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  1. Re:How News is "Made" on People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So, being skeptical of mainstream media, because one understands how "news" comes into being, automatically makes a person a conspiracy theorist...

    You didn't even read the whole summary, did you?

  2. Re:Not all conspiracies are created equal on People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Noting that (sigh), even as of December 2017, people still believe Obama was born in Kenya

    You know, the really sad part is that since his mother is a known American citizen, none of that "where was he born" nonsense ever mattered in the slightest; yet, socially, we allowed the mass media to convince us that it did.

  3. How News is "Made" on People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People who understand that mass media is nothing more than a branch of some corporations PR department, tend to not believe the unverified B.S.spouted by mass media.

    Film at 11.

  4. non sequitur.

  5. Re:We know better than the user on Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My comment had nothing to do with user expectation (and FYI no one cares); I was referring to the inevitable mechanical and electrical issues that all vehicles experience after a hundred thousand miles or more.

  6. Re:In today's world anyone can be called a nazi on A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He's probably American like me, which means he's spent a lifetime being brainwashed into the ideology that Israeli Jews are the only actual Semites to ever exist.

    Unlike myself, he fell for it.

  7. Re:Maybe Twitter itself is stopping Nazis? on A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen on the platform, I always assumed that was the case.

  8. ...we have a "blue alert" and people show up. Are they good guys who are trying to help -- or more folks who wanna kill cops?

    No way to know.

    Agreed, I can see no possible positive outcome from this idea.

  9. Re:More idiocy on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    OK, so maybe that was a bad example, but the point remains valid - genetics, including the genes that manage racial features, are important to consider in medical practice.

  10. Re:We know better than the user on Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Kinda makes you wonder how all those Teslas are going to act when they aren't all new and shiny anymore...

  11. I'm white and most of those don't apply to me (although I do technically live in a suburb), so your assertion that such criteria is inherently racist rings falsely.

  12. A Blue Alert could quickly warn you if a violent
    suspect may be in your community, along with providing instructions on what to do if you spot
    the suspect and how to stay safe.

    My neighborhood association's facebook page already covers that. Quite well, as a matter of fact.

  13. Cops are paid and trained to maintain the status quo, per the 1981 SCOTUS decision in Warren v. District of Columbia.

  14. Re:More idiocy on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're dealing with medicine, noting ethnic differences is important. Doctors understand probabilities and knowing when certain probabilities are elevated can significantly alter diagnostics and treatment to the benefit of the patient.

    And yet, I guarantee some non-doctors out there will claim it's racist to only test black people for sickle-cell anemia. This is why we can't have nice things - we allow the ignorant people to have an equal voice to the knowledgeable.

  15. Re:Mirror on New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms (propublica.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right.

    Because apparently, in 2017, math became racist.

  16. Re:Could they be used in africa? on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Based on the assumption AC is from the US?

    Yea, that makes sense.

    Fun fact, countries other than the US have biological and chemical weapons, too. For all we know, AC is in Syria working with ISIS.

  17. Re:Application of FOIA Seems Odd on 'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Publicly funded universities doing publicly funded research.

    Basically, if the taxpayer covers your salary, your work can be FOIA'd.

    That's a good thing.

  18. That article was my introduction to the vampire squid; very thorough and well researched.

  19. Study the history of Goldman Sachs, if you want to know how bubbles are created, inflated, then intentionally popped.

    Related note - I hear that G$ has been looking into cryptocurrency as a new investment vehicle...

  20. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, I thought about that too... basically the Midwest is about the only area you couldn't pull that shit in, since that's where the majority of infantry originate from.

    Personally I have hope, as most of the soldiers I know are far more intelligent than your run-of-the-mill, intentionally-low-IQ police officer.

    'Course, hope in one hand, shit in the other, amirite?

  21. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, you said something patently false, and I provided the proof.

    It's nothing to get butthurt over, unless you just have something against factual representation of reality.

  22. AC struck a nerve, so it seems.

  23. Re:Illegal Aliens on San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If San Francisco really cared about public safety, they would ban illegal aliens

    [citation needed]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Re:Illegal Aliens on San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would do the shitwork if not for the illegal aliens? Are YOU gonna change my oil or cut my grass?

    LOL, really?

  25. Re:Government is a coercive organization on 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    When was the last robbery in Germany that involved a weapon (knife or a stick ... most certainly not a gun)? It is December 6th now ... definitely not this year.

    From the first Google page of "Germany armed robbery:"

    A 57-year-old man has been arrested on the suspicion of attempting to carry out an armed robbery at a bank in southwestern Germany. The perpetrator was reportedly injured after exchanging fire with police.Apr 21, 2017

    Oct 9, 2017 - Armed robbers arrested in Italy and Germany. ... They are suspected of carrying out several heavily armed robberies in Italy, mostly against cash-in-transit (CIT) armoured vehicles or banks, and were also suspected of planning a major robbery in Germany

    Nov 13, 2017 - German police on Monday published videos showing three former members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) militant group taking part in a 2016 armed robbery in northern Germany, and called for public help to track them down.

    16th March 2017, 11:49 am. TWO terrified hostages have been freed after at least one ruthless armed robber took over a German bank. Cops in Duisburg have confirmed that the siege is now over after two men were arrested outside the Sparkasse bank. Armed cops have shut down several ...