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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Trump-supporting tech mogul First sentence of the article is inaccurate. Thiel was a supporter in 2016 but was uncertain in 2020. Why is The NY Times considered quality journalism, again?
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
…and then they’ll share that list of banned passengers with credit agencies, and banks, and other orgs. Because being banned from airlines probably correlates with being less “reliable” or “trustworthy.” This is how a social credit system c
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I don’t think it is that complicated. Thiel is at heart a libertarian and always has been. But if you listen to him speak, he is constantly lamenting the lack of hard tech development. “We wanted flying cars but all we got is 40 characters.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Eastern Europe isn’t included with in “Western countries.” Hence the name, Eastern. I really wouldn’t consider Latin America to be in the West either.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Montparnasse is not trendy, arty, or in central Paris. No one who has spent any amount of time in Paris would say that it is. Parisian studio apartments are also roughly the size of an American bathroom. It is not a luxurious life.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The entire premise of “misinformation” is that a true media exists which gives accurate information, as opposed to the army of people out to nefariously influence the public. I’m simply suggesting that there is fundamentally no difference.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Not a good example. Japan is famously insular and large enough to support a domestic audience. Virtually every smaller country in Europe and Latin America consume American media voraciously.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
to be paid money to post and retweet things that they were told to post and retweet by some patron? What do you think the network of “real media” is?
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Absolutely no difference. Just imperialism recontextualized for a new century with new profits to be made.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I wouldn’t say I am cynical, merely realistic. In my opinion, it is a fool’s errand to think that accountability or unbiased news is even a possibility. It goes against the nature of the thing. An unbiased media has never been the case and
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
NPR is just as biased and deliberately misleading as any other organization. The fact that they have a link on their website is not much proof of anything. Replying to your edit: well, that is my point. They are all biased. This idea that h
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
accountability, transparency and formal ethics codices Are you seeing much of this lately? Lately as in the last 40 years? I certainly am not.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Mozilla has transformed into an activist organization over the last ~decade, with predictable consequences for their actual products and engineering.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Sorry but unless you provide actual links to so-called misinformation, I’m going to assume that this is either overexaggerated or labeling anything against Western values as disinformation. Especially when it is described as ”This industry
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
…but we aren’t still applying the strategy of 1900s. That’s the entire point of my posts.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
You have still missed my point. The American dream was an effective, real thing for a long period of time. Most Americans today are descendants of poor immigrants that worked hard and gave their children a better quality of life. This wasn’
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I am talking specifically about COVID and Zoom. I didn’t say anything about on-campus learning.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
There are plenty of decent houses in safe areas across the Midwest for $50-100k.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
> "you have to be hard or else you won't survive"-mentality Europeans often have this opinion but I don't think it's an accurate reading of the issue. The issue is not that Americans work too hard, it's that
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
COVID has accelerated this big time. Why spend $5,000 a semester to watch a Zoom lecture from an average professor when you can open YouTube in a new tab and see a world-class professor share the same information for free? It makes no ratio
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
We are already in a low-level Civil War and have been for quite some time. The important thing to understand is that digital / media / information warfare will be the future of warfare, both in the US and abroad. Why? For better o
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Your baseline assumption should be that everything is misinformation, if we define misinformation as “not telling the entire truth precisely in order to push a certain agenda or worldview.” This is simply the nature of communication technol
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I did read the article, prior to posting my comment. My thoughts remain the same. I encourage you to not assume you know what others are thinking.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Eat less calories than you burn. Spend less money than you make. Boring advice, yet the majority of people are overweight and in debt.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, and the constant desire to apply the same scale of intelligence to dramatically different things is absolutely nonsense. A self-driving car does not need to understand the world in a way a human does, nor can it actually do so. It needs
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The flaw in the comparison is that America is largely built on its middle class, while no such thing existed in Rome. You would need the middle class to erode into a working class for the sociopolitical system to be similar.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Don’t get caught up in the specific political allegiances. Trump is Sulla because he proved that a non-politician could take the presidency, but he himself was not the person to take this to its conclusion. I see him as the forerunner of a
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I don't think this is a very good analysis. If Trump can be compared to a Roman figure, it is most likely Sulla. He (Trump) proved that a non-politician could rise to power on a populist program, but ultimately ended up having little a
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
You have changed the goal posts about three times now. I said Puritans and Libertarians, not Anglo Christians.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The western settlers were a quite diverse group. Many came from the South. They certainly didn’t all come from a narrow group in one region of the northeast? This is...basic history.

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