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by throwawaysea 5y ago
The Hill did a segment on the media blackout around the truck convoy protest. It’s pretty dark that so many media outlets can all act in seeming coordination with the government and each other: https://youtu.be/ArYtup2o_qU
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Trudeau saying that a portion of his citizens protesting are holding “unacceptable views” was chilling. It’s always telling when someone in power holds free speech or any opposing view in contempt. https://globalnews.ca/news
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
CBC is now literally claiming that Russia is behind the truckers protest. It’s a drastic pivot from claiming that it was a fringe minority, which now seems like a total lie considering the scale of it and the tens of thousands of people tha
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Even though I see all the visuals and understand the process, this operation seems very complicated and more like science fiction.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Within their legal rights? Sure. But they are advocating for others to be silenced in the same breath, not just silently pulling their content. In other words, they are using power (financial power, celebrity influence) to silence others. T
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
There are also other pro science reasons to be against GMO crops. A couple example. GMO based industrial farms grow monocultures that ultimately reduce the variety of foods people traditionally grew and ate, leading to less varied diets and
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I view it as a freedom of speech issue because one side is advocating for another side to be silenced. These musicians aren’t just pulling their content - they’re trying to use power to shut someone else down. To me that is clearly a freedo
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
On the topic of intellectual openness, a nonprofit doing great work in this area is Heterodox Academy ( https://heterodoxacademy.org/ ). Their definition of the problem evident in Western academia (particularly the US) is wor
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Absolutely. Email, password, secure image, 2FA seems more than good enough. It already is for everyone else in my online life like banks, medical services, and so on. Why wouldn’t it be for government services? Given that ID.me is located i
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Isn’t it illegal to discriminate based on protected traits? I just looked up the policy you are referring to - NASDAQ now requires female board members and other types of minorities, which seems completely illegal and unethical: https:&#x2
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I hope so, but many of these companies are massive, can copy the features of smaller companies (see Microsoft Teams versus Slack), and also benefit from low competition due to network effects, bundling of products, etc. Their sheer size and
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I have friends at a high level at a few of the FAANG companies. They mentioned that hiring, promotion, and compensation activities are heavily driven by quotas that are illegal and discriminatory, but that it’s all handled in high-level mee
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Better link without all of Twitter’s pop ups and dark patterns: https://nitter.net/LynAldenContact/status/148748178444725044... And here it is unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1487
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It is completely inappropriate for the government to force people to give up their privacy and share so much with a third party. And it is completely unethical for this company, Id.me, to pursue it. I already am able to use banks and other
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
What makes the “subjective feeling of identity” different from just having a different personality? Or what makes it different from a subculture like the ones of the past - punk, goth, emo, and so on. I think of gender as being strongly rel
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
They also flip seals into the air to carefully avoid injury while hunting - see this article and video: https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-explain-video-orca-punti...
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted - this is explicitly true. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale > The killer whale or orca (Orcinus orca) is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of whi
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Maybe it only needs to apply above some size of company by number of employees or revenue, to favor a low barrier to entry for smaller competitors. Many laws make distinctions between differently sized companies already, at least in the US.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I’m not sure the Japanese concept here is the same thing as what we call trans today. This article seems to portray a more societally enforced “role” for this third gender rather than treating it as an “expression” or “identity”. But I do w
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Some Amazon divisions have lost at least 35% of their staff in the past year(businessinsider.com)
90 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|46 comments
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggests Joe Rogan should be censored(reclaimthenet.org)
11 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|19 comments
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Wait so you literally work at multiple companies? How do you manage meetings and deadlines and things like that? Surely that creates conflicts between them.
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
Social media is just a basic telecom utility service. Most of societal communication takes place on it. It’s fundamental enough that most individuals, businesses, celebrities, and government officials participate in it. I don’t understand t
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
It’s great to see that in this day and age, at least some people care to defend free speech. I’m used to a world where biased monopolists repeatedly censor wrongthink on their platforms, propagandizing the world with one sided narrative sha
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
> I currently work overemployed at FAANG, capital accumulation focused What does this mean?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I don’t quite understand the issue. Is there an ELI5 explanation?
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
The thing is social media, including YouTube, is the new public square. Exercising our fundamental civil liberties like free speech means exercising them on places like social media. Otherwise those rights are simply not as useful. Social m
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
I would like to think this is because Spotify grew a spine and is defending free speech. But I doubt it, given they've removed many of Joe Rogan's episodes. This is probably just a cold hard business decision, since the number of
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by throwawaysea 5y ago
By the way, the supreme court case where this phrase around shouting fire in a theater comes from was overturned over 40 years ago. From https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim... &g
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YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino(reuters.com)
76 points by throwawaysea 5y ago|106 comments

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