To be a racist you’d have to be irrationally prejudiced against a specific race. Not a set of beliefs. Being prejudiced against belief systems is, in fact, essential to brain function. I’m very prejudiced against Nazi thought, and I suspect that you are as well. I find Scientology very distasteful. If you were to…

Exactly. This stuff is complicated. The attitude that “all surveillance is bad” is just as bad as “who cares”. These policies need to be discussed and negotiated at a national level. We need to decide what the rules are. What rights do law-abiding citizens have to their data, their privacy? Where do those rights…

On what basis, then, is someone entitled to describe themselves as a given race?

This has been my problem with these kinds of statements. It’s easy to mock people who disagree with violence, and it always has been. Not because humans have a hardwired instinct for right and wrong, but because humans are primates with a hardwired instinct for harming those we disagree with.

I’m sorry to keep bringing this up, but the arguments are a bit more complicated than “more money for everyone” vs “let the 1% continue their charitable work”. Billionaires, by definition, save more than they spend. Hear me out, because I can see your criticism coming. The whole label is based on unspent money. We…

Neoliberalism is a political science term with a reasonably specific meaning that has become, as you’ve noted, widely used but not widely understood. The central tenet is basically that the free market is good in that it leads to the greatest social mobility and prosperity for the greatest number.

It’s difficult to offend autistic people, because they’re generally pretty rational. Being outraged involves a lot of work trying to turn a complex world into a simple zero-sum game.

One of the primary functions of the CEO is to inspire confidence in the company. If consumers, investors and employees were more likely to trust a company run by a four day old cheeseburger, most companies would have a three to five day old burger as their CEO. The condiments might change from market to market.

Looks like they’re using machine learning algorithms to control NPC drivers. The irony here is that the kinds of driving that the NPCs are being blamed for were probably learned from a wide variety of players, in other words normal behavior causing problems where the players have different standards for NPCs than they…

The main problem with being passive aggressive in response to abuse is that it looks very similar to slandering someone in response to perceived failings. The reason we have these silly, trivial, should-really-be-discarded-amiright rules about speaking ill of the dead is because they can’t offer a rebuttal.

Is this... for real?