cheeseomlit

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by cheeseomlit 2y ago
CAIR shouldn't be able to give money to campaigns either, and also PACs shouldn't exist- at least not as a roundabout form of political bribery. All that aside, according to opensecrets CAIR raised 80k in political funding over th
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Not a fair comparison, Ukraine is obviously in a crisis and doesn't get that kind of money from us on a regular basis just for existing. We've been sending billions to Israel every year for decades now, in both money and military
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The term 'Expense' in your original comment did not seem to be restricted only to other religions, but to 'other people'. Leaving aside contentious regional and religious disputes- As a US taxpayer, it seems the expenses
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>which is not at the expense of anyone else I think that's the contentious part, as the establishment of modern Isreal has come at great expense to many others- I don't think their religious nature in and of itself is much of a
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Suppressing the lab leak theory certainly seemed political to me
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The US gov pressured social media companies to censor posts about both those topics for political reasons, even though a lot of what was said turned out to be true
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You don't necessarily need to analyze every word in every video for recommendations- it could be as simple as 'users who liked this video also liked these other videos'
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I like a lot of content hosted on YouTube but that doesn't mean I like YouTube, especially under Google.
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That would help, laying out the process used to reach the conclusion in a clear methodical way would be essential. But in general it feels like a technical solution to a social problem- so much of what goes on in the world isn't clear
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Maybe- there are just so many variables, and the trust has been so eroded already. It'd have to be super strict for me to be on board, to the point where it's less journalism and more technical writing. "Just the facts ma&#x2
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My objection isn't that its good but not perfect, I don't think itd be good at all. So far everyone who's tried to be a neutral arbiter of truth has been a political hack, like politifact and groups like that. Training the pu
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I just don't think there's a clean systematic answer to the problem, its a trust issue. Even if links to data sources are required you can find a data source with statistics to support almost anything. Especially when it comes to
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Whoever does the scoring will do so based on whether they agree with the sites bias or not instead of any of those criteria. So you're back to square one but now with a false sense of legitimacy
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Not OP but the last time I tried Wayland was about a year ago (also on Fedora) and I had similar issues using multiple monitors with different refresh rates, ended up switching to x11 which resolved it (using an nvidia card with nonfree dri
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Had a somewhat similar experience in Houston (minus police), which seems to be a city whose infrastructure is comprised of one 9000-lane monstrosity of a freeway. I was staying in a hotel right across the street from the office I was workin
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Stories of mice being used in gruesome experiments always give me a bit of moral outrage, but when there's one in my house I have no qualms about killing it with extreme prejudice. So, they should just round up all the home-invader mic
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>pathologically drug averse at the expense of their children I'm sorry but this just comes off as so perverse to me. Giving amphetamines to children and forming a lifelong dependency on pharmaceuticals should be something to be appr
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Nobody follows the speed limit that closely, in the US at least. If my car was hard-capped at the posted limit I'd have a mile-long line of honking tailgaters behind me in no time
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Bill Hicks had the right idea about marketers, for sure.
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Because they're supposed to be our allies and respect our institutions? No reasonable person in the US is comfortable with foreign governments meddling in our politics in any way, just because some of our adversaries have gotten away w
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It just seems a little strange that when other countries try to influence our political discourse with these astroturfing methods (Russia for example) it's met with vicious opposition, and rightfully so, but when Israel does it people
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It certainly has, the news to me is that mainstream publications are actually talking about it without framing the entire thing as an 'antisemitic canard'
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They used their ill-gotten market dominance to turn the desktop personal computer into a dystopian spyware machine for which the primary function is to serve ads and drive MS engagement. I struggle to think of any entity in the modern world
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>You seem to be complaining that something is impossible because it can't be implemented in a perfect utopian way. That's not what I'm saying, in fact 'perfect utopian' projects are exactly what I'm expressi
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'Compromise' paints an idealistic picture, its often just a euphemism for 'the more powerful/entrenched party gets what they want by default, but they'll let the other side vocally express their frustration to maint
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They're nihilistic for a reason, I won't call my representative because its a waste of time. Privacy-minded Americans are a tiny subset of the population vs. the most powerful corporate entities and intelligence agencies in the wo
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Yup, very easy to twist 'interstate commerce' clauses into anything you want and the US has a long history of it. The entire war on drugs on the federal level was justified by the 'interstate commerce' clause in the cons
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We communicate with other people and entities in dreams as well, and they seem completely convincing during the experience. While its not impossible for the self-replicating machine elves from the 5th dimension to actually exist, I think it
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Its possible that I'm underestimating our ability to fairly judge their moral fiber, but I did not mean to imply that the moral compass of all those who came before is genuinely worse than ours. Quite the opposite, I'm saying many
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If anything he's not being specific enough https://i.redd.it/hluqexh3oqc91.jpg

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