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> It's the assumption that I'm not a descendant of a slave and have no insight based purely on a post in which no mention of ancestry or race happened.

You are not and you don't. I know that because based on your attitude, it would have been the very first thing you trotted out to justify your position.

Even in your response here you don't claim that.

It's disgusting how you try to play that card while having none of the life experiences.

> Am I hire-able? I aint white,

Neither am I

> so presumably you SHOULD hire me to help with racism. yet I rename my main branch to master on all personal projects.

The fact that you come up with yet another non sequitur clearly shows you are not ADOS.

> So the question becomes, do the above posters hire me or not? Presumably no since I have the wrong opinion but if they refuse to hire me they're furthering racial inequities so then presumably yes.

> Of course, this paradox goes away the second you acknowledge both are stupid reasons to hire or fire anyone.

Blah blah blah. None of this makes any sense whatsoever. There isn't any logical argument here. It's just you ranting.

> Here's the real problem with the other posters.

> A complete and utter lack of respect for the effects of their decisions on the lives of other people.

Oh no, you have to refer to the primary branch as main instead of master. Poor you!

> It's why I'm such a fan of the following C.S Lewis quote

Your quote is ironic given his defense of slavery, the usage of that quote to justify the white man's burden, and it's justification for why slavery was ultimately the greater good for gifting "civility" to its victims.

I haven't used master as the name of the primary branch for years across multiple companies.

Sooner or later, y'all are going to be outdated.

Glad I don't work with people that would fire people for calling out a hostile workplace. FYI that's illegal...

> As if renaming 'whitelist' to 'allowlist' is going to turn any neo-nazis into angels.

As if that's the point?

What do you think a hostile workplace is? Do you think being consistently subjected to verbiage that negatively impacts your mental health is a good thing?

Seems odd to me that so many people want to hold onto things that hurt other people and justify it by saying it doesn't solve anything despite the fact that those people are telling you that it will help them.

This is a non sequitur strawman.

> You add to the hurt of this world in the name of victims who would rather you do something more useful.

Wrong. Maybe try talking to people that don't want that kind of verbiage instead of making bad assumptions. Removing terminology associated with slavery has high support among those that actually were descendants of slaves.

> This is about you, not about them.

As such, this sounds like projection.

That's not even the worse part. The refusal to make a change that costs you nothing in order to stick it to people you don't like is much worse and indicates all sorts of behaviors you do not want on your team.

Nationality is an arbitrary line...

The salient point is that it's a well defined group of people with most if not all of the facets you would associate with any other group of people you think of when you group people by nationality.

Keep that same energy for german, french, italian, etc

> by taking a few days of rest one might treat CE/MFS

Their comment in no way implies that

It's bizarre how your comment is being downvoted when it's a very accurate description of many modern capitalistic societies.

Especially if we're talking about America, where companies literally try to fire you if you're sick or using up too much health care because of their bottom line. It doesn't even matter if it's illegal because unless they get caught there are no consequences and even if they do get caught, the consequences are often times so pathetic that it's worth taking the hit because the savings exceed the punishment.

> The answer is that China and Russia behave dramatically differently than the US does.

yes. they are open about what they do whereas we do it covertly

> why most of the global community views them differently.

citation needed

"most of the global community"

you mean the west, which is not even a majority of the global community.

but even if it was a majority, again, because we do it covertly, we hide it and everyone only sees the good things until someone like snowden comes along and leaks our dirty laundry.

> Show me one instance America detaining someone for a family member’s political dissidence?

Nah we're not playing your game of restricting this to family members for political speech.

Your original point was to address

> Amen. I've never understood why people fear speculated Chinese and Russian spying, while they never seem to recall the US spying that is well documented and confirmed.

https://ccrjustice.org/files/ghost-detention.pdf

> In some cases, family members – including young children – of “ghost detainees” have been detained themselves, and held in CIA secret sites, including 9 and 7 year old boys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_detainee

Have you seen how they've treated developers over the past year?

You're kidding right?

The CIA has black sites specifically for people like that

I'd argue value was added by removing an integration to an unreliable platform

Elon Musk follows Longtermism. His position is that few deaths here and there today don't matter if it brings about full self driving cars.

no

Nothing FUD about pointing out Musk's consistently petty nature

It's not.

If you use wget, you see that the delay happens during the first hop with t.co

It also happens with threads.net, instagram, facebook, blueskyweb.xyz

Wrong. In a collision, you're literally a projectile when you don't wear a seat belt.

they already told you they did tested it and you don't believe them.

what else could they say that would make you believe them?

you might as well just test it yourself like i did with time wget. it's not like you're going to believe anything anyone writes.

Do you consider laws against drunk driving a violation of personal freedom and if not, why not?

What a weird thing for her to say given that Asian Americans use public transit in great numbers.

Then again, I've noticed that the ones with money are utterly alien to those of us that don't have it or grew up without it.

> I am thoroughly disinterested in the unhinged vitriol I see so often from Musk's haters. The incessant lazy discourse about how Twitter is dying, for either technical or other reasons.

> but I personally think he has done more good through his companies than most others with similar resources.

It's always odd to me how people say Musk is doing good though his companies without backing it up while criticizing how people are critical of Musk as if it's unhinged.