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How many fingers am I holding up? If your answer is 6 or more, I have bad news for you and your data set.
How many fingers am I holding up? If your answer is 6 or more, I have bad news for you and your data set.
Yeah, just a joke about the date. I also forgot that Reddit doesn’t mark the date that the post was deleted, just when it was created.
No, just a joke about the date of the deleted post in relation to OP’s complaint. We’re coming up on the 1 year mark this summer.
I didn’t realize that it’s already been 3 years since the API fiasco. Time really does fly…
If there’s evidence like you’re suggesting, the police department should have an anonymous tip line that you can call. And no legal fees required if it’s a criminal case, the police are the ones in court.
Why is this “relative” allowed within 15 feet of your property. If you need someone to “take care” of them, I can bring my own bat. We can take turns pitching their balls with your new glove.
The irony. I bet the guy who prompted that calls himself an artist.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of “shadow ban” style component to this. I think Tumblr does something like that where postsand tags that are marked as sexually explicit can’t be found by searching for them, but if you’re following the person, you can see them.
I saw a librarian say on a post that people should borrow from the library anyways, even if they don’t think that they’ll get to it before it’s due, because it means that they can use the higher rates of usage to argue for more funding. Getting something for free and helping the local libraries at the same time? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Has it? The last I heard, the new strains were even more infectious and more dangerous, but people weren’t getting as sick thanks to the vaccines.
But that was before this current strain, which is resistant to boosters from before late September and is the cause of the second highest spike in infections the US has seen, with an estimated 2 million new cases on the 11th alone. Hopefully, this new strain has mutated to be less dangerous than the original, and that’s why it’s resistant to the vaccines/boosters except for the most recent.
The best way to fight it is to simply be unmarketable as a community. This is how Verizon ended up having to sell Tumblr for less than 1% of the price they paid for it like only 3 years later. If the cost outweighs the benefit, fewer people will bother trying.
As I saw somebody once say, “The US is a 3rd world country in a Prada belt.” If we didn’t have that big chunk of post-WW2 money keeping our economy chugging along all these years, we probably wouldn’t look all that different from them.
I saw somebody saying how these companies are going to start crashing and burning in the next few years because they’ve never been profitable but the low interest rates have allowed them to keep burning new investors money to fake it until they make it. They’ve been following the greed of infinite profits through infinite growth, but that growth suddenly isn’t infinite anymore, and now they’ll be getting to the find out stage after fucking around for so long.
Maybe, but Christmas (as in the day of, December 25th) is still a Christian holiday. It’s a pretty safe assumption to make that the majority of people celebrate Christmas, especially the commercialized version that’s ingrained into our culture, but it’s still an assumption made with Christianity as the default/majority that doesn’t take into account anybody else. Unconsciously assuming everybody is one thing because the majority of people are that thing can silence/oppress those that aren’t.
This is why the big stink every year over Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays is inherently antisemitic/anti-other religions. Because it refuses to acknowledge that there are other people in this country who practice other religions with other holidays (or don’t practice any religion at all). If you make an exception for one (making Christmas a federal holiday), but not for the other (Passover in this case), then they’re being treated unequally and therefore you don’t have freedom of religion and are biased against the second one. Because the followers of Judaism in that example cannot practice their religion and celebrate their holiday to the same degree as Christians can.
For true equality you either accommodate all religions by making every single religious holiday a federal holiday or you accommodate none of them. Obviously, the first option is impossible, so you limit federal holidays to days of importance outside of religion, and allow enough vacation days to ensure people can celebrate at least most of their holidays. Days like the 4th of July, voting day(s) (a big one that we don’t do), etc should be federal holidays, but not Christmas or Easter. Outside the government, this is how it’s handled. Businesses are free to choose what holidays they close to celebrate or stay open for, and cannot get in trouble for what holidays they decide to give off or not give off for their employees. This is why the Jewish and Chinese communities are historically so close in the US - neither celebrates Christmas, so Jewish people go to Chinese food restaurants and other Chinese businesses that would otherwise not get much business on the holiday. It’s also why retail stores can make their employees work on Christian holidays, regardless of whether or not they’re Christian (speaking of which, you never hear an outrage about people being forced to work on Christmas day, yet there’s a guaranteed frothing of the mouth over the Happy Holidays thing every single year).
That’s the antisemitism inherent in our culture. That people are willing and want to support allowances for Christian religious institutions and values like holidays and prayers in school, but would not be okay with the same allowances for Judaism or other religions. In the same way that the architect I mentioned making the bridges too low so black kids couldn’t go to the beaches near his house was an act of racism.
No, it’s that thing that was popular in the 90s:
“If God truly does exist, He more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.” -Thomas Jefferson
More than half of the Founding Fathers were agnostic/atheists. They specifically wrote the Constitution to keep (any kind of) religion out of the government. The idea that America has ever been a “Christian nation” is rooted in a false history meant to deny the right of religious freedom to others. Pushing Christian holidays and religious rights while ignoring equal treatment of other religions is definitely antisemitism, just not the blowing up temples kind. It’s also anti-every other kind of religion as well. “Equal but different” wasn’t equal in regards to gay marriage or segregation, and it certainly isn’t in regards to religious freedom.
Our history is full of “little” lies like this designed to shape our perception of the country. Such as the fact that we’re never told that the Puritans were a bunch of religious extremists who came to America because they were exiled from England after trying to assassinate the king and replace him with their own puppet to force their religion on the rest of the country. Or that Hitler was inspired by America’s treatment of the Native Americans when it came to dealing with the Jews, immigrants, and LGBTQ people in Germany, and considered the US a “sister nation” with similar ideals to his (he even talks about it in one of his books). The entirety of Europe hides the fact along with us that the Nazis had a lot of support and that most leaders at the time didn’t want to get involved in fighting Germany right up until they invaded their country specifically. Did you know there’s a statue in Ireland honoring the various Native American tribal nations for their humanitarian aid during the Potato Famine because they were some of the only groups to provide any aid? Or that there wasn’t even actually a famine at all? There was a food shortage, but there was plenty of food - if you were British. The British tried to starve the Irish in an ethnic cleansing so they could take their land.
I ain’t here to say you’re bad or stupid or some nonsense because of your opinion, but as Thomas Jefferson said, question why it’s okay to put a statue of the Ten Commandments on display at a state capitol building but not a statue of Baphomet teaching kids science next to it, because you’ll often be surprised to find that the history we’ve been taught isn’t the whole story. I know I keep being surprised the more I learn. There’s tons of little things we take for granted in our daily life that are rooted in systems built with malicious intent. I’m still disgusted by the fact that one of the architects building the highways in New York designed the bridges around where he lived to be too low for buses to go under specifically so black kids couldn’t take the bus to the beaches near his neighborhood.
I would say if social media has any form of left leaning bias in regards to US politics, it’s entirely down to the userbase and not the platform. It’s been shown that content from left-wing politicians and groups gets buried by the algorithms on places like Facebook and Twitter when compared to content from right-wing groups and politicians on a pretty consistent basis.
I don’t know anything about the Netherlands situation, but Nazism is just one particular flavor of fascism, and all forms of fascism have been on the rise in recent years. Especially white supremacist forms.
Hitler didn’t start out with killing people either. He started out the exact same way as Trump (in fact, one of Trump’s former wives has said that he used to read Hitler’s speeches before bed, so it would be no surprise to learn that he’s straight up copying Hitler); blaming Germany’s problems on immigrants and Jews, going after the LGBTQ population in Germany, even promising to build a wall around the German border to keep out illegal immigrants if he got elected. Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” came from a pro-Nazi WW2 political party called America First. There is now an “America First Foundation” that proudly declares themselves as a movement that’s an “amalgamation of traditional values, Trumpian populism, and American Nationalism” (their own words right off their website). Not only are they literally using the exact same name, but “traditional values” is one of those major red flags that means “white supremacy,” as is nationalism. They don’t call themselves Nazis, but they sure as hell share all the same values.
I think part of that stems from a lack of control over their own lives. They feel powerless in their own situation in life, and an easy excuse fed to them to satisfy that lack of control is by stomping on somebody else. “It’s not our fault that your life sucks, it’s obviously insert minority here who’s to blame!”
I think it’s a high fructose corn syrup joke, but that’s more like squeezing all the sugar out of a cob of corn and pretending it’s juice concentrate in my mind.