oldmanjay

Does the racism today against white people bother you? It's a genuine question, because the vehemence is cranked pretty high, but racism against white people is often automatically excused, so I'm curious where you fall.

The red herring is the slavery argument your political masters have fed you to keep you happily allowing massive power consolidation to an abusive apparatus.

Sure, that's totally fair. I don't even particularly like the electoral college system personally.

Your explanation of your thought process is appreciated, but no amount of your insistence that your opinion is the only acceptable one makes it so.

That wasn't the point of my question. I'm well aware complaining works, but I often do not understand why people feel the need to complain in the first place, particularly in situations such as this when the complaints are literally entirely from imagination.

Ahh, is it time to cry about the electoral college again? I suppose if no one knew going in that it was the way things were done, I'd care. Since everyone knew, it's just the worst kind of monday-morning quarterbacking.

The thorough repudiation is that Hillary Clinton was anointed the next president, anointed the "only" "sane" choice, and lost. It's a fact, no matter what tears people dredge up now.

I say this with no love or support for Donald Trump, just open eyes in a process that most people enter willfully blind.

Here's Nate Silver today trying to explain trump:

> America hasn’t put its demons — including racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny — behind it. White people still make up the vast majority of the electorate, particularly when considering their share of the Electoral College, and their votes usually determine the winner.

By intentionally continuing to attempt to associate support for trump with a litany of unacceptable -isms that are the guilty burden of being white (men), he exposed the attitude that people are revolting against.

Perhaps you can compare it to intellectualism by considering the difference between offering up your humble opinion, and offering up your humble opinion as an objective truth.

I don't understand what the link has to do with anything but the answer makes sense and for whatever reason I had a blind spot about it.

Very many sane people had no desire to see Hillary Clinton be the president of the United States. There's just no need to keep pretending that your opinion is the only rational choice when you've been repudiated so completely.

What emotion is it that makes people feel such a deep need to complain that everything isn't made specifically to meet their needs?

There is no limit to the stupid shit people like to say when their political opinions aren't accepted as gospel by others.

Restating an incorrect position won't make it true.

Are we pretending trump didn't insult every opponent in his campaign regardless of gender, or are we pretending it's worse because Hillary is a woman? I'm never sure what to pretend politically.

I'm not sure you understand the American mindset terribly well. Party loyalty didn't play much of a role here.

Do you have examples of the dirt that wouldn't have been directed at a man? I paid a lot of attention to this election cycle and I must have missed it.

Yeah, it's one of those high-horse things elites tell themselves while they try to understand why they can't just instill their perfectly obviously correct opinions already.

I replied to a post, not to the article.

You don't get to claim the moral high ground and use the tactics of the opposition at the same time.

Saying that genetically modified agricultural product are useless is objectively a lie. Saying they are potentially harmful is a weasel accusation. The last bit is just an straight insult. Did you have a point to the rant that you forgot to work in? You served some pretty thin soup here.

It's easy to decide that things you don't understand enough to have reasonable opinions on are unreasonable, but it's not terribly useful to actually exploring the real-world problems.

I admit, I am assuming you don't know much, if anything, about building modern high-precision ammunition for guns meant to mount on warships.

I don't have a particular summation of all humans. I just don't have any experience that leads me to believe sociable people are so because of fear.

What does HTTP have to do with canvas or anything else you listed? What does your misapprehension of what HTTP is meant to be have to do with the limited codec support in popular browsers? Do you just hate that the web stopped being static text 20 years ago?

There are no victims in engineering. Such phraseology should be saved for disciplines where emotion trumps reason, like politics.

Why would you think that attacking tnones' comment is a reasonable defense of your comment?

Did you forget that the brain has evolved over billions of years to reach the capability it has?

The charitable response is that it was a metaphor. I would assume you understood that but it would mean you intentionally posted that terrible half-pun. I'd rather assume you just didn't realize it was a metaphor in the first place.

That's a very cynical view of humanity that doesn't match my experience at all.

It's a little hard to distinguish worthwhile warnings from the near-constant din of finger-wagging

What is it that makes people thinking whining endlessly about Apple is interesting?