cryoshon

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by cryoshon 10y ago
does the ubiquity of guns among the public inspire you to conduct yourself to a high standard during your job?
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by cryoshon 10y ago
> Invasions are kind of hard to miss and nobody missed that the russians invaded ukraine...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>just go look at how often you can read the Russia "invaded" Ukraine or Russia "invaded" Crimea. putting your soldiers onto someone else's turf without permission equals invasion...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
you make a lot of great points that call back to one central concept: the liberal idea of "racism" is multifaceted and constantly shifting to be more inclusive. understanding what "racism" is requires you to keep up with
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by cryoshon 10y ago
unfortunately, my answer to this is hypocritical, given the trump presidency: drag the regressives kicking and screaming into a more liberal future, one step at a time, carrying their dead weight as gently and as gracefully as we can, becau
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>the people who are pushing this agenda don't care about what other people think they only care about their agenda. to make them care about what people think, disrupt their agenda.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the only actions that matter at this point are going to be protests in which you bring thousands or millions of your friends and shut down economic activity in urban centers. the democrats are a minority, and so they can't effect polit
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i've spent more time in biotech industry than in academia, as is true of many of my scientist coworkers. even in industry, they're all (all) liberals. maybe even moreso than in academia, really. even the high up ones. even the run
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by cryoshon 10y ago
my senator and congresspeople are already fully engaged in anti-trump activity (warren, markey) what else
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by cryoshon 10y ago
money is just a proxy for status. the rich can be brought to heel so long as they're allowed to feel as though they're high status. if you take that away from them, they will not "produce" whatever value they're cla
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>but I'd say that America really needs is more sanity amongst Republicans. agreed entirely... but sanity might not be enough to win those sane republicans any seats.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>If you're a vaccine developer or someone working on genetically modified crops, you'll get pushback from Democrats. Pick your poison. hi, former vaccine scientist here: there was never any pushback from democrats that i ever h
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by cryoshon 10y ago
scientists are liberals, almost exclusively. there are a few oddballs who aren't financially liberal, and a few oddballs who aren't socially liberal-- but we're talking like 1/100 for each of those cases. realistically,
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by cryoshon 10y ago
all relating back to not having enough money to do the above...
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Rounded up for what? differentness, dissent, journalism.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>all anyone can talk about lately is politics if your house is burning down, would you be surprised if all anyone can talk about is fire? the US' situation is similar.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
great, now that we've identified the problem, let's get some robust public spending on loan forgiveness in order to stimulate the economy be removing a substantial debt burden from people who are in their prime earning years. this
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>with a young overburdened workforce slaving away for their debt this is already the reality for many americans. eventually they'll riot
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Researchers also found that many of the women had documented social stressors, most notably unemployment (64%) one more piece of evidence that our economics are killing us
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Thanks for the excellent link, I've been looking for a documentary on Putin's propaganda regime that I saw a few years ago, but this paper is a much deeper look which will serve the same purpose.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Yep. This is real in the US, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRIG & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Strategic_Counterte... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, CTR is a perfect example of this phenomenon operating within the USA, albeit in a slightly different context than in China. The US government likely has similar programs going on here: https://en.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's the economy, stupid. normal people have so little income that working multiple jobs to get by is mainstream. this is a bad thing. it means that the people of our country are poor. defend it however you want.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
it'd be calibrated on a per-person basis. if a person can't get it to recognize something that it was correctly identifying previously, then they add the current pattern to the calibration library. clunky, but it'd work.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>It's comparable to the task of reading the contents and activity of a CPU by attaching sensors to the surface - but without knowing the type of CPU, OS, what programs are running, what the user is doing etc. but you could easily ma
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by cryoshon 10y ago
what a terrifying yet accurate idea
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>I think retraining is much more likely me too. i also think it's more likely to fail, because there's no way in hell that we can muster enough resources to effectively retrain millions of people in the current political climat
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i'd say it's not so much that they aren't retraining versus can't retrain due to constrained resources it's tough to retrain. now add kids, low savings, and a mortgage. then you re-start at the bottom of the salary
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by cryoshon 10y ago
> It seems like there's a prevailing attitude of not wanting to "subsidize" others you mean "greed"
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by cryoshon 10y ago
sure, the results are shitty, but you don't support big brother by using it... which is its primary appeal, afaik.

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