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Right, so, the Silicon Valley workplace is in fact a forum for political perspectives, as long as they're in line with the imperatives of the MIC and the profits to be made from selling to it.

At my company the CEO sent out a long email after October 7 lamenting how horrible and unjustified it was. Did the same occur at any of these BigTech MIC puppet companies?

The parent's criticism was of the American government. Also, Israel is certainly not acting more restrained in Gaza; civilian deaths are well over 100K at this point.

Why are you booing me, I'm right!

Sounds like a very vindictive policy in service of a mandate that ultimately turned out to be essentially useless at reducing the incidence of first-time COVID infections.

It was unscientific to impose any mandates for COVID vaccines whatsoever. Aside from the fact that the virus itself was not particularly dangerous to the vast majority of people, the vaccines themselves were already well known to provide very little (if any) protection against infection or transmission before any mandates were even imposed. To say nothing of the fact that it was not possible to have proven their safety after less than 2 years since their invention.

Do you think we're currently carrying out a genocide in Gaza because it's what was indicated as desired through "feedback from diplomatic peers and voting citizens"?

wow, I didn't know there were still "Russia is losing the war and on the brink of collapse" people still kicking around. Never underestimate the power of narrative!

And how is that distinction relevant to whether a given act should be labeled "terrorism" or not?

What percentage of Gaza, would you say, has to be leveled and carpet bombed before you would no longer characterize the Israelis as "limiting collateral damage"?

Wow, naming the Skynet targeting system "Gospel" puts a particularly Satanic flourish on the whole thing.

Okay, well then if government buildings house any members of the IDF or apartheid South Africa's military, then certainly they are also legitimate targets and it is not "terrorism" to destroy them with bombs? Or, conversely, the label must also be applied to IDF sorties?

Is the IDF dropping bombs on apartment buildings in Beirut "terrorism"?

Ah I see, so it's only "inciting" some forms of violence which is proscribed.

The "consequences" you are attempting to portray as some kind of inevitable law of nature are in fact a matter of policy choice, nothing more.

Do you mean to suggest that the actions taken against the journalist reported in this article didn't actually occur, or that they did occur and are justified?

The earlier journalist arrests that were made in the UK were for expressing support for Hamas's resistance against Israeli occupation and campaigns in Gaza. Is a similar standard of "inciting hatred and violence" applied to supporters of the IDF?

I'm hoping JetBrains will get Amper right, but it does seem like overcoming the inertia of these tools as a major layer in the ecosystem's foundation is really tough.

> FWIW you can override the stack trace collecting behaviour of Java exceptions.

Could I ask you to point to an example?

The earliest form of a QAnon style narrative being advanced in the public was from Steve Pieczenik, who has a deep intelligence background (involved with the Aldo Moro kidnapping), who was talking about a white hat coup on Alex Jones's show (another source that glows in and of itself) in 2015, a full year before the first Pizzagate drops. I highly doubt it was started as a "LARP" by people who didn't already have deep knowledge of ARGs and psyops.

There's very little veracity to his claims QAnon was run by some 8chan rando in the Philippines as well, so I agree with your guess here.

> And Bloomberg reports that Washington officials are fearful that Russia will help Iran cross the finish line in its race for nuclear weapons.

Nothing would do more for Middle East stability and the prevention of WWIII than Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. It would immediately take an invasion by the U.S. or its Israeli proxy off the table.

And I don't want the JVM hamstrung from a whole host of optimizations because this random stuff could be happening at any point.

It's really a long running effort that encompasses many JEPs. Modules, FFM, the Unsafe deprecation, and more all play a part.

Thiel has already massively bankrolled Trump through a vast array of think tanks and "independent" media properties and influencers. If anything this headline is probably just meant to distract from that fact.

"the media _said_ why they were covering the rally, checkmate and QED good sir" lol just pathetic

This is the same set of institutions that insisted from January 6, 2021 until about June of this year that Trump was a literal existential threat to democracy who had attempted to carry out an actual insurrection, and needed to be completely deplatformed. Now, all of a sudden deciding to cover his campaign like it's just one more ordinary old POTUS horse race. Okay.

The only truly dispositive photos are the one where he has a little blood on his fingertip after first reaching up to his ear, and the one that supposedly captured a bullet whizzing right past his head, and you'd hardly need AI to make either of them.

Could have used some more precise language w.r.t. Trump "disappearing" from the public eye (there was commentary about it at the time, the usual take being that he was happy to just sit back and let Biden & the Dems self detonate, a single rally during the period in question doesn't change this), or the media coverage (Butler was CNN's first live broadcast of a rally). What the media said about why they were broadcasting the rally is just that, a statement, and it may or may not be aligned with the actual truth (or even understanding of the people making the statement). "The Secret Service repositions" people all the time" is just a banal and unhelpful statement of fact, which dodges the peculiar effect of this particular repositioning in both effect (more visibility for the photographers, less for the crowd/spectators) and timing. I'm in no way obligated to establish that the SS "never repositions people" in order to argue that this is suspicious.

These don't constitute "lies," nor do they excuse your underhanded attempt to dismiss the rest of the list of facts as false (probably because they are indeed quite improbable).

Now you're assuming I think things I didn't even write.

No, of course Trump didn't allow a shot to be taken anywhere near his head. You are certainly correct that he's a very self-regarding person unlikely to put himself in harm's way (another reason the "fight fight fight" fistpump is incongruent with the presence of a genuine threat). What we saw on his ear was just stage blood.

It's already emerged that there were men with guns in the building directly underneath Crooks, one of them probably fired some rounds into the crowd to give the scene believability. I doubt Crooks was even allowed to get on top of that building and point a rifle with live rounds anywhere in Trump's direction.

What's insane about it, exactly? I mean, almost the entirety of the post is actually just a recitation of observable and verifiable facts.

It's a far more plausible accounting of the facts than either mainstream narrative (there are two different ones being pitched to the pro- and anti-Trump camps in this case), but you're not going to accept that because of the level of cognitive dissonance it would generate with your existing perceptions of how the world works (particularly the idea that you're too smart to be fooled).

"Flat Earth" isn't an organic thing either, clearly an astroturfed movement meant to give people like you a handy example of why all such questioning is badthought.