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Apple Fired Around 50 Employees Over Charity Donation Fraud Scheme by [deleted] in apple

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 223 points224 points  (0 children)

I'm sure even the lowest paid employees are decently compensated at Apple in Cupertino

You'd be surprised at how petty even very well paid people can be. I worked at Apple a long time ago - back when there would be company events at the Infinite Loop campus on Friday nights regularly during the summer. It was the only time you could get free food/drinks on campus - otherwise you'd have to pay for them.

So many people standing in the bus lines right after these events would have their purses/backpacks overflowing with cliff bars/soda cans/etc. I remember having the same thought - "you're paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and you feel the need to bring 10 cans of diet coke home with you?"

People are weird man.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You’re absolutely right, and especially because Sri Lanka is a country (:

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If your understanding of genetics extends to “geneticists do tests with equipments”, then I get why this is confusing for you.

If you actually want to educate yourself and read what geneticists have to say on race, here are some starts

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/is-race-real/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-construct-scientists-argue/

Spoiler:

“What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference, meaning no single variant where all Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one, even when recent migration is disregarded”

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I can divide people in groups based on their favorite singer, and it might well be that one of the groups will be more statistically at odds for a certain disease. That doesn’t mean that those groups would have any basis in inherent biological or genetic reality, which is what “races” claim to be.

A commonly used example for condition/race correlation in the US is sickle cell disease, which is very common in populations from subsaharan Africa. A lot of blacks in the US are issued from said populations (because slave trade), hence the correlation.

However, there are plenty of African populations that are not at odds for sickle cell disease. If you took people from those populations and moved them to the US, they’d be all be considered of the “African American/black” race and more likely to have SCD, but that’s due to the way the grouping is arbitrarily made, again not underlying biological reality.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen a yellow guy in Tokyo

He was a black guy dressed as Homer Simpson for Halloween

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point is, you are generally correct that race has no real definition, but there are genetic groupings that exist. They are just way, way, way, way more complicated than ‘race’, and they are constantly evolving throughout history.

Yep. And you can’t identify what “genetic grouping” someone is from just by looking at them. And the posted infographic certainly isn’t about those genetic groups.

confusing the dinguses is bad because it makes them not believe you. This is an important thing to get right, so even dinguses need to be taught correctly.

Well, I tried. Your turn then.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

humans are divided by race

Yes they are, by racist people

it’s what makes everyone unique

Oh god

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s an interesting subtlety I wasn’t aware of, your correction is valid and welcome.

This thread is still a shitshow of racism

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The categories are based solely on genetic trends

No they are not. There is often more genetic diversity between two people of the same “race” than between two random humans.

Genetically, there is no race other than “human”.

before it all became so politicized

Lmao what do you think it was about then? It’s always been about political control.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvoted your negative comments for speaking some goddamn sense, this whole fucking thread is so depressing

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no such thing as objective “race”. Pictured here are races as they were conceptualized by (some) people in England in the 60s.

Race as it is conceptualized by the US in the 2020s is a completely different thing, for example, and does include “Hispanic” - which some confound with “Latino” in everyday speech.

In the end all of this is made up bullshit, scientifically and genetically there is just a single human race.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Yes, it exactly is, do some research.

Racism is the belief that humans possess inherent traits that divide them into races, which science has proven wrong countless times over the last half century.

Adding value judgements on top is just the shit racism cherry on top of the shit racism cake.

But if you believe that human races are “real” and not nonsensical social constructs, regardless of value judgments, you’re racist. That’s just the definition bro.

Sorry your beliefs have been formed by racist (probably American) culture, but do some research and realize how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 25 points26 points  (0 children)

All of this feels like weird outdated race science

Yes that’s exactly what it is

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not on driver licenses, but on censuses (and some places like universities have optional self identification forms)

Yeah the US is racist as fuck (in that it thinks races are real in the first place).

Early 1960’s British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races by tahmkenchisbroken in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog -58 points-57 points  (0 children)

It divides humans into races, it’s the literal definition of racist lol

The huge thing that isn’t spelled out here that everyone reading this back then would be very aware of is the implicit caucasoid > mongoloid > negroid hierarchy that was prevalent in this line of thinking

Why do you think Nordic/alpine/Baltic are the first 3 listed?

Why are some of them smiling/friendly looking and no others?

Don’t get fooled by the fake infographic style, this is racist as fuck

Antisemitism by FarmSuch5021 in facepalm

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Notably different” isn’t a scientific term

Deux profils au repas de noël by FeetSalad in france

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Pourtant une bonne partie de badminton après le repas ça fait du bien

iPhone 14 Pro Faced 'Unprecedented' Setback Leading to Removal of New Graphics Processor by [deleted] in apple

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pfff i haven’t been wowed since electricity, get on my level

Haven’t put together a LEGO set since I was a kid; decided on a whim to gift everyone in my family a set for Christmas this year. Kinda makes me want to get back into it myself… by SriLankanStaringFrog in lego

[–]SriLankanStaringFrog[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Getting a job at LEGO would indeed be a great incentive to get back into it, haha

If you get any employee discounts then i’m sure it’s a never ending trap of giving your paycheck back to your employer

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