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Well, yes, you're excluded from discussing that oppression if you exclude matriarchy/patriarchy from parenting. As a society, we deem matriarchy/patriarchy in parenting as part of …

Look up the concept of "natural slavery".

I'll give you a couple very extreme examples that you can hopefully find parallel in: Do slave owners get a seat at the table when discussing whether or not and how slaves are oppr…

The workplace is the perfect place for politics. Imagine if nobody every asked: "Should blacks, LGBTQ+, women even deserve to work these types of jobs or be promoted?" Taking that …

You have the right and freedom to disagree. But at least ask yourself why you disagree and why you think someone is wrong about their oppression. And then apply that lens of thinki…

Who decides whether or not evidence is based and sound? During the slave era, white slave owners believed they were doing good for the black man. That this was their optimal role i…

Food for thought, something can be political without directly referencing domestic politics and political parties. Definition: "the activities associated with the governance of a c…

Yes, cis-het white men do not have a seat at the table when discussing whether or not communities are oppressed. But they do have a seat at the table when discussing what they can …

Where would we be today if people stayed silent about discrimination in the workplace and society at large (racial, gender, sexual orientation)? Silence is a privilege . Silence is…

This is literally that NULL license plate problem! I wonder how many other systems this bug may exist in. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 )

> so any bio-accumulation of heavy metals or similar should be minimal What is "minimal"? Bioaccumulation isn't a magic meter that says "everyting below this trophic level is safe …

You'll see a similar thing in branding and advertising. For all the new yorkers on here, have you all seen the consumer brand ads on the subway? Almost every brand looks the same. …

Unless the original author doesn't want to endure going to court over this for a settlement check but still wants to try to invoke change by telling the world (or at least all Goog…

Even if we aren't irrigating crops directly with seawater, we may have to engineer crops to thrive on high saline irrigation anyways, as there is seawater leeching into aquifers in…

"Socialize the costs, privatize the revenue." Sounds like most industries actually, where externalities are passed on to society. E.g. resource extraction.

I work in the agtech space and the way we look at indoor farms are that for now they are only a solution for expensive speciality crops (leafy vegetables). There's a lot of value i…

What if Github was specifically optimizing for that end-goal though? It is hard to definite what productivity means unless you had inside knowledge of the goals of the business. Am…

Interestingly, although 70% of New Yorkers felt positively about the Amazon HQ2, I wonder what that percentage looks like for the actual current inhabitants of LIC. For many of the…