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by banads 6y ago
You're assuming that political elites all care more about the general population (which as you've noted, there is a large, expendable surplus of) than consolidating and increasing their own power. To clarify, I don't think CO
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by banads 6y ago
>The current online experience is not remotely possible without ads The current online experience is horrendous because of the ad industry.
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by banads 6y ago
The USSR believed the same thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatr...
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by banads 6y ago
Do you think involuntary psychiatric committment and forced drugging is a reasonable reaction by the government to a protester/activist who is paranoid about surveillance in an age of ubiquitous surveillance?
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by banads 7y ago
>I can't reconcile that there's not much for the CCP to gain on the world stage by releasing this thing. Is causing the social, political, and economic collapse of an arch rival nation state not the natural perogative of empire
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by banads 7y ago
>if there is anything that you could have learned from the last three years then it is that lying to the public carries no consequences at al If you study history, you realize thats been a thing for much more than just 3 years... https:
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by banads 7y ago
>Make non-compliance painful enough, and the defectors will fall in line. Maybe they don't, or maybe in the end that's all too little too late, which is why I'd suggest adding adaptation initiatives to your list.
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by banads 7y ago
Are you sure? 320,000,000,000 / 47,000,000 = 6808.51
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by banads 7y ago
>Want smart people to solve important problems? Find a way to pay more for that, than for ads, or find a way they don't need to earn money to live at the standard they want. This is essentially the Nuremburg Defense, but it's &
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by banads 7y ago
>Still can't use Webex across Linux, Windows and Mac in 2020. Have you tried just running webex in a browser? Works fine for me on Chrome in windows or linux
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by banads 7y ago
Dr. King was talking about this shortly before he was shot.
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by banads 7y ago
Is there anyone that has ever had more information on more people in human history than Google or FB? They have gotten to God like levels with their omniscience
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by banads 7y ago
If you've studied history or care about freedom of thought and movement, you wouldn't be so optimistic.
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by banads 7y ago
Comparing not using FB to complete social and sexual abstinence is quite absurd indeed; like an alcoholic who knows its bad for them but doesn't want to stop going to bars and clubs because they think that's the only way they can
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by banads 7y ago
Obviously advertising is not 100% effective, anyone claiming that is being silly. Likewise it's silly to think that ad surveillance companies such as GOOG, with its near trillion dollar market cap, and the hundreds of billions of dolla
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by banads 7y ago
>seems a little reluctant to distinguish between surveillance and insanity. I think those are two separate topics. Paranoid schizophrenia is often defined as having symptoms such as "the government is spying on you" https:&#x2
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by banads 7y ago
>Programmer geniuses often can’t see the forest for the trees Indeed, this is true. Likewise politicians often know nothing of how trees and forests actually work; and make absurd proposals which primarily serve their interests and prete
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by banads 7y ago
The only way is to share keys
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by banads 7y ago
This is like asking how to design a type of water that isn't wet, fire that doesn't burn, or a gun that only kills bad guys. The inherent nature of encryption is to keep information secret.
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by banads 7y ago
>just want entertainment to relax, not fight existing power structures That's also what existing authoritarian power structures want, to keep people docile with bread and circuses.
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by banads 7y ago
And twice as many more potential #2s spring up as a result
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by banads 7y ago
If you think that's new, you're obviously not aware of the history. How would you compare and contrast the corruption and lack of consequences of say, the Iran Contra conspiracy, to Trumps scandals? Just to throw you a bone, you&#
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by banads 7y ago
If you think this is something new, please read some history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_Unite...
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by banads 7y ago
FB has many jobs that require degrees in psychology, and there are also many scientific studies showing negative mental health effects of FB use https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Facebook-psychology-Jobs-EI_I...
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by banads 7y ago
Go to that candidate's website. Read books about them. Check their voting record.
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by banads 7y ago
How does abstaining from watching the news prevent someone from being able to vote for a politician that claims to care about climate change?
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by banads 7y ago
Books definitely won't help you satisfy impulsive urges for 24/7 live updates on such minutiae; but then again, what practical use would you have for trying to stay perpetually up to date on the current status of the impeachment p
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by banads 7y ago
What degree of practical responsibility does a person in Brazil have for something bad happening to someone in Sierra Leone? Abstaining from frequent infotainment aka "news" does not equate to being ignorant of important things ha
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by banads 7y ago
You can look at their voting record, or who they take money from. There a number of "non-news" websites that have this information.
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by banads 7y ago
Indeed, the written word is a purely visual medium, whereas braille is tactile

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