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Chris Poole visited the Facebook campus in 2011, while he was still running 4chan, for an hour-long talk and some questions. About thirty engineers attended. The Anonymous hacks had been all over the news for the last year or so, so a couple of jokers showed up in Guy Fawkes masks, and kept them on for the whole thing. During the Q&A, Poole answered a question from one of the masked employees. After his answer, he as…
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'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest, he swallowed his entire stash of drugs to avoid going to jail to make matters worse he had severe hypertension and was hospitalized in 2019 during similar arrest with BP of 210 on 130, his heart just couldn't handle it this time
> 'speedballs' and exertion from resisting arrest (...) Does that "exertion" include a grown man kneeling on your neck while you repeatedly and desperately tell him that the knee on his neck is stopping him from breeding? Because, even taking that claim at face value, it's pretty clear that removing the risk factor of having a grown police officer kneeling on your back and neck in a way that's stopping you from breed…
noone was kneeling on him in the back of the car if you watch the full footage
there are 16 min of body camera footage before the viral video with Chauvin started, check it out
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I took you up on that, and visited the technology interest area /g/ Post #1: Comment using the N word Post #2: Someone using "fag" to insult people who, presumably, use Arch linux. (The term was Archfags) Post #3: In response to something about headphones: "that deaf faggot [n-word]" So it's funny. I've been browsing 4chan for 5 minutes and couldn't avoid racism & homophobia in the very first things I saw. Maybe you…
So we went from "it's nothing but pedos and porn" to "there are some bad words on there". If you find that offensive, maybe stay away from the internet.
If you find that hard to understand, maybe stay away from HN where we try to have at least some minimum of reason in our discussions: you either lack that by minimizing racism and hatred to "bad words" or you are a troll arguing in bad faith.
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You claimed there was something beyond the surface level racism and white supremacy, but you haven't really provided that. Trolling journalists doesn't make them any less racist, especially when they use racism for trolling. There doesn't seem to be anything "deeper". Just straight up white supremacy. [EDIT] (since I'm now throttled for some reason) You can go on /pol right now and see it's full of white supremacy an…
> You claimed there was something beyond the surface level racism and white supremacy, but you haven't really provided that. You seem to be hyperfixating on one out of 3 examples I mentioned. Did you miss the part about a proof for an unsolved math problem or early allegations against someone who went on to be charged for that exact same thing years later? Not even mentioning other boards that are hobby-specific, lik…
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I took you up on that, and visited the technology interest area /g/ Post #1: Comment using the N word Post #2: Someone using "fag" to insult people who, presumably, use Arch linux. (The term was Archfags) Post #3: In response to something about headphones: "that deaf faggot [n-word]" So it's funny. I've been browsing 4chan for 5 minutes and couldn't avoid racism & homophobia in the very first things I saw. Maybe you…
So we went from "it's nothing but pedos and porn" to "there are some bad words on there". If you find that offensive, maybe stay away from the internet.
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"Google hired Poole in 2016 to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+... After Google+, Poole apparently joined Google's experimental "Area 120" group and eventually moved on to be a product manager for Google Maps."
An uncharitable opinion might be that Google hired someone with previous social media experience in a last ditch effort to figure out a way to make Google+ a success.
It was really just copied from a formula that was long popular in Japan, and being the first it became the biggest.
An interesting matter is that Lainchan follows largely the same formula and is very civil in comparison, despite not enforcing it, perhaps because it's main focus is technology and not entertainment.
On the one hand, no one would blame him for just continuing to drift off into obscurity. On the other, he's a smart guy, and smart guys tend to be restless. Add to this that the hurricane of anti-trust lawsuits happening right now may result in a re-shuffling of the deck when it comes to the landscape of the web in a few years, and there's some real potential for new projects on the world-wide information superhighway, in a way there hasn't been in some time.
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How's that uncharitable? That's probably why the hired him.
It paints a picture of a panicked Google exec going "oh shit G+ is swirling the drain, is there anybody at all with successful social media experience that can save it?" Then they hire the first guy they find, even though his site and G+ are almost polar opposites. G+ fails shortly afterward. Not exactly a fair assessment of the situation.
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> You claimed there was something beyond the surface level racism and white supremacy, but you haven't really provided that. You seem to be hyperfixating on one out of 3 examples I mentioned. Did you miss the part about a proof for an unsolved math problem or early allegations against someone who went on to be charged for that exact same thing years later? Not even mentioning other boards that are hobby-specific, lik…
There should be a "Somebody's Law" that when someone on the internet says "can you provide an example of x" and then you provide an example of x, they will usually argue that it's not really an example of x.
There should be a "BS Law" were someone claims to have evidence, then refuses to present it no matter how pressed.
He claimed they had a math proof, as we see from the other comments, that wasn't /pol.
He claimed they trolled journalists. Whatever.
He claimed they had something to do with convicting a sex criminal, then provided zero evidence to back that claim up.
In no way is any of this justification for the racism that is the central message of /pol.