Well, briefly.

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Yay, a badge! :)

Of course, given the community I'm in, I'll probably end up in trouble for violating some kind of regulation that comes with having a badge like that.

Was he admitted under some sort of DEI program? I don't see anything suggesting that. And even if he was admitted under a DEI program, Yale didn't kick him out because he advocated against DEI and so they rescinded it. The issue was completely unrelated to that.

Edit: Oh, I think I see what you might be going for; the claim that the AI detector is "biased" against non-native English speakers. If that's what you meant I still think that's extremely strained, he's just pointing out that the mechanism is particularly unreliable under these circumstances. Like if a breathalyzer has a 2% false-positive rate normally but 15% false-positive rate for diabetics, and someone with diabetes is arrested based on a breathalyzer reading, he could argue against the evidence on that basis. It's not asking for "special treatment."

Edit 2: OP added the second quoted line to his comment after I edited mine, which I guess confirms my interpretation?

Yeah, "something bad happened" doesn't always mean "and therefore someone must be to blame." Sometimes life just sucks.

Actually, yes. I think we should be looking more at using hydrogen as a lifting gas, helium is too precious to squander on balloons. Its flammability can be mitigated in a variety of ways, Hindenburg was badly designed as a hydrogen airship (it was originally meant to use helium).

I'm not seeing the face-eating leopard aspect of this story. The essence of the "leopards ate my face" meme is not merely "someone experienced consequences," It's that someone actively supported, advocated for, or enabled a policy or system, and is then shocked when that same policy or system harms them.

I would agree but I'm starting to think that that would make me part of the problem. So maybe I should insult your fashion sense instead? Argue that leopards are better than jaguars? As I said, not sure how to fix this.

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Sadly, a conclusion I'm leaning towards as well. In theory this system should allow an even greater mixing of ideas than Reddit and its ilk, there's no central authority determining which subjects are forbidden. But it seems we just do that to ourselves anyway, and since each instance and each community are so much smaller than Reddit it's much more effective. The same "single giant impersonal central authority" thing that's a downside of Reddit also means that it's easier to seamlessly encounter everything that is allowed under it.

I don't really know how to fix this since it seems like most people literally want it to be this way. We don't like having our views challenged, it's comforting to look around and see that everyone agree with you.

I like that the Ivory Coast is not only in the wrong spot, it's not actually on any coast. It's right in the name.

No, mostly just the US.