“Racism” is not a complex theory. It is a basic human behavior and a fundamental component of complex hypotheses (examples given above like institutional oppression, systematic discrimination and unconscious bias). Anyone can be racist, and many people everywhere are. If you prejudge someone based on their race and…

Just to add to the first category, I pirated when I was a kid / teenager because I had no money. My parents had shelled out cash for a reasonably powerful PC (which in the early 90's was a not insignificant sum) for my dad’s electronic consulting business, and since he also worked a full time job, I had a number of…

I dunno, is it that getting rich causes people to lie and cheat, or that liars and cheaters are more likely to be the ones who end up getting rich? Probably some mix of those things.

Bleep blorp. Echo chamber denizen identified.

And CNN a giant blue one?

Ooooh, I know the answer to the implied question in the title!

I ditched Google search a long time ago, mainly because so many of the results were ad-spam garbage. It is also increasingly apparent that the company’s internal political culture is affecting its products, and searching for news/politics on Google has become somewhat of a joke (unless you are looking for the echo…

If YouTube wants to move in to the “paying customer” realm, then they are welcome to do so. The whole reason, for me, that I liked YouTube was that I was sick of being a “paying customer” with cable companies. Maybe I have just gotten older or something, but if YouTube loses its appeal for me by becoming a de-facto…

Sure. That’s my issue...I am not on Youtube to watch Pewdiepie or whoever. The “big” people on there are exactly as vapid and generic as you would expect the most popular personality to be in an entertainment space. The channels that I like most are the small/medium ones, people with 100-10000 followers, who actually…

YouTube is turning into another network TV station. Only the biggest “creators” survive, consuming the smaller ones and getting increasingly locked in to producing to the lowest common denominator.

Validity of this performance art aside, screw this guy. As a year-round bike commuter myself, douchebags like this are why everyone hates cyclists. Nobody in their car cares about your reasons for biking, just stay the fuck out of their way unless a situation necessitates being in the way.

Alternate recommendation: Get different family and friends.

I am not sure if whitewashing is the right term, but certainly retroactively applying the current social mores sets a questionable precedent. Today’s “woke internet justice warriors” will merely become tomorrow’s “stodgy old oppressors who need to shut their mouths because they are totally not with it.” Just look at…

But but but, like, hope and change? I am pretty sure that both of those are constitutional by-laws, or at least bills, right? I just sort of look for the “D” next to the boxes on my ballots.

Right, punching people we do not share beliefs with is a great way to roll. Did you remember to pick up your brown shirt from the cleaner?

Thank you for mentioning the Portege machines. Toshiba was way ahead of Apple there, but they lacked the marketing budget to convince hip-and-cool urbanite users to spend mountains of cash on them. Also, they had corporate customers paying mountains of cash already.

Oh. Shit.

Who thinks that they are racially superior? A bunch of 14 year-old’s in online games. I mean, if you are fine stumbling through life inferring everyone’s intent, everywhere, all the time and mostly assuming the worst, then OK sure. Enjoy that.

No. Words have meanings. If you want to talk about institutional oppression, systematic discrimination or unconscious bias, go for it. Those terms exist on their own to describe separate things, and “racist” is not merely some synonym for them. Sorry if your Critical Theory teachers have been feeding you lines about…

The word has a definition, and it is nice and specific. Per the Oxford dictionary: