>Remember when people said "it's only extremists like Alex Jones" and "white nationalists", yeah well now Twitter has banned the president of the United States.
The president of the United States is in fact an extremist like Alex Jones and a white nationalist.
If you make it excuses for any and every instance of police brutality—which you’ve demonstrated you’re willing to do—you are effectively supporting police brutality. That is obvious, and for you play naïf when someone points it out is an act of bad faith. Please stop doing that.
This entire thread is just “are my opinions unethical? No, no it must be the entire team of professional ethicists who are wrong.”
Only without the even momentary modicum of self-reflection that implies.
I’ve been using some form of Firefox or its ancestors for 20 years, and I just cannot understand its decreasing popularity. In terms of performance, feature-richness, customizability, etc it seems to be superior to the more popular browsers. Can it really all be explained by the fact that it isn’t “pushed” by being an OS default (Edge, Safari) or by being suggested by the world’s most popular search engine (Chrome)? I don’t know what I’d do without Tree Style Tabs and the ability to irresponsibly open hundreds of tabs without worrying that the RAM usage is going to crash the browser!
Food banks and shelters might be in good shape wherever it is that you live, but in many parts of the country they’re stretched to and beyond their capacities. Food banks are simply not a scalable solution to poverty. No form of charity is. Government aid programs are a proven solution to getting resources (like food) into the hands of folks in need.
As to your argument that poor people are morally corrupt, it’s laughable, below contempt, and not worth responding to. Someone is morally bankrupt, but it ain’t the poor.
Timnit Gebru is very clear that she didn’t resign. The actual headline at the link doesn’t say that she resigned. The moderator editorialization of headlines (and occasionally outright substitution of completely different urls than the ones that were submitted) on HN has gone way beyond disappointing, it’s outrageous. Shame on you dang.
I don’t even need to open this link to know that Glenn pins all blame on democratic presidents and either ignores or downplays the role of Bush and Trump. How do some people still believe this guy is “a liberal” or even on the left at all?
But the survey wasn’t conducted among “we humans”, it was conducted among lesswrong readers. Lesswrong is normally pretty worthless, but this gentle lampoon if its own readership’s dumb opinions is actually pretty funny
Speak for yourself “Captain Barf”, plenty of us millennials have been adults in every sense of the word for almost 20 years. Nothing’s keeping you from growing up if that’s what you want. In fact, if you’re from a poor family in America you don’t have a choice—it’s sink or swim.