It’s not equality anymore, it’s equity.
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There are third party launchers, but they’re not as smooth.
Nvidia Shield was great, but they upgraded the user interface and shat ads all over it.
"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary bonding process—the childhood, if you will—that has the most far-reaching repercussions."
– Bad'l Ron, Wakener, "Morgan Polysoft"
Google Groups aren’t as popular nowadays. My guess is a private Discord.
PayPal and traditional banks have been closing accounts for having wrong opinions for years.
But states that don’t set their drinking age to 21 lose 8% of their highway funding.
By now, every state is in compliance, but some held out for years, and they could decide to change it in the future and forfeit the money.
They only eliminated requiring a “good cause” to obtain a CCL. Self-defense was not considered a good cause in a number of cities and counties. Being a celebrity or donating was.
Bonte is leaning hard on the other requirement of “good moral character”, so there’s going to be more lawsuits.
Try having what used to be the standard opinion about a certain topic less than 10 years ago and expect to be banned. Not just by moderators but by admins.
You can look at the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and argue about the real cause, and the Great Purge and crimes like the Katyn massacre had their own evil logic, but consider the Polish Operation of the NKVD -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD. They randomly selected Soviet men with Polish-sounding names, arrested them, and executed 80% of them.
The only thing that separated Stalin from Hitler was that Stalin sent 20% of the men to the gulag and didn't murder their families.
Old Google maybe. The kind of Google employee who broke down in 2016 asking “How could we let this happen?” has a very different approach.
"To target immigrant-hating videos, the room-sharing service uses keywords on YouTube’s ad platform that are associated with far-right content and anti-immigration groups, such as Pegida, Germany’s anti-Islamist group, and its leader Lutz Bachmann. Other keywords include “refugees out” (“asylanten raus”), “refugees terrorists,” and “the truth about refugees.”
A German can’t watch a anti-immigrant YouTube video associated with a keyword without first seeing a 30-second preroll ad from Refugees Welcome."