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Social justice for the bald man

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Re: Social justice for the bald man

#41
I’m 50 and have been using a Wahl clipper to shave my head every few weeks since college. I shave my face twice weekly. I find it all to be a chore. I’d give up all the hair on my head without a second thought if I could.

Hair is overrated. On women too. This is a sexy look:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Persis_Khamba...

Re: Social justice for the bald man

#42

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Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258

Been removed from the Front Page despite the total number of points, which is pretty odd. That's manual manipulation to get that to happen, I would assume.

It's probably being heavily flagged but hasn't been marked [dead] which I suspect is manual protection. But it's also being downweighted by the flamewar filter, I bet.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

#43

Up next: Social Justice for the Short Man, for those with a 'country' accent, for the glasses wearers (in the off-seasons for nerdiness), the straight-up unattractive. They are all real, the question we must contend with is: Are all externally imposed, negatively perceived features, protected from measurement/discrimination? What about age? Can you discriminate towards youthfulness if you will, in your time, become o…

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Re: Social justice for the bald man

#44

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Then we have social justice for fat people, dumb people, lazy people, people with anger problems, people with personality disorders, criminals, and so on. Where do we draw the line? I argue we don't draw the line at all. Rather, we treat everyone with compassion and respect, and find / judge everyone on their true strengths and weaknesses (vs. those characteristic of whatever group they belong to). Discrimination is…

> There's also the practical situation where you can't save everyone. In that case unfortunately I think whatever disadvantaged or stereotyped groups aren't protected by the current society are out of luck. If people in the past had felt that way, there would be no protected groups. Society only moves forward because of people who believe they can save disadvantaged or stereotyped groups that aren't already protected…

That quote is what actually happens, not what should happen. I guess what should happen is that the people who are "saved" get picked random. But in practice people almost always have preferences and conscious/unconscious biases.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

#45
I grew out my hair to my shoulders over the pandemic, and then I shaved it all off. That was the first time in my life I've ever seen myself without any hair, and I accepted that's how I'd look if I were to lose it all.

I got a lot of closure from that experience, and while I honestly hope I keep it all for as long as I can, if it goes I can just get a wig and have any hair style I want!

Re: Social justice for the bald man

#46
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A cursory Google ("who replaced Patrick Stewart as Professor X") shows that James McAvoy portrayed the character from 2011-2019, sharing some overlap with Stewart (2000-2017 and 2022).

Yes, that is the one

Although part of that is he also portrays a young non-bald Xavier, before Xavier loses his hair.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

#49

Bald men need to get in line, then. Middle aged men are among the least discriminated against demographic.

I would imagine that they are the least protected, but there definitely ARE situations that they are clearly a factor of discrimination, if you can't see it, step outside.

Re: Social justice for the bald man

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What is this website? What are "accountable posts", slashes, and tokens? EDIT: There is something called Celody, and now I'm listening to music in the hopes of getting tokens. I assume that I'll be able to upvote and downvote articles on the website using these tokens. I have no idea how long I have to listen, or why.

I think this comment deserves a better reception, it's easy to (over) react to phrases like 'what is this website' that are too common - but in this case there does seem to be something quite unusual, I think it was meant in ernest. Even if not, I think it can be explained in ernest, for those others who are confused by the metadata surrounding the post itself: > This post has reached its slash date. No more votes. >…

The about page [1] seems to explain the system, it’s an interesting concept but it sounds like this would be not suited for controversial posts - just because people don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s bad content.

[1] https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html

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