yeuxardents

Could you be more specific about both things that may be true?

>feelings I have towards the US as a US citizen: it's a place that I know is filled with brilliant, kind, interesting people, and it's a place that has given me nearly everything in my life, including the money to buy the home I now live in and even the health insurance responsible for the birth of my son — but it's also ultimately not something to be anthropomorphized, but rather a faceless machine that makes often bad decisions that I don't have any real influence over.

The country that gave me millions sucks.

You are not MEANT to have ultimate decision making over anything, thats why you are a cog, in a machine, making 500k$ per year. and you get to complain about it from your mansion SECOND house in arizona, while transiting from palo alto first mansion.

Thats possible, but I have watched a lot of scifi that occurred prior to firefly and after, and this was more or less the case. Of course thats anecdotal from my memory.

Now, I just saw, no idea how I missed it, Space Truckers from 1996, with Dennis Hopper! I never would have pegged him to do a movie like that. Its 1000% worth seeing for its sheer nuttery.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120199/

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

Its top of my list of most ridiculous movies.

There are a few Chinese SciFi movies on various streaming platforms that I stumbled across. They were quite interesting, in putting forth this 'Chinese vision of the space exploration future'.

They were less dark and dismal like shows such as The Expanse, and more forward looking and positive, while still having 'cataclysmic events to be overcome'

They were interesting to watch.

On a side note a lot of western futuristic scifi in the last 20 years has future, eg +100 years, languages consisting of pidgin of english, chinese, primarily with smatterings of french and german.

Or that management will begin listening to their SME's about security once they see non-compliance raising their costs...one can dream

ah so jerk off?

FUD makes money

Its why its literally everywhere on the internet/news now

I switched from weather.com to accuweather.com years ago when everything on weather.com became

10 PEOPLE DIE IN EXTREME HEAT IN LOUISIANA

plastered all over the place

now accuweather.com is starting to resemble the same

I will probably end up at just weather.gov, which is less featurefilled, but at least is not covered in FUD

What does:

"Some serious :fist: :eggplant: vibes"

mean?

Thats now what this is about.

Yes, is it known whether anyone affected committed suicide? Was that a part of the test, did they take that in to effect, did they ensure there were signals that if that could happen they would lay off the negativity for those people? Any psychology course at a University on ethics shows this is mass experimentation without proper oversight.

I for one, do not believe that a bunch of twats in silicon valley give a crap about ethics, do you?

Because this is clearly altering emotional states. Is it known whether any individuals became more sad than others and committed suicide as a cause? No? Well thats because studies like this are required to go through IRB and review processes to ensure outcomes like that DO NOT HAPPEN. That did not happen here.

This was the last straw for me, thats when I permabanned facebook from my life.

This was an unauthorized, unguided, unethical, mass psychological experiment on human beings. Anyone involved should have gone to jail for crimes against humanity.

The NYT also had information on what Snowden leaked about NSA activities as far back as 2005, but declined to publish any of it.

Max Headroom Here!

Do you not understand that people had, thirty years ago, moved beyond that, but now, these companies and tech are re-driving us all back to epic divides that will cause the same...?

Thats _right now_ but keep increasing the payees, then the taxes keep increasing. The solution simply cannot be - raise taxes forever each year.

Social media, and the tech companies at large, facilitated and created and _exacerbated_ this problem. Its been known for a long time.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...

Whereas previously people were not so hyperpartisan-ized by social media, they are now. You could have a debate on various topics with your neighbors and friends, but now its two camps. Disagree with me? You are a nazi, or a communist.

The only peoples left after the full collapse of technological society will not be those living in concrete and steel towers in the megacities of the west or east. It will be those that are living in the Serengeti, or those in south India, who have lived the way they have lived for thousands of years, whilst those in the megacities strived for decades to 'save' from their 'backward and primitive ways'.

Has it accelerated in the last ten years? sure.

Point still stands it was pretty common the past fifty years at least, just occurred in backrooms and editorial boards.

Plenty of examples of this.

NYT might as well have had the snowden leak information as far back as 2004 I believe it was, but they withheld it.

My point is that its not as new as people think it is at all. The internet, however, has reached a point where being able to point it out en masse, has obviated journalists need to do it slyly under the table.

If the game is called out and you still hold the cards, why not just be frank about it, like they are doing now.

Personally, I disagree with the first sentence, which to me invalidates the premise.

There are numerous examples, just from the last 20 years, even excluding the last few years, where journalists have willingly silenced opposition, or even refused, with the consent of their own editors or even at editors behest, to not write or report on certain stories.

Then that begs the question, once you go back past 20 years you find more, fairly regular, examples of this behavior, which obviously comes with the silencing or exclusion of journalists who buck the cart, and their subsequent blackballing from the industry.

Unattributed quote "History is written by the victors" comes to mind. How would you know if you have not always been at war with Eastasia, thats what the journalists have said for decades, and the microfiche from their reporting in 1980s is missing (hyperbole).

Good storage people are hard to come by too. HEY i can do luns!

can you do them high available, low latency, cross region redundancy, and restore both ways with near zero data loss?

well, sure, theres this button on the emc console I push and..

I, perhaps appropriately, improperly calculated their threshold for humor.

That you ask the question indicates the actual problem. Bubbles.

https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_b...

People have been warning about this exact problem for ten years, and even predicted the problematic outcomes. Albeit, the problems that would generate from it SEEM pretty obvious in retrospect now.

Social media sites that 'make it' are beholden to advertisers who want to spend money on the platform, and Disney does not want to advertise on a platform that also permits any extremism of any kind.

Then, any upstart social media that comes along, faces summary execution, because a lot of rich and powerful people now face the possibility of losing their gravy train.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake in this arena.

Big money $$ always wins in the end.

Edit: of course this greatly simplifies a complex system and problem, but rereading it reminded me of this unattributed quote.

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”

I sent this to a project manager once, and they didnt understand nor appreciate it.

Where does one look to search for second hand CNCs?

I'm not really 'railing' about anything, just thinking out loud. Thanks

Please read a history book, preferably one written in the last century.

Human societies are cyclical, repeatable, and to some degree, predictable.

At least 75,000,000 people think one way. Deny them the right to speak openly and what might you have?

I gather, as a late night estimate, 75,000,000 people talking to about another 55,000,000 people why they are right.

And you want to force them all into darkness, unable to engage in the political discussion.

Madness. Absolute Madness.

>What kept 'regular people' from hopping on 8ch and stopping Christchurch by talking him down? Fun fact: The whole thing was well known in advance and even observed online by law enforcement.

What kept 'regular people' from hopping onto a widely derided and supposedly extremist platform, where threats of exposure of ones personal life simply for being there stopped them from noticing extremism?

Are you sure that is a good argument?

Firstly, almost no average FB or TW user knows of those forums, let alone the ones that do being willing to also 'go there' given all the stigma.

My point still is, if you force these people into places like that, where their plans are easily observable, and 99% of people wont go there then it will fester in silence.

Whereas the other potential is..sunlight. Let them say their statements in the sunlight, rather than ban them.

1. Family or friends will banter them down

2. Friends of friends will bring them to center rather than extreme (on EITHER side)

3. its one place rather than 35 distinct forums for LEO to follow.

I do feel so, yes. The internet is not real life. Comments of people you know may lead to real life conversations, and yes, myself and others have come to common ground after being on extreme sides based on internet comments.