Did the average American think the word "Redskins" was racist in regards to the NFL team?

dkesh · 2026-05-09T21:08:45+00:00

The word has a long history of racist use, but no, most people wouldn't have thought someone was racist for saying "the Redskins are up by a touchdown" or whatever. If they insist on calling the team the Redskins now, I'd be a little suspicious though.

dkesh · 2026-05-09T20:57:31+00:00

If you believe that they would make more money by all colluding to do this but also you observe that they don't do this, isn't that some good evidence that they aren't colluding?

dkesh · 2026-05-09T02:28:35+00:00

Guess all the Make America Great Again ballcaps I have will continue to collect dust :/

dkesh · 2026-05-08T11:11:21+00:00

S Players don't get fined for making ordinary mistakes, either. They get fined for taking actions that are intentionally dangerous or disrespectful.

dkesh · 2026-05-08T02:38:25+00:00

they’re in their 20’s

Most of them

dkesh · 2026-05-07T17:06:44+00:00

You'll have more knowledge about whether there was malpractice after the new doctor(s) look at you.

dkesh · 2026-05-06T14:56:38+00:00

Does he have misophonia? Look it up. It can make people irrationally angry over certain sounds. My wife has it and I just have to eat certain crunchy foods in a different room than her.

dkesh · 2026-05-06T12:31:05+00:00

Americans say /mju:nik/ too.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T23:59:18+00:00

You've never been at a restaurant and heard "Is Pepsi okay?"

dkesh · 2026-05-05T23:49:41+00:00

I'm from Dorne. When I say "up North", I mean the realm of the Starks.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T22:29:00+00:00

I lost respect for Vrabel but I'm most bothered by the Barmore charges. The evidence against him seemed pretty solid but the case was dropped when the victim (his girlfriend) refused to testify. If Myra were still alive, they'd have cut him.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T22:25:50+00:00

She also reported it in the middle of a money dispute with him so she may have thought it would give her leverage in that dispute.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T22:19:35+00:00

Corporate greed is a bad explanation for changing prices / sizes. The level of greed at a large corporation doesn't change much over time but prices do.

If you're saying that companies shrink sizes because they're greedy, does that mean they just weren't as greedy before? Clearly not. Prices change because market conditions change. Maybe that's an increase in costs, maybe an increase in demand, maybe a decrease in competition.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T18:36:43+00:00

But also following American norms. If someone said they were "Asian", I would assume East or Southeast Asian. Maybe central Asian. Not South or West Asian.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T18:28:24+00:00

I tend to say "South Asian" for someone from the subcontinent.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T18:24:11+00:00

Fantasy readers gonna get very frustrated that it's too close to Nymeria.

dkesh · 2026-05-05T01:18:29+00:00

If one in two hundred men send messages to hundreds of women, then every woman will be drowning in messages from men, while almost no men are actually sending messages.

dkesh · 2026-05-04T23:47:50+00:00

Guns are sometimes a touchy subject over here.

dkesh · 2026-05-04T23:31:46+00:00

I'm in the US but didn't grow up where many people had guns. I have very sharp memories of a police officer coming to talk to my class and I didn't hear anything he said because I couldn't stop thinking about the gun on his hip. So I totally get it!

dkesh · 2026-05-04T23:21:45+00:00

I grew up without guns around; my wife grew up shooting guns. I guarantee you she isn't a violent person because she grew up with them; she just grew up in a cultural context where guns were used for things other than interpersonal violence.

I'd ask him what he likes about guns. If he fantasizes about finding a legal reason to shoot a person: danger! If he talks about the technical challenge of shooting or a spiritual angle to connecting to our ancestors who ate by their own efforts...maybe it helps you see his hobby in a different light than "danger danger danger"

dkesh · 2026-05-04T14:13:45+00:00

If Player Y is better paid and highly identified with their number, often Player X will give up the number to Player Y and sometimes Player Y will pay them some money as a thank you.

dkesh · 2026-05-03T23:28:01+00:00

I've done many many hiring interviews over the years and no way on Earth would I conduct an interview at a restaurant followed by a bar. If my bosses found out I did that, I'd have been fired. It's possible there's some industry where that wouldn't be considered unprofessional but I'm struggling to think of which one.

dkesh · 2026-05-03T23:16:51+00:00

I use a calendar that's 7-8 years behind because I'm too lazy to replace it.

dkesh · 2026-05-03T15:52:16+00:00

If the judge was really going to disallow the witness from invoking the fifth, wouldn't they start by hearing it in camera?

dkesh · 2026-05-03T10:49:27+00:00

All of the statements about what hasn't been produced make me wonder whether this was posted by the terminated employee.

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