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Deathy McDeath posted:Why the gently caress do pundits continue to spill so much ink on Howard Shultz? He’s not a serious candidate and nobody is going to vote for him. His whole candidacy is aggressively a non-story Pundits have one audience that matters: the people who own media companies. The people who own media companies agree with Schultz.
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I've got a pretty good job and my health care still costs hundreds of dollars for routine visits. There's polling indicating most people like their health care while also disliking the overall system. I wonder how much of that liking of health care comes from people comparing having anything versus the very real possibility of having little or nothing. People tend to think in terms of comparison to what's right next to them.
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Feb 2, 2019 17:48
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The best tech minds sitting around a machine trying to fix the issue of facial recognition not working on black skin
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Feb 2, 2019 18:17
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Hillary was going to put him in her cabinet lol That republicans unanimously believe Hillary Clinton of all people is a far left extremist is ironically a big reason the party is actually moving left. The right will never credit you for moving right, but the left will notice and might stop voting for you.
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Feb 5, 2019 18:56
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https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/uss-fitzgerald-destroyer-crash-crystal/quote:A little after 1:30 a.m. on June 17, 2017, Alexander Vaughan tumbled from his bunk onto the floor of his sleeping quarters on board the Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald. The shock of cold, salty water snapped him awake. He struggled to his feet and felt a torrent rushing past his thighs.
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Feb 7, 2019 06:38
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Ignognito mode for nyt and normal browser for porn. Porn has earned my support
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Feb 9, 2019 03:06
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Fister Roboto posted:You know what the worst part about all this is? When the effects of this start directly impacting the average idiot in the first world (and that will still probably take a very long time), they're not going to say "oh, we were wrong all along, let's do everything we can to mitigate this". They'll just come up with some new bullshit way to deny reality, and things will get progressively worse. "Actually, it was the liberals" will 100% be the mainstream conservative take.
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Feb 10, 2019 00:05
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To be fair to that horrible weirdo, the popular imagination, left right and center, vastly overestimates the intelligence and foresight of banks. (I work for a bank) Also it's entirely possible the banks have figured the government will bail them out.
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Feb 10, 2019 01:59
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It sucks that one of the world's richest companies can't just buy office space and hire people like everyone else without massive government subsidies but unfortunately that is the only option.
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Feb 14, 2019 18:18
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joat mon posted:
The current internet already feels shittier than the 2000s internet. And remember winamp? Imagine going back in time and telling yourself that's the best a music player will ever be on a computer. It's so wild to see everyday consumer products get worse over time. The entire point of our economic system is that that's never supposed to happen. On privacy specifically, I think once people realize how bad it is, they'll either rise up and force a change, or we'll become a fully totalitarian society. Right now 90% of people have no idea the level of surveillance they're under. The really amazing thing is we've built this nightmare system not for social control or anything else from some sci fi, but simply to deliver ads and ad data.
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Feb 16, 2019 15:59
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It is weird to me that there is more general sense that professional athletes and entertainers don't deserve their money than a sense that Jared Kushner does not deserve his money. We have popular resentment of the rich, but only for that small subset that earned their wealth through labor. Inheretors are fine. I used to think that it was because inheritors aren't on TV much, but the past two years, inheritors have been dominating the news cycle and people still don't find them weird so I don't know.
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Feb 18, 2019 17:47
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Warren being a republican until 1996 is mind boggling and makes me think a lot less of her, Bernie is a million years old and won't be able to get anything done with the dem establishment hating him, and all the rest of the Dems don't seem to believe in anything, or worse. Such are the wages of the party culling anyone left of center for two generations - when the voters move left, they don't have much to hold on to. No one with Bernie's views could have survived the party. Blarg.
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Feb 19, 2019 19:42
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Yeah, the payload trajectories are calculated by 19 year olds who went to a year of tech/hazing school. Yeah that team of 19 year olds is led by a chud who graduated Eastern Missouri Baptist with a 3.5 gpa in basket weaving. Yeah our trajectories have been "consistently" "wrong" leading to "total module failure." But guess what buddy, if you don't like the space force, you hate our troops just as much as the guys who kneel at the anthem.
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Feb 19, 2019 20:55
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by the time we have actual spaceships needing enlisted crew, the United States definitely will no longer be the hegemon. Hopefully whoever actually is doesn't repeat our mistake of giving space to the air force
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Feb 20, 2019 00:28
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I get that as an issue but it seems that standard only gets applied to Bernie Sanders. Biden literally gave Strom Thurmond's eulogy and got into politics to fight bussing, but the woke police have not made any arrests there. It feels tactical. Like how in 2016, suddenly republicans everywhere cared deeply about email security policies.
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Feb 20, 2019 01:00
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It's not like Obama to trust private entities to do the right thing despite all evidence, or to set up precendents enabling the right wing, so this is really out of left field
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Feb 22, 2019 02:10
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I think Maduro is awful, and I hate how with Venezuela the left does a lot of "la la la I can't hear you" on the damage price controls and random expropriations did to the food supply. But the US pointing at some guy who wasn't even elected to anything and saying "he's president now" is just mask-off coup attempting, esp with admin goons on television talking about taking the oil. I feel like the biggest change to the war-wing of the right between W and Trump is now they don't even pretend to care about human rights and democracy. Which all leaves me certain that as bad as Maduro is, whatever the state department and CIA want there is worse. Right now under the "tyranny" of Maduro, Guaido is a free man. Does anyone even pretend the reverse would be true? For all the incompetence and corruption of the Venezuelan current government, they're not throwing people out of helicopters, and that just happens to be the exact thing that happens when the US deposes governments in South America and installs "market friendly reformers"
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Feb 22, 2019 17:48
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Hot Karl Marx posted:There's stuff saying opposition are hiding food to make it seem like the government is hiding and then the opposition is saying the government is and who the gently caress do you believe cause everyone is loving lying I'm very skeptical of all the "food is being hoarded" stuff because 1) those are the kind of rumors that fly around during hungers 2) during a hunger, selling food is one of the most profitable things you can possibly do The ruling party implemented a bunch of laws that made it effectively impossible to sell a bunch of staples at a profit, and supply suddenly fell in response. I think the rumors were part hope that there's still food out there that isn't just going to the black market, and part rear end-covering for the outcome of their policy.
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Feb 22, 2019 17:56
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Slim Pickens posted:but then you have hitmen that can sell you out on murder charges, so you gotta get them killed off too, so it gets messy This was the real reason JFK sent those guys to the Bay of Pigs
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Feb 22, 2019 19:38
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Bored As gently caress posted:I know I'm spamming but holy gently caress this is funny Literally everything Bitcoin enthusiasts love to say about Bitcoin is false. It's not safe, it's not private, it's not convenient, and whatever the future of it is, it's not going to replace dollars. It does have some utility, but the things its fans usually say about it are wrong. Part of the problem is it attracted the Reddit type of "I'm a dork, therefore I'm smart" guys who can memorize and enthusiastically repeat taglines, but cannot or will not critically think. The other part of the problem is that it also attracted straight up scammers who like to lie. These groups fused info a uniquely and infuriatingly dishonest culture. Anyway, it's as hackable as anything else secured by information. If people accidentally or by deceit give up their login credentials to their online banking, of course they can be tricked into giving up their private keys. And if people store their private key somewhere accessible, they're only as secure as that somewhere. All those who bought the lie it was "unhackable" and didn't secure their keys appropriately are just the latest victims in the Bitcoin scam economy. Edit: re the 51% attack, that's been a known issue since launch. But it's rarely talked about, because Bitcoin culture cannot speak honestly of weaknesses proactively. The smart contract stuff is also super funny. Ye who plays word games with sovereign citizen types is asking for it. Best Friends fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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I'm very confused on the NRA view on "war in the streets." Sometimes it seems to be good, sometimes it seems to be already happening. And now it seems to be something that is not happening, but will happen, and is bad. They really got to hash this out.
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Feb 28, 2019 20:08
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