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mimikatzon A drama professor told students they got their feelings hurt too easily

The fault lies with the person who didn’t send things out using bcc

mimikatzon 10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes

Subtract it from the lower social security costs

mimikatzon YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/youtube-will-not-ban-yg-...

When songs promote robbing Asian people YouTube says “ In a memo to staff explaining the rationale for not barring the YG video, management wrote: “We’ll start by saying we find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian community. One of the biggest challenges of working in Trust & Safety is that sometimes we have to leave up content we disagree with or find offensive… Sometimes videos that otherwise violate our policies are allowed to stay up if they have Educational, Documentary, Scientific or Artistic context…

“In this case, this video receives an EDSA exception as a musical performance,” YouTube’s memo to staffers continued. “While EDSA is not a free pass for any content, there are likely thousands of music videos that would otherwise violate policies including Sex & Nudity, Violent or Graphic Content and Hate Speech were it not for these sorts of EDSA exceptions. As a result, removing this video would have far-reaching implications for other musical content containing similarly violent or offensive lyrics, in genres ranging from rap to rock. While we debated this decision at length amongst our policy experts, we made the difficult decision to leave the video up to enforce our policy consistently and avoid setting a precedent that may lead to us having to remove a lot of other music on YouTube.”

mimikatzon Big fossil fuel producers' plans far exceed climate targets, U.N. says

Attacking the supply side seems odd. Shouldn't demand for fossil fuels be the target? The issue is capitalism doesn't believe politicians about the future and are planning based off their predicted reality.

mimikatzon Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy

Wait till they hear about the values in the Grand Theft Auto games that kids are playing.

mimikatzon Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew

Weird how much all this sounds like people against video games, you can add targets kids to the list.

mimikatzon Facebook whistleblower says she wants to fix company, not harm it

What is the difference between bad intelligence vs the average conspiracy theorist? It is all just bad intelligence someone telling someone else "data" that they then "trust" reflects reality when in reality it doesn't.

mimikatzon Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes

You are right. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2015/09/04/05316abe-...

mimikatzon Whistle-Blower to Accuse Facebook of Contributing to Jan. 6 Riot, Memo Says

Of course Facebook a communications platform used by almost all old Americans was contributed to a bunch of old people communicating and organizing a horrible event. So did Telephones, cars, churches, TV media, newspapers, airplanes, talking, radio, and text messages.

mimikatzon Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order

This is a rough claim to make today. There a "fight" for 15, now most places are paying 15 for labor and Amazon warehouses are pushing 25. In the last year its pretty clear ages have gone up for the bottom half and by a large margin.

mimikatzon Italy wants an exception to Europe's gas-engine ban for Ferrari, Lamborghini

Bans are dumb. Taxes are smarter. Making the better alternatives better product is best.

mimikatzon Norway bans gas cars in 2025 but trends point toward 100%EV sales as early April

EVs are likely better for C-Stores like 7/11. People will have to wait longer more likely to shop, pick up food or some smokes.

mimikatzon A Billionaire-Funded Website Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors

Lame attacks used by both sides. It is a template

Billionaires (Koch or Soros) attacking using organization (anecdotes about worst members worst actions, communists beating up a journalist, Nazi's beating up a journalist) tied to activity (riots/attempted coup)... blah blah blah

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Seems like it is an important part of a currency.

mimikatzon El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as official currency, first country to do so

Down 1.6 million the first day. Good luck 400 coins BTC-USD Bitcoin USD 47,256.78 -4,285.39 -8.31%

mimikatzon Google is committing $10B to advance cybersecurity

Not that bad, Tencent had to promise 15 Billion to the Chinese government to share the wealth.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/tencent-d...

mimikatzon YouTube suspends filmmaker Oliver Ressler’s account without warning

Isn't the conventional wisdom now YouTube can ban or show whatever they please.

mimikatzon California sues Activision Blizzard over unequal pay, sexual harassment

That does sound right

mimikatzon Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents

"without a single penny spent of tax dollar money. We've been fortunate to get enough grant money from both state and federal to get this off the ground."

How are state and federal grants not made up of tax dollars?

mimikatzon Mark Cuban-backed banking app Dave to go public in $4 bln SPAC merger

Rushing to get ahead of a change that kills the business model? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ally-bank-kills-overdraft-fee...

"Ally Bank kills hated overdraft fees — a huge money-maker for banks"

mimikatzon University of California Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores

Testing isn't perfect, but it seems like the best method, least gameable, and lowest barrier to entry compared to all the others. Essays and resumes and have no traceability back proving the applicant even did the work. GPAs and school history, AP courses is tied to the student but very school and zip code dependant.

mimikatzon U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack

We need to have military responses to these attacks. Ransomware is running rampant because they don't fear any punishment for attacks. If people attacked our hospitals and pipelines with explosives we wouldn't sit by and do nothing.

mimikatzon Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

Yes, but that happened after the MS bid.

mimikatzon Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)

now back in the BABA stake

mimikatzon Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid

In reality it isn't or all these ransomware attacks wouldn't demand payment in bitcoin.

mimikatzon Changes at Basecamp

I don't care if the chip maker who runs this computer thinks Global warming is real or not. I don't care if my orange juice company has spoken out about human trafficking. I don't want those companies to take part in those things, but outside that companies should be in general apathetic soulless beings who only care about things that impact them and act in a legal and ethical matter to provide goods I want or don't want. It is in my mind strange that people want Red Solo cups to fight against the big lie of a stolen election. You realize when companies do this it isn't because they CARE, it is because they see the PR benefit vs cost (look at the NBA on Hong Kong vs BLM).

If people demand companies lie to them so they can feel moral about purchasing their products... That is just bizarre.

mimikatzon Study finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion

People prefer an Uber to public transportation.

mimikatzon Single New Jersey deli boasts a $105M market cap, despite $14K in sales

My guess was defrauding Chinese as they were the major investors in it.

mimikatzon Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about students outcomes

When they mix criticism with politics I don’t trust the author. It makes it seem tribal. Like attack the enemy for their politics.

mimikatzon We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We’re Going to Say So

I thought we were already doomed and past the point where any change would matter 5 years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA Sure it is fiction, but a real take by people and that aired 6 years ago.