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"We'll tell a higher-up why his new plan is stupid and that we're not very excited to waste our time on it" There's a difference between 'what my instinct is' and 'thoughtful commu…

I don't think it's so much 'nothing but the facts' but rather a little more effort to explain 'what it is'. It's not that the site is 'marketing speak', it's just that it's a 3/10 …

Oh, I understand all of that of course. I meant some kind of Unicode-specific debate over how it should all work and what the alternatives were.

Can someone comment with relevant experience about the fact that maybe emojis should not be part of unicode? And that we should literally just send tiny images as part of text? Thi…

This is lesson in media, PR, liars, spin, misrepresentation, attempts to explain, yada yada. There are hardly any good actors here: Signal for misrepresenting, the press for turnin…

This kind of rhetoric I think might be at the root of the problem. If you believe the company founders, in the face of being told they occupy their position 'due to privilege' is '…

Although colonialism played a role, 'it started' before that. It's fair to at least 'talk about' the 'pyramid of hate' and maybe 'believe in it' so as to 'make a point'. But I don'…

"It has hints of "reverse racism" " "That's closer to the camp of "white supremacist" or at the very least, a common defense used by white supremacist." This kind of gaslighthing t…

That's not quite the right example though. CRT definitions of 'White Supremacy' are not about 'people acting deliberately' to support it. CRT laments that 'regular people' doing 'r…

The exec. did not say that. 'White Supremacy' classically means men in Pointy White Hats. The CRT people now use it to mean 'regular white people' because they, in their regular, d…

That statement is not jarring. Employees calling the organization 'White Supremacist' is the thing that should be 'jarring' or at least controversial. There are arguments to be mad…

People are constantly confusing the issue with 'politics'. This is not about Trump or Obama, that's easily avoided, it's about Identity Politics, which cannot be avoided: They are …

Without effective retail finance, which is not possible without other things in place first, which are not possible without a baseline of functioning governance, there really is no…

"He told me today that attempting to link the list of customer names to potential genocide represented a case of “catastrophizing” — one that made it impossible for any good-faith …

There's some wilful misattribution or straw-manning by the Guardian here. 'Hard work is an essential ingredient in success' is much more consistent with common beliefs, and it's mo…

The argument is not junk, there's value in understanding how taxes work through the value chain. A little bit like a VAT, we don't want to tax, tax and tax some product that has a …

The issue has nothing to do with technology, it has to do with 'quality' information ranking and Google's supposed bias with regards to who they deem 'credible' and not. Breitbart …

True - but of the business activity is in EU, then really it's Ireland's issue to sort out with the EU, it's a separate issue from the 'other side' of the taxation in the US. What …

The same thing applies to the Daily Beast and any number of other outfits. That you would pick on this one highlights the bias in the system. If there were a 'disconcerting rag' it…

'The Daily Mail' has a case. Go and visit their site right now [1] and tell me where the inflammatory or irresponsible headline is. Now try 'The Daily Beast' [2], it's I think a li…

Teachers have some of the most powerful Unions in the world. The Ontario Teacher's Union might be the most powerful organization in Ontario. They own major league sports teams. Nur…

The TV show 'COPS' would demonstrate very vividly how insane some people can be and of course they are 'selected clips' - but when they film in Canada ... almost nothing happens. I…

That category is a broader measure including basically all the 'helpers' in homes etc.. Some other numbers put nurses (strictly) up there with doctors at somewhat higher than avera…

Men commit suicide at about 3-4x the rate of women (it's not quite as high for attempts, men are better at 'getting it done'), often related to occupational issues but nobody seems…

I'm not offering an alternative, I'm pointing out the OP didn't make an argument, or rather one that wasn't based on any reasoning. "just pay someone else's mortgage instead?" - it…