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by mrangle 3y ago
LOL at the "censorship requests are free speech of the government" argument. You are trying to assign Constitutional Rights to the government in its relationship with citizens. As if the government was an individual whose rights a
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by mrangle 3y ago
It has been long established in case law that government requests for censorship are tantamount to coercion and threats. To wit, it matters not if the Giant makes a polite or directly threatening request of Jack. In either case, Jack is rig
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by mrangle 3y ago
Lots of elites never go to college. Lots go to non-Ivies. The top liberal arts schools have Ivy level tuition for that reason. Lots of elites go to Ivies, but the Ivy league's primary value will always be the possibility of an upward c
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by mrangle 3y ago
You already knew your friend group because you attended the same "2-300" high schools? Flagship Public Schools have long been limited elite. Hence the concept of the "Public Ivies". Ivy does STEM, but STEM isn't the
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by mrangle 3y ago
At the risk of continuing an argument. I don't just disagree. It's untrue. Opinions as to the nature of reality have long been falsifiable. More accurately, your first two sentences are more like Union mission statement repetition
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by mrangle 3y ago
Your logic is that governments depend on funding themselves by recapturing money that they print for circulation? That's adorable. They do recapture money by way of taxes and redistribute it to themselves, but they aren't limited
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by mrangle 3y ago
I'm sure that what you typed here is non-sequitur. Taxation is not government profit. If you have the ability to print unlimited IOUs for other people to exchange for goods and services, and you recapture a portion of what you distribu
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by mrangle 3y ago
The second sentence is patently untrue.
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by mrangle 3y ago
And to think that wide hole isn't now utilized is folly, despite whatever is said.
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by mrangle 3y ago
It's proportionate to give partisan governments fond of the nastiest behaviors the ability to read every word that you type to anyone? Even now, iOS and MacOS have scanning ability that should be assumed is used well beyond the propose
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by mrangle 3y ago
"The competition doesn't really believe what they say that they do" is factual debate circumvention used only in the crudest propaganda. This type of approach only creates stiffer reaction over the long term. Your issue will
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by mrangle 3y ago
The trivially easy method for bad actors to create "new information" is to lie. This often can be accomplished by leaving out a single line of context. In other instances, the lie is more brazen. Politics is little more than a deb
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by mrangle 3y ago
delete
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Reminds me of national politics
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by mrangle 3y ago
The FTC needs to look into Amazon's practice of raising the price of goods the rough amount, for Prime members, which it ostensibly is supposed to be saving them on shipping. More and more it is looking like Prime isn't much more
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by mrangle 3y ago
Huge mystery. Will never be solved.
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by mrangle 3y ago
Someone needs to reinvent the bookshelf. Storing books needs to be more space efficient while still allowing access. Looking good is an important bonus. As is being relatively cheap and portable. This is a yet unsolved social emergency.
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by mrangle 3y ago
"Seems necessary" in order to attempt to decouple Amazon's brand from the experience of window shaking bass that pounds from the Amazon delivery trucks that park for up to five minutes at a time on my street. Union issue asid
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by mrangle 3y ago
In general, a socially and personally healthy life choice is to refrain from pointed criticism of anyone's work whose specific profession one is not in. Apart from instances when their performance has directly impacted you. If for no o
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by mrangle 3y ago
Imagine leaving the future of your high-development-cost products and even your giga-dollar brand reputation in the hands of a single delivery driver. It's a malicious actor's picnic. Somebodies in some chain of policy creation ma
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by mrangle 3y ago
I know that there are chips with TDPs in this range. My point was that they aren't readily available to consumers as a component. Obviously, I wasn't talking about purchasing pre-built devices. Anyone can buy a mobile device, lapt
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by mrangle 3y ago
Because they are guilty of doing these things for decades is the precise and only extremely solid reason that anyone needs to assume. Anything less is the behavior of the type of person who frequently gets victimized by sociopaths, and like
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by mrangle 3y ago
> I also don't think necessarily that they had the goal of making sleeper agents with the study. Respectfully, what are you talking about? MKULTRA was the continuation of Project Artichoke, whose explicit goal was to create sleeper
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by mrangle 3y ago
> I personally don't believe, since I haven't seen evidence of it, that the CIA ran those studies to create sleeper agents that they could command to do things for nefarious purposes You don't have to decide whether or not
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by mrangle 3y ago
You have no idea. LSD was introduced by the CIA into American culture. This is public information, not conjecture. CIA programs like MKULTRA are either malevolent or LSD is fine. It can't be both. Choose one if you wish to be truthful
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by mrangle 3y ago
Enough Americans were maimed and killed to deeply care.
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by mrangle 3y ago
Until one might come to the conclusion that the Iraq invasion wasn't about security.
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by mrangle 3y ago
> but let’s hope no one ever catches up to what China did in Wuhan. You have to look into the history of these programs, further, to gain some perspective.
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MK-ULTRA was only one such program. It had predecessors and parallel programs. Beginning at least as early as the post WWII 1940's.
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by mrangle 3y ago
The recipients sometimes transfer the treatment to home as well. Which is something that I feel that the government should be able to be sued for.

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