Mushguffler
24d ago
I see tons of ‘black fatigue’ and explicitly white nationalist people in my feed
Your feed is your own problem. Both the comments about black fatigue and the white supremacist remarks are mostly bots designed to grab your attention, and even the ones that are real are chosen by bot to grab your attention. Make better choices.
Mushguffler
24d ago
If you take free speech seriously, then they're archetypal examples of victims of cancel culture.
No, the real victims of cancel culture are the ones who didn't get to be in that position because they are conservative. My preferred result is admissions officers being put in prison for decades of discrimination. What is happening is the compromise.
Mushguffler
1mo ago
Doesn't seem like a real objection anyway -- data can always be adjusted by birth year or held-back status. The school obviously has the data, even if it's not currently being collected in a way that would enable it being used.
Mushguffler
1mo ago
What's a "rafa"?
Mushguffler
1mo ago
Agreed, either gender matters or it doesn't. If it matters, then they used it wrong and should be scolded for it.
Side question, have there ever been any people who said Epstein tried to get them to the island but they refused? Anyone whose kink turned out to be adult women? Anyone who was blackmailed but it call came out in a divorce or some other legal trouble?
Mushguffler
2mo ago
He's an insane Frenchman with an addiction to tea.
Mushguffler
2mo ago
If Obama could make banks stop providing services to legal gunshops, surely Trump could make them stop providing services to illegal immigrants.
Mushguffler
2mo ago
That's why the American West has a culturally Southern orientation too -- white people in the South couldn't compete with slave labor, so they moved west in higher numbers than whites in the north.
Mushguffler
3mo ago
Remember when we all pretended it was a rule not to name diseases after places? That was fun.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
Mirrors are shockingly uneducated in homophones.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, I wavered on what they might be looking for. I thought maybe marking all the positive words would be a strike against me, so I only picked like a five or six kinda similar ones, like "industrious" and stuff. I didn't get the job, but I don't know why or what would have been better.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
I applied to one recently that had a long list of adjectives, like basically any adjective you could use to describe a person. There were hundreds, maybe a thousand, and you had to mark all the ones that describe you. From "industrious" and "punctual" to "gregarious" and "sanguine", it was ridiculous.
Mushguffler
5mo ago
ensure someone picks up the phone when one of the tens of millions of student loan borrowers needs help
This is utter bullshit, I had student loans. Nobody picks up the phone.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
There's also the Space Force, but they're just nerds. They only exist so the other branches have someone whose lunch money they can steal. Might as well be Coast Guard.
Mushguffler
7mo ago
I use Self-Control, which lets you block websites for a length of time. You can block all websites but allow a whitelist, or block only a few websites. That doesn't prevent all internet connection though, just browser use.
Mushguffler
8mo ago
Maybe arsons in less-flammable times don't result in newsworthy conflagrations. Nobody cares about the fires that remain small and burn themselves out quickly. During fire-prone times, any arson is liable to become a big deal.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
My understanding is that back surgery is very rarely helpful and usually makes the pain worse. People are always upset to find the surgery is not covered, but there's a very good reason for it. It doesn't work.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
"Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson is a great book-length example of that.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
they’re not fossilized because they have bird like bones that aren’t very robust the fossil record is incomplete etc.
Bird fossils do exist.
Mushguffler
9mo ago
For Coke and Pepsi, advertising is defensive. If you aren't wooing your fans with ads, you're losing them to upstart companies that are. It's not possible to bank supporters, not for brands and not for political parties.
Mushguffler
11mo ago
Lol, that makes more sense than shirking Puerto Ricans, which was the only idea I came up with.
Mushguffler
11mo ago
and can I shirk another PR, having made it 3 years into my career only ever having done one
What's "PR" in this context?
Mushguffler
11mo ago
Horseshoe crab
This sort of use of "specifically" really annoys me. A friend of a friend does that, and I can't stand it -- he's one of those people who fancies himself a real magickal person -- magic with a k -- who like "summons a speed spirit" to make his DoorDash order come quicker. He specifically annoys me.
Is this a leftist quirk? (I don't really care, but this is a post for questions, so I thought I ought to add a question)
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