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go to any impoverished town or neighborhood in any part of the USA and see for yourself: the running water is undrinkable, the food will slowly kill you, education is severely lacking, etc.

Brilliant :) All too often the "I'm just being honest" people are providing shallow knee-jerk feedback, and shutting down dialogue. Quality honest feedback is always presented with compassion.

> The moment you make race a factor in your judgment, by you have become racist by definition.

This is not true. I just googled "racist" and it says "prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.".

Simply considering race doesn't automatically make it prejudiced or antagonistic.

And of course, there's also the concept of "structural racism", which is what CRT aims to help us dismantle.

it’s an interesting idea but I have a feeling that harvesting seaweed at the mass scale necessary would have some impact on the ocean.

Obviously it would be different… context matters.

Color-Blindness is not the same thing as Judging the Content of Character.

Of course, we all deserve to be judged based on the content of our character and not on superficial markers like skin, gender, etc, etc, etc.

However, broadly and statistically speaking, people from different economic and racial groups tend to have differing experiences, largely because of systems and not really because of any individual experience.

This is the core thesis of Critical Theory (and it’s subset Critical Race Theory): in the court of law, one must consider all of the details and context of a person, as they necessarily have an impact on an individual’s experiences.

MLK did not preach “color blindness”, in fact he explicitly warned against the duplicity of “moderate whites” such as yourself.

perhaps some people cannot learn algebra / calculus the way it is traditionally taught in the classroom. perhaps the students who are failing just need a different environment, more time, more patience, different resources?

Did China drone strike civilians and hospitals in Hungary?

Did the USA build any Universities in Afghanistan or Iraq?

So, you’re suggesting that the USA is in decline because marginalized groups are demanding equal treatment?

I’ll agree that police violence is a symptom of much larger systemic issues, but you seem to be implying that the larger systemic issue is... people are unhappy with the USA and they should stop being unhappy and support the USA.

Have you considered why they might be unhappy, why they may very well have legitimate grievances?

Perhaps we can strengthen our union by addressing these centuries old grievances? My understanding of your post is, you just want them to stop complaining without doing anything to help them.

Because they're delicious :(

Considering the gravity of what they're building, they should already have detailed answers to all these questions. They shouldn't have launched a startup without spending massive time and effort ironing out these details. Two weeks is plenty of time to organize your thoughts.

A number of the tigers are on nature preserves, with help from scientists/conservationists. That would reduce the infant mortality rate since these tigers aren't really "in the wild".

> poor quality of Beats products

They're overpriced, certainly. But poor quality is not fair. They've got good sound, heavy bass, and the build feels solid.

EDIT: I don't actually own beats, I prefer my Sennheiser's. But my brother got a pair of Beats as a gift and I've used them.

Your post directly contradicts itself.

If most people do not have much if any aesthetic sensibility, then perhaps you do need to be a font nerd (or a car nerd, shoe nerd, etc) to see these things intuitively.

Chrome, and thereby all Google webapps, run on every major OS.

Deeply disturbing... mainly because that salami looked quite tasty.

This is a tired joke, please let it die. Liberal Arts get shit on by everybody around here. Arguably, it's much more important than learning how to make fancy toys for rich people.

I was immediately reminded of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. arethuza also mentions this series elsewhere in this comment section. A few of scenes from the books take place in London Coffeehouses, which are described much like the linked article.

Read these books! It's a bit of a time investment, but IMO it's better than Game of Thrones!

Neal Stephenson's attention to historical detail is extraordinary.

Looks pretty nice! I wonder what Meta will have to say.

This article isn't some "2012" doomsday nonsense.

This is a real and pressing concern, indeed has been a concern for decades.

I could be so rich right now. I missed the bus completely on this one.

It blows my mind that those photos was taken over a quarter century ago, hidden by some playful programmers, and are only now unearthed by an entirely different generation of playful programmers. Cool stuff.