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How exactly is this racist?
wendolynne 9 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 5 fun10 insightful - 6 fun 3 years ago

A person with Asian ancestry felt insulted by the image of the chinaman. Made a big deal about it. People of color seem to be triggered by cartoons. I don't know any white men who feel like Elmer Fudd is ridiculing them, but I have met people who take images of little black Sambo personally.

Mexico Decrees Ban on GMO Corn and Monsanto's Glyphosate Weed Killer
wendolynne 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

Corn is open pollinated, meaning its pollen floats in the air, sometimes a long distance. Thus GMO pollen contaminates crops that they prefer not to be GMO.

I am back.
wendolynne 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun 3 years ago

glad you are ok. Did your house get any water damage?

What makes you feel old?
wendolynne 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun 5 years ago

When the restaurant doesn't ask, they just give you the senior discount.

Anti-work
wendolynne 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

How does a society function if everyone has the child's attitude? Who will grow the crops? Who will make the clothes? Who will build the houses? Who will keep the internet working? Where will all the consumer goods come from? One component of a happy life: Find joy rather than drudgery in doing the things that need to be done. That is what Grandpa is trying to teach. He offers it with love. He wants you grow up to live in a happy functioning society, not a distopia where problems fester because no one will do any slave-work.

Saidit, what if we showed who voted on everything?
wendolynne 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

it would be like facebook 'likes'. you could see who agrees with you. cliches would form.

Reddit's pre-covid anti-antivaxxer hysteria: Trying to nail down the time frame.
wendolynne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

Vaccines had mercury in them, which was believed to cause autism. Congress passed legislation protecting pharma from lawsuits. Was that the early 2000s?

So, yeah, no one stormed the Capitol. The police opened the door and people calmly walked in
wendolynne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

I don't know which is more atrocious : The videos of people climbing thru broken windows or this 'welcome tourists' video. Both sides against the middle indeed.

PLEASE READ: This is what happened yesterday and why. It was a classic Psy-Op against the American people. However, these Psy-Ops are totally preventable if we can learn the lessons from this one.
wendolynne 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun 3 years ago

"Build bridges, make a big tent, and win over the majority of people. I sincerely don't believe that conservative causes are unpopular ones. Explained rationally, almost everyone in the world can agree with at least some of them. The objective must not be to set 50% against the other 50%, but to unite the 99% of honest people against the 1% of elites."

Keep the focus on the issues and causes. Avoid attributing your ideas to one side or the other, which only invites people to dismiss your ideas out-of-hand. If it is truly a good idea, something that will make the world a better place, then it will appeal to most people who listen to them. Don't unnecessarily give them a reason to avoid reading/listening.

Politics seems to attract crazy people. Rallies seem to attract violent people. Crazy and violent people seem to attract news reporters - "if it bleads it leads." Crazy violent people steal the focus and are a setback. Promoting good solid solutions is not as dramatic.

Pelosi Bans ‘Gender’ Terms Mother, Daughter, Father, Son in House Rules
wendolynne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

Ah word-smithing, the favorite pass-time of law-makers. They are not banning the words for family members. They are just cleaning up some cumbersome language - changing "mother or father" to "parent", "brother or sister" to "sibling", etc. in specific places in this particular document, where they have specified a long list of family members that this particular law applies to. It reads a little easier with half as many words and has the same meaning. Y'all are so melodramatic!

The problem with "trolling" is that the word nominally means "person expressing insincere views to upset people" but in practice overwhelmingly means "person expressing sincere views which upset me"
wendolynne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

People who believe in subjectivity over objectivity are just as common on the right. It is the default human condition, and takes training to overcome.

Why are some people great at solving complex puzzles in games (both real and digital) while others tend to stumble in the dark unless clear instructions are put in front of them? (There's no category for Psychology related questions of the human brain)
wendolynne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

A few years back I read a book by some sort of brain scientist, I forget the details, but their research showed that people start with the conclusion and then they look for supporting evidence, although they believe the opposite - that they have arrived at the conclusion after weighing the evidence. This is due to the bio-mechanical structure of our brains, that's how the mechanism works, the neural pathways and such. Once a position is taken, people will posit and believe all sorts of unrealistic scenarios to support their position, tolerating high levels of cognitive dissonance, resisting changing their minds as long as they can hold out. Sorry I don't have a link, it was an interesting book.

edit: I think this is the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522525.Mistakes_Were_Made_But_Not_by_Me_

Should People Delete Social Media Accounts Prior to January 6?
wendolynne 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun 3 years ago

Clean up the clutter. Keep only the most insightful.

Sidney Powell: ‘It Is a Mathematical Impossibility for 100’s of Thousands of Votes to Show Up For VP Biden Alone, and to Have Been Injected Into the System the Way That They Were’
wendolynne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 3 years ago

"And there was evidence voting machines were counting 1.26 for every Biden vote, but only .74 for every Trump vote." As a software engineer, I find it highly unlikely that voting machines are programed to count the vote with floating point rather than integer data types. Fractional vote counts have not been used since the civil war days. As a mathematician, I have yet to see their evidence. Nothing is preventing them from posting it on the web. the links that I have followed have not been convincing.

What's wrong that people on OpieAndAnthony sub think everyone who disagree with themselves are gay?
wendolynne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

Bottom of the pyramid behavior. Name calling.

The OnA refugees could pose an issue to the principles of Saidit
wendolynne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

Maybe when they realize that no body is down-voting them, the fun will go out of being so bad. If there is way to measure how bad you are...

April 19, 2019 Topic- Is Illegal Immigration a Financial Drain on the US Economy?
wendolynne 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun 5 years ago

Here in Iowa, back in the 1970's, meat packing was unionized, and a meat packer could make a good living, support a family, save for retirement. http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/250/meat-packing.html Field work like detassling corn was a quick way to make some money. Now these are low-wage jobs, and every so often ICE will come, arrest and deport a bunch of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid But meat prices are lower, so there is that. Small family farmers are no longer the norm. The economics are quite different. You ask "Do illegal immigrants help the US financially?" but I don't see a monolithic "the US", I see a many-faceted economy and culture. Corporate interests are served by the low-wage workers that are easily cheated and manipulated with threats of deportation, and this erodes a certain level of decency in society. When I approached a lawmaker about wage theft - workers not being paid https://www.wagetheft.org/faq - he seemed to think that only citizens deserved the protection of government. Your question seems to suggest that our neighbors are not deserving of public services. Shame on us if we fail to be compassionate!

Learn from the French! Protesting works.
wendolynne 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun 5 years ago

I've heard it said that in the US, the people fear the government, while in France it't the other way around - the government fears the people.

SaidIt Survey: Ban /u/socks and /u/ActuallyNot or keep them around?
wendolynne 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun 3 years ago

Keep them around, and stop attacking them. Y'all need to learn how to respect people who are different from yourselves.