marknutter

Why does maximizing profit have to come at the cost of human misery? I would argue that maximizing profit is a direct result of reducing human misery.

Why would anyone want to be totally immersed in a realistic virtual world? It boggles the mind.

I think the number of people out there who see this and relate it to trans people is vanishingly small.

Wouldn't stuff like this make it less likely for people to be shocked by gender nonconforming folks?

You can never make people like this more comfortable. They are professional victims, and they will always find more things to be offended by.

This goes way beyond just trying to get ahead of a potential PR disaster. I can think of nobody out there in non-nerd world that would've raised a stink about the word "master" being used in some programming context, just like they haven't raised a stink about the term MC. This is ultra-woke privileged white tech lefties who truly do feel like their fighting for social justice by doing this kind of thing.

> They should be removed from the equation entirely.

Yeah, this always ends well...

This is the most insane thing I have read in quite some time.

That was then, and this is now. To call the descendants of people who went through that period either "privileged" or "marginalized" is no different than visiting the sins of the father upon the son. It's morally reprehensible.

> I think you overstate the level of lasting alienation and understate the cumulative impact that a bunch of small "trivial" changes could have over years.

Not even close. Everyone I've talked to about it makes some mention about the left having lost its mind, myself included.

Well, I fell for it

Only racists say you can't be racist towards white people. You, for instance.

So your speech shouldn't be protected?

Do you understand how high the bar is for a conviction in an incitement case?

What's with the casual racism in your post?

> Everyone deserves a welcoming environment, free from harassment, bigotry, discrimination, and retaliation regardless of age, caste, class, country of origin, disability, gender race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Until and unless they demonstrate that they intend to protect conservative employees, there's not a chance I would trust them to actually uphold this value.

Humans. Was it humans?

And they're sped up by like 50%.

No, dude. I remember back in college when Youtube was the source for copyrighted content. That's how they got their start.

It is absolute insanity, and a sign of the times.

Yep

It's on a different level for you.

My wife developed hypochondria after her bout with COVID, but I seriously doubt it had to do with the virus itself, and instead had more to do with the uncertainty and fear over the pandemic in general. She was told at the hospital that this type of thing was becoming more and more common, regardless of whether people actually first contracted the virus.

As frightening as they are, these appear to be outlier cases.

Then test the caregivers too. That's still far less difficult than quarantining everyone.

> Those people haven't stopped dying

Right... they're dying from covid-19.

It's curiously spreading at the exact same rate that tests are being administered. Curious indeed..

Unless they have a test that determines whether fully recovered people had it at some point, they are never going to get an accurate CFR.

Well then we're all fucked, because it's going to make its way through the population no matter what we do. Might as well continue on with our lives.

Our quarantine has thus far been socially enforced, and quite effectively I might add. Schools are closed across the entire nation, despite the fact that children are the least likely age group to even express symptoms upon contracting coronavirus, let alone die from it. If the contagion is "spreading either way", why not allow people in the lowest risk groups continue on with our lives while we help the most vulnerable groups weather the storm from the safety of their homes?