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> (A personal anecdote: I was invited a few years ago to speak at a college but I was asked to give a 'privilege disclaimer', essentially stating that if I didn't look like I did I wouldn't have been able to succeed...

I don’t know how other people feel about this but personally when I see things like this I get extremely annoyed. What the disclaimer is actually saying is “white people can’t succeed on their own”. Don’t try to twist it because this is what it’s being implied. The implication of the disclaimer is “If you are white, you cannot succeed on your own, the only reason for your success is dumb luck”.

How is this different from saying “blacks can’t succeed on their own, if you see a successful one, that’s just dumb luck”. Please, tell me.

The whole discussion on “privilege” is ridiculous, racist, offensive and is nothing but a grift from losers too dumb and lazy for STEM who went to gender studies instead to make money.

I wish I had enough karma to downvote you. You are either extremely uninformed ( to the point where stupidity is actually a better explanation than ignorance) or, more likely, maliciously spreading misinformation.

Let me remove any kind of doubt. Ukraine is being invaded by a dictator deserving of all condemnation. Putin has started an illegal war and this is bad. No part of his actions are justifiable.

What is not happening in Ukraine however is a genocide. To claim that is wrong, unhelpful and stupid.

Who are the 4 people in Vatican City? Are you the Churches tech core?

> the ad companies went to war against human civilization

Upvotes the moment I read this. Yes. This is what they did and they deserve to be blocked in every way possible for it.

I do not think you understood my point. That or you don’t appear to know what an ad hominem is. Here, take this scenario. A group of people come to me holding a paper that is white and has black writing on it. These people show me the paper and say “Behold, this is a black paper with white writing on it“. I look at that paper, clearly see they are saying a lie, so I dismiss them and avoid them. I do not wish to associate with liars. The same people come to me after and they say “the vaccine is safe, effective and necessary”. Based on my previous experience with them, I am highly skeptical of this claim. Could they be saying the truth this time? Of course. Should I be inclined to believe them seeing as they lied previously? I suppose that is for each person to decide. I am personally not inclined to believe people who lied to me previously. This was my point. I find it very hard to trust people who lie to me. Here, let me give you an example of what an ad hominem looks like. “You have a throwaway account, therefore your argument is invalid “.

Presumably OP does not have hard evidence and is only relating an anecdote. There isn’t much of an incentive to waste time and resources fighting for academic integrity or some other high minded concept like this. Baring those incentives we’ll be left with anecdotes on forums and a continued sense of a diminished trust in academia.

I’d imagine it’s a little bit of both to be honest.

There’s definitely algorithmic prioritisation for new content but I think it’s also a bit of a “seek and ye shall find” moment happening.

As an anecdote, very recently I had the opposite thing happening. I was researching something about React and noticed one of the comments ( still applicable actually! ) was from 2015. My head exploded when I realised 2015 is actually 7 years ago so for a short time afterwards I just kept noticing old comments or old content everywhere.

Holy shit! This is crazy!

Interesting I had no idea. So, there’s groups that would work on the web client presumably but not the app. What happens if you join that group using your browser and attempt to see it in the app?

Out of curiosity what do you mean by censored? Are there groups that cannot be listed on the iphone app?

Sorry it came across that way, that was not my intention. It is an observation on the form of the comment and how the same sentiment can be seen in different groups.

For what is worth I agree with your observation on history.

This comment could be copy pasted on a video supporting the January 6th storming of the Capitol, and it would fit right in and receive upvotes.

I am not making any moral judgements either about Kazakstan or January 6th, just an observation on context and how it affects our perception.

Banning + refund for the remainder credit, sure. Scummy, but sure. Shadow banning, taking peoples money while they still think they get a service, not even banning at the end of the billing cycle, without giving notice, nah, that’s definitely fraud.

> That's called shadowban in the case of OP.

I’d call that fraud. If you pay for a service you get to use the service.

I don’t think that is correct. I’m in London and have an American girlfriend. We met and got together the good old fashioned way. Getting pissed at a pub together.

In regards to medical “fact checking” at least ( though obviously extended to pretty much anything ) the same people who tell me men can get pregnant and women have penises are the same ones telling me the vaccine is good. The same people who “fact checked” covid passports as a conspiracy theory a year ago and the same ones “fact checking” it as effective and necessary now. The same people who call me selfish for wanting to live normal after so long and the same ones having galas and parties for themselves.

I don’t know about you but I don’t like being gas lighted.

I do not believe fact checks. They have zero credibility.

> You really think the CDC and other govt and NGO organizations, as an international coordinated group effort, are in bed with pharma companies, plotting with them to craft false recommendations, just so those farma companies can make more $$?

Yes.

I’m sure some time from now a different government won’t try to “counteract” some other threat with even more draconian measures. And it definitely can’t be the other side targeted next time. There’s nothing dangerous in giving unchecked power to the government to counteract “threats”.

Which vaccine was it?

You don’t really need to silence them. Just ignore them and relegate them to the fringes. “What? More and more people are having heart issues after vaccination? Hogwash! It’s post pandemic stress, nothing special, you’re just being a conspiracy theorist! And we all know conspiracy theorist is just one step away from far right and we don’t listen to nazis here”.

Sounds familiar?

Don’t let perfect become the enemy of good.

It’s weird to me to hear this. I was schooled in Romania as well and have the opposite impression. I am a little younger to be fair, I was in elementary school as opposed to high school in 2001, but, my impression ( biased since I am a man ) was that everyone, men and women, was encouraged towards STEM. Mainly because it was and still is seen as a path out of poverty. In fact, very often the teachers would praise girls for their conscientiousness. I heard this a million times as a student. Boys rush to solve the problem, blunder, end up making a big X on the paper, backtrack and make mistakes because they don’t pay as much attention while girls are more attentive and are more careful in their solutions. This is the stereotype I got left with from school. Plus, a lot of teachers of STEM. Even in Uni ( also in Romania for me ) I had a lot of important subjects taught by women.

Do you have a few good friends? A wife or girlfriend? Do you get along moderately well with your family? If you hit 2/3 with this, let alone 3/3 you are in a place much better than the majority. Add to that you have a decent career, I’d say you’re top quarter easy. Are you healthy? Add decently healthy to this and your lot in life is probably top eighth easy.

Grow, improve your self, follow your dreams, but remember at least every now and again to count your blessings too.

Have I missed anything? I don’t think the discussion is about vaccines. For what is worth, I think both the vaccines and ivermectin work. I just think multinational profit driven companies are more incentivised to promote vaccines, which generate a huge profit, over ivermectin which doesn’t make that much of a profit.

Why? I think he has a point. We live in a society that is geared around profit. That is literally how our society functions. Economic activity is incentivised by the profit motive, important national metrics like GDP focus primarily on profit driven output and growth, even engineering or medical problems are often framed in economic terms like cost/benefit. I think it’s silly in this kind of context to ignore the profit motive.

<three exploding head emojis here, apparently they get removed> It didn’t even cross my mind to do that! Thank you!

I used to take Piracetam to improve my focus. I didn’t actually notice any improvement. Has anyone noticed an improvement in mental acuity after taking Piracetam?

Is this going to be like the Swedish feminist snow shovelling where they focused on shovelling snow from the sidewalk instead of the road, in the name of “gender equality”? To no one’s surprise the result was an increase in car accidents, traffic delays and disruptions. The initiative was dropped because it was, simply put, ideological insanity.

This budget sounds to be the same. What even in a “gendered budget”?

[Swedish insanity](https://www.thelocal.se/20161112/stockholm-transport-heads-d...) - Yes, it’s an old article because they stopped this due to how bad the consequences were.

I know right? And you got downvoted too. These people are so neurotic!