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by Sideloader 11y ago
I think the western world suffers from a collective mass delusion. We think that liberal democracy and a (no longer) stable middle-class are "how things are" and it is still easy (but becoming increasingly difficult)to believe &qu
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Has “innovation” supplanted the idea of progress?(ideas.aeon.co)
1 points by Sideloader 11y ago|0 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Or, you know, they block them. Deal with it.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Jailbreak and block hosts that serve ads. Your iOS experience will be virtually ad free, with the added bonus of giving you control over your device.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Home taping is killing music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Mobile Safari sucks compared to Mercury browser, which already has built in ad blocking and a host of other awesome features. And it is fast...really fast. I barely use Safari on my (jailbroken) iOS devices and don't miss it at all.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
I use dedicated Ad Block software (or a customized host blocker) on all my internet enabled devices. I have no moral qualms whatsoever about doing so. Why do I block ads on the Internet? They are annoying and detract from my browsing experi
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Yup, only a sucker would take the righteous bullshit spewed by by corporations at face value. Corporations are essentially asking one to "do as I say, not as I do". The game is rigged as the events of 2008 have clearly proven.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
They are absolutely being played. Corporate America lecturing people about morality should be dismissed as the disingenuous hypocrisy it is. Or perhaps greed and Randian (Ayn) selfishness really are virtues? Nah, only the truly self-deluded
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Please...stop the madness! The trend of prefacing every criticism or, indeed, observation with an apology to the fanbois or a cheery positive "Apple is awesome, but.." statement has gone too far. It's actually quite amazing h
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by Sideloader 11y ago
My post was a response to a claim that the Canadian media offers a higher quality product than its US counterpart. I disagree and gave my reasons and provided a couple of examples. I did not, however, claim that US media concentration isn&#
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by Sideloader 11y ago
No...lol I mean the mainstream media toe the government line. @themeekforgotpw has it right.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
No, Canadian mainstream media reporting is NOT reliable! Canadians tend to believe everything Canada does is just a bit better than what the US offers. Definitely not the case with the media. In fact, Canada's English-language media i
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by Sideloader 11y ago
I disagree. Three or four corporations own almost the entire Canadian media, from traditional print publications to television and Internet. The range of viewpoints on offer is extremely limited. For example, the two daily newspapers in Van
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by Sideloader 11y ago
They generally toe the official government line, at least the mainstream media does. The opinion pages contain the odd piece here and there that deviates from this narrow perspective. But don't rely on the English-language (or any lang
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Just want to add my thanks for sharing this link. Appelbaum is always worth checking out.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
All the English-language mainstream media outlets have a broadly pro-Western slant so it's not unusual that they present the viewpoints of their allies, playing up attacks against the West and downplaying or simply not reporting Wester
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by Sideloader 11y ago
I can't recall the source at the moment (it was linked to a military history site), but the U.S. apparently took similar actions when its geopolitical power was on the rise. It didn't create artificial islands but it showed up in
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Anti-Uber Ridesharing App Just Scored Its First Big Win(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by Sideloader 11y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Flies Over a Chinese Project at Sea, and Beijing Objects(nytimes.com)
8 points by Sideloader 11y ago|7 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Everybody wants to be Elon Musk but the way post-industrial unregulated capitalism works leads to a handful of Musks and their corporate entities controlling, well, pretty much everything, and fierce competition among the masses for scarce
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Have an upvote!
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Pop-psychology's obsession with "introverts" has spawned a profitable industry consisting of various "experts" churning out a steady supply of papers and articles claiming that...well, what are they claiming exact
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The Decline of Wikipedia (2013)(technologyreview.com)
48 points by Sideloader 11y ago|66 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
Libertarianism, i.e the deluded belief that unfettered capitalism is perfect and the panacea for all the world's ills, is very popular in certain SV startup circles. Uber, for example, blatantly ignoring local bylaws and regulations ma
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George Price, Who Tried to Prove Selflessness Doesn’t Exist(motherboard.vice.com)
50 points by Sideloader 11y ago|31 comments
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by Sideloader 11y ago
"[T]the Soviet Union did not save "the world." The point is that every year on the anniversary of VE Day the Western allies congratulate themselves for saving Europe from the Nazis, conveniently downplaying the critical role
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by Sideloader 11y ago
FWIW, the Tweetbot client (iOS) filtered out ad content by default. Haven't used it in a while, however, so this may have changed.
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by Sideloader 11y ago
> Does anyone else think there might be less rioting in these situations if people had more trust in their institutions?What if someone could actually count on the fourth estate to keep the government accountable long enough for justice
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by Sideloader 11y ago
This. Your comment succinctly sums up the sad state of journalism in 2015. I sometimes wonder how, or even if, journalism school addresses the challenges a serious journalist will face in a market dominated by "clickbait news".

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