Calling something "flamebait" doesn't mean it's offensive. Calling it flamebait means you think it's something that's done with malicious intent. Here you go again, trying to insert feelings into an argument.

Consider that these "noisy" and not perfect environments are real case scenarios that the average person might try to use them for. These were given to a person to test out like the average person would. No one expects these type of people to review them in the optimal conditions.

It's entirely inflammatory and malicious because you're trying to paint him as an asshole. If we remove the "feelings" factor from the KKK portion, many geeks / nerds will find titles like "grand wizard" pretty cool. It's not hard to see that point. You're being the snowflake by over reacting to it and spinning a narrative to paint the guy in a negative light. Your post was modded correctly. Perhaps understanding nuance in a persons statements rather than kowtowing to a PC narrative would suit you better long term.

Are you saying that testosterone and estrogen don't give men and women different benefits? Men, on average, have significantly higher levels of testosterone than women. Woman, on average, have significantly higher levels of estrogen than men. These biological differences make them better and worse at different things. It's an objective fact.

All you've done is rephrase it so someone's PC narrative mind doesn't get hurt in the process, to which I say, who cares?

Checkmate? If less men are going into tech at these bigger companies that are slowly turning themselves into these soviet hellholes, they can reach their gender parity quota that they're always striving for. Companies like google, are a household name. People aren't just going to suddenly massively stop using their big products. There may be a decline, but it will be over a long period.

Well, perhaps more than white males should take IT courses. Women, by far and large, would rather work in other STEM fields over tech. Throwing in this not so subtle jab just detracts from everything else. It's incredibly racist and sexist.

Expect someone to figure out how to use this system to send a bunch of takedown notices of their material that they couldn't find before due to mis-labeling of the vids.

I stand corrected. It took me a bit of digging, but the cash payout thing is entirely false, apparently. It's all tax incentives in one form or another..

Except the first linked article mentions cash payouts. Why use the words, "cash payouts" if that's not what is going on? It even separates out cash payouts and tax incentives.

I went to the Reuters version for more clarity.

This only holds true if they end up creating 13k jobs. Otherwise they get about 1.35 billion according to the Ars Technica article.. It's still a tough pill to swallow considering that job creation numbers from this deal are all over the place and it's quite difficult to see how much income tax revenue is generated from this. We also have to consider how much sales tax revenue will be generated from people having jobs, and how many other businesses in the area will be created from people having more money to spend.

It's all really speculative at this point and those large numbers seem damning due to the amount of unknowns. I don't disagree it looks bad.

It states the average salary will be 53k a year in the article. As long as the low end worker doesn't fall below 30k a year, they will get about 10 million in tax revenue from income tax alone. With that said, it will take some time for that 10 million in revenue to compensate for the substantially large cash payments.

From the article:

How is a cash payment a deference of paying taxes? Is the wording in the article incorrect? It appears the deference you're talking about only looks like $150 million dollars.

I hope you realize communists have killed more people than Nazi's (fascists) have. You're looking at this situation in a bubble and ignoring greater history. Did you forget the 1950's where we waged an ideological war on communism? Now suddenly we're saying that the group of people who have historically done a lot worse are somehow better than the group who has done less evil because of your feelings.

How about we drop the virtue signaling because it's the popular thing of the day and realize that what a rational person would consider extreme sides of the political divide are complicit in terrible acts and there's certainly no false equivalence here.

I think it's more sinister than that. It's not about attacking Christians. It's not even about attacking white people. It's not even about attacking Nazi's.

It's about thought control. They are attempting to control what is and isn't moral and just. This generation will fight it, but will the next? How many of them will never think about these things through their formative years?

Why are you so rude to black people?