Here's a definition that should be acceptable to both sides.

Wokeness is the belief in three axioms: 1. Disparity is undesirable 2. Disparity is caused by discrimination 3. Applying different discrimination will reduce disparity

Those on the "for" side will agree with these axioms. Those on the "against" side will disagree with these axioms.

Is it possible to punish everyone in group X because of the bad behaviour of some people in group X? That's called guilt by association.

Economic sanctions on Russia would also impoverish Russians who had no say in the invasion. That's unfortunate, but what is the alternative?

Sanctions were a factor in ending apartheid. Likewise they can play a part in ending a mobster takeover of nations. Democracy must be kept. Dictatorship must be ended.

This non-american finds it amusing that the only two categories of people in Portland are liberals and white supremacists.

Hah! No, it's not. I was playing on stereotypes. There is a stereotype that local farmers-markets are for "liberal hippie" people (see: the television sitcom "Portlandia").

Based on my travels to other countries, local farmers markets are simply called "markets" and there is nothing unusual about them. In the USA, small local markets and co-ops are a fringe thing because we are fed almost entirely by industrial farming through vast supply chains that terminate at enormous multi-purpose grocery stores.

I may have a few facts wrong, but this consolidation started after WWII, and local food co-ops were considered liberal operations because it was "liberal hippies" who were opposed to the industrialization of food.

Seeing extremely far right subsets embracing what has generally been considered far left behavior is just amusing.

Hope this clarifies!

> I only wish these services did 1 thing differently - and that is, release a live video stream of their server farm's rack

This is security theatre. Anyone wanting to surreptitiously access the server farm only has to stream an alternate video to defeat this.

Trying to gain trust against something you have no control over is the very definition of security theatre.

Um, no.

I'm saying that staff can be observed as behaving correctly, professionally, and more. This would build trust in the brand from multiple perspective, not just security.

There are been a few cases in which this has turned around public opinion re: trust.

That's really fair, and I think you have a good point. Perhaps operating in a publicly visible place - think floor-to-ceiling windows at that particular server rack.

If you develop software, Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" is an excellent journeyman level book.

I second this. I had to stop programming full time due to right pinky strain. Programmer dvorak let me resume full time keyboard use with no pain.

Once one side starts speculating on things like this, the other side starts speculating on things like what was an intoxicated man doing in the driver's seat on a car.

It's not helpful to the issue, which is that he was murdered by police, and that something needs to change to prevent something similar from happening again.

I'm just pointing out that the change proposed in the OP wouldn't have saved Floyd. The cops would come for anyone accused of passing counterfeit money and not returning the merchandise.

Offloading cases to social agencies wouldn't have saved him indirectly, either. Four cops were almost immediately available to subdue and/or arrest him.

Heck, it even looks like 5-303.01B here [1[ would have prevented Floyd's murder, had it been followed:

> It shall be the duty of every sworn employee present at any scene where physical force is being applied to either stop or attempt to stop another sworn employee when force is being inappropriately applied or is no longer required.

The problem has more to do with things that are squishier than policy: enforcement and the culture within the department.

1. http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/policy/mpdpolicy_5-30...

It doesn't make sense to compare absolute number of deaths across different cities. You need to normalise against number of police interactions with the public (approximated by population size * crime rate).

With my geographer hat on - and not being from the US, so I don't instinctively know where all the cities are - I was disappointed not to see a static display of deaths on a map. Ideally with the option to normalize at the users choice, both by population size alone, and by the crime rate suggestion above. The best sort of display would probably be circles for each city or state that scale in size, as choropleth maps tend to under-represent small areas.

I don't mean to criticize the animated map, as it's impactful, just not very good for understanding the geography of the problem. e.g. are all US cities like this, or is it disproportionately a few of them? is the problem clustered spatially in particular regions?

Scroll down a bit for the graph contrasting violent crime rate per 1K population (according to some metric) to police killings per 1M population. Really interesting seeing absolutely no correlation.