Well, considering that the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a contemptuous name given in Southern States of North America to poor whites and Webster’s defines it as an offensive word used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a poor, white, usually Southern person, I think you’re going to have a hard time…

The California Supreme Court has held that the Unruh Civil Rights Act isn’t limited to the groups specifically enumerated in the law, but that the act can potentially ban any and all arbitrary discrimination without a sufficient business purpose as well as any arbitrary discrimination based on characteristics similar…

More importantly, legally, all that really matters is whether the policy is consistent. You can’t ban some racial slurs that are likely to cause offense but not ban others. That’s a civil rights violation. 

I mean, while your entitled to your opinion, it won’t get you very far in court. Twitch can’t just arbitrarily ban one racial slur and allow another, otherwise they’re opening themselves up to civil rights lawsuits. The only question the courts care about is whether there is unequal treatment and whether it could…

Well, luckily the law doesn’t care about your opinion. Public accommodations like Twitch are required to provide their customers with equal treatment. If they ban one racial or ethnic slur, they must ban them all or they can be held liable under federal law and the Unruh Civil Rights Act of civil rights violations.

Well, luckily the law doesn’t work on the basis of whether some user of the internet believes a particular group is oppressed. The law works on the concept of equality under the law. Public accommodations must treat all people equally, which means that if they ban some racial or ethnic slurs but not others, they’re…

Because the new left is obsessed with creating a hierarchy of oppression and trying to control semantics rather than trying to promote actual, factual equality.

Under the Unruh Civil Rights act, white supremacists have the same right to use a public accommodation as anyone else. The policy of a public accommodation like Twitch must be completely consistent, otherwise it’s potentially a violation under state and federal law. You can’t ban white supremacists without violating…

The Unruh Civil Rights Act tends to disagree with you. If someone could reasonably find it offensive, then it’s a racial slur. And if racial/ethnic slurs are not allowed on the platform, then allowing some racial/ethnic slurs but not others could constitute racial/ethnic discrimination in violation of the Unruh Civil…

I think it’s because they’re planning on adding a lot more to the service (maybe even a more expensive tier later) and they want to get this out there now to gauge interest and make money and they don’t want to have to raise prices later, when what they offer improves. They don’t necessarily expect anyone but the…

I mean, just wait until they have a bigger library. It’s going to happen eventually. They may even introduce a third tier that has older Switch games and Gamecube/Wii games. 

I think it’s more of a marketing test for Nintendo than something they expect to sell like hot cakes in its first year. They want to see how many hardcore fans will buy it. Over time, they’ll improve the service and, if necessary, lower the prices. Depending on its success, they may add another more expensive tier…

There’s nothing in the Geneva Conventions or additional protocols recognized by the US that prohibit the use of AI in weapons. I’m not sure where you’re getting this from.

It has nothing to do with “optics”. The Department of War had a very specific purpose, which was oversight and control of the US Army, whose primary purpose was to be ready for war and to fight wars. It was renamed the Department of the Army in 1947 because that name was more descriptive and also analogous to the…

Actually, thermodynamics takes all that into account. And honestly, the details don’t even really matter. The biggest issue is that the reliable methods that researchers have of accurately measuring energy metabolization aren’t really suitable for use at home, so people are forced to rely on less precise estimations…

If you’re a tech literate designer, shouldn’t it be facile to change the font and change all the double-spaces to a single-space, if that’s what you prefer.

I’m not an economist, but I’m not sure that I agree. Slaves aren’t some free resource. Much like paid laborers or animal labor, they’re a costly resource and there’s an incentive to optimize the value of their labor. That’s why the Cotton Gin was such an incredible innovation. 

I’m pretty sure that he did a bit more than just criticize the works of others, unless the play Pygmalion was written by a different George Bernard Shaw.

If you don’t want to incorporate those particular phrases into your style, that’s fine. But it’s supercilious to dictate to others what their writing style should be. To me, it often seems to be correlated with small-minded busybodies who are more interested in policing their own language and the language of others…

I’m pretty skeptical of your claim. We routinely move specific hazardous items with known hazards in a very precise way, like military explosives or caustic chemicals.