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You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and a…

> Insulting the community won't help against the downvotes. The healthy path is to just ignore the votes and freely discuss your opinions, whether they resonate with other people o…

Thank you for acknowledging that. I tend to dig in to certain topics that I feel strongly in. I've had similar response before, on reddit and in real life. Both cases have been, wh…

Waitsec. So, because I didn't write a dissertation on this topic, nor did I write a longform article, it's invalid? Hardly. It's not hard to look up that google maps census dot map…

Ive always taken an unpopular view about slavery. "We never quit doing slavery." It is true the Constitution was amended after the Civil war to include banning of slavery in most c…

Kind of pricy, to be honest. Walmart has an A1C test for $30. Although if they offer other tests, it could be useful.

Indeed not. The prosecution is on the Cops' side. The prosecution decides how vigorously they go after people in Grand Jury and open court. The Judicial system is on the Cops' side…

And this is only the facet of the real story here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwZcR0q6VE Uber is an old scan. - By Richard D Wolff We legislated and regulated the old Taxi Ca…

Evidently for their trials, they have bots that scan the VMs and kill machines running cryptocurrency software. Just read a bit of threads on google, reddit about this. Possibly, y…

Well, where "Machine Learning" (aka: black box you can only get weights for a given question), one can train a machine to be racist, sexist, ageist, or whatever. The problem is tha…

I can't speak for New York. I've never been there. My experiences are that of portions of the Midwest in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Missouri. Larger places will have W…

I would concur with that paragraph. When I was driving through South Indiana and Kentucky, I saw dollar store after dollar store after Dollar Store. I would see a little town with …

I would love for someone to explain how keeping the pricing information away from me, for weeks or months equates "Informed Consent"? Because if I would have known the price, I wou…

BTW, this is also the basis of a story by Greg Egan. Diaspora. (Aside: I highly recommend Greg Egan's work, especially Diaspora) The claim he makes in the fiction novel, is that a …

So, in other words, the law is wrong. And the is kept as such for purposes of revenue enhancement (illegal taxation)? I can see a few interesting govt things coming out of "Autos":…

In other words, its malfeasance by the security community for holding out. There's only a few courses of actions. One is to sit quietly and let everyone eventually do the solution.…

If you can show who's running those lists, and their names, sue them for damages. Garnishment is very much a thing. Admittedly, attacking others in a system that features money as …

Indeed. the "American Dream" happened only for as far as I can tell, from the 60's and 70's. before that was war-torn, and after that was republican-destroyed. What we saw in 2000 …

> I agree with the conclusion, but for a different reason. "Theft" is the wrong way to think about IP. The economic function of IP is not to protect producers from consumers, but t…

I used to date a biologist who experimented with animals, primarily zebrafish. And she said they chose these creatures for quite a few reasons: 1. When genetic mapping was expensiv…

What you said reminds me of that old comment: "If one woman takes 9 months to have a child, how long is it for 9 women?"

And unfortunately, when it comes to religion, this is a flat-out religious war. But I mean, they're all Moslems, right? It has to do with who the rightful heir to Mohammed is. Is i…

What's interesting is that "mindfulness" via what westerners think of meditation is only one of 110 different techniques. Some of them don't work now (wrong time), some wont work i…

"Mindfulness" is an occult method. End of discussion. It can be, and has been studied not by science, but by people working with the occult. And mindfulness is more of a byproduct …