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  1. Re:Who would benefit-- us, but not the parties on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Although to be frank, they are already being labelled "sore losers" despite conceding the election and explicitly instructing their supporters to accept the results, so I doubt it would make any difference in how they are perceived.

    I personally believe that Clinton accepted the results with grace and dignity and the Democratic POLITICIANS have been pretty reasonable throughout. Their supporters on the other hand have been complete shitheels. For the record I say this as someone who's voted blue through all their presidential races so far, until this one.

  2. Indeed. The best part is that after the people on my FB feed cooled down on shrieking that everyone that voted for Trump was racist they segued into "OK, maybe you're not racist, but you voted for racism." The obvious implication being that that's just as bad.

  3. Clinton even barely beat Romney, and she was going against Trump. It should have been a complete blowout, and would have been with pretty much any other Democratic candidate.

  4. Yeah, I do it too sometimes, but occasionally I'll catch myself and make an effort to look at conflicting information. People don't want to think, they just want to have information spoon fed to them.

  5. Re:Why not select a president this way? on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not entirely fair to put that solely on her. The Left in general has become so hyper-focused on "social justice" that she didn't really even need to play the card, it was played for her, and she would have had to be stupid not to try and use it to her advantage.

  6. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. I'm a liberal and I could see over and over the media distorting his statements. Still a terrible candidate mind you, and I voted Johnson in the end, but Trump wasn't nearly as bad as he was being portrayed.

  7. Re:Blame the news websites. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    The WORLD does not need more of it.

  8. Re: Fake News? on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most people don't. Most people find single opinion and then only look at things that back that opinion up.

  9. Re:Interesting but revolution will happen 1st on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that most governments are so obsessed with gun control?

  10. Re:Cost of goods tends to zero... on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. And it's one of the reasons I can't support the libertarian ideology wholesale despite liking parts of it. We're rapidly approaching a period where employing everyone will be difficult or impossible.

    Perhaps Marx (I think) was right and capitalism will inevitably lead to Communism, it's just the countries that tried to make the switch did so too early.

  11. Re: Finally on Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers (diginomica.com) · · Score: 2

    On the other hand most developed nations are looking at a DECREASE in native population. The growth in population is largely driven by developing countries. Once they reach their peak we will likely be looking at a general decline of population across the globe.

  12. Re:Bigotry and Misogynist but the left is ok with on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's why I've left the Left. I'm still mostly liberal (come at me bros) but I no longer stand with Democrats.

  13. Re:Why not select a president this way? on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clinton didn't lose because she's a woman, she lost because she was an astoundingly weak candidate for a number of reasons. She should never have been nominated, the DNC should have recognized what the Republicans were doing for the last 8 years, pulled her aside and quietly offered her a nice posting to fuck off for the election.

    They didn't, so now we have Trump.

  14. Re:Seems fair to me on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The solution is obviously government regulation paying women to play chess and artificially punishing men for doing so until it's 60-40 in women's favor. It's the only way to be fair.

  15. Re:With a browser like that... on Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? · · Score: 1

    Actually that's a lie spread by both sides. It's just far more prominent on the right. On the left it usually manifests as "My feeling are more important than your facts."

  16. Re:Not the same thing on Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race (propublica.org) · · Score: 2

    Really, is everyone here nuts?

    Welcome to 2016.

  17. Re:Halfway There on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They believe they have the moral high ground. Righteous indignation is a hell of a drug.

  18. Re:gloves? on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Nothing to see here, move along.

  19. Though to be fair that's the total cost, and they built a hell of a lot more B-29s. I wonder where the Essex class carriers fall on that list...

  20. There's a lot of white collar jobs... on Walmart Is Cutting 7,000 Jobs Due To Automation (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    ...up for replacement soon. It's not just the manual laborers that are on the chopping block. We need to be preparing for a world where there is literally not enough work to go around.

  21. Re:I look forward to the day... on 3D-Printed Aircraft Tool Sets Guinness World Record (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You're implying that I haven't already downloaded a car. I've downloaded hundreds of cars.

  22. I look forward to the day... on 3D-Printed Aircraft Tool Sets Guinness World Record (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    ...when I can 3D print an entire plane for myself.

  23. A lot of them put you name and photo in prominent places on search results then blackmail you if you want it removed. Essentially the idea is that if a potential employer searches for your name they'll get a mugshot unless you pay exorbitant amounts of money.

  24. I believe we do. I read a thing recently about how those places operate.

  25. Re:So does Slashdot have a quota? on Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Well with Gawker dying SOMEONE has to pick up the slack!