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djaque commented on How the 'Stop the Steal' movement outwitted Facebook ahead of Jan. 6 npr.org/2021/10/22/104854... · Posted by u/gigama

koolba · 4 years ago

> Multiple people died.

The only person that died a non-natural cause death on that day was the unarmed woman shot by Capitol Police.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-rio...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brian-sicknick-capitol-riot-die...

djaque · 4 years ago

Ummmm... Ashli Babbit was a QAnon conspiracy theorist who broke into the capital during the Jan. 6 insurrection. She was at the front of a mob trying to get into the Speaker's Lobby containing representatives sheltering in place. The mob was commanding the police to let them in and started chanting to break down the door. Police warned them multiple times. Instead, Babbit climbs through a window in front of a police officer with a gun pointed at her after being commanded to not enter. She got within feet of representatives (who... mind you the mob was screaming death threats about). There was no way to know if she had hidden weapons on her body, especially with others at the insurrection carrying assault rifles. Any reasonable person would say the shooting was justified doubly so with a mob of conspiracy theorists behind her ready to brutalize some politicians.

Don't gaslight people by just calling her "unarmed" especially when QAnon is turning her into a martyr for their movement. It's fundamentally dishonest.

djaque commented on Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues macleans.ca/society/scien... · Posted by u/fortran77

rpiguyshy · 5 years ago

this is the aspect of science that is not talked about in the media and among "science, fuck yeah" "big bang theory" bros. science is full of dogma, politics and downright dirtiness. people who do research are often showmen more than scientists, because the system selects for people who can sleazily promote their own research to win grants, or people who just hop onto whatever bandwagon is popular. and the worst part is that people who are blowing on the kindling of the next big breakthrough are not only discarded by the scientific establishment, they are ridiculed viciously. anyone who says we should "listen to science" needs to open a history book. dogma, dogma, dogma. its the most insidious parasite in the modern western world and has happily escaped completely the confines of its old religious home.

djaque · 5 years ago

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djaque commented on Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh has died at age 70 nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/Shivetya

djaque · 5 years ago

Rush Limbaugh hosted a regular segment on his show where he would read off the names of gay men that died of AIDS and celebrate it with bells and horns in the background.

I'm not one to celebrate people's death, but I will sleep a little easier tonight knowing that he now belongs in the past.

djaque commented on The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring nber.org/papers/w24969... · Posted by u/undefined1

ordinaryradical · 5 years ago

The irony is that the modern university's view of diversity is so narrow-minded that it doesn't actually yield a diversity of perspectives. Yes, you can bolster a student body by welcoming students of different backgrounds, but ask any conservative student, any Christian student, or any student with no obvious ideological home in the secular Left if they feel welcomed and free to contribute the conversation and you will get an entirely different picture of the university system.

Diversity is not merely a set of physical traits—it has to run through the psychological core of a person.

djaque · 5 years ago

I too dream of a day that even a group as oppressed as Christians are in the US will be able to hold the presidency, the highest office in the land. Who knows, maybe one of these days they'll even manage it 46 times in a row. /s

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Cut it out with the regurgitated Fox News talking points. My college has a university funded Bible studies club, an entire religion studies department, and a rather large college conservatives political club. My advisor is literally a Deacon in the Orthodox Catholic Church and another professor in the same department used to be a protestant pastor. Nobody is coming to brainwash your children.

djaque commented on Airbnb S-1 sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... · Posted by u/xoxoy

djaque · 5 years ago

Anyone else think this is a pretty bad time all things considered?

djaque commented on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019) newyorker.com/news/letter... · Posted by u/bluu00

doc_gunthrop · 5 years ago

That's what impressed me when I first came across HN - the signal-to-noise ratio. The comments sections were always filled with thoughtfully written comments that provided useful insights into interesting topics.

Thank you @dang for your diligence and commitment to the task.

djaque · 5 years ago

Hot take: the fact that HN comments have an academic/professional tone doesn't make the noise go away. It just makes it easier to pass for useful comments.

On huge threads with like 1k comments, I do find that the high quality ones float to the surface (having more to do with stuff like hiding vote counts and restricting down vote access IMO). However, it's not hard to find people confidently talking out of their ass making it to the top of threads with even hundreds of comments. Look for people talking about something you are an expert in (or do a brief google search on a topic somebody is claiming expertise in, especially if it is related to ideology) and it isn't hard to spot. There are even all the bad cliche comments of the other platforms even if they aren't as simple as "have an upvote my friend" or "username checks out".

I find threads on politics and culture particularly unbearable here because it's the exact same chest beating and narratives that you will find on any other platform except that the posters possess the same self-rightousness and academic tone as if they were talking about mathematical fact and not a political opinion. Even more so, it often comes without the self-awareness to know that your opinions and arguments are most often being taken from whatever social media you frequent. Everybody is a "free thinker" here even though they spout off the exact same political arguments as everybody else in their clique. It makes some threads pretty toxic IMO because of how seriously everyone takes themselves. I'm of course making general claims to which there are exceptions, but this is something I've seen.

Thinking that you need to be super-intelligent to post on or browse HN is a bad meme. Take the guy below me that thinks jokes on HN "require higher levels of intelligence to parse". It's the same mentality that part of the Rick and Morty fan base gets made fun of for.

djaque commented on Americans are more worried about their sons than their daughters brookings.edu/blog/up-fro... · Posted by u/johntfella

adenadel · 5 years ago

I am not well-informed on this topic, but isn't men incorporating toxic things into their identity precisely what toxic masculinity is (i.e. to me it sounds like you do believe in toxic masculinity)?

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I want to learn.

djaque · 5 years ago

Also certainly not an expert here, but here is a good definition I found:

> Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It’s the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength is everything while emotions are a weakness; where sex and brutality are yardsticks by which men are measured, while supposedly “feminine” traits—which can range from emotional vulnerability to simply not being hypersexual—are the means by which your status as “man” can be taken away.

It seems to be a catch all term for the problematic parts of the way men are idealized by society. IE stuff like how men can be expected to hide away their emotions or be perceived as weak. Stuff like that shows up in suicide statistics.

Part of the problem with understanding the concept, IMO, is that ideological forces have managed to sway part of the public (or at least certain echo chambers) into believing that the people talking about it really mean "all men are bad" or "traditional masculinity is bad." I think there's something real here that needs to be addressed though.

Edit: Case and point... somebody further down in this thread accused the term "toxic masculinity" of being designed by "academic Marxist feminists" who are waging culture wars in order to hyper-feminize small boys.

[1] https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-difference-b...

djaque commented on Alan Turing – In Our Time bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00... · Posted by u/jweir

djaque · 5 years ago

I remember watching some sort of British documentary on Alan Turing on youtube when I was in high school. It had interviews from all of the people that knew him during his lifetime. This was long before his story was popularized by "The Imitation Game" and so I can't find it now that there is so much other content.

Does anybody else remember it? It was one of the good ones. From what I remember, the "asshole genius" trope was greatly played up for the film and he was much more human than that even with the treatment he endured.