https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism Conveniently characterizing people who point out somebody who is supporting fascism as "conveniently characterizing" means you don't actually have to consider if they are fascist or…
Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day. Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white…
I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where it didn't and I had to follow other…
Prior to Musk Twitter did have mechanisms in place to mitigate some of the worst of disinformation. It wasn't perfect for sure, but it worked better than the "speech absolutist" (which in practice seems to be more about…
The article is about libraries. Books were banned/removed (if you like - not sure what distinction there is there) from libraries. Why are you talking about availability of books in book stores? Yes people can still…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/2... Has a list of banned books and some of the reasons. Elsewhere, although I couldn't find the article they categorized the different reasons, and scenarios…
There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided…
Good?
> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong. What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong. Unfortunately the article referenced doesn't appear to…
So the majority of trade was/is/likely to remain with the EU? Perhaps I should clarify on the EU law point. I made the point that most EU laws were copied, but the trade point was not about laws in the Uk. It's that UK…
This. The Uk copied large amounts of EU law verbatim. That is not a blip due only having recently left. It's due to their main trading partner is the EU and it will remain the EU. To trade with the EU you have to follow…
There is a documentary about this called "the spiders web" https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-spiders-web/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfnkLurLA8
I use an old ipad2 as a music controller. I have my music stored on a [subsonic server](http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp), and then use one of the subsonic player apps on my ipad, connecting to my old skool amp…
140 million to sign the deal with Rwanda. Will cost 100k GBP per applicant. Rwanda will 'process' 200 applicants a year. Clearly that doesn't come close to solving anything and is expensive. It is a simple to explain…
Article starts with... "The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical socialist fashion, they weren’t content…
The Telegraph that promoted Brexit, Boris & Liz. Brexit slashed trade with the Uk's biggest trading partner. That created worse trade deals such as with most obviously recently Japan. Boris and corruption - such as the…
> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise go to waste, at least from the…
The documentary "Spiders Web" talks about how the UK after the second world war, used offshore jurisdictions as places which desirable place for finance being safe (because UK connection) and opaque (so can avoid…
> "the market’s ability to self-regulate" The market is artificial. For an example it it operates (largely) within constraints that are external - laws. Modifying the money supply is a lever that can be used to achieve…
> If someone says "black lives matter," what are people meant to make of that? I know the snarky response is to say that it means that "black lives matter," but what does that really mean? That shouldn't really need…
Right. The claim of "virtue signalling" makes a pejorative from an activity that is virtuous of all things. If the point is to question the reasoning behind the act, the act is still virtuous regardless. If the problem…
No 'they' don't. And prefixing with 'to be fair' is sadistically hilarious in context. To clarify. There are people who want fascism. Who want authoritarianism. Who are purposefully breaking political discourse. Who…
I can't speak for original poster. But in 2018 - fascism, authoritarianism and break down of political discourse were very alarming. Now in 2022, we see it is likely Roe vs Wade gets overturned. The basis of that…
"The outspoken investor likened environmental, social and governance policies to the Chinese Communist Party" Interesting choice "Chinese communist party". I mean really? How does…
This is an article from newspaper The Times in the UK. The origin isn't a rumor on reddit. I don't know if it's true or not - but if it's false, the real issue would be a credible news source, The Times, got it wrong,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism Conveniently characterizing people who point out somebody who is supporting fascism as "conveniently characterizing" means you don't actually have to consider if they are fascist or…
Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day. Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white…
I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where it didn't and I had to follow other…
Prior to Musk Twitter did have mechanisms in place to mitigate some of the worst of disinformation. It wasn't perfect for sure, but it worked better than the "speech absolutist" (which in practice seems to be more about…
The article is about libraries. Books were banned/removed (if you like - not sure what distinction there is there) from libraries. Why are you talking about availability of books in book stores? Yes people can still…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/06/2... Has a list of banned books and some of the reasons. Elsewhere, although I couldn't find the article they categorized the different reasons, and scenarios…
There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided…
Good?
> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong. What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong. Unfortunately the article referenced doesn't appear to…
So the majority of trade was/is/likely to remain with the EU? Perhaps I should clarify on the EU law point. I made the point that most EU laws were copied, but the trade point was not about laws in the Uk. It's that UK…
This. The Uk copied large amounts of EU law verbatim. That is not a blip due only having recently left. It's due to their main trading partner is the EU and it will remain the EU. To trade with the EU you have to follow…
There is a documentary about this called "the spiders web" https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-spiders-web/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfnkLurLA8
I use an old ipad2 as a music controller. I have my music stored on a [subsonic server](http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp), and then use one of the subsonic player apps on my ipad, connecting to my old skool amp…
140 million to sign the deal with Rwanda. Will cost 100k GBP per applicant. Rwanda will 'process' 200 applicants a year. Clearly that doesn't come close to solving anything and is expensive. It is a simple to explain…
Article starts with... "The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical socialist fashion, they weren’t content…
The Telegraph that promoted Brexit, Boris & Liz. Brexit slashed trade with the Uk's biggest trading partner. That created worse trade deals such as with most obviously recently Japan. Boris and corruption - such as the…
> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise go to waste, at least from the…
The documentary "Spiders Web" talks about how the UK after the second world war, used offshore jurisdictions as places which desirable place for finance being safe (because UK connection) and opaque (so can avoid…
> "the market’s ability to self-regulate" The market is artificial. For an example it it operates (largely) within constraints that are external - laws. Modifying the money supply is a lever that can be used to achieve…
> If someone says "black lives matter," what are people meant to make of that? I know the snarky response is to say that it means that "black lives matter," but what does that really mean? That shouldn't really need…
Right. The claim of "virtue signalling" makes a pejorative from an activity that is virtuous of all things. If the point is to question the reasoning behind the act, the act is still virtuous regardless. If the problem…
No 'they' don't. And prefixing with 'to be fair' is sadistically hilarious in context. To clarify. There are people who want fascism. Who want authoritarianism. Who are purposefully breaking political discourse. Who…
I can't speak for original poster. But in 2018 - fascism, authoritarianism and break down of political discourse were very alarming. Now in 2022, we see it is likely Roe vs Wade gets overturned. The basis of that…
"The outspoken investor likened environmental, social and governance policies to the Chinese Communist Party" Interesting choice "Chinese communist party". I mean really? How does…
This is an article from newspaper The Times in the UK. The origin isn't a rumor on reddit. I don't know if it's true or not - but if it's false, the real issue would be a credible news source, The Times, got it wrong,…