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Fandyien posted:Liberals who love diversity, don't you understand liberals are racists and you're responsible for bird genocide? Also, like many white nationalists, this guy recognizes the strength of homogeneity in Japan and that it obviously has never caused them any problems. Yeah, this is just poorly constructed. It goes from 'diversity is bad' to 'liberals sometimes didn't like diversity ninety years ago and not liking diversity is bad'. Stick with one or the other. And Japan has a suicide rate that is more then double the United States. So maybe diversity gives us poorer grades, but it makes us less likely to jump out a window, which I will take over grades any day. Also obligatory shout out to those foreigners locked out of Japanese citizenship in a multigenerational invisible underclass. Though I guess this is what a lot on the right wing want to do to Latin American immigrants.
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Fulchrum posted:This just in, Lawyers are assholes. For more on this story, we turn to every hack comic from the last 90 years. Henry VI, Part 2 posted:Dick: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Last 420 years.
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Fulchrum posted:... did you just accuse Shakespeare of being a hack? Well duh, since Marlow was secretly the one that actually wrote everything. Shakespeare was just an illiterate actor front man.  (Not really)
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Opposing Farce posted:You mean on the guy who killed him? Oh, who am I kidding, of course you don't After doing my time in the poo poo show that was the Trayvon Martin shooting thread on Something Awful, I was just surprised to see them suggest Trayvon had 35 pounds on Zimmerman. Even with all the wrong headed racist stuff you saw in that thread, no one ever so monumentally misstated objective fact that they had Trayvon outweighing Zimmerman.
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Blarghalt posted:I'm rather curious what opportunities the godless socialist hellholes of Japan or Germany lack. Well Japan lacks quite a few opportunities if you're a woman, but I don't think that's anything that would really bother the author.
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Man, today I was reading up on DARPA and ARPAnet. I wonder how the internet plays into Apples products or Goldman Sachs trading models? Probably not much I guess.
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Slo-Tek posted:Thing is, war, and especially secrecy is poo poo for technological innovation. What war does is jack up production, which can drop the unit cost, but it doesn't result in more/better poo poo faster. The span from 1940 to 1950 resulted in a lot fewer major technological discoveries than the 1950-1960 time period, in aeronautics and everything else. During war, you decide "jets are interesting, but gently caress it we have a war to win, build more Merlins and 4360's. But when you don't have to bend your entire economy toward building 100,000 1940's vintage bombers, you can spare a little juice for super-science. That may be the case for the field when it was already in a developed state, but I don't think the effects World War 1 had in advancing aviation can be denied. In only four years the state of aviation went from awkward, fragile and underpowered planes with limited endurance being flown by a handful of eccentric hobbyists, to maneuverable, robust and fast planes capable of covering extend distances and performing actual tasks and a giant pool of pilots from all walks of life with the interest and the expertise to fly them. The time to design and begin mass production of a plane was on the order of months and the concept of air power was so new and untested that every new design could render the enemies current model obsolete, so rapid turn over of models was encouraged. And all of this is moot anyway since most of the major aeronautical research post World War 2 was funded and directed by government interests, not private attempts. Hell even a good chunk of the private innovations of the 1920's and 30's was backed by government money, not job creators jizzing out rainbows and unicorns.
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Y-Hat posted:Is it OK to post Thought Catalog garbage here? The author should have titled this "I have serious self esteem and self worth issues: Please validate me'. It reads like an OP in E/N.
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If you were forced to choose between cellphones and the internet or health insurance, who in this day and age could afford to go with health insurance? Between communicating with your employer by cellphone and email and taking care of the household and financial stuff that's all moving online, both have become pretty much a necessity. I honestly don't think I could hold down a job in my field if I told them that I could only be contacted by a landline (which very few people have now days, making cellphones even more crucial) and that I could only transfer computer files in person with a flash drive.
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OwlBot 2000 posted:Every day is 'Buy Nothing Day' in North Korea—and look where that’s gotten them Using Calvin Coolidge quotes to make a point about how we need irrational exuberance and rampant consumption is so  that I can't handle it. I mean every one knows we had the Roaring 20's and then it just continued and never stopped and the next decade wasn't marked by anything memorable at all.
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Thank god someone's fighting the evil that is mandate periods of notice of termination and severance pay.
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Wow, that starts off pretty poo poo and then somehow manages to get worse. 'Don't worry guys, only 1 in 9 British soldiers died, the rest quite enjoyed it. The western front was basically a picnic.' 'At some points combat was so hellish entire units would be shattered and rotated off the line after only a day or two. This is somehow a good thing' 'making GBS threads on a defining moment in Anzac history for no reason.' 'The Treaty of Versailles was actually great. I mean it wasn't quite as harsh as conditions imposed by Stalinist Soviet Russia, pretty much the lowest bar you could think of. Now let me skirt around the fact that it utterly failed to prevent the largest war in history only 20 years later.' People are really pushing some serious whitewashing of the conflict for the upcoming anniversary.
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Josef bugman posted:https://medium.com/life-learning/2a1841f1335d Well skimming through it he doesn't seem to actually define what 'do something amazing in life' actually means. He has a picture of Steve Jobs, but are we supposed to aspire to his wealth? His fame? The impact his decisions had on the world and other people? Or is it something even more intangible, like having the ability to take existing technology and ideas and package it in a very appealing design? People would see the success in all or none of these categories and many more in addition as 'doing something amazing'. Also the author is a smarmy little poo poo. When you criticizes people for not reading and then invoke reality television it invokes a poo poo head alarm in much the same way the use of the word 'sheeple' does.
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SedanChair posted:That's actually a weirdly coherent article for Friedman, probably because most of it is quoting Bock verbatim. I think Friedman is one of the world's most worthless people (the most worthless person on Earth is Viktor Yanukovych according to his own party I could have written this article, last week I spoke with the head of a tech company that said pretty much the exact same thing. I could have put quotation marks around it and I'd have accepted half of whatever they paid Friedman to do it.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I mainly get a kick out of Friedman's hackery being so well-known that most of the top comments are roasting him, sometimes with references to his favorite pieces of empty rhetoric, since he's the editorial equivalent of the political cartoonist who re-uses as much of his old artwork as possible. Eh, Friedman kind of smothers it, but the point in this philosophy of hiring is less that you're a special snowflake and more they prefer to throw people into high pressure situations in order to see how they respond. If you approach it with a level of insanity that suggest they can wring the creative juices out of you and enough competence that those juices will be worth something, they'll hirer you. Trying to judge people just off their resumes won't tell you if they're willing to live in their office for weeks on end, which is what these tech companies need to maintain their edge. Of course Friedman thinks this is gee whiz cool and I think it's a kind of soul crushing hell that people should seriously consider never entering, so even if he actually got down to the core of the issue I'm sure it would still be a terrible article, only in a different way.
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Mo_Steel posted:The Ching Chong Ding Dong character isn't mocking asian people it's mocking racists. I don't know how anyone could so completely not comprehend a bit, it's not that nuanced of a commentary to require much active examination to understand. I think it's a bit more complicated than that. It's true that in this case it was straight up satire, but Colbert has previously been caught doing his fake Asian accent as a straight up joke when he thought he wasn't in the public eye. Honestly as an Asian American I haven't been that put out over either event, but I can see how people would be bothered by references to it. And while my thinking on the original issue doesn't line up with a lot of the people upset over this, I can definitely understand being miffed at the response of a bunch of liberal white people trying to rather forcefully explain to you that this time being bothered by a racial issue isn't correct since this time it's one of the good guys. My biggest problem with the editorial is the endorsement for #CancelColbert as a tactical move to increase attention. If people are calling for removal over things even they see as minor with no real intention to provoke official action, what are would you do if you found out something legit racist, like Asian writers were being kept out of the Colbert Report staff? You're already calling for the shows cancellation, what new level do you go to to show that this time the behavior really is unacceptable.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:You were kidding, right? The "intercepted satellite feed" was a bit. It was another example of the Colbert character being an insensitive imbecile. Huh, watched the clip all the way through and it was a bit different than how I had remembered. Thought it had a more serious and apologetic tone. Of course the last time I saw it was over eight years ago, guess my memory of my early teen years is starting to go, I have a false memory of there being some controversy over the whole thing, but googling it doesn't bring up anything. The current furor makes even less sense then.
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VitalSigns posted:It's so offensive to suggest my mom is conservative rear end in a top hat when I bitch about her saying something a conservative rear end in a top hat would say and then ask the internet why she would say that. Eh, it's pretty common to get defensive when people make attacks on your family members, even when they're charges you believe to be true and often say out loud. As someone inside the family it's fine when you say it, but if someone else says it then it feels like an outsider who doesn't know the family member in question, which feels like an attack on the family and thus the person who was originally complaining. This causes a kind of instinctual defensiveness that's not rational, but it can be a very powerful and it's why I never lay into a family member someone else is complaining about.
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I don't think I've ever said 'due to extenuating circumstances' or 'at this juncture' in casual conversation because why the gently caress would you? Is it really that farfetched that someone would reserve the use of press release terms for their press releases? I also don't use terms like heterogeneity and allelopathy in casual conversation, but that doesn't mean I'm plagiarizing when I use those terms in an academic context.
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I think that if it was possible for someone to wake up one day and find out their son was black and this demonic other they hated was actually an incredibly close loved one, then yes, the civil rights movement would have moved along much more quickly. Also 'we can't let the disgusting anus loving gays to marry because it will destroy their beautiful subculture" is one of the stranger mishmash of different argument I've encountered.
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As a person of mixed race I can understand wanting to pick your own labels even if they're are ones that 'fit' better and getting upset when people try to define you for yourself. On the other hand she kind of seems to be missing the point that people go through major changes through out their life and that you sometimes you shouldn't be overly invested in the labels you've built up for yourself. I wouldn't call it terrible though, maybe unnecessary.
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