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mansion7··on Google would rather ruin its products than pay Sonos, and that's unacceptable
China is hard at work on making this dream a reality, along with all forms of intellectual property!
mansion7··on Wikimedia Foundation spent $88M for salaries in 2021-22 as a no profit
No, I am referring to monetary grants by Wikipedia themselves, which are only a Google search away, if you'd care to look.
mansion7··on Bank of America CEO says new ESG rules are needed to reboot capitalism at WEF
They should get right on that, right after they solve the mystery of how they lost millions of Zelle transactions.
mansion7··on Wikimedia Foundation spent $88M for salaries in 2021-22 as a no profit
They do indeed pay editors, by awarding grants to hold article writing/editing marathons which they call "edit-thons".

Look up the awardees of those grants; it is clear that they largely go to organizations supporting specific political narratives.

mansion7··on Iranian Chess Arbiter Clashes with Fide over Human Rights Attire
And, with that being made abundantly clear, she should perhaps cede her role to someome who cares more about chess. Being a chess arbiter and all.
mansion7··on Elon Musk-funded nonprofit run by MIT professor offered to fund pro-nazi group
The first time I heard it was when Emmy-winning CNN host Van Jones, no Trump ally, referred to Russia-gate as a "nothingburger".

Think things through before you call people idiots by association.

mansion7··on Microsoft in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI, putting their share at 49%
How long until they until they neuter it and murder like they did Tay?
mansion7··on 'Maybe we cried too much' over shoplifting, Walgreens executive says
No.

I can get better loan rates due to my great credit, while others who have squandered their credit do not.

Similarly, criminal-coddling cities should be burdened with the higher prices that the outcomes of their voting and governance are known to deliver to them.

Not unlike how SF voters continually elect politicians who tolerate human feces and needles in their streets and get just that. It would not be fair for healthy communities to have human feces and needles spread on their cities out of some misguided sense of fairness or social justice.

mansion7··on 'Maybe we cried too much' over shoplifting, Walgreens executive says
Even though Walgreens is a national retailer, non-thieving locations should not be made to subsidize the thieving locations.

A Walgreens in small town Illinois with extremely low shrinkage ought not see any negative effects such as price increases because other, more lax on crime cities, perpetuate an atmosphere of lawlessness and tolerance of same.

mansion7··on Microsoft admits it should not have argued the FTC is unconstitutional
It may or may not be unconstitutional, but the people who conceived and wrote the constitution would vomit in outrage upon learning of its existence and barely-bridled, unelected, wide ranging power.
mansion7··on Tobacco companies must pay for clean up of discarded cigarettes in Spain
Interesting legal maneuver.

By the same logic, rap music producers should be forced to pay for the funerals of victims of gang violence.

mansion7··on California approves bill to revoke MD license for speaking Covid misinformation
Nothing will also happen to those who smeared critics as "deniers", a term previously reserved for those sympathetic to Nazism and mass genocide.
mansion7··on Elon Musk Still Silencing Journalists He Banned from Twitter
Indeed, no one was ever arbitrarily banned, silenced, censored, locked, or shadowbanned under the old regime, who were themselves not billionaires but in fact improverished migrant workers.
mansion7··on Supreme Court likely to 'dismantle' student loan forgiveness after it hears case
Coincidentally, policies that make things "get better" just happen to be promoted and supported by the political party that I support.
mansion7··on DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
Senior Twitter engineer Siru Murugesan claimed that he only worked four hours per week and acted as though this were not at all uncommon.

He also bluntly stated that Twitter was not concerned with being a profitable business venture, as they were not capitalists but socialists (his words).

This was backed up by "Lead Client Partner" Alex Martinez, who stated that Twitter's focus on being ideologically driven led to them becoming unprofitable.

Unless Twitter's culture of unprofitability and dead weight employment programs is unique in SV, perhaps other companies in midst of layoffs have similar reasons as did the new Twitter owner.

mansion7··on Meta claims US military link to online propaganda campaign
Reminds one of the now-deleted Reddit blog post naming Eglin Air Force Base as the most "Reddit-addicted" city.
mansion7··on Google to lay off 10k “poor performers”
Surely now we'll see a barrage of articles about how those respective CEOs are terrible, how they are associated with left-wing figures (as it is frequently pointed out that Musk is right-wing as a perjorative), sob stories of the laid off parties, journalist inquiries to their advertisers if they intend to halt ads (with the implication that they should), guides a on how to flee those services and providing free advertisement for their competitors, etc.
mansion7··on BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities
China, North Korea, and Iran also have excuses for how they treat their dissidents.
mansion7··on BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities
The USA itself put out a nationwide manhunt, distributing video to news outlets, asking the public to assist in identifying protesters whose only known alleged crime was trespassing.
mansion7··on FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows
We do know that at least two FBI agents were found to have conspired against him during his first campaign.

We also know that an FBI attorney falsified information to get warrants against his campaign advisor.

We know that the FBI urged the media to actually censor negative news about his political opponents.

It would be difficult to them trust such an organization to them perform fair investigations against you after those occurrences, regardless of one's political party.

mansion7··on Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic
It's impossible to stop noticing the same perpetrators doing the same things over and over.

Also, as you're no doubt aware, calling someone "smug" and calling someone a Russian-backed Nazi science-denier (and then trying to get them fired and/or prosecuted) are very, very different.

mansion7··on Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Software and coding are morally neutral.

Summoning mass false reporting brigades to destroy the livelihoods of innocent people is not.

I can't help that it's mostly one side doing it. Perhaps if it were less blatantly obvious, people would stop noticing it.

mansion7··on Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Perhaps they're aware how many scientific studies are unreplicable. Or maybe that medical error is a leading cause of death. Maybe they know about thalidomide babies.

Or perhaps they simply didn't want to take drugs pushed by people who actively hate them and demean them at every opportunity.

Or possibly they're aware of the tendency of governments the world over to use emergencies to seize power, as has undeniably been done here.

Or maybe they believe in their own version of "my body, my choice".

Possibly also they don't want to take scientific advice on people who suddenly insist that boys can be girls, and that anyone who disagrees should be banished from society.

It's foolish to think one party "owns" science, and natural that people would bristle when dictated to by perhaps the smarmiest smuggies that have ever existed on the planet.

mansion7··on Rekieta Law Removed from YouTube
A person urged their followers to falsely file reports to the bar association, with the intent to destroy his livelihood.

The bar complaints contain the information about the complainants.

He stated that he would reveal the identities of the false complainants, to which the bar association makes clear he would have access.

Social media ignored the fraudulent reporting, and preemptively censored the victim.

Scary.

mansion7··on Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions
The FBI, a large portion of whose budget would be eliminated if such crimes subsided or disappeared?

Who themselves has been caught engineering acts of terrorism, again to secure budgets and make themselves seem needed?

What a source to cite.

mansion7··on Marc Andreessen slams new multi-family affordable housing
To be fair, even poor people don't like living around one another. That's why they move away as soon as they can afford it.

That's why after realizing her sudden immense wealth, even Patrisse Cullors purchased her homes in Inglewood and a spacious ranch in Conyers, GA, instead of say Compton or Oakland.

mansion7··on Bing is censoring search results for Alex Berenson’s Substack
If so, then the CEO of Pfizer is himself creating a lot of hesitancy by getting Covid despite four shots.

It appears to demonstrate the vaccine* ineffectual, thereby making people hesitant to use it, no?

* Using the definition of "vaccine" from 6 months ago, not the recent redefinition.

mansion7··on Judge Rules Twitter to Turn over Documents to Elon Musk Revealing Fake Accounts
Would that matter?

Unless those 21 different people had 21 different numbers, wouldn't one be just as good as 21?

mansion7··on FCC proposes record $34k fine for unauthorized transmissions during wildfire
The government also took the time (and great expense) to track down J6 attendees who never even entered the capitol, or those who were actually invited in by security, meandered around, and left peaceably.

If the government wants you to be punished, and there's enough spite on the table, guilt or innocence matters little. See: Waco, Ruby Ridge, the FBI urging MLK to kill himself, and countless others that didn't make a lasting splash in the headlines.

mansion7··on Ask HN: Structure a company so that it legally cannot be acquired by Facebook?
One wonders if the provided responses can also mitigate or halt the claimed outcomes of O’Sullivan’s Law, which says that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.
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