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OK so not actually guns but "government" then. Not as dramatic though.

OP is likely the same kind of person who calls taxes "theft" for rhetorical purposes.

The fact that you think this is a "gotcha" is a strong indication that you have no business discussing the topic.

OK so, let's say I completely understand every facet of signing up for and using Mastadon, but still think it's bullshit that few normal users will navigate. Is my opinion valid now?

Can we just stop with these bullshit word games? I'm so tired.

Describing a form of legal discrimination (in this case, affirmative action) as "racial discrimination" is not an argument. Or even an invitation to discussion.

There are major problems with policies like affirmative action. But smirking and saying "But... but you said racial discrimination is BAD! But then you DO THE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. So YOU BAD!" is so tiresome.

I love the Winnie the Pooh quip because it helps me identify those who have no business commenting about China.

>the salary to be offered is reduced to cover the estimated current value of the future employee protections.

This is a fallacy. Companies will pay employees as little as possible. Why would they pay you more just because employee protections were removed?

Literacy rates in Western Europe and North America were quite high. There was an bustling trade in almanacs, pamphlets, periodicals and Bibles. Go read about Charles Dickens' career and how he succeeded by appealing to the tastes of the common man.

Is that what OP actually said?

the Hacker News commenter with 20k karma says hey. go post your comments on your own damn blog.

Right. Systemic problems require systemic solutions, and "voting with your wallet" is capitalist bullshit. They love to trot that one out, to make real change impossible.

That exists... It's called "Microsoft Office 2021 Professional" and it's on their website. Very expensive. You can find it (much) cheaper elsewhere.

"Grades" are a metric, not a goal. The goal is to educate and train students.

If you make a metric into a goal, you have already made the metric worthless and are likely to fail to achieve your first goal.

Folks, this is not difficult to understand unless you're deliberately being obtuse.

There's legal and illegal discrimination.

Some forms of legal discrimination do amount to discrimination against White people.

When we say "Discrimination is wrong" we are almost always talking about illegal discrimination.

Just crying out that "But.... but you said discrimination is wrong!" really isn't the 'argument' you think it is.

Any university should be able to hire and fire teaching professors at will if they're not doing a satisfactory job. Clearly this professor wasn't. I don't feel like anyone was cheated.

The fact that you think a "formal international treaty" means anything, tells us that you're not ready.

States will do whatever states CAN do. Treaties mean nothing by themselves, especially in this context.

(side note: nearly all treaties are both formal and international by default)

A keyboard doesn't claim to be good for millions of actuations. You're referring to (a single) switch, which cost less than a dollar even for the most premium switches. They are easily replaced.

One major issue driving the dissatisfaction with dating apps may be that a truly satisfied customer stops being a customer.

You do know that the oppression and subjugation of women and minorities was often brought by colonizers, right? Singapore's anti-homosexual laws, for example, were promulgated by the British. They didn't always bring enlightenment.

No one (here) is claiming that we know dark matter exists...

That's because Filezilla uses updates as a vector for advertising... they're incentivized to make updates as small and trivial as possible.

Well, yes but no. It's good that Amazon is hiring ex-cons and minorities. It's good that Amazon is not testing for weed.

None of those things obviate the need for a union.

You should read about the political history of South Korea before making the claim that Korea was democractic (yes you hedged with "on paper" but that is meaningless).

Are you literally incapable of understanding that other peoples' needs are different from your own?

Right but it's not though, nearly all of the big-ticket esports games are easily playable on a GTX-1060...

You could build an entire esports machine, with monitor (and RGB!) for less than 1000USD. I have done it many times.

You absolutely can scrape a product image from a supermarket website legally. Why would you think otherwise?

Whether you can use those images commercially is another matter entirely.

Visa is not a medium of exchange. This is a sad take.

You know this works for literally EVERY concern about privacy for ANY technology?

We call non-religious cults "cliques" now...

Please calm down. No one is attacking you. The point is, MOST people don't have a 3990X at home, because they don't need it, and MOST people won't have a fast charger at home, because they don't need it.

Multiple displays have a tremendous advantage that cannot be matched in software, namely that you can adjust each monitor to its use-case. The portrait monitor I use for web browsing is adjusted very differently than the one I use to game, or the one I use for TV.