Does that include all the money spent on military resesarch? I don't know that I'd characterize the military industrial complex, especially the private parts, as being made of up far-left types. It seems that funding…
Civil war. Social upheavals. Gridlock. Oligarchs. Didn't the U.S. have all those problems, despite having a president? There was an assertion made in an ancestor comment that a committee without a leader can't function,…
Wouldn't that depend on how much data? I assume those who own the data would rather buy the hardware and create models from this data themselves, as opposed to sending their data off to someone else, or allowing it to…
What number am I supposed to be looking at in that cbp.gov link? I saw numbers for inadmissibles, expulsions and apprehensions. Are those the numbers your are referring to? I don't get it. Weren't those the waves of…
GrapheneOS has attempted to cover this, it comes with an Auditor app that can be used from another Android device to check for tampering. > The Auditor app uses hardware-based security features to validate the identity…
A few generations ago they were enslaving people [0]. This is what racism can lead to. Maintaining our heritage, our way of life, some would say. Hopefully their population decline doesn't hit them too hard. But that,…
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It's the lobbyists and regulatory capture and monopolies that make it cancereous.
> Please cite these things that are factually incorrect. At the top of this thread, where you said Iran did not follow the JCPOA and that they were denying access to military sites where they were doing nuclear…
Yes, I'm serious. The Persians are a proud culture and know their history. Just like a lot of other people. You don't think religion still motivates people? There have been Sunni vs Shia and Christian vs Muslim…
The IAEA also said: "In its May 2025 report, the IAEA noted Iran’s enrichment to 60% purity—beyond JCPOA limits but not prohibited under the NPT itself" [0] Apparently the Iranians started enriching to that 60% level,…
> literally no part of this sentence is accurate Let me break it down some for you, and anyone else who may be interested: 1) Iran is dictating terms Look how often Trump has changed his story on how long the war will…
I don't know how you got to "Iran probably wasn't following the treaty", when their adhereance to the JCPOA was certified by the U.S. (twice by the Trump administration [0][1]), until Trump wanted to renogiate,…
> Iran probably wasn't following the JCPOA Source?
> Just to be clear: the current situation is a huge mess caused by one deranged leader. Agreed. The situation is worse than before the U.S. attack. Iran has proven they can control the straight, threatening the world's…
Agreed, if id becomes madatory for voting then id needs to be prvided for free, otherwise it is effectively a poll tax, and poll taxes are illegal.
Ideally we'd democratically decide whether we want this or not. We can make spurrious tracking (which is usually for profit) illegal, if we want. People in former communist countries and other oppressive places often…
Crimes can be investigated without always-on survellience. Like has been done for decades. Are all these deployed cameras actually solving crimes? What are the numbers? Aren't there already a bunch of other ways to…
> It is a product of outside Chinese money being funneled into US politics to hobble the US in Artificial Intelligence Or this could be Russian propaganda, to manipulate US opinion against China in this case. What are…
Lots of people are scared of those who are different or unfamiliar. They live in their own bubble - prefering homogenous suburbs, non-poor office workers, algorithmic feeds for their cognitive biases, etc. And fear,…
Ah, I was more focused on the effectiveness as opposed to the quantity, i.e. if you have a million dollars, that could be decent way to spend it, given the world we live in. I see what you are saying - that it's not…
Sounds like enough to pay some people for some months or a year or two - a combination of experts, part-time specialists, cotractors, etc. - to do things like gather some data via their contacts, hack together a…
Russia has been trading with a number of countries[0]. Mostly China, but also significantly with India, Turkey and the EU, and in much lesser amounts with 30+ other countries, including the US, the UK, UAE, Brazil,…
> funding the conquest of Ukraine It is well known that China is still engaged in trade with Russia- oil and gold going one way, drones and weapon components going the other. But you said funding, and I assume you meant…
I'm not sure about some of the things you mentioned. Stuff like this is food for social media algorithms - "the world is ending!" But they are interesting points to think about. How much of what you said holds true in…
Does that include all the money spent on military resesarch? I don't know that I'd characterize the military industrial complex, especially the private parts, as being made of up far-left types. It seems that funding…
Civil war. Social upheavals. Gridlock. Oligarchs. Didn't the U.S. have all those problems, despite having a president? There was an assertion made in an ancestor comment that a committee without a leader can't function,…
Wouldn't that depend on how much data? I assume those who own the data would rather buy the hardware and create models from this data themselves, as opposed to sending their data off to someone else, or allowing it to…
What number am I supposed to be looking at in that cbp.gov link? I saw numbers for inadmissibles, expulsions and apprehensions. Are those the numbers your are referring to? I don't get it. Weren't those the waves of…
GrapheneOS has attempted to cover this, it comes with an Auditor app that can be used from another Android device to check for tampering. > The Auditor app uses hardware-based security features to validate the identity…
A few generations ago they were enslaving people [0]. This is what racism can lead to. Maintaining our heritage, our way of life, some would say. Hopefully their population decline doesn't hit them too hard. But that,…
[delayed]
It's the lobbyists and regulatory capture and monopolies that make it cancereous.
> Please cite these things that are factually incorrect. At the top of this thread, where you said Iran did not follow the JCPOA and that they were denying access to military sites where they were doing nuclear…
Yes, I'm serious. The Persians are a proud culture and know their history. Just like a lot of other people. You don't think religion still motivates people? There have been Sunni vs Shia and Christian vs Muslim…
The IAEA also said: "In its May 2025 report, the IAEA noted Iran’s enrichment to 60% purity—beyond JCPOA limits but not prohibited under the NPT itself" [0] Apparently the Iranians started enriching to that 60% level,…
> literally no part of this sentence is accurate Let me break it down some for you, and anyone else who may be interested: 1) Iran is dictating terms Look how often Trump has changed his story on how long the war will…
I don't know how you got to "Iran probably wasn't following the treaty", when their adhereance to the JCPOA was certified by the U.S. (twice by the Trump administration [0][1]), until Trump wanted to renogiate,…
> Iran probably wasn't following the JCPOA Source?
> Just to be clear: the current situation is a huge mess caused by one deranged leader. Agreed. The situation is worse than before the U.S. attack. Iran has proven they can control the straight, threatening the world's…
Agreed, if id becomes madatory for voting then id needs to be prvided for free, otherwise it is effectively a poll tax, and poll taxes are illegal.
Ideally we'd democratically decide whether we want this or not. We can make spurrious tracking (which is usually for profit) illegal, if we want. People in former communist countries and other oppressive places often…
Crimes can be investigated without always-on survellience. Like has been done for decades. Are all these deployed cameras actually solving crimes? What are the numbers? Aren't there already a bunch of other ways to…
> It is a product of outside Chinese money being funneled into US politics to hobble the US in Artificial Intelligence Or this could be Russian propaganda, to manipulate US opinion against China in this case. What are…
Lots of people are scared of those who are different or unfamiliar. They live in their own bubble - prefering homogenous suburbs, non-poor office workers, algorithmic feeds for their cognitive biases, etc. And fear,…
Ah, I was more focused on the effectiveness as opposed to the quantity, i.e. if you have a million dollars, that could be decent way to spend it, given the world we live in. I see what you are saying - that it's not…
Sounds like enough to pay some people for some months or a year or two - a combination of experts, part-time specialists, cotractors, etc. - to do things like gather some data via their contacts, hack together a…
Russia has been trading with a number of countries[0]. Mostly China, but also significantly with India, Turkey and the EU, and in much lesser amounts with 30+ other countries, including the US, the UK, UAE, Brazil,…
> funding the conquest of Ukraine It is well known that China is still engaged in trade with Russia- oil and gold going one way, drones and weapon components going the other. But you said funding, and I assume you meant…
I'm not sure about some of the things you mentioned. Stuff like this is food for social media algorithms - "the world is ending!" But they are interesting points to think about. How much of what you said holds true in…