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iaHNon South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid spike

I don't know about that. I received some negative comments recently for asking for evidence that wearing a mask, while outdoors, while socially distanced was ever effective.

People still have their egos and identities attached to this, seeing disagreement as a personal or political attack.

iaHNon Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home

  Born in a diamond mine

  It's all around you, but you can't touch it

  Sayin', "God, make me famous"

  "If you can't, just make it painless"

iaHNon Peloton to invest $400M to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Ohio

I know the phrase gets overused but that would be a prime example of virtue signaling.

iaHNon Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19

I had people on here saying some pretty nasty things to me for suggesting that while social distancing is good, having a mask on when outside and more than 6 ft apart is unnecessary.

I wonder if they realize how they're proving all the "virtue signaling" critics right.

iaHNon Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire departments

Fear is incredibly profitable.

iaHNon Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

The Google play store managers and/or their bosses probably have their hands deep in it. It'd be interesting to see what a real investigation into this produces.

iaHNon Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

Do you really think that is a rare sentiment?

iaHNon Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

A large portion of our society thinks so:

https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/letters/letter-blm-is-a-r...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blackburn-rips-blms-trained...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/giuliani-stupid-communist-de-b...

iaHNon Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

An unfortunately popular sentiment nonetheless.

iaHNon Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest

Many people see BLM as a conduit for the redistribution of power and wealth towards minorities and thus communist.

iaHNon How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

Regulatory capture prevents competition. Money influencing politics prevents regulation.

iaHNon Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter

As stated elsewhere, by asking the question you’re assuming the point is to have a rational argument on consistent beliefs - but it isn’t. It’s to gaslight and misdirect for political gain.

iaHNon Stripe bans Trump campaign

There is a difference between having unpopular opinions and advocating for violently overthrowing our government.

iaHNon Mexico president slams social media censorship

> "When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me."

- Donald Trump, during his presidential bid [1]

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06...

iaHNon Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over $2.5B

> I always wonder why executives earn so much money when there is no responsibility on them when things go wrong.

The word you are looking for is "oligarchy".

iaHNon Top% of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined

If you believe that supremacy is a good thing, this is absolutely wonderful news.

iaHNon California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state

The underlying counterargument was that it was never completely "your stuff" to begin with.

iaHNon California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state

The underlying counterargument is that tax dodging is a form of violence against the poor.

iaHNon Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

Is the act of doing some drugs enough to ruin your life? The wealthy do drugs all the time. I'm willing to bet the majority of our politicians have done "illegal drugs" during their adult lives.

Why the double standard?

iaHNon Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers

What year is the correct cutoff year where the effects of slavery should be ignored?

iaHNon An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

Would that logic apply to people who joke about topics like death?

A lot of comedians would be demonized under such logic.

iaHNon Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Francisco

Rising crime waves are prevented by Nordic approaches to social welfare and economic safety nets, things Americans decry as socialist.

iaHNon Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube

Is there a way to view videos deemed nsfw without signing into a google/youtube account?

iaHNon The Big Moves: Where People Are Moving

There is a strong deluge of propaganda to make people believe that there is this sudden migration surge from California and New York to Texas and Florida. But people have always been leaving CA and NY—as people are also always moving to CA and Texas all the same.

A better statistic to take into account is net migration.

iaHNon Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

It's a bit ridiculous at this stage to suppose that those supporting Trump's coup attempt are doing so in good faith.

If you are not an American, I suppose it makes sense that you are not aware of the current political climate. If you are American, then you've been deliberately ignoring the obvious.

iaHNon Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

> Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup? I'd hope that those people are in the vast minority.

Your naivete is being taken advantage of by bad faith actors.

iaHNon MasterCard and Visa will stop processing cards for Pornhub

You mean like marijuana?

iaHNon US House Vote 228-164 Approve Legislation Decriminalize Marijuana Federal Level

Is this journalist untrustworthy?

iaHNon US House Vote 228-164 Approve Legislation Decriminalize Marijuana Federal Level

"You want to know what this was really all about?
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

- John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's aide on domestic affairs:

iaHNon U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, with Worse Likely to Come

It follows that nobody who uses the term "vice signaling" has anything useful to say.