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- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 4 days ago:
duck.ai fails:
📚 Overview of Key Concepts
Here’s a breakdown of Critical Race Theory, Unconscious Bias, Intersectionality, Systemic Racism, and Transgenderism:
Concept Definition Key Points Critical Race Theory (CRT) An academic framework that examines the relationship between race, law, and power. - Originated in the U.S. legal studies in the late 1970s. - Argues that racism is embedded in legal systems and policies. - Focuses on the experiences of marginalized groups. Unconscious Bias Social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their conscious awareness. - Influences decisions and behaviors unconsciously. - Can affect hiring, promotions, and interactions. - Awareness and training can help mitigate its effects. Intersectionality A framework for understanding how various forms of inequality and discrimination overlap and intersect. - Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s. - Highlights how race, gender, class, and other identities interact. - Emphasizes the unique experiences of individuals with multiple marginalized identities. Systemic Racism A form of racism that is embedded in the policies and practices of societal institutions. - Affects access to resources, opportunities, and rights. - Can be seen in education, healthcare, criminal justice, and employment. - Often perpetuated through historical inequalities. Transgenderism Refers to the experience and identity of individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. - Encompasses a range of identities, including transgender, non-binary, and genderqueer. - Advocates for rights and recognition in society. - Issues include healthcare access, legal recognition, and social acceptance.
🧐 Detailed Explanations
📖 Critical Race Theory (CRT)
Critical Race Theory emerged as a response to perceived limitations in traditional civil rights approaches. It posits that racism is not just an individual bias but a systemic issue that is ingrained in the fabric of society. CRT scholars analyze how laws and policies can perpetuate racial inequalities, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of race and its implications in various contexts.
🧠 Unconscious Bias
Unconscious Bias refers to the automatic judgments we make about people based on their race, gender, age, or other characteristics. These biases can lead to unintentional discrimination in various settings, such as workplaces or educational institutions. Training programs aimed at increasing awareness of these biases can help individuals recognize and counteract their effects.
🌈 Intersectionality
Intersectionality is crucial for understanding the complexities of identity and oppression. It recognizes that individuals can face multiple forms of discrimination simultaneously. For example, a Black woman may experience both racism and sexism, which can create unique challenges that are not fully addressed by looking at either issue in isolation.
🌍 Systemic Racism
Systemic Racism highlights how societal structures and institutions can perpetuate racial inequalities. This concept emphasizes that racism is not just about individual actions but is embedded in policies and practices that disadvantage certain racial groups. Addressing systemic racism requires comprehensive reforms across various sectors, including education, healthcare, and criminal justice.
🏳️⚧️ Transgenderism
Transgenderism encompasses a wide range of identities and experiences related to gender. Advocacy for transgender rights focuses on issues such as legal recognition, healthcare access, and protection against discrimination. The movement seeks to create a more inclusive society that respects and affirms diverse gender identities.
These concepts are interconnected and play significant roles in discussions about social justice, equality, and human rights. If you have specific questions about any of these topics or want to explore them further, feel free to ask!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 5 days ago:
Universal love and Transcendent joy
But, if you can’t do that, I’d like to enjoy the things I used to (~ 2019?) enjoy.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 week ago:
South Korea is OVER so… some problems there, too.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 2 weeks ago:
We’re at work, you can just call me “Big Tuna”.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 2 weeks ago:
Work/life separation is propaganda from the Capital class that wants Workers to each be uniform machine parts.
Some compartmentalization is fine, but don’t forget to also be holistically you sometimes, and never substitute your employer’s (or anyone else’s) judgement for your own.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 weeks ago:
Whatever can be destroyed by the truth should be destroyed by the truth. (quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/13/destroy/)
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 3 weeks ago:
Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 3 weeks ago:
I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).
- Comment on What the fuck 5 weeks ago:
My fave minimalist loss:
:.|:; - Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
Agreed. I tend toward more literal translations for instruction/explanation – it made things stick better for me when learning Spanish. But, yes, in context “harder” is a definitely a more useful translation.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
“tres bien” is “very good”
“si vous plait” is like “please”
“plus fort” is like “more strength”
I’ve never studied or learned French, but you can pick up some of this stuff from “throwaway” French in other context and the etymology shared with other languages.
So, basically just the stock U.S. porn phrase translated to French.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
I think the subway stabbing is the main focus of the Cracked video I linked. But, maybe it’s a different subway stabbing.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
“protect and serve” is copaganda, since SCOTUS ruled on en.wikipedia.org/…/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia in late 1981. “Fun” animated video to describe same: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 month ago:
“you’re just another evil ex waiting to happen”
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 1 month ago:
Nobel prize-winning anti-parasitic for humans, yes.
Several studies show no statistically significant effect on COVID-19 length or severity.
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 1 month ago:
You can do single-blind. You do prep, anesthetize, then open the card that decides if the surgery continues, or if the patient is simply awakened at the expected time.
You can also do it for surgeries that use locals, but then the surgical staff has to do a lot of miming/acting instead of actual cutting.
Medlife Crisis did a could of Placebo effect videos, and mentioned that he participated in a single-blind stent study.
I don’t know how you’d do double-blind.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
Just FYI: rule34.xxx/index.php?page=icame
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 months ago:
I agree, but when you wouldn’t let Aspyr do a Linux port for BL3, I stopped being a “real fan”.
- Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 2 months ago:
Make sure and get your colonoscopy this year.
It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.
- Comment on Uncultured 2 months ago:
^ This ^ is where I learned the word “aglet” and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for “anklet” or something, since that was back in the beta days.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 2 months ago:
When you lose a system. It responds to ping; all services are up, but you can’t find the damn thing.
So, not a number so much as a limit to your organizational skill+effort.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 2 months ago:
The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 2 months ago:
Steam has some good options. And, if you can play it on the Steamdeck, it will probably work on a Linux desktop.
But, if you have specific gaming needs, please check those first. Some games just don’t work, and I wouldn’t want your to trade OSes (which all have their own frustrations) and then find yourself unable to game.
Preferably find someone local that already uses Linux and is willing to help you out some. LUGs (Linux User Groups) used to be a thing; maybe there’s one near you. A lot of Linux users like gaming these days, though plenty of them still dual-boot.
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 2 months ago:
Nihilistic optimism or bust.
I’m still working on the optimism.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
There was an update today.
I didn’t get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can’t speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.
I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then … I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for you safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.
I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don’t consider that equivalent, but it is instability.
Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don’t know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I’ll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don’t expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)
(Honestly, I’d probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).
Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.
Beat of luck!
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
That’s not the definition of stable.
My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that’s because I was using a kerne and syatemdl from Debian Unstable. When I’m getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there’s a security fix in one of those.
I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren’t even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don’t expect them to change/get fixed.
Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
Stable mean unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 months ago:
I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a “tech guy” to me (whether they can build a PC or not).