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Yeah, but will it be pay pr view?


How is taking a picture of an illegal parked car and sending it to the police any different than calling the police? And why would you call it vigilantism?


If you end an article headline with a question mark, its always a "we dont know, what do you think?"

Nothing in that blogpost seems credible. "Dude trust me" is a shitty source.


"A blank sign? They could be protesting covid restrictions! Off to jail!"


that is misguided trust. can you help?


What about an app store that can sell the suggestions in this thread?


You zoom out in your browser and you'll be able to read 10 article headlines at once. Eb.dk works the same way. The bonus is, if you aren't blocking ads; they'll be too small to notice.


What kind of editing would cause that? I'll be shocked if this is true. Im curious if thats some interpretation of a law or someone have been convicted because of things like that?


An example I heard of was including mostly scenes showing a child's crotch area and dubbing dirty (but legal) music over it.


>as if [bad thing] is something only [group] do? This is such a nonsense statement and it comes up everytime someone describes someones nationality in correlation with something awful.

Honest question, when you read the line "[...]Chinese that are good at math [...]" do you read that all Chinese people are math-wizards? Because that is not what it says.

What about "[...] black people that are fast runners [...]"?

all 3 examples, including the one that turned on your torch of virtue, describes a sub-set of a group, the primary attribute of said group and nothing more.

If anything the implication that the guy you were replied to is somehow biased and "racist" against the absolute-plague-tier of disproportional scammers coming out of India is based on nothing but your inability to differentiate between "broadspectrum-racism" and "critism of a subset of a group"


This is a very charitable reading of the comment, and the examples stated seem somewhat unrelated.

A closer analogy will be: "He was lost in New York City. Later, he cursed at all the Blacks who robbed him." Or "He had an intense negotiation with the financiers. He later cursed at all the Jews who were scamming him."

As you may note, the term "jews" or "blacks" or "Indians" (in the original comment) is not merely stated as an adjective to describe the individuals, rather it is used in pejorative sense to denote a cultural trait within the group that makes them act in a particular manner. A child comment by the original poster makes his prejudice quite clear: "Probably because Indians are the ones that are leaders in scamming? "

I get your whole point about talking about individual, subset, and group, but it looks like just a defence for calling Indians "world leaders in scamming.", rather than some data based, dispassionate description of the situation.

Edit: grammar


You have to resort to using analogies when the actual sentence in question transfers very well in my examples?

I'm making extreme examples out of the sentence, but putting something 'awesome' with it. Being good at math / Fast runners etc - to make the point very concise and on point.

Had i run with the theme and went "White people who shoots up schools [...]" or "Black people who sell crack cocaine" you would have likely missed the point entirely because I'm using negative-stereotypes.

That the child-comment elaborates his thoughts into racist ramblings is frankly irrelevant to me. The guy is clearly both illiterate, insensitive and likely in the silly end of the bell curve.


>That the child-comment elaborates his thoughts into racist ramblings is frankly irrelevant to me

It should not be. We need to call these people out and put a stop to such behaviour.

Coming to your comments; "positive stereotypes" just earn a gentle laugh while "negative stereotypes" lead to racist behaviour with a disproportionate impact on the real world. They are not the same.


>It shouldn't be irrelevant

Yes, because whether he is a racist or not is not relevant to the point i was making.

> We [...]

We, do not need to do anything. But go ahead, engage him, feed him with the social interaction the rest of us deprive him of - because he is a shitty person.

Waste your time all you want.

> Coming to your comments; "positive stereotypes" just earn a gentle laugh while "negative stereotypes" lead to racist behaviour with a disproportionate impact on the real world. They are not the same.

Predictable that you are missing the point entirely. Please reread the exchange, one line at a time. Else you might think and label me as a racist because you have put up a communication barrier and absolutely refuse to understand my original point.


Your words;

>the absolute-plague-tier of disproportional scammers coming out of India

Dressing up your words cannot hide the insinuations.


No, 5G's purpose is drying cats outside of microwaves.

MIT repurposed a router to look through walls for people. Does that mean that 2.4 GHz routers are spycraft tools?


They became spycraft tools right when that research was published. Seeing as how spying is done opportunistically.

But yeah go ahead and check out some of these articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444


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