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"In November 2022, DOD failed its fifth consecutive audit, unable to account for sixty-one percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets."

No doubt they will sell it by saying the opposite.

"Online harms are extremely dangerous to our democracy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzYj11qWb-M

"equity" is being used as though it's a magic key word and as though it's not the road to hell. Is it getting confused with "equality"?

Equality: Equal opportunity, everyone treated the same

Equity: Equal outcomes, people treated differently in order to achieve equity

The only way you get equity is through extreme top down authoritarian control and force. Think about what you'd have to do to enforce equity with one's own relatives, or even brothers and sisters, let alone society wide.

Feel free to explain why an "uncensored library" would have this criteria.

"sensitive" as a criteria is a dead giveaway they are censors advertising themselves as the opposite. It's an evolved brand of censor; like some types of predator snakes that have evolved to mimic its harmless prey.

This is a bipartisan bill and supported by the White House.

It's Patriot Act Version 2. Everything they wanted in version 1 and couldn't get, they are putting in here.

It does not contain the word TikTok. It applies to "desktop applications", "mobile applications", "gaming applications", "payment applications", "web-based applications" and everything connected to the Internet that serves >1M users within a year time period.

Fines up to $1M and 20 years in prison. It also uses civil forfeiture and makes it illegal to properly run a VPN.

This has bipartisan support.

Did anyone notice that the bill doesn't even mention Tiktok??? If it's a "bill to ban TikTok" why doesn't it name the target?

It's a red herring.

This is the Patriot Act for the Internet. Ironically they're copying the CCP playbook and want the same level of sweeping control with the implementation of a Great Firewall. It's extremely broad and includes everything connected to the internet that has >1M users in a year period.

Edit: If you don't want to read it, Louis Rossmann does a good flyover here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudlYSLFls8

There's a great book called Brave New World that explores something like that.

It's clear you don't understand or don't want to understand.

If the existing organization wanted a union, it would have established the union itself.

If it did not, it's parasitizion of an existing organism.

Forcing an existing organization to bend to your will is textbook entitlement.

You can start a new software company and run it the way you want as opposed to parasitizing an existing one. This isn't the 1800s where you have to go build an entire factory. This is software.

Some of you May Die, But it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKuxfcSrEU

In practice these roles are about enforcing their own ideology, which informs their ethics and what they believe are the correct ethics for the entire world.

That's how we get AI that is not neutral. Microsoft made a necessary move if their goal is to be more neutral.

Imagine the narcissism required to change the words of a classic book.

Or buy the physical version. Buy it now for anything you want to be able to read in its original form.

What are the odds. No really, what are the odds?

It's also wordplay to cover for the fact that many live beyond their means. Earn more, spend more.

Lifestyle inflation is more common than we like to admit.

When I made $30k per year I lived paycheck to paycheck.

When I made $50k per year I moved into a larger apartment and lived paycheck to paycheck.

When I made $80k per year I bought a new car and starting ordering food with UberEats, and well, you get the point.

"potentially" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

The next time someone asks, "What do you mean by woke? Isn't that just about being aware and kind?"

I thought so at first too, but no. It's use the words we tell you to use. Have the opinions we tell you to have. Otherwise it's harmful and you're a bad person.

This initiative is what is meant by “woke” and ones similar to it. It's a dangerous totalitarianism that presents itself with exactly this kind of empathetic language and emotional blackmail. It's intolerance disguised as tolerance.

Yes, that's right. It's racist but defended as "anti-racist", which is a remarkably effective phrase.

It was the same thing with food packaging. Land 'o Lakes literally removed the Native American woman but they kept the land! She used to be in every grocery store. Now removed.

This is why we should have rejected changing master to main. No one was offended by that in the first place! They created the problem and negative association entirely out of thin air.

But we accepted it, updated our tooling, retrained our muscle memory from git checkout master to git checkout main to appease them. We gave them a taste of power and they're going to keep exercising it until meeting sufficient resistance.

Enough people need to call it out and say No. It shouldn't be that hard. This is a small power drunk group that's colonizing the language. Point it out. No one gets to dictate our language from the top down.

What will they deliver to me, a xi/xir, born in 1935?

It's funny you call out the exception as tedious as opposed to the groupthink that's mindlessly enforced and repeated ad nauseam on most Subreddits.

On r/wallstreetbets there is an automod that proactively deletes people's comments to save them from Reddit's Orwellian "Anti-Evil" foot soldiers.

"Reddit has a paid team called Anti-Evil Operations (part of the "Trust" & "Safety" team) which goes around permanently banning accounts for saying bad words. We made automod block them so you don't lose your account for saying a word and getting reported. It's not our rule, it's the entire website now, we're just trying to look out for our people. Sorry."

Also from Wikipedia: While national definitions vary, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.

From the Oxford dictionary (recession): a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.

It's only now that we're seeing all this slimy lawyering about the definition of recession. "Well acksually, technically..."

I'm liberal and don't want central planning. It terrifies me that we are headed down that road at all; even seeing trial balloons for price controls. It always ends very, very badly and there's no reason to think this time would be different.

Is the idea here that SHEL.L suddenly became a profit focused company after all these decades?

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

I was just quoting from the book to provide missing context. My read is that they are casting a larger net than the traditional definition to include anyone that disagrees with their ideology.

Here's what the book says,

"Sometimes they're called Nazis. Other times, they're the far-right or alt-right. White Nationalists. No matter the name, hateful groups are spewing vile, racist, anti-immigrant, anti-POC, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-anything-but-white-Christian-views ideologies.

SCREW THAT.

ALWAYS PUNCH NAZIS".

Good point. I didn't realize they had already weeded them out.