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becausepc

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    Comment #40038793

    > He's not helming javascript in any way or form or even contributing to the standard to my knowledge. Brendan may not be helming JavaScript anymore. But he was very active during …

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    Comment #38865485

    Typo: his name is Parker Conrad, not Patrick.

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    Comment #38856566

    Social Radars podcast: https://pod.link/1677066062/episode/3ad4c8281658c6cac78f4353... Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/637e441f17ae0f45578bb...

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    Comment #38655426

    I hate wars, and I would love to see peaceful resolution. But we have a war already, most recently started by Hamas in October 7th. The sad reality is that civilian casualties are …

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    Comment #38655248

    I am defending no one. Grandparent comment was asking for OP assertions that I find biased. Deir Yassin quote was a one such assertion. Extremely well researched - books have been …

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    Comment #38654433

    > Iran had the means to bombard Israel, but they are not doing I was not talking about bombardment. I was talking about means for genocide and extermination. Out of your examples, …

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    Comment #38653522

    Point (2) provides a helpful framework for evaluating various assertions about the war. It doesn't exempt Israel from criticism. However, the original post extends far beyond mere …

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    Comment #38653342

    The entire article seems quite biased. Using footnotes after every sentence doesn't necessarily indicate a well-researched piece. I won't delve into recent events due to the challe…

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    Comment #36142565

    The “woke” angle was raised later on. JT brought up it up: “It was JeanHeyd who called Rust out for having no Black representation among Rust conference speakers. Rightly so, as bo…

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    Comment #36118200

    Details from the RustConf leadership: https://twitter.com/wifelette/status/1662938961248129025 Seems to be the case of some influential toxic person(s) in the Rust Project. They ca…

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    Comment #26601479

    Calling the story "eviction dispute" is quite an understatement. They served 4 years jail sentence for sawing huge hole through tenants' living room and forging threatening letters…

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    Comment #25857058

    It's wrong to make everything to be about race and gender. It's racist and sexist to do so.

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    Comment #25837825

    Thank you dang! I appreciate your service, even after having my comment above to be flagged :) Is there a way to let you know about similar sharp edges, in order to avoid writing o…

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    Comment #25837771

    > it literally costs you nothing There is cost. It's hard enough to communicate as it is, even without weird unpronounceable terms certain academics come up with. > language that i…

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    > most people are not SJW This is true. However, few active people are enough to poison the discussion. Examples: * erasure of gendered language from source code comments * "master…

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    Comment #25836705

    At least "folks" is a real word. "Folx" is unquestionably the result of the language war: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folx/

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    Comment #25836167

    Weird to see "folks" everywhere in the text. Why not "people"? Or "developers"? I'm sure it's not on purpose, but it made me think about Social Justice language war: https://newdis…

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    Yes, the comment was not nice (comment is now dead). However, I've stopped watching the video because the presenter's English accent was not easy on my ear. The problem reminds me …