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by gabbygab 8y ago
It's part of his PR campaign. His political team and the PR firms he hired probably did a lot of research and polling and decided this was a great way to appeal to younger voters. Politics is all about image and appeal. And it's n
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It's not just Germany. It's human nature. Look at the current media and political environment in the US. People with influence want to push us towards fascism or its equally aborrent flip-side - socialiam. And people are naturally
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by gabbygab 8y ago
No powerful authoritarian countries except for former authoritarian european colonial powers and their former slave colonies? You act like "just the commonwealth, the EU and nordic" is anything good. The history of the british emp
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It surprises me that so many here are praising or even envying inuit parents and their their child raising habits when suicide rates, depression and substance abuse amongs inuits and their children are so high? https://www.cbc.ca
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by gabbygab 8y ago
There is a world of difference between being an investor of a startup and having your money/property with a company. The former is an owner and the latter is a customer. Also, I find it odd that the top two comments are the same "
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Why compare a broad category like arts with narrow category like agriculture? Why not compare something general like arts and with something general like food? Could it be because the contribution of the food industry dwarfs the arts indust
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Pretty much every political or corporate sensitive topic has heavy bias. Even biology related topics are subject to external pressure from journalists, politicians and activists. There have been huge fights over how fetus, gender, sex, etc
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by gabbygab 8y ago
That's a bit extreme to call "anti-vax" as a "terrorist organization" "proliferating plagues". This is why we are having problems having a sensible debate in this country. Every side paints the other side
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It is censorship. Just not government censorship. I wish people would stop trying to defend censorship with that trope. They have a legal right to sell what they want on their platform but that doesn't mean it's right. Especially
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Probably because they are the two most proximate advanced nations to much of siberia where these mammoths are found. Also, korean and japanese universities might have scientific funding and research agreements with their russian counterpart
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by gabbygab 8y ago
30% is a significant drop. It's really unheard of. MySpace and Digg didn't have such ridiculous drops. And keep in mind that this could be the start of an overall downward trend. If 30% leave, then activity on the platform crumble
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It's about the media and political actors getting control over the lucrative and politically important social media platforms. It's not just facebook. Google, Twitter and Reddit have also faced tremendous media pressure. Facebook
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by gabbygab 8y ago
That seems a bit deceptive by the researchers. I don't think anyone is saying "short term unemployment" leads to opioids. I think most people assume long term unemployment or lack of long term opportunities lead to hopelessne
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by gabbygab 8y ago
As a vegan, you depend on large corporations and the modern industrial society to exist. So it's strange to say you hate large corporations. A vegan lifestyle isn't one that you could maintain without international trade and indus
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It's understandable that every parent wants the best for their children and wants to give them a leg up in life and will do almost anything help their children. It's human nature that every parent appreciates and you can't fa
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by gabbygab 8y ago
It is censorship. It isn't government backed and hence legal, but it is by definition censorship. Telling people to divest from facebook is as helpful as telling a chinese citizen to leave china if they don't like government censo
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by gabbygab 8y ago
We aren't talking about objective empirical science. We are talking about partial, subjective and biased media. NewsGuard was created by media insiders with funding from media insider foundations. There is most definitely cause for wor
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by gabbygab 8y ago
Good point. It's always possible that a paradigm shift can change the culture and open up the landscape to paid services. But from a purely anecdotal perspective I'm not seeing the paradigm shift. Instead, I'm seeing the oppo
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by gabbygab 8y ago
This isn't a new idea and though it is interesting and has good intentions, it doesn't solve the problem. As others have pointed out, this will encourage more data collection and less privacy. The exact opposite of what we want. A
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by gabbygab 8y ago
The $200 billion gaddafi wealth was part of the psy-op to take down gaddafi a few years ago. I remember seeing it all over social media and the news before gaddafi was taken out. Interestingly enough, guess who else has $200 billion? https
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by gabbygab 8y ago
"But he is by no means the richest man of all time. That title belongs to Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler who was so rich his generous handouts wrecked an entire country's economy." How can anyone, let alone t