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Surely it's more than that. /s

I mean the NYTimes[0] gave a glowing interview to the creator/designer of AOC's 'Tax The Rich' on September 21 but never once mentioned that the designer owes a considerable amount in taxes in multiple states[1] which had been published 3 days prior by another newspaper.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/style/aoc-designer-tax-th...

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/09/18/aocs-tax-the-rich-dress-design...

He's "CTO as a service"

Imagine turning up to a job and this guy is in charge of decisions...shudder.

Eh,some people who work security/work in retail like to stand up for common decency in the neighbourhood and have a backbone so they confront the thief.

Allowing your LP staff to use physical force is not going to solve retail theft.

It's going to massively reduce it.

uses his name to sell artwork

Sure, because that's the extent of his corruption.

Quite funny you should say that as I had just written this comment on the other related thread:

I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet. EU & US & every other region in the world are different.

As it stands, the global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

I think the internet as it stands inhibits Europeans forging their own path.

So for me personally, my then youthful naivety of supporting connecting the globe and freedom etc. has now shifted over the past 10 years to leaning towards an EU only internet.

The Internet is being torn apart by governments.

The internet shouldn't be the international waters of the world and it shouldn't be the United States internet.

This is especially bad for activists, whistleblowers, and the politically persecuted

No, it's not. There's no need for hyperbole.

They can always go through an intermediary.

I've been leaning more and more away from a global internet and back to regional EU only internet.

EU & US & every other region in the world are different.

As it stands, the global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

I think the internet as it stands inhibits Europeans forging their own path.

Don't reply to say "ur WRIting tHIs On US site".

Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO said:

Several of you have also asked where we draw the line on hate. We don’t allow titles on Netflix that are designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe The Closer crosses that line. I recognize, however, that distinguishing between commentary and harm is hard, especially with stand-up comedy which exists to push boundaries.

Hmmm, strange I don't find that same level of boundary pushing content and critical commentary of black American culture on Netflix.

Oh right, his wife, Nicole Avant, is a black American.

Freedom of speech & wide range of opinion unless it's uncomfortable to him or his loved ones.

The more people that aggressively call out con-artists and bullshitters, the better.

He learned a lesson that day and there was subsequently less shittery in the world from then on than there would have been.

Win win for decent humans.

That money from corrupt officials goes straight to the US real estate market. Miami.

Whilst the main story of the focus is the case involving black kids, the story also details the case of a white kid wronged by this person.

If stats were available to show black children in general were targeted, the piece would have included them.

Including 'Black children' in the title is unnecessary other than one of the arresting officers in this particular case wondered would this(arresting/cuffing at school over being an observer) happen in a white school.

She's an idiot. She may also be a racist but the article doesn't provide any evidence for that.

I wonder sometimes if people ever read past the headline and first paragraph.

I am saddened, that all the folks frightened by a world more equal immediately resort to imaginary persecution as a first reaction.

What a dumb comment.

More equal according to racial distribution and 0 other things.

Color of your skin over your character/intelligence/work ethic?

The problem with the G&T program was that it did a better job of selecting for parental affluence (the ability to pay 4-5 figures for test prep for your toddler, and the time to navigate a byzantine system) than for inherent differences in student capabilities.

Spoken so authoritatively that I'm sure you have a source?

For the program to be racially segregated using your above definition(ignoring common usage), then the program itself would have to have separated the races in the program.

The NYTimes article isn't an 8 year old writing their first newspaper article using the dictionary to form sentences.

Their usage of the word is inflammatory and incorrect on multiple levels including your definition.

Eh, from your own words:

What they did was to put schools and school zones in ways that happened to line up with strong demographic differences in swaths of the city.

Using geographic lines which correspond with race to determine entry to a school for which geographic location isn't a determining factor in success is racial segregation.

Giving the same standardised test and using the result of that test to gain access to a gifted and talented program is not.

from a linked ny articles in the OP article:

On the exam, they are asked to finish patterns: For example, if children are shown a triangle, a square and a triangle in sequence, they are asked to name what shape comes next. They are also asked to solve simple arithmetic problems and define words.

I dont have the full test but any of the test parts I've seen do not in any way disadvantage native English speaking African-Americans.

This is devolving into California's "maths is racist" because black kids in California don't score as well as non black kids.

Spend any amount of time greater than 0 reading books and articles which use the word segregate.

Segregation/segregate is defacto used as a noun/verb with intent behind it.

Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.

Species do not exist genetically /s

word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design'

My entire comment does not rest on a false premise.

1) My comment commented on the use of the word segregation and it's implications. *

and

2) the fact that the program is not racially segregated using any dictionary definition of the word.

Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination

This program is not that, no matter how hard you try and squint to make it seem so.

How else are we gonna detect the asshats if they don't tribalise themselves at Poly Prep?

Maybe we can just judge them by what they put out in to the world? Such as naming their personal blog something really pretentious?

Or you know, like, having utterly pretentious quotes in their HN bio?

churchofthought.org

Hardy couldn't have been more wrong about the innocence of pure mathematics. But we live by his legacy. In the sands of time, where do you dine? It better be divine!

But sure, you could judge them on choices their parents made to maximise their childrens' potential instead?

Not US but judging by the continuous amount of violence happening in certain American public schools, I would 100% be sending the kids private or moving to suburb where the threat of violence is distant.

If a school system or program doesn't have enough black kids in it, it is by definition segregated.

No, it is literally not "by definition" segregated. Using the phrase 'by definition' is not that powerful a modifier that every word that surrounds it suddenly becomes true.

That's the most nonsense thing ever. Secondly, read the line I quoted:

highly selective and racially segregated program

The program is not racially segregated. The NYTimes just needed to sneak in the word segregation because it's a very strong explosive word. To do that, it hammered it incorrectly to a place in a sentence which gives the impression the program itself is racially segregated.

But the highly selective and racially segregated program will be replaced for incoming students.

Wow, using a word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design' sure lays bare their hand.

Just to be clear, there is no segregation(of any kind) amongst the students in the program.

In fact, there is no segregation at all. There's just not equal representation of the makey-uppy USA racial classifications.

But why let facts and clarity rule over emotional clickbaity sub-headlines?

2012...

FTA:

Note: This episode originally ran in July 2012.

FTA

"The defendant knowingly and willingly aided and abetted this at least by conscientiously performing guard duty

In what world is this a case to charge someone with abetting thousands of deaths by performing guard duty...>50 years after the event..and that person is now 100 years old.

It's ludicrous nonsense.

No prosecutor in any other civilised part of the world would entertain this for more than 5 seconds.

Our European visitors are important to us.

alt: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/07/tesla-moves-its-headquarters...

Is this what you're referring to?:

In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, specifically the embryonic diencephalon; thus, the retina is considered part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is actually brain tissue.[2][3]

From https://www.britannica.com/science/retina

Retina, layer of nervous tissue that covers the inside of the back two-thirds of the eyeball,

Anyway. I'm still not convinced eyes = retina = brain so ill leave it there.

you are 100% correct!

No.

They feed signal in to the brain.

You wouldn't say your nostrils or mouth or skin or ears are part of the brain. Why would eyes be different?

for instance the FF/FG coalition in Ireland has been unable to do anything about housing, because any actual action is going to annoy _somebody_

Ireland has a ridiculously high percentage of population dependent on government support for housing. This is in the form of assisted rent payments which in effect, sets a high floor for rent. People receiving support are competing in the same market for housing as pretty much all workers.

We don't build government housing anymore because we saw the actual disaster that became of that.

The far left parties have a 'housing for everyone' nonsense manifest which a) Ireland doesnt have the labour force for, b) tax payers subsiding shit wages c) Ireland already has high income tax and sales taxes.

At some point there has to be the realisation that life on the dole shouldn't equate to a middle class lifestyle without the stress or debt when those who should have a middle class lifestyle don't have one because they're being squeezed in every direction possible and still have to take on hundreds of thousands of debt for mediocre accommodation.

just "Yang is like his peers"

Given the assailant was black, I doubt most politicians would get involved or publicise it.

The word is bitch so the sanitised version would be B**

Why portray the bad word as 3 letters - it doesn't make sense.