cryoshon

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by cryoshon 10y ago
it's news because the cops and feds have fought extremely hard to prevent the public from understanding what these can do, how frequently they are used, and who has them. they don't want this info out, therefore it's high int
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by cryoshon 10y ago
If you aren't willing to risk being on the NSA's shit list, we will never be able to break free of their oppression. Action breeds confidence.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
This won't have negative consequences for the public at all. /s
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Cars are too expensive for people without much money. Boom, question answered.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
wildly disagree with this program; it will be used to propagandize the american public further, if it hasn't already. remember that hillary and google are tight. remember that they don't work for you.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>so that certain criminals that would never by caught playing by the book, do get caught. we never get any evidence of this happening, so i'm going to say "citation needed". we also don't get any oversight regarding w
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by cryoshon 10y ago
so... why do we need them in a democracy? for everyone else who won't follow the rules, we have prison.... and dont try to tell me that a few terrorist attacks are sufficient cause to allow them to run wild over the public.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
why do we permit their assault on our democracies? when was the last time a citizen benefitted from the surveillance of people not suspected of any crime? if we know abuses are inevitable and will be hidden from us, why not slash their fund
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by cryoshon 10y ago
nailed it. corporations can't handle grassroots change, so the values which promote grassroots change are denigrated even when those same values are enshrined at higher positions.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
(responding to the school of thought you are referencing) "might makes right" school of political realism never made sense for me in a domestic context. the relationship of the state to the citizen at the citizen's birth is c
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Disclaimer: I have not, do not, and will not work on mass surveillance technology. I like this. It'd be good if more of us added this disclaimer... to everything we write.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>Morals are irrelevant in this story. ah, the capitalist angle. unfortunately, the consequences of acting this way are poor for the rest of society.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
okay well lets delve into the science here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489770 "Quantifying patterns of brain activity: Distinguishing unaffected siblings from participants with ADHD and healthy individua
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by cryoshon 10y ago
here are the alternatives to the new status quo of totalitarian democracy: 1. leave 2. revolt seriously, that's it. we lost the first dozen encounters with totalitarianism, so now options are limited and undesirable. widespread withold
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by cryoshon 10y ago
as a big proponent of the cytof, i'm not sure that these guys used it in a novel capacity or even used it in its area of greatest strength... based off of what i can see, they did some simple immunophenotyping with less than a dozen ma
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by cryoshon 10y ago
we can't afford bureaucrats prevaricating and ultimately doing nothing on the issue of climate change; they have to be removed from power such that we can effect a future where we survive.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>And bring on a global 'war economy' to transition us to a zero carbon energy infrastructure. yes, this is what is needed. unfortunately, the imaginations of our "leaders" are far too small-- too small to see beyond t
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by cryoshon 10y ago
step one is gaining political power, so find a campaign team and run on the platform of fixing climate change step one will take a good while then, step two: carbon tax at a rapacious rate. this will likely cause economic meltdown, which is
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by cryoshon 10y ago
the ugly truth that everyone knows but suppresses: ending HIV is completely impossible without massively increasing the level of human development (social, economic, industrial, medical) in the problem areas. go ahead and throw money at the
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by cryoshon 10y ago
humanity in general is in deep shit and yet, we waste (and make no mistake, it is a complete waste) our best minds and the bulk of our resources on making people click ads or other similar excursions in nihilism what is needed is a multinat
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by cryoshon 10y ago
SV is just like all other subcultures: a dynamic equilibrium of proper social signalling is necessary to be accepted and avoid ostracization. layer on enough social overhead and independent thought has no cognitive space to dwell. sure, tha
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by cryoshon 10y ago
Further evidence of the establishment (and make no mistake Facebook is part of the establishment) manipulating the public into darkness in order to save their own hides. Make no mistake, Facebook, Twitter, Google, reddit, etc-- they're
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by cryoshon 10y ago
here, i will spell it out for you, as the article so carelessly evaded: the nail that stands out is hammered down people HATE those who are creative (don't bother with your counter-example to my blanket statement; it isn't relevan
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by cryoshon 10y ago
>My answer to "how much money would make you happy" is infinite. There will always be something I spend money on to make myself happier. the point of contention with the other responders here is probably one of terminology wher
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by cryoshon 10y ago
gotta disagree here... there's really no skim-friendly material. everything requires involved thought and active, critical reading. edit: also this is the first time i've ever heard marx or chomsky described as "skim friendly
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by cryoshon 10y ago
i don't really read blog posts. i just read to and from work, and at the cafe on the weekends. i also read during the evening at home sometimes.
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by cryoshon 10y ago
belated reply: it's okay. a bit philosophy-undergrad centric, but entertaining nonetheless. if you're not acquainted with formal philosophy and philosophy of mind, i'd pick it up. dennett is notoriously biased to materialism,
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by cryoshon 10y ago
I'm not going to list all 42, but here are the highlights: How to Read a Book (Adler) World Order (Kissinger) Der Grundrisse (Marx) The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski) Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky) Gulag Archipelago (Solhenitzyn) On Wa
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by cryoshon 10y ago
here i will spell it out for you 1 money = power 2 return to 1 if a few people have most of the money, they have nearly all of the power because nobody else's share of power or money is greater than theirs, even collectively honest que
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Disabled cancer patient slammed to the ground by TSA guards, lawsuit claims(theguardian.com)
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