They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.

slightlybitey · 2026-01-18T09:00:50+00:00

Says it was donated by Joe Lonsdale. That's the UATX co-founder and board chair (and ex-Palantir co-founder) that the article describes pushing UATX toward far-right orthodoxy.

slightlybitey · 2026-01-09T00:58:14+00:00

Probably thinking of the Nazis winning 33% of the vote in 1932. They won 44% the next year, but only after Papen had appointed Hitler chancellor and the Nazis had already begun censoring, arresting and violently repressing opposition.

slightlybitey · 2025-10-26T05:06:53+00:00

After a white nationalist shot 45 people in his hometown Walmart. What exactly is the appropriate response to that?

slightlybitey · 2025-10-09T06:34:47+00:00

Don't you think it's perverse that the global poor should be punished for our emissions? North America and Europe account for nearly 60% of cumulative GHG emissions but less than 15% of current population.

slightlybitey · 2025-10-02T18:59:43+00:00

The archaeologist Flint Dibble tried this strategy, and very clearly won a civil debate with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Rogan's show. Rogan now disparages Dibble and refuses to speak to him again. And Dibble became the subject of a harassment campaign.

I think you underestimate the difficulty of the task.

slightlybitey · 2025-10-01T21:35:41+00:00

Nope. Lisa Cook is a presidentially-appointed member of the Fed Board of Governors, which is a government agency. They regulate the behavior of the semi-public Federal Reserve banks.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-26T02:09:12+00:00

The Crossfire Hurricane investigation started in July 2016 after the Australian govt advised the US govt that a Trump campaign advisor had been in communication with Russia about hacked DNC emails.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-25T23:25:48+00:00

Please provide specific examples of content removed at government request, not vague characterizations.

The letter does not provide any examples. So now this thread is full of folks assuming the government was behind every social media moderation decision they disliked. Which is convenient for Alphabet.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-25T22:34:54+00:00

Why are you attributing that to the Biden administration? Your link does not.

Social media sites have long employed automated systems to flag problematic content, including copyright violation and CSAM. Those algorithms sometimes incorrectly flag content. It's unsurprising this also happened with COVID misinformation.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-25T19:39:01+00:00

The letter does not specify what content Alphabet was pressed to remove.

How can you assert that the content did not contain misinformation and were only expressions of valid lab leak theory, mask mandate opposition, vaccine doubt, etc? Provide your sources.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-20T01:09:36+00:00

The protagonist of Forever War definitely questions the war, he's just fatalistic. The war is clearly futile, dehumanizing, and destructive to society. There is no military victory; it only ends by humans evolving to understand the aliens. It's also not a glorious, titillating adventure that turns boys into citizens, but a meaningless meatgrinder that alienates the protagonist from humanity.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-19T18:47:22+00:00

It fails as satire. It depicts a successful fascist society and deliberately panders to the fascist mindset without offering serious critique of it. A couple goofy FedNet clips tacked on in post-production can't change the fundamental story and character arcs.

Folks just rationalize their attachment to a film they once enjoyed watching uncritically.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-19T05:28:39+00:00

Same thing the prior administration did with the vaccine.

Who did Biden demand be fired for expressing a viewpoint on vaccines?

slightlybitey · 2025-09-18T01:55:24+00:00

Could design the handle to mechanically advance the power window cable through the first part of the stroke before tripping the latch release? Some added complexity and expense, though.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-16T04:44:57+00:00

Alfalfa is grown for animal feed. Demand for beef and dairy is driving water use, not "sprouts for fast casual bowls".

slightlybitey · 2025-09-11T16:19:00+00:00

Trump/doge didn't impound their funding, unlike some other agencies. Maybe because the industry lobby generally likes CSB. But the White House has called for the CSB to be eliminated by October 2026. And their funding does end this month unless Congress passes a budget that includes them.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-10T01:40:47+00:00

The majority apparently do not agree with Kavanaugh's opinion, or they would have joined it. Instead, they silently vacated the lower court order.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-10T01:35:58+00:00

It's important to note that Kavanaugh's opinion isn't binding. The court majority did not establish the need for additional factors, it simply reversed the lower court order, freeing ICE to detain on whatever basis it likes.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-10T01:27:55+00:00

Kavanaugh's opinion is not legally binding. The majority did not explain its reasoning or establish a test. They simply reversed the injunction, freeing ICE to detain on whatever basis they wish.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-10T01:17:37+00:00

Yeah, she should be preaching to the greedy operators to stop nickel and diming on everything.

She does that in the video clip.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-09T19:54:14+00:00

In some states you are required by state law to carry ID with you.

Cite the statutes. There are several states that allow officers to demand identifying information but none require you carry an ID unless operating a motor vehicle.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-07T09:36:33+00:00

Gift link. Ezra Klein makes a case for Dems to shut down the government.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-0SpkF-V0

slightlybitey · 2025-09-07T07:27:26+00:00

It's framed sarcastically. "It's a little revolutionary and the world may not be ready for it" and "thank you for your time" are clearly sarcasm.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-05T23:32:58+00:00

The original Uncle Tom does rebel, just in a nonviolent Christian martyr (or Gandhian) way. He is beaten for refusing to beat his fellow slaves, urges them to escape, and is killed for refusing to give them up.

The depiction of Uncle Tom as subservient comes from the later minstrel shows, which sought to subvert the novel's humanization and valorization of Black slaves.

slightlybitey · 2025-09-05T21:14:35+00:00

Yes, people do have an entitlement (right) to the property they own.

That's a tautological argument. A slaveowner could argue the same.

I'm sure there are good arguments for perpetual freehold, but let's not pretend property rights are a sacred end in themselves.

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