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A_Good_Boy posted...

They did the same thing with a woman walking around NYC.

Yeah, we had huge debates here a few years back when those catcalling videos first came out. And those were clothed women.
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Jesus_Toast posted...

Given enough time and without human intervention (diversity, multiculturalism) every race will eventually evolve into separate species.

There are some wild unspoken assumptions ITP
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IdiotMachine posted...

So................. why is it that I have to call in and complain to lower the price? Why not just keep it low in the first place...

Because a bunch of people will not call to complain, but just accept the price hike. It's their version of dynamic pricing.
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Uh, why exactly is a cafe paying people under the table?
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I feel this
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Supercuaco666 posted...

Why is it pejorative when a white person says it, but friendly when a black person does?

History and context. Language depends on context; it's how we understand that sometimes plane means "a level surface" and sometimes means "a metal flying machine."
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DawkinsNumber4 posted...

This list is oversimplified. I am a libertarian socialist but cannot say socialist or libertarian.

I considered having options like Libertarian (Ayn Rand) and Libertarian (Karl Marx), but figured that would be just as controversial. Here, assume libertarian refers to the Rand Paul folks and socialist is a broad tent including libertarian tendencies.
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_Near_ posted...

Nordic Capitalist verging on Democratic Socialist.

Can't wrap my head around how to implement social ownership.

The Meidner Plan, baby
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Well?
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Liberals
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SSj4Wingzero posted...

I've always wondered why something as sensitive and critical as credit and credit reporting is handled by third-party private corporations

That honestly seems like something that should have more oversight

Should probably just be nationalized.
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Yeah, I must have missed the "not fighting Assad would be Islamophobic" takes. Or they didn't happen, I don't know.
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Lol, I pasted the first part of the article twice like some sort of nincompoop.

Here's some that gets into that Devil's advocate business

Federal documents reviewed by International Business Times show that in response to that 2016 rule, the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) — which says it is “the trade association which represents Equifax” — pressed regulators to back off the proposed prohibitions, saying the regulations would subject data companies to tough penalties if during a class action suit they were found to have broken the law.

In one section of the letter, CDIA declares that federal regulators “should exempt from its arbitration rule class action claims against providers of credit monitoring products.” The letter asserted that allowing customers to sue companies “would not serve the public interest or the public good” because it could subject the companies to “extraordinary and draconian civil liability provisions” under current law. In another section of the letter, Equifax’s lobbying group says that a rule blocking companies from forcing their customers to waive class action rights would expose credit agencies “to unmanageable class action liability that could result in full disgorgement of revenues” if companies are found to have illegally harmed their customers.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Are those quotes somehow mutually exclusive?

There are parts of the government leftists would gladly cut spending from, but 9/10 times in our discourse, "cutting spending" means "slashing social programs."
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I can't say this has ever happened to me
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

It's...It's not called Verrit as shorthand for "verify it," right?

It almost definitely is. I think there's also a similarity to Reddit being played on, too.
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EffectAndCause posted...

I don't see how it eventually could though, what leverage does MoviePass have?

If a significant number of people attending theaters are doing so through MoviePass, they have a lot of leverage. If AMC doesn't play ball, they may find that suddenly MoviePass users are directed elsewhere. "Give us millions of people a discount, or we will take our business elsewhere."

It's a very similar logic to the reduced prices seen in single-payer healthcare systems. An individual buyer has no leverage over the seller. All the buyers together have incredible leverage.
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lilORANG posted...

idk what that is. Explain TC.

I'll try, but

As best I can explain it: Longtime Hillary Clinton sycophant Peter Daou (see here: https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/905628277938819072) created a website "for the 65.8 million," referring to the number of people who voted for Clinton in the 2016 election. Hillary recently tweeted out her support for the website, resulting in its sudden attention.

The premise of the site is that it...just posts facts, basically? It puts out a bunch of statistics and benign inspirational quotes and attaches them to what are basically image macros. Each of these has a verification code, which you can enter on the site and learn that these image macros are not "fake news." This seems only really to defend against parodies of the site itself. Also, the logic is kinda circular: go to Verrit to discover that the thing posted by Verrit is legitimate!

At any rate, god knows how much time, money, and effort has been put into this dumbass project.
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Twofold plan

1. Much like Uber, they plan to monopolize the market at heavy losses for a few years, creating a sizable userbase with low prices before jacking those up or using their userbase to negotiate prices.
2. Apparently they sell data about users habits and such to third parties, helping them to offset in part the losses of the movie transactions alone.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/equifax-lobbied-kill-rule-protecting-victims-data-breaches-2587929

If you want to know if you were one of the 143 million people whose data was breached in a hack of Equifax’s data, the company has a website you can use to find out — but there appears to be a catch: To check, you have to agree to give up your legal right to sue the company for damages. The outrage that clause has now generated could complicate the company’s efforts — backed by Republican lawmakers — to block an imminent rule that would ban companies from forcing customers to agree to such provisions.

On Friday, social media users spotlighted fine print on Equifax’s website that appears to force users to agree to waive their class action rights if they use the company’s website to see if their personal data was exposed by the recent hack. It is precisely the kind of arbitration clause that a pending Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule is designed to outlaw — if Republicans and the Trump administration allow it to go into effect as scheduled later this month.

f you want to know if you were one of the 143 million people whose data was breached in a hack of Equifax’s data, the company has a website you can use to find out — but there appears to be a catch: To check, you have to agree to give up your legal right to sue the company for damages. The outrage that clause has now generated could complicate the company’s efforts — backed by Republican lawmakers — to block an imminent rule that would ban companies from forcing customers to agree to such provisions.

On Friday, social media users spotlighted fine print on Equifax’s website that appears to force users to agree to waive their class action rights if they use the company’s website to see if their personal data was exposed by the recent hack. It is precisely the kind of arbitration clause that a pending Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule is designed to outlaw — if Republicans and the Trump administration allow it to go into effect as scheduled later this month.

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About as serious as Big Ben's chance of winning another Super Bowl
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For a site whose mission statement was about "explaining the news," they often end up needing things explained to them.
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josifrees posted...

How many times did you honk them

Honk is the funniest word you can use in a sexual context
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https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/906284577588699136
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1980s: Tetris
1990s: Donkey Kong 64
2000s: Tales of Symphonia
2010s: Civilization V

Picking just one game from an entire decade is tough; I could probably change three of those
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I've played like...three games that came out this year, and they're all pretty great. Well, four including the Mass Effect trial I played, and I didn't get far enough into that to be disappointed by it.
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Think how Al must feel
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F1 2017. Gotta get burned out on that before War of the Chosen hits Xbone Tuesday
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I was in third grade, and these are my distinct memories of that day
- We had a fire drill, and the gym teacher spoke to everyone at the end about how good a job we did getting in line and being quiet or whatever. He mentioned "a tragedy" but didn't say what. I thought a kid had fallen down the stairs or something
- I always watched Pokemon after school, and it wasn't on that day because WB had news coverage. I ended up having to watch the Wild Thornberries. That episode where she gets the last tortoises to fuck.
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MACisBack posted...

I think its comes down to a lot of people just not having kids or as many kids now-a-days,

I'd wager that there are more high school students now than in 2006
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The fuck are you on about?
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ReignFury posted...

Hopefully a lot

Do not do this
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How many listeners opted not to evacuate based on his "advice"?
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

not sure who coined the term. I assume it was something that happened on a campus.

It's original use was a bit different from how it is used today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege

In his work, Allen maintained several points: that the "white race" was invented as a ruling class social control formation in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Anglo-American plantation colonies (principally Virginia and Maryland); that central to this process was the ruling-class plantation bourgeoisie conferring "white race" privileges on European-American working people; that these privileges were not only against the interests of African-Americans, they were also "poison," "ruinous," a baited hook, to the class interests of working people; that white supremacy, reinforced by the "white skin privilege," has been as the main retardant of working-class consciousness in the US; and that struggle for radical social change should direct principal efforts at challenging white supremacy and "white skin privileges".

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Sir Will posted...

You mean 'do it'? Yeah.

Yeah, whoops.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Forget politics.

What politics do you see in this article?
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For my part, when people talk about the NFL dying, or declining, this sort of thing is what's going to undo it. Death from below.
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/here-is-the-holocaust-museum-syria-report.html

As Daily Intelligencer noted yesterday, the U.S. Holocaust Museum is at the center of a burgeoning controversy over its decision to conduct a study, through its Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, about whether the United States could have taken a more active role in the Syrian civil war for the sake of protecting civilians, hundreds of thousands of whom have died in the conflict — many as a result of the shelling, torture, gas attacks, and other atrocities committed by Bashar Al-Assad.

After the study concluded that there is little the U.S. could have done to improve matters, and that heightened involvement may have worsened conditions on the ground, there was an angry outcry from some who accused the museum of — as Leon Wieseltier (one of the louder critics) put it — embracing “bystanderism.” It’s important to point out that the vast majority of these complaints were not substantive critiques of the study, but rather discomfort with its conclusion, which ran contrary to the desires of many who have long called for heightened U.S. involvement in Syria.

In the wake of these critiques, the museum effectively unpublished the study, which it had planned to officially unveil at a September 11th event at Washington, D.C.’s U.S. Institute for Peace. “Last week the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a research study that examined several decision points during the Syrian conflict,” notes the webpage where the study used to live. “​Since its release, a number of people with whom we have worked closely on Syria since the conflict’s outbreak have expressed concerns with the study. The Museum has decided to remove the study from its website as we evaluate this feedback.​”

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http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/high_school/2017/09/high_school_football_rosters_hit_10_year_low_amid_concussion_concerns#.WbKFi17w9n4.twitter

It isn’t just Millis. Statewide, amid growing concussion fears, high school football rosters have seen a 10-year decline, while soccer and cross-country participation are climbing.

The number of boys playing football dropped for the ninth time in 10 seasons last year, Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association statistics show. From 22,169 players who suited up in 2006, there has been dramatic drop of more than 3,200, or 14.7 percent, with just 18,913 playing last year.

During that same period, soccer enrollment has shot up 7.1 percent to 14,031 last year, while cross-country has spiked by a staggering 23.9 percent, to 7,051.

High school football participation is falling nationally, but Massachusetts is leading the trend away from the contact sport. Across the country, the number of players fell 2.5 percent year over year last season and it’s down 4.5 percent since 2006, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.

The number of schools offering football in Massachusetts has remained steady since 2006. But in New Jersey this summer, low participation numbers led at least three schools to suspend their varsity teams.

Coaches say they believe the mounting evidence linking football and head injuries to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has scared some families to the point where they are steering kids toward other sports.

“I’m sure people are worried about the safety thing,” Olson said. “We had seven kids who played football last year deciding to play golf this year. For a program that has 90-100 kids, they might not feel the bump of losing seven kids, but it is big for a school like ours with just 170 boys.”

Lexington athletic director Naomi Martin certainly understands the dilemma. Her son, Tyler, is an eighth-grader at Buckingham Browne & Nichols with visions of playing football at the varsity level in the not-too-distant future. She has the same parental concerns, but also doesn’t want to limit her son.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried about Tyler getting hurt,” Martin said. “My husband and I have talked about this at home with Tyler. I would hate to tell him he can’t do something he loves and football is a sport where you have to be all-in. Now, if he were to get hurt somewhere down the road, we would have to sit down and reassess it.”

Martin has practiced what she preaches at the high school level. Seeing a steady decline in football numbers at Lexington back in 2011, she decided to become proactive in terms of alleviating parental concerns as much as she could. Stressing safety at all costs, she worked with the coaches and parents in the community to provide support and education.

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Felt hard in Mexico city: https://twitter.com/katelinthicum/status/906021783026900999

Tsunami possible for basically all of central America: https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/906019941068939265
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@chill02 posted...

DiRT 4

Get F1
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Verrit code for this claim?
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I feel like that stereotype was created by some guy who wanted an excuse for banging younger chicks
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I'm sure there are college Republicans somewhere who want to spend their Friday night watching a British man pretend to be young to troll the libs.
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darkjedilink posted...

That being said, as a general rule, It's a pretty smart idea to let the guy with the gun have a bit more leeway than the average hothead.

Increasingly, we are discovering that the guys with guns often resemble average hotheads.
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Please obey the state at all times
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That came around in like...2010. I thought it died then, too
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uwnim posted...

Most permanent structures are hurricane resistant. Your regular run of the mill hurricane is no big deal. Strong ones are though.

Right; Irma is one of the strongest ever recorded. There's only so much you can do to protect against something like that
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See topic title
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