Why does nobody remember the role in slavery of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and other ethnic groups?
Readit Newstszymczyszyn commented on Harvard leaders and staff enslaved more than 70 people, report finds washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/susiecambria
I'm not going to defend diversity but the idea is having a Paraguayan and Chinese would be better than two Paraguayans because you get insight from two cultures vs one.
For some roles this might be important (sales) for others like accounting it's foolish.
What if the Paraguayan and Chinese cannot (hypothetically) effectively work together because of cultural differences?
tszymczyszyn commented on Radical Polish books to add to your reading list calvertjournal.com/featur... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
These aren't the interesting kind of radical. Just feminist books filled with power/struggle fantasies.
Ugh, maybe some of them are. But Kapuścinski and Lem for sure are not.
What do people eat in the real world then? A quick glance and most of those many times in my life. I’ve never even been to SF or been on TV. In fact the only items I can say I’ve never consumed out of that list is Mate.
The thing is people consume lots of different things. It's hard to imagine emojis could cover a substantial part of them. So, why choose this and not that? To give an example, frutti di mare are underrepresented although they are very popular in many countries. OTOH there is a pregnant black man emoji, which likely represents something that has not materialized yet.
What food to do you feel is missing from the food emojis?
Bigos, borsch and żurek to be sure. But seriously, the list is very limited. Very much agree with Zababa's point of view.
Even brake pad wear is greatly reduced with EVs, thanks to regenerative braking.
OECD published a report[1] on EVs lately. I haven't read it but according to various press sources it claims that EVs might make things worse, e.g.[2]:
"The report assumes that diesel and gasoline-powered cars are going to be replaced with electric vehicles, eliminating tailpipe emissions, but that problematic PM emissions will remain or even increase."
[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/non-exhaust-partic...
[2] https://www.treehugger.com/electric-cars-wont-save-us-from-p...
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tszymczyszyn commented on Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence devaboone.com/post/vitami... · Posted by u/usefulcat
>I gotta say though... the world would have far less race problems had that odd little quirk of photosynthesis of a key nutrient not existed.
It's not so much about the race, but about the exploitation. Blacks and whites co-lived without racism for millenia, back when anybody could become a slave.
When around the 16th century the Europeans started to exploit latin americans, indians and blacks as slaves, they spread the various theories of racism to justify the practice (both the advance of christianity and englightenment meant that such a thing should now be justified, whereas in the ancient/pagan world just being more powerful was enough to justify making slaves of the less powerful, you didn't need an excuse).
So, if Europens where also blacks, the exploitation would just have found some other justification than skin color (kind of how Hitler didn't have much issue to discriminate against the also-white Jews).
I agree with the general conclusion about exploitation, but racist theories and justifications existed in different cultures long before the 16th century.
tszymczyszyn commented on Show HN: A Color Picker I Made colorsupplyyy.com/app... · Posted by u/mtgentry
Quite nice. So far I've been using http://paletton.com/ - not identical, but similar functionality.