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> Musk has hinted that he views Twitter as a public forum and should be moderated as such. Nobody spends $4 billion to create a public forum or to defend free speech. You spend that kind of money for influence or to push an agenda. What
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My opinion of the BBC was formed long before RT even existed. One is a government funded state propagandist. The other is RT. RT emulates BBC as do a lot of state propagandists around the world. All RT and other state propagandists like CGT
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> I was honestly underwhelmed by Neuromancer. Same. No doubt it was an influential book. But I didn't find it well written or that interesting to be honest. I've read neuromancer once. I've read Dune maybe a dozen times. A
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> NRK is Norway’s equivalent to the BBC. Which is britain's equivalent to RT?
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> Controlling the narrative is only a problem for existing democracies with press freedom. Doesn't explain why both democratic and non-democratic countries ban press. It's amazing how quickly people forget that democratic count
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EU has been at the forefront of censorship. Germany is a model for internet censorship around the world. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/06/germany-online-crackdow... It's funny how people think EU or
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> I am sorry to hear that you have a need to see stories where the helper is also a beneficiary as being romanticised and not “real”. You misunderstood my point. My point isn't about selfish altruism - which I noted was a "nice
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Every ethicical framework has issues at the edges. Whether they be based in categorical imperatives or utilitarianism. > utilitarianism (ethics come from the outcome) is the better option. Is murder ethical then, if the murderer uses the
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The things people romanticize, especially when it comes to nyc. Nobody wants the stairs blocked in a subway. It ruins everyone's day. A mother with a stroller is a potential hazard on the stairs and it takes almost no effort or time to
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Then don't say it period. Also, isn't the british queen still the head of state of australia? Every time I bring this up, it's always australians, canadians, british, etc making excuses.
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> "Queen’s enemies." I can't believe people still fight for royalty. Ants fight their queen's enemies. Free human being should fight for themselves, their families, etc.
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Don't forget the tie-in with a military or political angle. Also "gain control" is rather too tame. You want something more aggressive. Also, must always end with a possible threat whether it makes sense or not. For russia. P
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If Dorsey was worried about letting others control it, he wouldn't have gone public with twtr nearly 10 years ago. Crazy how in 10 years, twtr's market cap hasn't budged while tesla's has grown to over 1 trillion dollars
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> The Muslims greatly suffered under the Mongol Empire's trail of destruction Arabs did. The ottoman turks, muslim persians, etc benefited greatly. If the mongol empire was so destructive, we wouldn't have had the ottoman empir
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> Surrounding countries in that area have to have generations of festering hate for that country. Most surrounding countries don't have festering hate for mongolia. It's only in the west we do. The mongol empire is actually adm
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> At least I find it strange that Russia would happily see the material handed off like that, and I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the back of Russia. Why would you be surprised? Russia in the 90s was facing
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> going into isolation Japan didn't go into isolation. It's one of the many myths we invented to hide our horrible history. Japan kicked out europeans because they were enslaving japanese and taking them away. The easiest way t
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I was expecting more as well. Not much information to glean from a barebones press release. If I had to guess, it probably was an issue with scheduling/timetable software rather than anything to do with the trains, rails, etc. Nothing
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> It’s entirely possible to have a culture where women can have families and careers at the same time. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Can't be a good mother and a good worker. You can't be at home taking care of
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> Teach it to others If there's no one around, try explaining it to yourself. An easy method to determine whether you superficially understood a topic or not. After reading some material, it's remarkable how little of it you&#x
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Makes me wonder what the CDC's recommendation will be. More medication? More pills? Isn't that their answer for everything. We are already the most medicated society on earth. I guess a little bit more won't hurt.
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> It blew my mind how Google insists they hire "the world's smartest people" but then can have executives on stage spin narratives with ridiculous holes in it and expect those smart people to believe it rather than have th
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> Yes, because Goodhart's law is applied. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". It depends on whether the grade is the ends or not. But here the grades aren't the ends. It's just a me
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> If I get an A in French, do I just stop studying until I slip down to a B? It depends on what the student's goals are? Did the student just take french because it's required or are they taking it because they want to be fluen
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> 1. They don’t do what they say they do (assess retained learning, track progress) So getting an A or a C in arithmetic doesn't reveal anything about retained learning or track progress? > 2. They create perverse incentives that
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> Do not most free democratic countries practice 'secret ballot' voting specifically because not doing so caused all kinds of problems like voter intimidation? Because the voting developers are part of "governance".
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There used to be a popular trump subreddit. That should be source enough, no? You literally had bernie bros bots, obama bots, trump bots, etc. Then the media pressured reddit and forced it to choose sides and start banning. Now it's a
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Not just europe. Europe makes the most sense because europe is the wealthiest region on earth and has the ability to fund its own tech industry. Europe did it for aerospace ( Airbus ), but why they aren't doing it for something far mor
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No icq? There was a time when the first thing you installed on your computer was instant messaging applications. It's how you kept in touch with friends online. Crazy how quickly it fell off.
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Thank you. They always make it sound like X helps you lenghten your life. But it's always the case the X is a symptom of a healthy life, not the cause of it. Strong hands is probably a result of exercise and leading a healthy life whic

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