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Comment · 6 years ago
Here is a more balant racism experience I had. On a date night, we sat next to another couple. The guy was really not happy, he started talking just loud enough for us to hear that Trump will round up all Muslims and immigrants and ship them out. Then he started singing that his cousin is Navy Seal and he likes to kill Iraqis, Afghanis, and all the dities. His date kept telling him to shut up. He asked waitress to change tables, I think.

We tried our best to ignore and have a good evening. This is the only incident in last 4 years but never experienced anything like this before especially in upscale restaurants.

Comment · 6 years ago
Mostly attitude changes. Like if our group of mostly brown people with kids is at a festival, security gaurds or cops would all of sudden hangout next to us. We would just laugh it off and cops are not rude or anything. But I rarely noticed cops hanging out near us when we are in mostly white group.

Another thing, a little worse service especially at upscale suburban resturants. Now brown/desi people are known to be cheap when it comes to tips, so that does have some effect on the service. However, before 2016, we rarely got bad/slow service. But it seems we had more issues at resturants in last 4 years than before. (Btw I always tip decent 20% standard and more depending on the service)

From cool I meant people now openly sterotype minorities especially on Facebook. Both young and old. Like friends complaining that they didn't get a job because company was trying to hire a black woman. And, in fact, I have heard from multiple of my Republican friends that a Black Woman is the most powerful person in the US. (Ofc, I don't believe that)

Comment · 6 years ago
Policy wise he probably didn't make any bad decisions. But his words have made it okay to be racist. As a minority, I experienced more minor forms of racism in last 4 years than in last 20 years before. He made it cool to be racist. He made my life slightly more inconvenient. And I am sure if I didn't had high paying job I would have suffered more balant racism. Trump is evil human and I am glad he will gone soon enough.
Comment · 6 years ago
It seems most managers just want a thing done. It is really engineers who do the thing right.
Comment · 6 years ago
There are a lot of stories of people paying for Google Services getting locked out too.

Personal experience, once I created an Adword ad using one of the image that Google Ad creator had suggested. It was nothing, just a woman in bikini. It was approved and then rejected with warning that I violated their guidelines. I wanted protest but thought probably not worth it. This could have perma banned me from Google, I stopped using AdWords.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is the post I needed to start cutting out Google as much as possible. Not because I want to go 100% Google free but having too many Google services means that you are more likely to inadvertently violate one of their terms.

1. Remove Google Analytics and Adsense. Especially Adsense seems high risk.

2. Remove free apps from Play Store

3. Stop uploading public videos on YouTube

4. Stop sharing files through Google Drive

5. Use only my own domain for emails that are forwarded to Gmail.

6 Stop storing passwords in Chrome.

Only reason I want to keep Google is for Gmail, calendar, Nest Thermostats, Nest Doorbell.

Photos are already backed up in Apple Photos in addition to Google Photos.

Comment · 6 years ago
That was my first thought that wine drinkers tend to richer, so live longer. But when I looked deeper, those studies actually controlled for various factors including income and education.
Comment · 6 years ago
I prefer web clients because I don't want bloatware on PC. Only when desktop client has some feature that I really need and I trust the company, then I install desktop client.
Comment · 6 years ago
Knowingly buying stolen property is illegal and may result in jail time.

Unknowingly buying stolen property still comes with a risk that if LE ever find it, they can take it away from you without compensating you.

I had my TV stolen and sold to a pawn shop. Detectives found it at local pawn shop and they recovered it for me. These laws exist so that when one is engaged in business, they have to do reasonable due diligence that they are not dealing with stolen or illegal goods.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is not collective punishment. There are already laws where children have to give up inheritance because it was created with illegal activities. There are laws against illegal dumping of dangerous chemicals. It is not too far fetched idea that existing laws can be used to recover some of damages caused by this.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, women seems to be attracted to guys with dogs. As a guy, I have a dog, every time I take him out to dog park without my wife, I get hit on.

But dogs are so much work and they are needy. If I had to do over, I would get a cat. My friends with cat can take wknd trip without taking or boarding their cats. Sometimes, they have no idea where their cat is.

My guess is having a dog is not about masculinity but it shows that this guy can handle responsibility and needs of others.

Comment · 6 years ago
People believe first then look for proofs.

I know people who still refuse to believe that the earth is spehere. Especially, when religon is involved they won't even believe their own eyes. Someone actually said that the way universe appear is because God is testing us.

But you can convince them by making them feel good and hit on their emotions. It feels dirty salesy marketing bs. But apparently it works on us.

I have been telling some conspiracy theories to help some friends. I don't think they believe me, i wish i can make cool videos. The theory I say is that COVID19 is made by government to save money on social security. Wearing masks is messing up the government plans so that's why they are so against it. Etc.

Comment · 6 years ago
Wasn't there a thread recently about Glassdoor hiding negative reviews if companies pay up for advertising.

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