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It sounds like you're a very worldly and pragmatic person. Perhaps you should go and teach in one of these schools. You might just turn things around! :)

What normally comes from such meetings are policies aimed at curbing the consumption of the 80% of the population who control 20% of the resources. The upper 20% of the population …

I imagine transgender women will find this technology most interesting. And they're already fulfilling any hormonal requirements of their own accord.

> Growth rate is not an excuse for the evils that have been enabled by Facebook. This sort of over the top moral grandstanding is, ironically, the sort of "evil" that many have att…

> Today we are experimenting with new phenomena that have never been available to humanity en mass. Effective birth control, gender equality, freedom from restrictive social norms,…

Criticizing the organizations funded by George Soros has nothing to do with Judaism. And ironically you ignored: > It also tapped its business relationships, persuading a Jewish ci…

Engineers and Doctors were smart enough to form professions/unions to protect themselves without having to resort to incompetence. Programmers haven't been wise enough to take this…

> Has it ever occurred to you that if people are willing to burn it to the ground, the "modern world" might not be quite as good for them as it is for you? Has it ever occurred to …

Even the poorest "identity groups" in the United States own more wealth than most other "identity groups" across the planet. Western Society also goes out of its way to embrace "th…

> The end does not justify the means. So what good is a society built on prejudice, harassment, and corruption? Spoken like someone who was raised in a culture where airing grievan…

They probably, rightly, assumed that certain personality types gravitate toward programming work. They also probably felt that their manner and choice in clothing style helped to c…

It says it right in the article. > Currently, Amazon is one of the leading contenders for an up to $10 billion contract to build a private cloud for the Department of Defense. Amaz…

The baizuo[0] doesn't really care about people with a history of slavery. She only cares about stroking her own ego: "look at me, look how good and holy I am!" :) 0. https://en.wik…

America's academics long theorized that abolishing all common ties between people would increase freedom, happiness, and equality. Pluralism has been touted as an obvious good for …

Logged out of any Google account from a work IP address (not used for much personal searching) and I get the same result. Info cards are not influenced by your account's history as…

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> Now that the EU actually wants to do something about it, the law is being denounced as lobbied by big media, but, to the contrary, the current status quo only serves Google et al…

Wait what? Are you claiming that corporations deign for some countries to become dumping grounds? I'm not sure what you mean here. The article hints at the fact that while standard…

Every "side" has their own morality. And believes that they are good and the other "side" is evil. This is just a fact of life. It is very noble to attempt to adjudicate based on i…

Progressives believe that their ideas are universal and must be forced on everyone. They even believe that history itself is an inevitable march towards their ideals being realized…

The problem is, these groups grew up naturally. Then many of the groups became staging grounds for petitions and various actions at company meetings to force management to make dec…

The idea that attempting to help others out of a sense of moral duty often ends up harming everyone. (See the way local economies have been destroyed via foreign aid.) The idea tha…

This wasn't something that all employees wanted. Tying pay to diversity initiatives creates a terrible perverse incentive that leaves all parties worse off than how they started. -…

s|he didn't say that only White and Asian men were capable of working in tech. Only that those groups tended to be most interested in computers. There is nothing wrong with pointin…

As much as I love firefox, I'm sad to say that the executives who run Mozilla Corp are of a self-serving variety. Not in terms of material greed so much as in terms of craving soci…