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I'm fascinated by some of the comments in here, that the videos are "awful," "far from good," "embarrassing," etc. This is technology that was unthinkable before just a couple of y…

I'm guessing you've never experienced the enormous pressure of needing to find a job to buy food and clothes for your family. That's good, I'm glad that you don't know that feeling…

> The goal should be to reach as many people, of course, but also to ensure that the method and medium of communication is in the interest of the public at large. Who decides what …

>The positives you experienced are very possible for a homeschooled student as well, and this seems to be a common boogieman. How do you do that? Seems like it would be impossible …

But users like me who hate shorts so much that they want to disable them in the app aren't addicted to shorts because we refuse to open them. And there's no risk of me going to Tik…

Why would a user who hates shorts so much that they want to disable them in the app be sharing links to shorts with their friends? If a paying user want to disable shorts, wouldn't…

That seems extremely unlikely given the significant global economic impact of tariffs, and the comparatively microscopic effect of transgender athletic participation in the United …

None of this changes the fact that mail-in voting in the United States is objectively and measurably secure, and that instances of fraud are so miniscule that claims of it having a…

Direct quote from the source you linked: >>It is unlikely that there has been a significant increase in electoral malpractice since the introduction of postal voting on demand in 2…

What do you mean? There is no evidence at all that Trump won by voter fraud.

This is an extremely poor analogy, and it doesn't change the objective fact that mail-in voting is provably, measurably secure.

What would your response be to someone who, hypothetically, might view this sentiment as some unsettling combination of elitist and vaguely authoritarian and then decides that mayb…

Yes, I very obviously did because I explicitly referred to it in my comment. Nothing in your comment changes the fact that you linked to an anonymously written article full of base…

You believe that an anonymously written article full of baseless speculation that relies on an anonymous Tumblr post as its source is credible? It would benefit you to educate your…

Excel users can make mistakes, therefore Excel spreadsheets can't be audited? Is that your point?

Except that's not at all what the article is talking about: > But the tightwads I spoke with have very real agita—panic, guilt, stress—over their financial situation, even though t…

Do you mind explaining what your comment means in layman's terms?

This is a textbook example of the typical response when someone gets their dog whistles called out. Plausible deniability is a key characteristic of dog whistles[0]. The first sent…

> When he talked about Stephen Gould, a widely read pop-sci academic, you zeroed in on his last name's "Jewish-ness". Replying to this separately because I feel like you mischaract…

What do you mean it didn't work on you? You're defending an article written by someone who promotes indisputably anti-Semitic conspiracy theories[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.c…

The account that posted the article also posted an explicitly anti-Semitic comment that promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are secretly in control of the media[0]: > Uh, yes.…

> As an aside: If someone reaches the correct answer for the wrong reasons, are they wrong? Personally, I'm pragmatic, and don't care how people reach my ideals on the proper treat…

I'm going to operate under the assumption that you're replying in good faith and truly don't recognize the racist and anti-Semitic dog whistles all throughout the article. I'll hig…

What's funny is that the line you thought you cherry-picked as a gotcha actually tells the story: > abandon the idea that the value of people lies in their attributes For anyone re…