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by pnf 4y ago
Despite its etymology, liberalism is not primarily about freedom, it is about individualism. This is what connects "classical" and "modern" liberalism. Freedoms and so-called "human rights" shake out of this fo
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by pnf 4y ago
Maybe you missed the extremely effective Russiagate psyop or that a majority of half the electorate believes Biden's election was fraudulent. Combined it looks like 50-60% believe EITHER one OR the other was fraudulent. (OK, you'r
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by pnf 4y ago
No, you're right. What started as a small, humourous concession to the possibility of straight up news falls apart on analysis. But its failure supports my main point pretty well. If sports scores are contentious claims aspiring to the
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by pnf 4y ago
Certainly not a requirement for HN, but the fact is interesting and the fact you cleverly chose not to divulge it indicates motivated reasoning suggesting you wished your critique of my comment would appear more disinterested than it really
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by pnf 4y ago
That might explain why you are so touchy but it doesn't explain why you failed to disclose that salient fact in your silly argument. Maybe you have a false conscience and knew it would immediately discredit you? But those instincts com
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by pnf 4y ago
There are simple facts like sports scores, and complex, ambiguous, controversial, contentious facts, like election results.
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by pnf 4y ago
Honestly this is a really boneheaded take. Ignorant people maybe don't realize that, historically, journalists were widely considered to be low status scribblers and political hacks. The hagiographic efforts of the profession notwithst
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by pnf 4y ago
You'd have to be pretty simple to think that election results report on accurate outcomes. Most people in the world don't believe that at all. Taking the past two US presidential elections, most people thought either 2016 or 2020
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by pnf 4y ago
Weather is hardly accurate news anymore. Witness the current cold snap in the US and the political hay made from it, not to mention the inaccurate "facts" and alarm used to frighten people and push them to support unrelated politi
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by pnf 4y ago
This is largely correct. All major news outlets are information distribution platforms to reach particular demographic segments. The principal customer is not the reader but the advertiser or interest that controls the publication. It isn&#
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by pnf 4y ago
Most of the "news" is propaganda or advertorial marketing campaigns. If you want to make sure you don't get caught with your pants down if something affecting you happens then let someone else live on that content treadmill.
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by pnf 4y ago
Save it to a "read it later" app. Forget all about it. Move on with life. When you need something, search for it. By that time, there will be a hundred other hits saying or doing the same thing. If you really want to remember some
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by pnf 4y ago
Why would they fire anyone? These aren't mistakes.
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by pnf 4y ago
What a dickhead thing to post about.
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by pnf 4y ago
No headlights?
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by pnf 4y ago
The symbolism of the zoomed out context is hilariously not any less ominous or threatening. The blue coasts surrounding and squeezing the extremist red middle of America. It was bad optics all around, unless it was intended to intimidate, i
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by pnf 4y ago
inky black pill, not for the faint of heart or casually happy
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by pnf 4y ago
If a public company can't hire its way to a good ESG score, it can surely fire its way. Next stop is favorable financial terms from Blackrock et al.
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by pnf 4y ago
The future of the human race looks more and more like test tube babies genetically engineered for socially productive and harmonious dispositions, robosexuality the norm for non-elites and non-untouchables. Aggressive reproduction managemen
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by pnf 4y ago
What's wrong with meeting people IRL? Does that just not happen anymore? It used to be that friends would hook their friends up. Or you'd meet someone at school or through work. Is that no longer the case? The impression I've
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by pnf 4y ago
Bob should be fired. He clearly shows no independent initiative and burdens his colleagues with his insatiable need to be given "tasks" like a robot. Is he a robot? Is it really BOB the Multivac we are talking about here and not a
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by pnf 4y ago
This joke was originally written by CS Lewis in The Screwtape Letters.
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by pnf 4y ago
Love this book. Taught me a lot. Looking forward to reading the 2nd edition.
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by pnf 4y ago
I could say there's no point in arguing with you for the exact same reasons. I see you really don't want to understand my argument and would rather blithely dismiss strawmen. That's your prerogative. For anyone else who reads
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by pnf 4y ago
I specifically said that no conspiracy is required, that the mechanism is baked into the system. As for the rest of the world, all the information is NOT accessible and public. Far from it. China is notoriously secretive and the US bio-secu
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by pnf 4y ago
Science funding is dominated by industry and academic sources. Academic research departments are funded by industry or by NGOs funded by industry and government. As with any culture, successful people generally know where the third rails ar
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by pnf 4y ago
The issue is about "free speech" AND "due process" AND the "rule of law". In the US, the law is emphatic that the government shall not infringe upon the free speech of the individual except under very limited c
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by pnf 4y ago
"And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death
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by pnf 4y ago
Google it. It's a racket. Teacher's unions have negotiated automatic pay raises for certain educational attainments. Those attainments are certified by the Ed Schools. It's basically the certification program scam.
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by pnf 4y ago
Ha, yeah, sure it is

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