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My disdain for mega banks knowns no end
  • Not that it makes it a better argument, but the meme was that millennials were going out to restaurants for an 11$ latte and 15$ avocado toast instead of staying home for breakfast. The whole point, to them, was that coffee and avocado toast had some of the cheapest ingredients you could ever ask for.

  • Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint
  • This is called a motte-and-bailey. We were discussing a group trying to ban books about the Holocaust, and the larger concept about groups of parents being able to ban anything by whining about it enough. You put forward a different argument you think is bullet proof about banning sexual content with the implication that this argument defends the much weaker argument about banning Holocaust books or whatever books the mob may choose.

    Just pointing that out. It's a common fallacy and one that feels right, it isn't necessarily done intentionally.

    The freakout about sexual content is fabricated and designed to play to emotions. School libraries already ban sexual content. There's no smut or erotica at them. The small handful of books that people wanted to ban were either educational or were similar to many books that were not targeted by those parent groups and the sexual situations were not the focus of the book. The main similarity was that they were about LGBT sexualities.

  • Are we talking African centuries or European centuries? There's this guy in front of a bridge...
  • God it's going to be kind of true, we still have some hidden chambers to crack into and they probably have some "ancient knowledge" but the knowledge is going to be like "did you know our king is actually descended from the gods?" And "you deserve to be buried with these slaves, remember, only certain people go to heaven!"

    Like the ancient secrets they consider important are going to just be nonsense to us.

  • A ton of job postings might actually be fake
  • I'm wondering if it's why I don't get so much as a rejection email for many of the jobs I've applied for. It always feels like submitting an application is just tossing it into the void but this study seems to corroborate that.

  • PSA: Like tracking pixels, these users are transparent.
  • Yeah, people talking about proportional representation seem to turn a blind and eye to the Senate, which has had principled socialists and libertarians in its seats. It's not a healthy state of affairs, but if you wanted to send a message to the Democrats theres a proven way to do it in house and Senate races, trying to make big swings at the presidential level is just idiotic and betrays bad faith.

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