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  1. Comment on What does it mean to you to be a human? in ~life

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    I live in hope of the day that we lose our terrifically oversized brains and are covered in fur like sea lions.

    I live in hope of the day that we lose our terrifically oversized brains and are covered in fur like sea lions.

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  2. Comment on blogroll.club - A blog directory in ~tech

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    Man, I got sucked in to the first article of the first listed blog! Thanks for posting this...I think?

    Man, I got sucked in to the first article of the first listed blog! Thanks for posting this...I think?

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Holiday season playlist in ~music

  4. Comment on Recommendations about which Android texting app to use? in ~tech

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    I second this. I hated to get google messenger but since Signal doesn't support SMS at all any more, there is not better app that I could find. I really wish more people would adopt Signal. I only...

    I second this. I hated to get google messenger but since Signal doesn't support SMS at all any more, there is not better app that I could find. I really wish more people would adopt Signal. I only can use it for a handful of folks. As far as the data sucking goes, I think you are out of luck. (As are we all.)

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Holiday season playlist in ~music

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    Low has a Christmas album (titled Christmashttps://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/christmas). We have it on loop every Christmas. It is not upbeat, more wistful.

    Low has a Christmas album (titled Christmashttps://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/christmas). We have it on loop every Christmas. It is not upbeat, more wistful.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Great shows with interesting premises? in ~tv

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    Absolutely. You'd think it would be gimmicky and distracting but she is so good you totally forget the characters are all one actor.

    Absolutely. You'd think it would be gimmicky and distracting but she is so good you totally forget the characters are all one actor.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

  8. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    Thank you; I remember reading (maybe here) about Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and I may start with that. It is standalone, right? I don't need to watch the original first?

    Thank you; I remember reading (maybe here) about Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and I may start with that. It is standalone, right? I don't need to watch the original first?

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    Thank you! That looks like I could get a great start with that.

    Thank you! That looks like I could get a great start with that.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    I just got Hulu, and they have a lot of anime. I've only ever watched a few things-- Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Twilight of the Cockroaches...Can anyone recommend...

    I just got Hulu, and they have a lot of anime. I've only ever watched a few things-- Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Twilight of the Cockroaches...Can anyone recommend to me what on Hulu (US) is worth watching? I'm pretty open to most genres, if it's well-executed.

    3 votes

  11. Comment on The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown in ~humanities.history

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    Anti-Irish sentiment had not disappeared by the 1870s. Here is an article from the Atlantic published in the 1890's just dripping with Anti-Irish racism. Even if Kearney were ignorant of recent...

    Anti-Irish sentiment had not disappeared by the 1870s. Here is an article from the Atlantic published in the 1890's just dripping with Anti-Irish racism. Even if Kearney were ignorant of recent history, certainly he was aware of the current state of things.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown in ~humanities.history

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    It "worked," but I find it extremely depressing and a strike against humans as a species that, having suffered injustice we are more likely to use that experience to punch down than to extend a...

    It "worked," but I find it extremely depressing and a strike against humans as a species that, having suffered injustice we are more likely to use that experience to punch down than to extend a hand to those in a similar position.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on 1891 New Orleans lynchings in ~humanities.history

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    Thanks, I appreciate the history.

    Thanks, I appreciate the history.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown in ~humanities.history

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    The thing that I find so frustrating and disturbing is how one oppressed group keeps trying to attain acceptance by targeting another. 1877 is just a few decades after some of the worst anti-Irish...

    In late 1877, an Irish immigrant in San Francisco named Denis Kearney founded The Workingmen's Party of California. Kearney articulated a populist politics that combined pro-labor and anti-corporate rhetoric with virulent anti-Chinese racism.

    The thing that I find so frustrating and disturbing is how one oppressed group keeps trying to attain acceptance by targeting another. 1877 is just a few decades after some of the worst anti-Irish violence in the US.

    From https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis

    In 1854, an anti-Catholic mob in Ellsworth, Maine, dragged Jesuit priest John Bapst—who had circulated a petition denouncing the use of the King James Bible in local schools—into the streets where they stripped him and sheltered his body in hot tar and feathers. That same year, the Know-Nothings in Bath, Maine, smashed the pews of a church recently purchased by Irish Catholics before hoisting an American flag from the belfry and setting the building ablaze. When the bishop of Portland returned to the city a year later to lay a cornerstone for the church’s replacement, another mob chased him away and beat him.

    The violence turned deadly in Louisville, Kentucky, in August 1855 when armed Know-Nothing members guarding polling stations on an election day launched street fights against German and Irish Catholics. Immigrant homes were ransacked and torched. Between 20 and 100 people, including a German priest fatally attacked while attempting to visit a dying parishioner, were killed. Thousands of Catholics fled the city in the riot’s aftermath, but no one was ever prosecuted for crimes committed on “Bloody Monday.

    10 votes

  15. Comment on World’s oldest known man dies aged 112 in Merseyside in ~life

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    My aunt was the same. Every time she heard that someone died, she'd say, "good for him!"

    My aunt was the same. Every time she heard that someone died, she'd say, "good for him!"

    1 vote

  16. Comment on 1891 New Orleans lynchings in ~humanities.history

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    I'm curious to know what prompted you to post this.

    I'm curious to know what prompted you to post this.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on The Texas OB-GYN exodus – Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state in ~health

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    I know it sounds callous by my state is very supportive of reproductive rights, nearby and in great need of doctors of all sorts. I really hope some of the exodus lands here.

    I know it sounds callous by my state is very supportive of reproductive rights, nearby and in great need of doctors of all sorts. I really hope some of the exodus lands here.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Amazon workers in twenty countries to protest or strike on Black Friday November 29 in ~life

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    I hate to be pessimistic, but Amazon has been running "Black Friday" deals for a while now (as have many other outlets) I don't think a strike on Black Friday proper will make all that much...

    I hate to be pessimistic, but Amazon has been running "Black Friday" deals for a while now (as have many other outlets) I don't think a strike on Black Friday proper will make all that much difference. It would help if it were paired with a concurrent boycott, maybe.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Had an amazing trip to New Mexico. Has anyone else been? What would you suggest for a return trip? in ~travel

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    I also attest to all of the above, plus, If you like rock climbing, there is an insane amount of route climbing and bouldering. If you like opera, The Santa Fe Opera is amazing, and has world...

    I also attest to all of the above, plus,
    If you like rock climbing, there is an insane amount of route climbing and bouldering.
    If you like opera, The Santa Fe Opera is amazing, and has world class singers. The season is in the summer, because the theatre is open air. It's a great experience. You don't have to dress up but you can if you want to.
    In a good year, there is white water rafting at the Rio Grande gorge.
    If you like old trains, the Cumbres-Toltec train ride skirts Colorado and New Mexico (it starts in Durango, though, so a bit outside of New Mexico)

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Your boss is probably spying on you: New data on workplace surveillance in ~life

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    This made me think of how many people who have been working on the common good, and the devastation they must feel. I hope someone is archiving all this offsite somewhere, because things like this...

    Within the executive branch, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration should step up enforcement activities. The Department of Labor should also immediately begin work drafting a health or safety standard that would set clear rules for employers on how to deploy automated management and surveillance tools in ways that do not threaten workers’ wellbeing. Pursuing such a measure would provide the Trump-Vance Administration an early opportunity to make good on their promises that the Republican party is now a pro-worker party. Even assuming they will not—as we have good reason to believe—beginning work now in the Biden-Harris Administration could lay the foundation for a future Administration that is more favorable to workers to hit the ground running on the proposal and carry it to completion.

    This made me think of how many people who have been working on the common good, and the devastation they must feel. I hope someone is archiving all this offsite somewhere, because things like this are likely to be wiped from government servers pretty soon.

    7 votes