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> Monopolies of what, exactly?

In many smaller countries Facebook is nearly synonymous with the internet itself.

It's alarming. I feel like the common sentiment on censorship, and many other issues, among my in-group has shifted under my feet. We have existing laws against harassment and terroristic threats, and in the case of Alex Jones it seems to me that those legal avenues are being pursued properly, so de-platforming serves only to create a dangerous precedent. As an anti-war leftist, I know that my group is next on the chopping block if it's not there already.

Yes these are private platforms, but that line of reasoning ignores the extent of the coordination between governments and these corporations. Do any of you Americans ever think how this kind of precedent will play out in smaller countries, where Facebook blindly does the bidding of corrupt governments? The internet and social media networks are the telephone and mail systems of the 21st century. At least until it is more feasible to have an online presence without going through multiple corporations as intermediaries, I think we need to be more diligent about protecting even the ugliest forms of speech on private platforms.

There are endless UFO sighting videos posted on Youtube every day.

That's a dumb attitude. Cacti produce some amazing fruits that I bet even a simpleton like you would enjoy. I eat about 60% of this list on a weekly basis, so some countries (not America) do actually have access to healthy foods already.

Seriously, why the fuck is this? I get recommended Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, MGTOW, etc. all the fucking time despite explicitly telling Youtube that I'm "not interested" in these videos.

No, it was 2c-e according to the toxicology reports in the newspapers at least.

You're not "old-fashioned", that's far too nice a word for someone who endorses violence and incarceration for people who like a drug that you disapprove of.

It's easy to overdose on 2c-e, for example. Around the time I was getting interested in phenylethylamines there was an incident in my home state where five teenagers overdosed and died by snorting lines of 2c-e.

Not all 'psychedelics' are the same, some definitely can have potential for overdose in the lethal sense.

The person who ran Open Vendor Database also did provided some security assistance / pentesting to Silk Road, as far as I could tell this person was quite competent.

No need to infantilize the retirement-age elderly -- the ones that want to work can still work, and they'll do so in a better job market with less power asymmetry between employers and employees.

> A better system would be some system where people can earn a large chunk of capital that basically sets themselves up with enough to have their own basic income that they control.

There is no reason that UBI isn't compatible with that, and a lot of its proponents would think that UBI will facilitate personal development and entrepreneurship.

No, because cigarettes will still be available on the black market for cheap.

Anecdotal, but I have eaten 5-10 mangoes a day, among other fruits, for long periods of time and remained at 8-10% body fat. I pay close attention to what I eat and how it affects my body composition, and I stopped worrying about eating too much fruit long ago.

It's probably not much more abrasive than the music it's sampled from, if the source is mostly modern classical music.

I'm really surprised by how good this is. At times it sounds a lot like something from certain popular experimental electronica artists, e.g. Daniel Lopatin, Tim hecker.

> “The Silk Road” was the first of a phenomenon that became widely known: Darknet Markets.

The history is way off here, Silk Road was one of the first two completely public darknet markets (the other being the short-lived Open Vendor Database) but there were private darknet markets long before, e.g. The Farmer's Market.

> Use of the Internet to facilitate the marketing and sales of physical goods - drugs, weapons, false identification papers - began latest in the late 1990s, but usually focused on local geographic markets in major cities. This was due to the fact that payment and delivery still required in person meetings.

Not so, back then and still to this day drug dealers simply throw a stack of cash in the mail. The clearnet markets for "research chemicals" all operated this way and went basically unchecked until Operation Web Tryp in 2004, which began an era of harsher enforcement of the Federal Analogue Act.

As someone who also enjoys music in this vein, I'd recommend trying Ravel, Mompou, Janáček, Satie, Delius, Busoni, Milhaud, Fauré, Schubert, Liszt, Domeniconi, Sibelius, Ligeti, Messiaen, Xenakis, Martinů, and Scriabin among others I'm forgetting (in roughly decreasing order of likeness). Like you I don't get much out of most earlier classical music, with the major exception of Bach, or out of totally atonal stuff either.

You must be a vegan to hold such strong opinions on this. I wonder how widely your view is shared by other vegans... I certainly see no problem with offering an animal food, though I wouldn't cage or otherwise forcibly tame an animal.

Pure ignorance.

It's very often a city ordinance. I've posted this before, here's the link to my home city's lawn gestapo:

http://www.minneapolismn.gov/inspections/report/inspections_...

But not the lead crisis.

> The point is that stealing, lying, and poisoning Americans is part of Chinese culture.

That's a pretty repulsive sentiment, and it's rich too coming from an American like yourself. Not surprising that it garners plenty of upvotes on a cesspool like "Hacker" News.

> And consider you don't have a choice, like the trolley problem, you NEED to pick one

Can I choose to drop the bomb on Americans instead?

I personally never liked the vocals despite an almost twenty year infatuation with extreme death metal. But I am very captivated by the music of bands like Infester, Wormed, Autopsy, Pustulated, Flourishing, Pyrrhon, Stargazer, Defeated Sanity, Miasma, Timeghoul, Pyaemia, Wicked Innocence, Malignancy, Disembowelment, Sintury, Human Remains, Orchidectomy, Gorguts, etc.

A few bands nowadays do release instrumental versions of their albums, this is one of my favorites:

https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-mergin...

The sentiment of your comments is just irrelevant. The news doesn't have to be surprising and no one cares that you personally aren't surprised. This is reporting that identifies a particular set of actors engaging in this immoral behavior, and therefore it is important news.

> Other commenters here have shown the contractors are nearly entirely defensive anyways.

Please prove this.

Not surprising, just another rich asshole.

Your idea is just to magnify the current approach, not change it.

Recently I was troubleshooting someone's Windows 10 computer and initially I remember thinking that the start menu's blur-transparency background effect looked nicer than what I'm used to on MATE, but then when I actually clicked one of the options the menu had totally frozen! It remained that way until a restart.