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Poor countries are usually religious which plays an impact on the fertility rate. The last numbers I saw were 70% of North Koreans are not religious.

How accurate are NK statistics?

>US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy

It is not necessarily hypocrisy. I haven't paid too much attention, but does the US say China banning Facebook or Google is anti free speech?

If not, then the US is not being hypocritical. Perhaps, double standards or something like that is more of what you were looking for?

>Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China

China builds roads. If the US builds roads it will become just like China.

>a state that censors information and speech from its citizens because the government is scared of it.

You think Europe is doing this when they banned RT, right?

I hope you were paid more than 50 cents for all the bootlicking you have been engaging in through this thread. If the West is as bad as you say, please just move to China and leave the rest of us alone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

>I don’t believe the average western person would care at all if they could afford fewer cheap products

I don't think this is the case. The average person wants a lot of things for cheap. Also, more expensive items like computers and phones would increase in price. People like having the newest phones, but might be priced out of it if it increased.

I don't think he is doing it strictly because the remaining team can't handle the development. He talked about open sourcing the recommendation algorithm before he even bought Twitter. Back in November 2022 he said:

>One of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open-source the algorithm.

>Any changes to people's tweets -- if they're emphasized or de-emphasized -- that action should be made apparent ... so there's there's no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually.

They somewhat address that point by just saying they will figure it out later.

>Some will say that this narrows the kind of roles that we can hire for. In particular, different roles can have very different comp models (sales often has a significant commission component in exchange for a lower base, for example). There is truth to this too – but for the moment we’re going to put this in the "but-this-can’t-scale" bucket.

We don't really know that Whatsapp has achieved challenge #1.

Regardless, here are two big reasons why Signal is superior.

1. Not owned by Facebook

2. Open Source

Looks like it was as peaceful as other protests described as mostly peaceful that have happened over the last few years.

Which Russian media has been banned in the US?

Well it seems like they are better off than on social security

>At the end of fiscal year 2018, the average annuity paid to career rail employees was $3,525 per month, the average annuity paid for all retired rail employees was $2,815 per month, and the average retirement benefit under Social Security was $1,415 per month

I agree there was no tangible evidence, but there was circumstantial evidence, the lab's proximity to Wuhan and also scientists from China making the claims.

The problem is large chunk of the media didn't say, as you are saying, that there was no evidence, which would be fine to argue. They just said it didn't come from lab, period, full stop. There is a difference from saying there is no proof and that something didn't happen. They also labelled anybody who said it came from a lab a racist or xenophobe. There was no debate or discussion in the public sphere. People were literally banned off social media for saying it came from a lab.

I don't think any evidence that it spread from an animal to humans discounts the lab leak. The lab could have an animal which infected a human worked at the lab. There are also other potentials like an infected animal escaped the lab and infected somebody outside. Both of these would still be lab leaks.

We also knew pretty early on that China was hiding things. Suggesting it was gradual is wrong. There were a lot of conspiracy theories about the death of Dr. Li Wenliang in early February 2020, with the suggestion that China killed him to stop him from exposing China further. Dr. Li-Meng Yan has also been talking since April 2020 about China covering up things. Those are the earliest substantial claims about China covering up things that I am aware of, but there may be earlier cases I am forgetting.

I agree that today we have seen no real evidence and that we probably will never know the truth. China did that to themselves by covering up evidence and having shills in the WHO instead of letting all the evidence come out.

I believe the poster is trying to say if you provide an objective assessment of the situation, a person who hasn't been tainted by the media would have the more accurate take.

Large chunks of the media assured us that it was not only impossible that the virus came from a lab but also racist and xenophobic to even suggest it. If you told the average person who didn't watch the news that a lab that studies corona viruses is in a city where a corona virus started many would just assume it came from the lab.

She was cancelled and then uncanceled. It is impossible to meet your standards of cancellation unless you wait until the person dies to ensure they aren't uncanceled sometime in the future. That is ridiculous.

>Lol looked her up, she's steve bannon's protege so who knows? Stranger things have happened.

Are you going to make an actual argument or just say people she interacts are bad? Is she a racist, xenophobic white nationalist like you claimed? No? Then admit you were wrong.

Dr. Li-Meng Yan was banned on Twitter for the lab leak theory. I think her account is back now though.

Do you think a Chinese born scientist is a white nationalist?

>In our testing, we found that you can browse for 17 hours or watch YouTube for 18 hours

I'm quite interested in how YouTube can give more hours than browsing. Is it due to the bloat of modern webpages or something else?

>People were told something? by whom?

I couldn't find the clip, but I think I saw it on CNN. It was one of the mainstream news outlets, might have been ABC or NBC or something like that.

>You act as if there is some sort of authority on this...

I think you are reading more into my comment than you should.

>online, sooner or later, you will see just about any opinion expressed.

Sure... Not sure why that matters. I'm not just talking about random posts.

> so when you give the example you did, what value is it? the standard shouldn't be "what someone says online" but what a reasonable person would think.

The problem is mainstream outlets are pushing this. That influences people and can cause people who were reasonable to become unreasonable. Unless you don't think people watched by millions can influence others?

I'm not sure what you are asking.

People said disagreeing with the organization of BLM means you disagree that black lives matter.

If you disagree with groups that use it is OK to be white, then using the same logic that means you disagree with the phrase as well.

The problem is when people said they didn't like Black Lives Matter due to the organization they were told it doesn't matter because black lives matter. This is a double standard.

It still wouldn't work. People will complain that either they are not properly checking people are who they say they are or they will say it is too difficult to get an id and it will disenfranchise the poor/minorities.

Technology monopolies are bad since one critical vulnerability means everybody is impacted. Having a standard that people conform to is fine, but the monopoly on an implementation is bad.

How would you expect to implement a double blind interview? Have the interview over text or something?

They need to fly to ensure that new pilots learn and older pilots remain polished. They don't need to blow up a pico balloon if that is what it was.

2FA over SMS is the least secure option. It is free to use more secure options.

>Non-SMS authentication requires a smartphone and not just a cell phone.

Not accurate. There are applications for totp for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Nope. FEMA and the EPA are going to be helping.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3864078-ohio-g...

There are a lot of people here talking about privacy and preventing the seizing of money. There is another issue though. Being able to buy things without power is also important.

This article puts systematic stupidity on display.

Incorruptible bodies are not proof of sainthood. Also, I assume Lenin's body had something done to it?

The Navy has a patent on creating fake UFOs that appear on radar and other sensors so that seems like a perfectly logical explanation. It would also explain why the Navy disproportionately sees the UFOs when compared to the Air Force.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/05/11/us-nav...