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if we are in a position where civilian targets are getting bombed we have other problems. not mention in said "war" if we are reliant on green energy we will certainly lose to whoever bombed our power plants.

exactly, they are proud to tell you they block videos that are "problematic" from being recommended. But problematic to whom or what is not described. As this would surely reveal their bias in their algorithms. And also who our overlords are.

The things that jumps out to me is how statistics and studies like this shape the larger cultural discussions, legal discussions, and public policy discussions. It really shows how data can be munged, cherry picked, and altered to fit any narrative you want to send. Luckily over time scientific method should correct this but these can do serious damage in the short term.

Now that media has to tell the truth they have to get the negative Trump spin in to justify the vitriol of the last 5 years otherwise the narrative wouldn't make sense.

If he did the media would say he was a madman firing people for not believing a conspiracy theory. He can't win with you folks.

This is an example of "anything Trump says I must believe the opposite" logic that has plagued our country for the last 5 years.

We should allow Xiaomi to sell their phones in US. Reverse engineer their tech and sell knock offs of their phones at cheaper prices. Thereby eliminating them anyways.

Ho Chi Minh was trained at Lenin's "Comintern" with the expressive goal of training foreign assets to spread Soviet communist interests. These assets would be funded and supplied by the soviets to agitate revolution in their countries. This essentially is an agent.

Reason is Kaczynski was actually a genius intellectual that went mad. His observations in many ways are completely accurate. His solutions are naive, as he thinks these things could have been corrected. They must take their course unfortunately.

it wasn't all for nothing. there was time when Americans cared about advancing a free world. Free from soviet style communism. And this was an ideal worth sacrificing for. Unfortunately, Americans have been demoralized by propaganda to the point of seeing freedom as something not worth dying for.

We didn't lose though.

Agreed, We literally took over Afghanistan in a month and installed a government but somehow we lost? We just don't really have a dog in the fight anymore. This isn't defeat.

The US was fighting a proxy war with the soviet union. We had no interest in defeating the vietcong as much as stopping the spread of communism. Ho Chi Minh was a KGB agent and the communist revolution was largely born of soviet agitprop. So there is another layer to this conflict. Even though vietnam "won" they really were just puppets in a shadow war and it came at a huge cost for them. Much less than US.

The fact your comment is upvoted says all you need to know about the parcipatants in this thread.

China merely isn't just engaged in industrial espionage because it works to not duplicate effort. They steal to undermine the effort of the people that made it possible to begin with. In many cases ruining the companies that made the original innovation. This isnt crying and whinging for no reason it's unethical and wrong. This isnt a two way street where chinese innovations are helping our world. Almost everything the Chinese steal all while burning through natural resources and at alarming pace and injecting the most harmful substances into the environment. And be honest they are simply doing this to saberrattle the US and create propoganda to legitmaze an oppressive state. So, yes it's not only unfair, it's evil. And I'm not happy for China.

seasonal work is less desirable than full time work. also cape cod is an odd place. they have a huge need for seasonal low skilled labor but don't really have the housing to support it.

If you are in one cloud you aren't truly HA. You also lose all bargaining leverage. If a vendor doesn't have to compete for your business, they won't and your hosting costs will reflect that. Spotify is a big name and is in the unique position to bargain because of the name and PR. But the average enterprise should really consider the tradeoffs. I get that its hard to have hybrid cloud model but there are agnostic tooling that makes this easier to to do then ever before. Its worth considering.

this was a collaboration between between corporations like Google and Netflix that want to hamper their competition and leftist who aimed to nationalize the internet. this was the vehicle by which they essentially wanted to seize telecom companies.

Your questions are making the assumption that this would cost more and limit choice. This is not how markets work, this is exactly what government regulation and crony capitalism does.

Even in the case of your Spotify but not YT music example, what if there was a 5/month offer for 15mb internet with spotify streaming. Because spotify and your provider made a deal that subsidized the plan? At the end of the day, partnerships are not bad for the consumer. YT music could make a competing for deal for less money with more Google offerings. Also, this wouldn't eliminate an unlimited option across the board. When has competition made something more expensive? Its regulations like NN which pour amber over a system and make it impossible to be cheaper or better.

Net Neutrality has nothing to do with individuals and more to do with "entities"..entities like corporations and other very wealthy edge providers. corpos who are more worried about limiting their competition and using government to ensure they aren't impeded.

Correct, this is merely a fight between corporations on who controls the flow of information. As we have seen edge providers are also information monopolies who can censor and limit who use their platforms based on subjective whims.

There isn't any major political stance that doesn't use social media and PR groups to astroturf. Anyone pretending they aren't astroturfing are lying and you should be wary of them.

The biggest threat to humans is other humans. You can be friendly and cooperative but still wary of people you don't know.

In America, you aren't forced to have a gun. Freedom is our core ethos. You choose to have a gun. You are more than welcome to take it on faith you will never be in a situation where you need it, and thankfully most aren't.

I see where you are heading but I think you have to take in 1 level deeper than race or skin color. Its culture.

There are many non violent blacks and hispanics but their culture and values lead them in that direction.

The blacks and hispanics you are describing have a culture problem.

Unions are labor mafias that extort money from companies or government. They do whatever they can for workers at the expense of people that rely on those workers.

Furthermore they are just political machines for uber liberals and other leftwingers. I've seen unions endorse candidates that actively are working against their workers interests just for politcal endorsements.

This really is the logical conclusion for the ban and regulate crowd.

Biden was VP for 8 years while China manipulated our markets. Created scam IPOs. Engaged in state funded corporate espionage. Manipulated currency. Stole IP.

So give me a break with Biden is "much smarter'. It would take a fool to not do what they did. But the problem is much broader then just tech. The government cares about tech because this directly relates to defense.

The Trump strategy was basically to try to cut as much foreign investment into China and stop investment from coming out of China. It wasn't necessarily stupid.

The Biden strategy is essentially an arms race Cold War 2.0 and its not a bad idea but to say it "much smarter" demonstrates a bias which show you are not thinking of the double edged sword and implication of the Biden strategy.

I think most people can't stand political views they don't like. But censorship is never the answer.

So it seems the prevaling narrative from the lefties here is that because Parler was used to incite the riot it was deserved to be shut down? Is there proof Parler was anymore responsible than every other social media platform?

If this is the case, why don't we just packet sniff the backbone and block internet to any home that is perceived to be engaging in anti-American or violence?

What objective standard are you using here? Is it just ok to punish people you don't think you like?

Seems like in a post truth world its more important for lefties to ensure they are controlling narrative then seeking truth. And many lefties fear free speech as they fear it will hurt them. Ironically, they are creating precedents which will hurt us all. Censorship is a double edged sword.

Not just Facebook but Twitter and social media as whole. We are are all voluntarily choosing to support technology that beams us deception, mistruths, and lies of omission at all times. Worse, we like it because of our own vanity. Aldous Huxley warned about a society where people voluntarily enter into a totalitarian society because they are both easily deceived and receive cheap instant gratification from those in control. Seems like we are about here.

Aldous Huxley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40

Explain how it doesn't demonstrate. Because it does. The only ting that is annoying is your willful inability to acknowledge it.