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I feel like I should leave these here: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association: 1-800-662-HELP National Suicide Prevention Helpline: 1-800-273-TALK Free Crisis Text …

> Hundreds of thousands of doctoral students investing huge amounts of time and money to chase a relatively tiny pool of prestigious teaching and research positions. That's a prett…

Hard disagree. Whatever magic they had back when I spent time on there is gone and it isn't coming back anytime soon. They've been overrun by neo-nazi circle jerking as nazi's have…

I am not getting my hopes up until all of the ballots are counted. Even then, there will be a few legal fights (hopefully easy wins, but still).

That's not an argument against e-voting, but rather the election media circus and craziness of the electoral college. With e-voting you get the complexity of both.

> relies on the words of "spooky experts telling [them] what to believe". Widespread distrust of subject matter experts already exists in the US. You can't just tell people to shut…

Science and engineering don't care if people believe in them or not. If people don't believe the results of an election, then it is de facto illegitimate.

Tom Scott still has the best argument against e-voting IMO [1]. Briefly: an election only counts if everybody can believe the results. Making an expert level understanding of CS a …

Expanding on what katbyte said, the Hays code was adopted by every major studio in the US to replace state run censors. They did this because of the same battle going on right now …

Not only is our view of free speech different today, but the US has a long history of censoring minority groups. Take the Hays code for instance which made it de facto against the …

Maybe it's field specific. In my subfield of physics, I've collaborated with three other groups across the US without any fear of people running off with our work.

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It seems like the unfortunate reality of having a flag button and just giving everyone the ability to use it is that only the content that least offends people's political sensibil…

In only the past few months: Rochester PD showed up in hoards outside of the courthouse where their fellow officers were being charged for shoving a frail old man to the ground on …

I have to guess not much and that's part of the reason people are angry about how policing is conducted in the USA right now. A personal anecdote: a friend of mine is a former cop …

Oh wow. Thanks for pointing this out. Even the first three links of the article are "What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change", "What Economists Can Teach Epidemiologists",…

I'm worried that we are starting to see the realization of everybody's concerns over the rise of surveillance technology from the past decade. Federal mass surveillance, reports of…

I mentioned this elsewhere, but people on HN eat up the argument of "do your own research, make up your own mind" as an excuse for not challenging even obvious the most obvious BS.…

Didn't downvote, but outside of the internet this just doesn't correspond to my reality. Combine that with the perception of pushing a "both sides are bad" narrative makes it seem …

> I don’t see why it should have to take longer than a few days to count ballots. To snap back with an equally uniformed answer, I don't see why anyone could think something as com…

Maybe you're in a bubble? I work at one of the "liberal elite universities" if you believe the media rhetoric and nobody around me is just straight up ready to deny the election if…