Swenrekcah

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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
> You opened by saying that democracy is not ideal unless the populace's information diet is carefully controlled. By whom and in what way? Who gets to determine what is misinformation? What happens when they deem misinformation ram
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
I think you might be projecting here, this is at least not my meaning or interpretation of the world.
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. I said it is not new but the scale and pervasiveness and especially the personal targeting is new. And yes, that is what misinformation is, lies and falsehoods presented as news. Remember
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
You can relax, I specifically mentioned misinformation. That is what is dangerous. People can get their news from different outlets with different priorities and that is all well and good. What has happened at a large scale more recently is
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by Swenrekcah 1y ago
True, but even “least bad” is not correct unless the public is well informed [as in not being fed misinformation] and in a rational state of mind [as in not scared of or trained to despise the jews, immigrants, woke etc.]. The difference in
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
By this logic technological “progress” can not cause societal problems? Which of course it can so why can’t a part of the solution be technological?
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
It would be interesting to note how you define a free market in this context and what makes it “more free”. Because a market can not be free unless there are rules and they are enforced. Without rules and government intervention when necess
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
> Every other approach attempted to date has been milder, and hasn't worked. A lot of things were working even if they did not change everything overnight. And the changes that will come to the world order and industries following
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
This is not a contrarian opinion. This is a problem that was recognized long ago and production capacity for strategically important industries has been in the buildup both in Europe and the US. Trump's actions will probably boost Euro
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
The whole western world is different and not for the better since 2015. Erosion of public trust since then is tremendous and regrettable so it is not surprising that we miss the communities that once were.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
The market does not work unless the rules of fair play are enforced, just like any other endeavour of humanity from sports to politics.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
As a European Apple user I welcome any and all fines that can be levied on Apple for their anticompetitive practices.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Well, they’re also using software that makes the tablet capable of useful things that paper isn’t.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
It's a 30 minute slot but usually runs a little over that. We first chat about how life is going for a short while, then topics anywhere from job satisfaction, personal or teamwide improvement potential, specific products or technical
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
My experience is quite the opposite, 1:1s are the only meetings I regularly look forward to.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
You’ve got it wrong there. All our prosperities around the globe are very much connected, which is why having a vindictive zero-sum mindset in the White House causes so many problems around the world as we are seeing. Also, do you really no
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
> "History is written by the victors." This is a popular saying but it is not really true. In an open and free society like western societies (at least some still) are, history is the domain of historians and not the state. For
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Hello, you seem to have been in a long coma, but welcome back from 1930. The thing about today is that former European imperial powers have ceded their colonies to the people living there.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
I don’t believe the person you responded to was talking about people outside Europe, since they specifically mentioned Europe. Is there a reason you are getting offended on behalf of other people that weren’t mentioned?
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
When Elon became the role model probably
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
A fine attempt to turn things on their head, but again the only one who enables the fighting is Putin's Russia. The conflict can be stopped right now with loss of territory so long as Ukraine is given trustworthy guarantees that Russia
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Of course, but it is extraordinarily optimistic, naive even, to think that freezing the conflict now without any security guarantees for Ukraine is anything but a gift to Russia, who will turn to preparing the next invasion. And keep in min
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
The US did nothing but benefit from the war really. So any talk about ending support being in the United States' interest is a serious misreading of the situation. The US was sending old equipment. To replace it they were and spending
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
I would be extremely surprised if the other half of this profit fund was not eventually meant to go into Trump's pockets rather than to the United States itself.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
This is simply not the case. There US has very successfully used it’s military to enjoy the position of absolute top dog in the world, but a major part of why they could do that was that the US has made very strong allies in the whole rest
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
fair point, I’m just a bit tired of people falsely claiming countries give up sovereignty by joining the EU. Thought you were making a point in that direction, but today we need to stay together and stay strong.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Then how come the UK has left the European Union? This is a common misunderstanding, but a misunderstanding nonetheless. Any country in the EU has full sovereignty and chooses to exercise it by combining forces with other countries in order
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Oh, you’re worried about corruption and election interference? One day you’ll realise and don’t be too hard on yourself then. You were not the only one.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
Yes, it does seems reasonable to destroy seven decades of US global influence buildup because there was a twitter clone made in 2010.
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by Swenrekcah 2y ago
I would explain it to you, but I’m holding this beer I’m drinking…

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