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drquaithe t1_j7h8049 wrote
Reply to comment by skywalker_g in [OC] European attitudes towards Muslims and Jews by Udzu
Calling a disfunctional nobles' oligarchy a "democracy" is a helluva take. It actually led to more and more inequality and there was literal slavery of the noble class over peasants ("pańszczyzna"). They OWNED them and had the right of life or death over them.
drquaithe t1_j7h783a wrote
Reply to comment by Beavshak in [OC] European attitudes towards Muslims and Jews by Udzu
There's a lot of latent xenophobia. I grew up as one of the few kids in Poland with an obviously Jewish name and it was all kinds of awful, especially coming from a few teachers. Although younger generations are way better.
drquaithe t1_j5xlgbh wrote
I know people working on it at Caltech but they went the biotech route rather than medicine.
drquaithe t1_j5k8mie wrote
Reply to comment by streamofstars in Racial diversity in top tech & biotech companies [OC] by teamongered
Oh my sweet summer child. You should look at current events and political tensions in basically any country in either of the Americas and the Caribbean, and many of the countries beyond.
drquaithe t1_j5i0z5r wrote
Reply to comment by BaalHammonBePraised in Racial diversity in top tech & biotech companies [OC] by teamongered
Because the USA was built by genocide and slavery and what it is now is their direct descendant. You can't understand much about it in any kind of precise way without factoring in race.
It's like measuring something about the British Isles and lumping together the statistics for England and Ireland. Or talking about austerity in the EU without factoring in the difference in its effects on the southern Europe vs central and northern. It will miss the picture.
drquaithe t1_j5fnqwu wrote
This obviously includes all employees, including Amazon warehouse and delivery workers. Some companies have mostly tech employees. As it is it's not a very useful metric.
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drquaithe t1_j1z2825 wrote
Reply to comment by Guiver5000 in Russians did such a good job promoting renewable energy and electric vehicles this year. by darth_nadoma
Why the downvotes? Guiver5000 is correct, Europe needs its nuclear energy capacity in order to be significantly more independent of gas imports in the short term. Germany closing down fission stations and using gas instead is indefensible.
drquaithe t1_j1bx70z wrote
Reply to Why is this sub so luddite now ? by Shelfrock77
"Luddite" is not the insult you think it is.
They were a movement of qualified textile workers who were opposed to getting automated away with machines. Factory bosses got many of them killed for protesting.
It's actually an excellent comparison.
drquaithe t1_iz51abd wrote
Reply to Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics wins $50 million deal to help develop driverless Army vehicles by Gari_305
50 million sounds low for that, unless they're just doing R&D and no production.
drquaithe t1_j8e950f wrote
Reply to My stripper earnings on Super Bowl Sunday and Monday as compared to the rest of the year [OC] by nerdydancing
I would be curious how it compares to other Sundays and Mondays specifically