Mattie725

Mattie725 t1_j9yut4r wrote

Reply to comment by NinjoZata in Website that allows you to visually select the muscle you'd like to target and suggests workouts based on your selection. by bethebumblebee

Haha it was just a random muscle I thought of. Using only one head of a muscle is indeed basically impossible. Your nervous system will always activate a full muscle, but depending on certain angles you could get more of the load to certain parts :)

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Mattie725 t1_j6ovm3l wrote

Reply to comment by icanith in Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire by domo415

You mean the 'don't fight discrimination with more discrimination but just against other people' argument? I absolutely do.

I'm not denying there was and is discrimination. But that's no reason to openly discriminate against me because I am a white man.

*young man btw. It's not like I've built a career on discriminating others.

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Mattie725 t1_j6oabtp wrote

Reply to comment by bilateralrope in Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire by domo415

From my job: really good that my large, international employer focuses on diversity and everyone feeling like they have no obstacles because of gender, sexuality, colour,... However, targeting 40% women in technical/engineering positions by 2025 when it's currently 30% and only 20% of graduates in engineering are women, is letting your perfectly fine ideas of equality run over the reality of the situation.

Also from my job: I've been denied an internal training because 'we are looking for a more diverse group'. Aka, we already have a few white men so we will now deny 70% of our workforce in light of 'diversity and equality'.

Oh or better! A big city in Belgium has publicly stated that if multiple applicants for a job have the same qualifications, they will chose the one from a minority group. Again, everyone deserves a job, but you can't justify obvious discrimination because it's not against a minority.

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Mattie725 t1_j6nvk45 wrote

Reply to comment by tomassci in Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire by domo415

Haha I'm not denying that some like to use the negative connotation of 'woke' to make everything sound bad.

The extreme left will call everything bigotry and the extreme right will call everything woke. Because there can only be two options and once someone/something is labelled, further discussion isn't necessary...

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Mattie725 t1_j6nnhvq wrote

Reply to comment by menlindorn in Woke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ire by domo415

There is quite the spectrum between bigotry and what is considered as woke today though.

Today 'woke' is considered what happens when good and necessary ideas are taken too far, out of context and are merely an excuse to search for bad intentions in everything. Which was obviously not what the woke ideology was originally about.

Said all that, when a coffee bar calls itself 'Woke', I think you should find that clever regardless of your ideas.

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Mattie725 t1_iuyxvux wrote

Reply to comment by boogrit in A Simple Analysis Of Twitter's Potential Change In Business Model [OC] by chartr

Step one is not profitability. It's cleaning up the platform.

I don't understand why people ignore the reasons Elon literally gives. (just kidding, I do understand - don't agree- people just want to hate anything he does...) There is, or Elon believes there is a massive bot problem. Verified accounts will be more prominent. No scammer is going to pay 8$ a month for each of his thousand bots so they get pushed down.

Now, am I a fan of pushing down actual people who don't want to pay? No. But can we please stop ignoring the legitimate parts of his reasoning?

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