from the books and from the games. For example Yennefer is no longer a mature, smart person but…

Netflix is already on the way down. They infused all of their new shows with wokeness. Every new show feels like woke concepts are shoehorned in without regard for their impact on …

According to your profile, you're not even a U.S. citizen, how can you purport to understand anything in the U.S. when you don't vote here? When you repeatedly post in favor of one…

Double pay is quite common over the holidays for any hourly role. Flight attendants are unionized so they're far from making minimum wage. This article is really not news, every de…

My argument is simple: Medicare for All entails higher taxes on high earners, which stunts wealth building and economic mobility, especially for high earners who grew up in poverty…

> This could not be less relevant It shows you that the "rich" you're discounting wield substantial political influence. Manchin wasn't the only one that killed the bill, House dem…

> Luckily the rich are a minority and this is a majority rule system Hmm, is that why the Build Back Better Act got killed in part by House Democrats wanting a SALT cap repeal? "Th…

> As someone who would be on the giving end of that, I'm fine with it, honestly. I won't always be on top. And I and many others are not. You should recognize that this is a _polit…

> Healthcare is the great equalizer By income redistribution I mean most progressive proposals aim to heavily tax high earners to fund healthcare for lower income individuals. That…

That is not the plan put forth by Medicare for All advocates. There is a strong undertone of income redistribution in progressive proposals for single payer. I would also expect th…

> I strongly suspect that a socialized medical program in the US would not actually cost individuals any more than they're paying now The definition of progressive taxation means t…

No, the article says exactly why: > Texas-based Christus Health early this year said on its website it planned to defy the rules because its comprehensive list of prices “will only…

Have you ever tried to bike to work regularly? There are a huge number of problems, at least in American cities that aren't NYC: - drivers don't give a crap about cyclists - every …

I don't think cheap overseas labor will dry up for at least another 30-50 years. There is still all of Africa for factory owners to exploit and underpay. And most of Southeast Asia…

There exist methods to guarantee robustness within a certain L_p ball on your parameters (in this case the box positions). I'm sure with only a few hundred boxes they would be trac…

Pre-COVID you couldn't find a 1br in a safe neighborhood for less than $3-3.5k. Less than 2k gets you something in the Tenderloin, which is the opposite of safe. Add food (~$700 be…

You don't need (unreliable, prone to out of distribution breakage) deep learning for this. Bin packing is a well known problem in optimization literature and there are established …

Because the purpose of investing one's money is to attempt to preserve wealth. Dumping a bunch of money into a domestic factory with way higher variable costs that are structurally…

Only if you work in tech, and only if you're a software engineer or PM. It is straight up not possible to live in a reasonably safe area in SF on a salary less than $100k before ta…