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Hey, I'm one of the app developers at VanMoof – what's not working exactly?

Not irrelevant at all, military technology is a large part of the UK's tech sector, and arms exports to countries with poor human rights records are in the billions.

Not just a higher fine, wealthy offenders should also have their driving licenses revoked and their vehicles seized.

"4.5 million UK tourists" is not the same as total passengers. Individual tourists can make multiple journeys, and overseas tourists are excluded from this figure. Over 20 million passengers use the tunnel annually.

The same is true for Android development - we saw build times cut in half after upgrading to M1 machines. Another advantage is that there is no noticeable slowdown while Gradle does its thing, so multitasking is now significantly easier.

You know unions also operate in the public and non-profit sectors, right?

Rocky Horror Picture Show was remade in 2016 and premiered on Fox.

On the contrary, television advertisements have (rightly) always been viewed as inextricably linked to the content they appear between. As such, advertiser boycotts have been a favoured tactic of conservative organisations throughout the past few decades. For example, from 1982:

For the second time within a year, the Coalition for Better Television is threatening a boycott of one or more companies that advertise on prime-time television, but this time without the support of its most prominent member, the Moral Majority.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/28/arts/a-boycott-of-tv-adve...

Might want to read up on Comrade Delta.

Github is hardly a bastion of free flowing information. Back in 2018 they removed a repository which listed names of ICE agents, based on data from LinkedIn - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/ice-employee-list-github-l...

Please read this piece that Graeber wrote in defence of Corbyn: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-...

This is a pointless thought experiment that has practically no basis in reality.

Andreessen is a billionaire, so it's in his interest to try and obscure class divisions with some smart-sounding tech bullshit.

A wealthy black person can easily start their own business.

Certainly, but black people are disproportionately less wealthy than white people, so are far less likely to be in that position.

A poor white person cannot use their whiteness to pay the bills.

This is also true, but they will not face the structural racial discrimination that a black person of their socio-economic standing would.

The trouble with reducing issues of inequality to class alone is that it obscures the systemic biases that make it easier for white dudes to become rich in the first place.

The problem with "rich people" as a phrase is that most rich people don't think of themselves as rich - for example, only 13% of millionaires do [1]. As "white dudes" are disproportionately represented within this demographic, I think the inclusion of these qualifiers helps to illustrate the point.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/most-millionaires-dont-think...

The US has 2.2 million people in prison, more than any other country in the world.

The Trump campaign said they used it because it's a "symbol widely used by Antifa" - which is a lie, it's not.

It seems many students have been denied their college admissions due to stuff they tweeted as a teenager.

How many of them have still been denied after showing genuine remorse for their views? Nobody is owed a college admission.

all the people attacking JK Rowling do not want to say that any man who self ids as a woman should have access to women's private spaces

Nobody's saying that men who falsely claim to be women should have access to women's spaces.

Yes, an ideology which is already vastly overrepresented in the media. I'm sure we'll soon find out exactly how necessary this particular venture is.

There's hardly a shortage of liberal media outlets, does the world really need another one?

an independent tribunal

Funded by whom?

Their website.

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-t...

https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/press-releases/2020/4/10/...

While the pandemic’s final human toll is still unknown, those who have perished from the outbreak must be included in the global count of 100 million deaths at the hands of Communism.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation counts all COVID-19 deaths worldwide as victims of communism, in case anyone was wondering how credible this organisation is.

On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.

Why use 88 rather than 100 to illustrate this statistic?

I also don't think equating yourself and antifa to the struggle of the holocaust and slavery is going to win any minds over.

Thousands of anti-fascists were badged with the red triangle and subsequently slaughtered in the holocaust, which is precisely why the ad was removed.

The more outlandish claim is that he was trying to demean the Jewish population with a symbol used during the holocaust.

The upside down red triangle wasn't used as a symbol for Jews in the camps, it was specifically used for socialists, communists, anarchists and other anti-fascists.

I've never seen AFA Amsterdam or AFA Nederland use a red triangle with the exception of that one conference, and in that instance the triangle isn't even upside down.

It's not so much the profession that's being condemned, more the institution.

I don't know how you could look at the events of the past week and come to any other conclusion.

I hope, that both sides, the protesters and police force will find a way, to exit that spiral of violence.

The two sides are massively unequal in terms of power, the onus is on the police to stop the violence.