There are hateful bigots in every community, the conversation is about dating platforms, not communities.

If a Sikh was saying we should gas the Hindus, he should not be in the Canadian Armed Forces. If there is a dating platform for Sikhs that's oriented around eliminating Hindus, the members of that platform should not be in the armed forces.

Sure. Our media, most western governments, and Israel put anyone on blast as an antisemite if they question the Zionist regime and their open butchering of civilians and journalists etc. Antisemitism is used as a shield to deflect from Israel's horrific behaviour. So long as that is the case, I have no personal issue -- in an abstract sense for online arguments at least -- to equate all jews as potentially supporting those actions. You hear the odd jewish person in the media saying it's not what Judaism is about, and I'd tend to believe that's true of the religion, but it's not the case for most material purposes. Sorta like how there are people who don't support Trump in America, but that doesn't mean shit to anyone getting bombed or threatened by America -- you gotta accept that the majority of their country voted for this shit, so any American you encounter has at least a 50/50 chance of being a fascist supporter. And the other 50 percent, are apparently cool living with fascists. Same principle. Individually, in regular interactions, you give em the benefit of the doubt until they pull out a maga hat or whatnot -- but on aggregate, given how jewish folks are presented as a uniform mass in the media, and how tightly connected they portray jews and israel? I mean, if you met someone from Germany during the Nazi years, you wouldn't instantly think "He's prolly a good person! Not all germans are Nazis!" (and it's true, not all were Nazis -- but they all share the blame and stigma of what happened there).

There is so much wrong with what you just said. The only thing you said that was true was that [accusations of] antisemitism are used a a shield. It's like you're using that one statement to shield against accusations of antisemitism. Can you not see how it is antisemitic to accuse all Jews of supporting genocide (in an abstract sense for online arguments at least)?

But I mean, jdate is in that list. And Jews aren't exactly a tolerant people these days, what with Israel's genociding and racial superiority narratives being so tied to that 'race' etc. And there are lots of Asians who're openly racist towards non-Asian (or even other asians!) people too. And I mean, FN are often openly hostile towards white people, "colonials".

I don't think you should be making generalisations about Jews based on the actions of Israel.

Your comments about racism in other communities are a deflection. Because we aren't talking about what race is least racist, we're talking about hatred baked into dating platforms. This is a platform that talks about europid vision, presents great replacement theory as a justification for its existence, and allows people to select fascist and national socialist as their political alignment. It's a Nazi safe space, but Nazis don't deserve to feel safe.

I think it's worse than it just being the dominant culture. The platform talks about europid vision, allows people to select "fascist" and "national socialist" as their political leanings. And it basically presents great replacement theory as the reason it's needed.

Hey your take seems reasonablish if you consider the website in question to be equivalent to the ones you listed. But are they? The hate seems pretty woven into the fabric of this website.

I had a friend that didn't eat figs for this reason.

I think it's because they used an artist's impression of bamboo instead of actual bamboo in the drawing.

It's not, but it seems Argentina doesn't think people should be allowed to own their phones.

Shifts team to generative AI.

If your car development team can be transferred to AI developement you weren't building much of a car.

I'm not a law talking guy, this isn't the law, and it isn't ethical best practice but it might help people understand the reasonableness of the poster.

I believe it's true that drunk people can't consent. I think that what juries are likely to actually care about is the question:

Did the accused have the reasonable belief that the plaintiff would consent to sex while sober?

If you're in a police interview or a trial and are asked:

What made you think the plaintiff consented to your actions?

And all you can say without perjuring yourself is:

I vaguely recall that they seemed kinda into it, and they didn't say no, oh! and they didn't fight back.

You're going to have a bad time. ESPECIALLY if you've been drinking, because it will be easier to question the reasonableness of your belief in their consent.

This poster is clearly meant for a place similar to a university dormitory.

This poster is bad because: it makes the law seem lopsided, and perpetuates sexist ideas about gender and sex.

The poster is good because: unfortunately, too many men think that if a girl is drunk at a place where he thinks the girls are looking for drunk hookups, that she consents to whatever she doesn't fight (and maybe more). Too many men misunderstand consent and have dangerous ideas about what women really want. It's much better they be scared into over thinking whether they're risking arrest than that they rape somebody.

Obviously more nuance is good, but if you're trying to stop drunk 18 year olds from raping/being raped, taping up a poster like this in the stairwell is more effective than taping up an essay.

Hey I love this meme everytime I see it, but I want to point out that that point about growing up in "similar circumstances that nurture their skill' is contingent upon working musicians being able to afford to raise children. Children that will also need to work.

Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think there is a comparable proportion of the population that are working musicians, that earn enough money to support children, but not so much that the children don't have to learn a trade, as there were in "Enlightenment" Europe where if a person wanted to hear music they had to make it themselves, or pay someone to make it, and every rich asshole had a chamber orchestra following him around.

Also parents don't teach children their trades the way they used to, and they aren't expected to support their parent's businesses the way they used to. (I'm not lamenting this). There used to be a lot of pressure on children to contribute economically. Mozart, and his siblings probably faced what we'd consider child abuse if he didn't practice. He was certainly exploited.

Michael Jackson is a Mozart of the 20th century. He was put to work at a young age to support his parents and siblings, that were also working musicians.

As much as I love Weird Al (and I do) I don't think he was groomed and exploited the same way MJ/WM were. Kudos to his parents for that I guess.

Another way of thinking about it is betting your entire bankroll for 99.9....% certainty that you will win $1.

Say you go into the casino with $1000.

Bet:

$1 lose.
$3 lose.
$9 lose.
$27 lose.
$81 lose.
$243 lose.
$729 oh wait you can't bet that much, you only have $457 left. Dang, do you bet $457 or find another $272? 

Bet $457 and you win $914! Congrats you're now only down $86!
Or maybe you lost and are down $1000.

Or maybe you scrounged up $272 so you could keep playing
Bet 729 and lose. Now you're down $1272.
Or
Bet 729 and you win 1458. Pay back the $272 you borrowed from your buddy, you're still up $186. 
You just bet $729 dollars for a %50 chance of winning $186.

But what are the chances of getting 6 or 7 losses in a row? 1 in 64, or 128 respectively, actually worse because roulette wheels aren't 50/50, they're 18/19 (18 wins and 19 losses in 37 plays on average) or worse. So losing 6 times in a row will happen 1 in 54 plays, 7 losses is 1 in 106.

Google says roulette wheels spin 55 times per hour so with your strategy you will lose your bank roll in about one hour assuming your starting bet is 0.1% of your bank roll.

I seem to recall Diogenes replied:

Likewise: if I were not Diogenes I too would wish I were Diogenes

I mean it's all probably made up but what a guy.