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It's one thing (a quite annoying thing) for free non-monetary services to not have phone support, but a service that houses your money is inexcusable.

I find more value in the historical doppelganger than free email. FAANG should come up with more parlor tricks for my data, instead of boring office products lol.

Too low. $1000 per shot. And yes cash, no prepaid debit card.

If I'm allowed to answer honestly and not be accused of "trolling", I don't believe the lethality of Covid-19 is high enough to make vaccination itself a carrot on a societal scale, to solve the question this article outlines.

Just in relation to the United States, I think we could increase vaccination compliance exponentially if getting vaccinated meant no longer having to wear a mask, social distance etc.

Where is the carrot?

Signal is an American company with it's headquarters in California. My point is that the global interests of nation states and their alliances are not only pursued through government channels but also through their influence on domestic private companies.

I agree that my second point was too personal and unproductive.

That nation states do things to advance their interests globally is not a conspiracy. Foreign policy 101.

Who is to say that the Western technocratic system of government replacing the current Iranian regime would not also be oppressive? I personally believe it would be vastly more oppressive.

Accurate but a disingenuous concept (not you) because U.S companies are approaching nation state power, i.e Google, Amazon etc.

This is only popular and presented as altruistic because toppling the Iranian regime aligns with the foreign policy of Western states.

Now that's fine if you support the expansion of global liberal democracy (which happens to be neither liberal or democratic) but just don't be deluded into believing this is some good guy vs bad guy scenario. As we speak, U.S media is advocating for the removal of Signal because Americans may also have access to encrypted private speech!

According to the most recent CDC data, 42% of Americans are classified as clinically obese. Are we to believe nearly half the country is suffering from severe psychological trauma?

I blame the intersection of capitalism and food, the normalization and expansion of horrific fast food choices solely because it is profitable and advertising is cheap.

Do a majority of Americans want to live within dense cities, if given the choice?

It cannot be an illness of the mind to explore why we exist through alternative methods, when scientific methods have thus far proven insufficient.

Good for Australia.

Due to the timing of this outage, nobody really thinks it's a random technical problem or lack of funding, right?

Did the United States attack Signal to further clamp down on speech and private communication?

The Vice President elect and Fortune 500 companies can send establishment-wing activists money unmolested by the media but non-conformist activists have to receive flack for receiving bitcoin?

I'm going to see if I can make a Facebook account using a Difference Engine over the weekend. Report back shortly.

I just realized the semi-stupidity of my question. I should have said "modern web", considering the ARPANET could be considered a type of "internet" (?) that ran using hardware from 1969?

Thank you for the replies though, something to read up on.

Not sure HN likes rumour mill stuff, but the chatter on Twitter is that Trump was about to make a Gab AI account until Kushner told him not to.

Which former heavy weight champion has more staying power, Intel or IBM?

I think Western economic skepticism is highly dependant on where you live.

I.e $100k a year in NYC = lower middle class. $100k a year in Kentucky = upper middle class.

I wonder if economic skepticism skews upward the closer you live to an urban area.

I'm not grasping why if one professional chess player is a fraud, all else are?

Would the assumption be that the chess fraud was receiving move instructions from someone else? Again, not sure how that would philosophically impugn all other chess masters.

I'm mostly joking sir. But I make a mean apple pie (butter) if you're interested in trade!

It's miraculous to see someone fight this hard for our human rights.

No man or woman has the right to take away your freedom of expression.

Retrocomputing is how a non-programmer (me) ended up here.

If anyone has a Xerox Alto (curiousmarc?) for loan, do not hesitate to reach out.

The biggest new LOL of all time is liberals posting "the events of 1/6" as if it's comparable to 9/11 or something.

If obnoxious stupidity had an event horizon, this would be it.

Does Russia or China host any payment processors? That would be my advice to Republicans or anyone who wishes to dissent against the liberal Western order.

It's going to be impossible to rely on American corporations to serve you if your opinion goes against ruling consensus.

No it feels terrible and turned a Kerry 04, Obama 08 voter into someone who literally loathes the United States.

I'm not the only one who now has the urge to participate in society as little as possible.

Would you also fire a BLM activist who was recorded setting a fire, breaking a window etc?

I don't particularly like free markets but I have a very specific qualification for Twitter.

If an American platform hosts public officials who use that platform for political purposes, then it should follow that all American citizens should have access to engage, comment and react.

Public officials relying on private platforms for public policy purposes, fundraising etc seems absurd and grotesquely undemocratic.

You guys are smarter than me, hence question. But I think you are correct.