TheGrim-999

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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
So, someone at the Department of Energy that was hired in 2012, under Obama, made a ruling, and that's translated by the NYTimes as the "Trump Administration" doing it, which then gets referenced as "Trump blocked it bec
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
This is reality-shaping in action. Every manufacturer has crashes, failures, problems. They always have, and always will. Yet all of the sudden a certain portion of society has decided to weaponize the internet / mass media against Boe
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
Seriously? It's monopoly over the ideas and culture of our society. It's monopoly over the speech that the citizens consume. The culture and ideas that people consume on daily basis obviously affect their actions and ideology. And
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
The main issue with relying on education, teaching fact finding, the scientific method, etc., is that the average person is honestly just not very intelligent or capable of the level of thought that we'd be asking from them. If politic
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
This is the rational approach to take. At the beginning it was an unknown, and I was more cautious than anyone I knew. I was gathering supplies and locking down in January. There were videos of people in China having seizures in the middle
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
Wait, so now private entities censoring/deplatforming/shutting down anyone they want for any reason they want is a bad thing? Just pretend they were all evil Trump voters that got what they deserved.
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
An engineer that's being logical and thinking from first principles should come to the same solution, but the vast majority of the population base their viewpoints on what's "true" based on what the internet / mass
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
Interestingly, comments like the one you're replying to are the reason why I'm ignoring Rust. It's reached critical mass, meme status, where people will come in and shill for Rust or shill for how bad C++ is, not for any conc
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
It's such a disgusting state of affairs that people have been brainwashed into openly mocking Americans concerned with their freedom. We went from the land of the free, home of the brave, to this. Trump was the last dying breath of any
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
Man this post is so gross and I think a good encapsulation of everything going wrong with social/mass media. Hyper partisan, hyper biased, contains no facts, flippantly suggests mass censorship of opposing viewpoints, flippantly puts o
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
It's so interesting when people cheer on censorship because, don't worry, they've been convinced that it's good censorship. Still doesn't change what it is though. I'm sure anybody that's been censored,
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
These companies have near monopoly control on the flow of information. Like it or not, they are the new public square. Just telling someone that's banned from Twitter, Facebook, etc., "but oh don't worry, you're still fr
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
All I want to contribute to this is that if you think CNN is any different/better than Fox News you're part of the problem. They're both insanely biased echo chambers. It's so blatantly obvious too. After finding some pr
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
How many children wind up in the hospital from the flu, pneumonia, and so on every year? Those are more deadly to children than covid is. Why are you being made to freak out about this yet you likely have gone your entire life never having
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by TheGrim-999 6y ago
My response to anybody that downvotes and disagrees with the parent comment is to just wait and see for yourself how long it'll take for the NYT or your news source of choice to ever report a negative story about Biden. Every day you r