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Absolutely, although the risk for them is retaliation, especially with the US deciding that it wants to be the chief geopolitical chaos generator in the world. Having US social media in your country is a huge geopolitical risk, especially i
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Wonder if you could make a case with travel insurance. After all the device was technically stolen from you, under threat of violence.
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It's not just luddites, it's also the knowledge that these rules will never apply to them or their children.
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It has gotten so much worst to the point that I wonder if Twitter employees are trying to execute some sort of poison pill so that Musk does not purchase the company, and they can continue to amplify their agendas and squelch opposition.
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Also, the backbone of Tesla's production rests on the factory in Shanghai.
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This is one of those comical cases where the State and its complicit media has proven to be so utterly untrustworthy that I put more trust on social media reports from people living there. Note that "more" does not mean "comp
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I only have to keep an eye on what fresh authoritarian nightmares the Australian government is up to. Not the worst thing ever, but it does seem all Western jurisdictions are ticking time bombs, and thanks to Five Eyes you're at the di
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Exactly. The whole point about democracy is that it cannot just be mob rule. This leads to the tyranny of the majority problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority We mitigate for this by having sep
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I have always liked "there are no gurus, only cycles". That luck factor you talk about occurs when the right guru and cycle line up. Then the cycle changes and wipes the floor with the guru.
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Don't forget bribery. After all, Hunter Biden's paintings netted up to ~$500,000 a piece and I can only imagine how good the return on investment was.
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I would argue that the greatest thing the Russians ever did was convince the West they were pros at manipulating social media. The FBI literally interfered with the 2020 US election because they were that afraid of the Russians. Russia d
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There's a fascinating contrast in strategies: Ukraine went fast and aggressive with the Ghost of Kiev and Snake Island propaganda. Russia: silence. And you see it still today. Just this week, Ukraine claimed a pensioner shot down a R
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Chaser: those 5 customer support people's actual role is something else - they're just occasionally doing customer support because desperate clients have nowhere else to go.
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Troll scene aside, I am just bored that it seems Disney and Amazon Studios share the same writers when it comes to their strong female leads.
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I think that many of us are coming at this with Peter Jackson's trilogy in mind (and the extended editions at that), but we have - probably intentionally - forgotten the exceedingly mediocre The Hobbits trilogy. If you use that more re
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> I have a hard time believing the authenticity of the critics' reviews. It's sitting in the 70s in other review aggregators, so I think it's okay. It's worth also considering that many critics are not reviewing this
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In the present day, the target just gets fatally run over. It won't even make headlines in most cities. And even if the assassin is caught, the "penalty" is a slap in the wrist in most Western cities, and even less in most E
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I do find it that Instagram, basically a gateway to Onlyfans, is doing this. How will we react in 10 years when we "discover" that Onlyfans' verification system can be duped with fake documents?
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I don't think technology even necessarily has a role to play here. After all, hate speech began the minute we developed language.
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> figure out what the hell should be done, systematically, about hate speech on the internet. I honestly wish there were some organization focused on the causes of hate speech rather than censoring hate speech. What caused this? Why are
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> If you have a city with X housing units, but 5X people from within the city + all over the country/world want to live there, and for whatever reason no one wants to/can build 4X more housing units, how do you fairly determine
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I actually went back and looked at US Presidents warning Europe about this. Trump famously did and the Germans laughed at him for it. Obama and Biden (both as VP and now as President) did. Even as far back as George Bush: he warned them, al
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From a resource perspective, it's fascinating how much money was incinerated on COVID. Just in legislative health spending, and in spending by the Exectuive you're talking $1.2 TT dollars spent (with much more still allocated)[1].
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It will also be very interesting to see how mortality data trends during the next couple of years. I know there's a cohort of people that are pointing out at a certain national level field experiment as the cause of increased mortality
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> ’m asking if a famine will be a down stream result of this catastrophe. There was already a secular trend of Pakistan having to import ever-larger amounts of food[1]. Unfortunately the minute Putin invaded Ukraine, we saw one of the wo
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The implied unfairness there becomes a bit more fictional when you consider that an electricity user in Washington state isn't exactly competing with an energy user in Gash-Barka region. Where such a comparison does become intensely va
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Not sure if you're religious or interested in certain spiritual practices, but almost all organized religions have silent retreats. No phones allowed and talking is only allowed in specific contexts or times. I aim to do this once pe
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To put things in Canadian context, this is advocating that the Federal government - which cannot even operate a passport printer properly or keep airports running in a non-catastrophic manner - be trusted with critical infrastructure. All
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I love observing NYC, SF, and LA policies like this because it's so ridiculous. An under 21 year old can go shoot up any substance - with the guarantee that the police won't touch them - at any of the safe injection sites, but p
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The problem is the huge role government has had in this, which means regular market mechanisms won't work for a while. 1. The Western governments have spent a decade demonizing fossil and nuclear energy. For that whole time, big fund

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