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by ratsmack 5y ago
One important factor in this is the commute. People spend far too many hours commuting, burning fuel, wearing out their cars and wasting many hours of their life staring at the tail lights of the car ahead of them. Society as whole would be
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I personally believe being targeted with advertising is much less intrusive than the government having unfettered access to my daily interactions with people and various institutions. I would prefer to not have to worry about either.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
And how do you feel about sharing the collected data of your conversations and travel with government agencies?
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I can understand them going after Ag and Pharma in a big way, but I'm skeptical about the Tech part. There is just too much to lose in political support from that industry for any politician to attack them too aggressively.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
If Amazon doesn't fix their horribly astroturfed review system, they will be worthless in a few years after enough people get burned.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
This makes me wonder if they purposely submitted a weak case to appear proactive for political purposes, while knowing it would be tossed out. There is a lot of money that flows from big tech into the political coffers, so you have to be ca
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Amazon is a huge company with a very large number of employees. I'm not making making any excuses for them and I'm sure there was some issues here, but many times it is poorly trained or inexperienced employees that end up causing
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But it does cover more than that and the current title is pretty close.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I would have to believe that Coinbase would bias this in their favor, which would call into question the credibility of the article.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
That's a very bold statement when history has shown otherwise. Don't you believe the powers that be would jump at the chance to discredit them? I would be so lucky if the generally corrupt mainstream media should be more like them
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by ratsmack 5y ago
As long as the speech is within legal boundaries, there should be no issues. Schools have no business policing anything outside their purview. This is entirely up to the parents and law enforcement, if required.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
One month ago. ARCHIVE: https://archive.ph/6JMMl
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It's just the typical attack dog mentality by a bunch of people with nothing better to do.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
> the minions who screen this stuff That's quite an elitist statement. My belief is that a majority of the people that view videos of technical discussions have the capability to understand the context. The ones that do not grasp th
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>Because I've only heard of wall-to-wall positive coverage on YouTube and I don't trust the consistency. Where else can it be discussed? No major media would allow it on their networks for fear of the cancel mobs coming with to
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by ratsmack 5y ago
As did every main stream media and news outlet, such as the New York Times.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
ARCHIVE: https://archive.ph/OUP25
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by ratsmack 5y ago
I have four vehicles ages 22, 18, 14, 11 and one motorcycle at 43 years old. I personally do all maintenance on all my vehicles. I've never bought into the vehicle love affair like much of the marketing portrays automobiles today, I lo
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by ratsmack 5y ago
There's a big difference between fake and non-compliance with a specific countries laws.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It is difficult for me not to believe that a portion of the Russia hysteria is not driven by our own three letter agencies for political purposes. Russia doesn't hold a monopoly on cyber criminals, because there are many Asian countrie
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It is mostly economic, but there is also a constant attack on masculinity in young boys.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued nations of Central America and poses the most direct challenge yet to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policy of avoiding violence and rejecti
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by ratsmack 5y ago
In general, capitalism only exists with small mom and pop retail and other barely surviving small businesses. The majority of commerce is run by a very few corporate oligarchs that also control the majority of government.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>why is YouTube so fixated on removing COVID-related videos? Could it be to protect their advertising revenue interests from the huge Pharmaceutical Industry?
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Just throwing more money a any particular situation is no guarantee the situation will improve. In this case, the Wuhan lab is controlled by China and will conform to Chinese laws and regulations.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Speculation and conjecture is not always evident, but is many times useful in determining the evidence. But this type of discussion was axed from many forums as "misinformation".
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by ratsmack 5y ago
How do you think it would play out if it is found that our government (e.g. NIH/CDC) supplied funding for research that created this virus? I suspect many countries would take notice.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
>I'm generally in favour of the actions taken against misinformation... Who would be the one to determine what is misinformation and what is not?
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by ratsmack 5y ago
Facebook should stop adding "fake news" to anything and let users figure it out themselves.
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by ratsmack 5y ago
It's the humans that control the AI that I worry about.

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