losttheplot

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by losttheplot 6y ago
This statement is exactly the bollocks that got us here. Just because you have a social media account, or fucking "likes", does not qualify you to speak about pandemics, or vaccinations, or gravity, etc.
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by losttheplot 6y ago
They use email...email. Unencrypted email.
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by losttheplot 7y ago
History demonstrates the problem that governments can not be trusted to protect private data once they collect it and they can not be trusted to relinquish any power to monitor citizens once they have it. A relevant chat on virus tracking a
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by losttheplot 7y ago
>I do notice other countries who are a week or two ahead of us It is being reported that South Korea is testing 10k per day. The USA is still having an issue in even delivering test kits where required. That's months ahead, not week
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by losttheplot 7y ago
American Prison by Shane Bauer A good read.
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by losttheplot 7y ago
Why is it that almost every company that provides a service with the potential to be in perpetuity, like insurance, always fee creep their customers to the point that you switch because you know you're being fucked compared to what the
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by losttheplot 7y ago
Too many cooks in the kitchen. Besides a shit UI, the creepy phoning home and ads created many a defector away from MS.
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by losttheplot 7y ago
The ISOC-Ethos deal timeline is a conflict of interest story with executive musical chairs: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/11/isoc-pir-... It stinks.
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by losttheplot 7y ago
Engaging in such a strategy used to be illegal, and was known as predatory pricing. The Sherman Act and the Clayton Act are no longer enforced in the post Citizens United world, i.e. legal US corruption: kochtopus, dark money, super-pac, 50
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by losttheplot 7y ago
Keep proven bad actors and miscreants, be it government or large tech, out of establishing standards.