cryoshon

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by cryoshon 8y ago
>like a rat navigating through a maze built by superiors brilliant use of language here, you're spot on. while i agree that the public sector can foster a passive mentality, i didn't get that vibe from the author. they were jus
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by cryoshon 8y ago
unfortunately, yes. while i have no idea whether they are intentionally partisan or not, their analyses so far have been highly damaging to russian interests, going all the way back to when they found the russian proxy group in ukraine that
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by cryoshon 8y ago
another fantastic piece of work by bellingcat! i am starting to worry for their health, however. bellingcat is basically the opposite of wikileaks. rather than repackaging leaks from insiders, they just repackage information that is there f
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by cryoshon 8y ago
in driver's education they taught me to keep both hands visible at all times, ask for permission to get items from the glovebox, and to be aware that the cop has a hand on their gun at all times. this was 15 years ago, long before thi
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by cryoshon 8y ago
which condition are you referring to?
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by cryoshon 8y ago
surprised the article didn't bring this up, but anyways, let's defuse this entire idea with a very simple thought experiment so that we'll never have to think about it again. the tech they have measures brain activity in diff
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by cryoshon 8y ago
hm, won't be going to NZ any time soon as a result. shame, i hear it's beautiful.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
actually there is an abundance of moral outrage with regard to these deals. it doesn't make the press. i'll give you one guess why.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
taking initiative to participate in maintaining a malicious status quo is being malicious. google isn't being coerced here, they're volunteering to help with oppression. put differently: what do you call an accountant who sings up
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>Google has been considered "evil" by the tinfoil hat crowd for quite some time, and once again it has become apparent to the mainstream that they were right it's almost as though the people with money benefit from margina
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by cryoshon 8y ago
funny, from the outside we've been telling you that for a long time. yet nothing has changed due to all of the "internal uproar" we are constantly told about. nothing at all.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i've heard his wealth estimated at $200 billion USD. but at this point i don't think it matters. he has an entire country.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>This isn't Google's problem. They're just a company out to make some money for the shareholders. and money is more important than human rights? if it is, you'll need to say so explicitly rather than make an excuse fo
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>Schmidt said he thinks people will likely see “fantastic leadership in products and services from China,” noting the scale of the nation’s business, the massive wealth being created there and the advance of global trade, according to th
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>More seriously, the amount of security theater going on at airports is getting out of hand. it has always been out of hand. most of the security theater actually increases the threat surface of transit, making it easier for anyone with
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by cryoshon 8y ago
chernobyl had known reactor design flaws at the time of the accident. even then, there were designs for fail-safe reactors instead of fail-deadly reactors. those have only improved with time.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
... between the greek aristocracy and a poor person in america, who has more political influence? who can make political efforts that could better their position in the world more? more importantly: who would be the one going to war if the
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by cryoshon 8y ago
1. we aren't all rich. most are poor. 1/7 have trouble affording food. some people can't even get clean water. meanwhile, the rich enjoy unprecedented influence over politics, the market itself, and more luxury than they can
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by cryoshon 8y ago
agreed, but i'd say that mental health IS physical health. if you have depression, you are more likely to get all kinds of cardiovascular diseases, and your likelihood of death -- from any cause -- is vastly increased. it isn't ac
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by cryoshon 8y ago
the problem is that the "market wages" generate both humanitarian disasters of poverty and also demand gaps wherein people can't afford to buy goods, which puts a drag on the economy. #2 is an issue because government transfe
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i typically cut the F and R and stick to the O and D. i can sometimes make myself interested in relatively boring occupations by learning more, and people's dreams are at minimum instructive for the purposes of building my own.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>Just relax and be yourself nah. socializing is performing by necessity. "being myself" would entail picking apart people when they say silly/ignorant things regarding religion, science, etc. it'd be interrupting peop
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by cryoshon 8y ago
no millennials expect to see a dime of social security income (whether or not this is justified is another question), nor do they have any plans to retire because the prospect of having enough money to do so is simply unrealistic for them.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
do you have evidence that it is a rare event? we have evidence that it is indeed not a rare event because the agencies have a specific term for it...
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by cryoshon 8y ago
>Police and intelligence agencies always sound like they are asking for total Orwellian control because they know they'll get only 1% of what they ask for -- so ask big. It's a negotiating strategy. they have a level of surveil
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by cryoshon 8y ago
sure, but the problem is that there are no legitimately recognized avenues for doing so. politicians won't want to be seen as "anti business" because they know who funds their campaigns. non-elected regulators are already cap
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i understand that this is "the" way to do it these days, but it's way too expensive. the old ereader was maybe $120, and did what i wanted to out of the box and with stellar battery life.
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by cryoshon 8y ago
about 10 years ago i had a sony brand e-reader that had a stylus which enabled seamless underlining / writing on the margins. it's since been discontinued, and i haven't ever found anything remotely comparable despite checkin
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by cryoshon 8y ago
i've done this for years now. it's a great way to maintain attention, single out passages for later read-throughs, and note the weak points of the author for the purposes of composing a response or synthesis understanding. one pr
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by cryoshon 8y ago
finding a realistic way forward for myself in light of my talents and shortcomings. with great effort i have produced stability that is comfortable enough, but it isn't anything that i could ever be proud of.

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