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  1. Comment on What weird food combo did you not realise was weird? in ~food

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    Wait, what? Dilly bars (also in Texas) when I was growing up(90s-00s) were just ice-cream with a chocolate shell.

    Wait, what?
    Dilly bars (also in Texas) when I was growing up(90s-00s) were just ice-cream with a chocolate shell.

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  2. Comment on US federal civil rights lawsuit filed against Harvard, challenging legacy admissions preference in ~life

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    I'd posit that redlining, in the same vein of legacy college admissions, isn't inherently racist, it just highlights the consequences of other socio-economic issues that plague depressed urban...

    I'd posit that redlining, in the same vein of legacy college admissions, isn't inherently racist, it just highlights the consequences of other socio-economic issues that plague depressed urban areas where PoC are more likely to live just as it affects depressed rural areas (the South and parts of the Rust Belt come to mind) where non-Hispanic white folks are more likely to live.
    The only real difference between the populations is density.
    You don't exactly see banks wanting to lend on some backwater peckerwood town with kitty litter bags(meth lab thing) appearing on the sides of the road like mile markers.

    There are plenty of PoC who've risen and continue to rise into the middle and upper classes, whether by going to college, into the military, the trades, etc, and easily qualify for a mortgage in some little suburb or other nice area. The biggest problem we have as a country right now is expecting disparities to be solved overnight with crude, overly-simplistic solutions, and creating new disparities and injustices by constantly shifting racial/cultural paradigms without thinking.

  3. Comment on I kind of feel bad for spez.. what would you do if you were in that position? in ~tech

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    The only narrow circumstance I'd feel the slightest pity for Steven(Spez) is if there is more to the story regarding Christian(Apollo), and there are legal reasons Steven wasn't able to be more...

    The only narrow circumstance I'd feel the slightest pity for Steven(Spez) is if there is more to the story regarding Christian(Apollo), and there are legal reasons Steven wasn't able to be more forthcoming or present contrary correspondence.
    I say legal reasons, such as unlike Christian(who is Canadian), Reddit is headquartered in California, which is a two-party consent state.
    While unlikely, Christian could have certainly released correspondence that confirms his own public narrative, knowing he would have to actively consent for Steve to record anything that could counteract that narrative.
    I say unlikely because given Steven's, as well as other Reddit execs'(current + previous) past unprofessional behavior, it's easier to take Christian's narrative at face value.

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