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  1. Re:Or maybe you're a lying piece of garbage? on Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit (ft.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    That snopes article is full of so many inaccuracies that even World Weekly News wouldn't publish it. It also doesn't detract from the parent posters point that U1 dumped large sums of money to the Clinton's. Or that large parts of that uranium are now MIA, right off the fucking grid. Figure that one out, because it sure entered Canada and managed to get out of the country but nobody knows where it went. There's an on-going investigation here in Canada because it should have been something that was picked up by the ports.

  2. Re:The megacorps don't stand to lose much on Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... can I still prefer the beast I know over the beast I don't even want to know? Because so far the internet is still quite usable.

    Sure. Just remember if you want actual NN rules though you're still going to have to go through the process of nuking that abomination anyway.

  3. Re:Do you think they care? on Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    If that was the case, google wouldn't have filed as a "friend" of Rogers and Bell in Canada before the CRTC in opposing last-mile regulations requiring the owners to lease the last mile to TPIA's(third party ISP's). Google does what is in googles best interest, they don't care about the last mile.

  4. Re:The megacorps don't stand to lose much on Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    That's likely because they already benefits before, the fact that they were for this abomination of NN in the US should make people very wary of supporting it at all. There were likely regulations in it that gave them more benefits and less consumer protections.

  5. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't, if that were what he was doing. But he's not asking conservatives to boycott companies that advertise on liberal news sites, he's using misleadingly edited videos to create a false scandal around institutions he doesn't like with the goal of causing their closure.

    Except that the full videos have been released and that wasn't false? So how does that work out in the end. The only thing that came out of it was that they were shutdown and shredding documents before some state agencies could actually investigate. That happened in both New York and California.

    I'm not interested in arguments that revolve around spiritualism, so I don't talk about planned parenthood enough to immediately recognize it in the acronym "PP."

    Yeah, except we're not talking about spiritualism. We're talking about an illegal trade of tissues and organs to medical companies, multiple companies, with PP violating multiple state and federal laws requiring how that is supposed to be sold. That's why the DOJ is investigating them.

  6. Re:He's right. on Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I always was a fan of darwinism in action.

  7. Re:The CASE? on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Real estate is often a safe investment. Avoid bubbles.

    US, AUS, NZ, CDN, Norway, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France are all in real estate bubbles. There is zero chance of avoiding them, the bubble now is worse then it was in 2008. The amount of "loss" from those countries in small prime rate moves could lead to the loss of 110T USD in economic value.

  8. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine. There's nothing criminal, or IMO, particularly wrong with that. Especially if you expand "conservative" to include Breitbart.

    Then you should have no problems with O'keef doing exactly the same thing.

    I'm trying to find information on this. I don't know what "PP" is. Searching "media matters PP" didn't help.

    You obviously don't know that PP is a short term used by people on both sides of the isle for planned parenthood? I gotta ask, do you even live in north america? If you don't, it would explain your lack of understanding to most of what's posted to /. in both political and social issues.

  9. Re:First men in nursing? First men in Schoolteachi on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, where do you get this stuff from? I want to read it myself.

    Are you in that much of an echo chamber that you don't know that "feminists" like Lena Dunham, Germane Greer, Jessica Valenti and so on have all defended female pedophiles and pushed that feminists should rally around them. Go pick up a copy of Female Sexual Abuse of Children by Michele Elliott, it directly talks about how feminists white-wash abuse by women of both boys and girls because there's no direct benefit to feminism. Hell you just finished *having* a female pedophile that was groomed by "asians" and lured other young girls into the rape gangs, not only did she ply them, but feminists were arguing that she should have a significantly reduced or no sentence at all. Do you not read any news in your home country? Or even the court transcripts and records?

    Hell you've got feminists in the UK that today argue for the abolition of all female prisons and sentencing of women for any crime.

  10. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Media matters hasn't done anything anywhere near as dishonest, and AFAIK has not destroyed any institutions with manipulated evidence. The worst I could find is this

    You mean besides trying to remove advertisers from any conservative outlet to financially starve them because they're conservative? And which manipulated evidence would that be? The part where they got people to actually try and follow through with committing illegal acts, or where organizations actually did follow through with illegal acts(like with PP which is now under DOJ investigation).

  11. Re:Smartphones on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 1

    Consider this as a possibility then. The reason there were lots of UFO sightings before is because there were. Now that "everyone has a integrated camera" it's become too risky to keep doing what they were doing. That could mean one of two things: They do exist, and don't want cultural contamination aka culture would inherently think people as nuts(which is okay, everyone is a bit crazy). Or, they never existed in the first place and people were experiencing hallucinations or other it falls into the realm of test vehicles/unknown or rare atmospheric anomalies, and so on.

  12. Re:First men in nursing? First men in Schoolteachi on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    No, usually the bullying is by assholes full of stereotypes. Like you.

    Uh-huh. Facts are stereotypes huh? Why oh why are nursing organizations trying to put a hard brake on the entire thing and stop female nurses bullying male nurses then. Oh right, let's pick one then: Because that's imaginary or because you have no idea.

    It isn't the other nurses doing the bullying, it is the doctors and patients.

    No? You should go let them know that, especially with the nurses who've been bullied out by other nurses for not being the right gender.

  13. Re:First men in nursing? First men in Schoolteachi on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mashiki, what did I tell you about making stupid assumptions about me?

    One doesn't make stupid assumptions by self-described male feminists who also call themselves allies.

    I was referring to bullying by women in my post. That's exactly what I meant. And as usual, you made an incorrect assumption that doesn't even make sense in this context.

    You should read more slowly then, then go pick up some teaching magazines from your local library(providing your council hasn't shut it down), and you'll figure out where you've gone wrong.

    I guess you don't follow UK news but in the last year at least three women went to jail for sex with children they were teaching (all teenagers). On the sex offenders register for life, obviously never going to be allowed to work with kids again. It's that what you mean by "slap on the wrist"?

    3 in the last year, that's pretty good. Of course, that's why there's such a problem where feminists rally around those women and defend them nearly unto death right?

  14. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Why complain about O'Keefe when groups like Media Matters have been doing that for years?

  15. Re: Why is this bad? on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The opulence of the tiny 1br trailer I already live in and work out of?

    Considering that was still pretty common 50 years ago, whether it be a single room style flat or whatnot? You'd be better off doing that then having her with that level of stress in her life.

  16. Re:The article is pretty wrong on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    To me the trend starting in the 90s is more worrisome. We reached a peak and then dropped off significantly.

    Gee it's almost like women decided that they'd rather take work which gave them more options even at lower pay then strictly stuck to a 9-5 job that severely restricted them. No no, that can't be the answer. It's only that we have data from Sweden, Norway, and Iceland that back that up too. And of course Canada and Germany as well. And one can't forget either that men are far more willing to be directly career oriented then women and work 70hrs/week even at the risk of their own health to achieve that higher level of success.

  17. Re:First men in nursing? First men in Schoolteachi on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bullying is a factor.

    You mean by women. Back in the 1980's and 90's there was a large coordinated push by feminists to push men out of both areas. In both cases it was some mantra of the "he's male thus a rapist." There's no social pressure against being a teacher or nurse, there is a big social pressure not to go in it because of the perceived problems relating to working with women.

    Again, look in your own damn backyard. And you'll find plenty of stories of men run out of the teaching profession especially k-12, on claims of sexual harassment that turn out to not be true or have their lies completely ruined by false accusations. On the other hand, there's plenty of female sexual predators who get slaps on the wrist for hooking up with a 14yr old boy or girl.

  18. Re:The CASE? on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    In which case I feel for their family, but I have an amazing lack of sympathy for them.

    I'm sure you feel the same way when it's your brother/sister. Yeah the lack of that empathy, so good, so caring.

  19. Re:The CASE? on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Real estate has never been a safe investment. If you think it is, you're simply showing that you've already fallen into the trap of believing that a "physical object" will always have intrinsic value. Let's look at the condo bubble, which was based on the belief that more people would move into those buildings and away from the burbs. Didn't happen. Look at the houses built in areas that were "resource only" industry towns. That $70k-140k last year is worth $10 this year.

    Hell I've heard advertisements on the radio in the last month pushing "prime foreclosure" buy-in opportunities. Which is no different then buying BTC, you're buying on the basis that the value of said property will increase, when in most cases it will decrease further and the original purchaser is trying to get 15% on their initial foreclosure buyout.

  20. Re:He's right. on Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That looks to be more like poor parenting, followed with poor schooling. I mean come on now, we knew back in the 1980's microwaves were dangerous. Playing with mercury on your skin was really bad. Eating paint chips wasn't going to help you get far in life either. But when you have a medium that promotes narcissism and attention seeking? Big shock that everyone with a mental deficiency, daddy/mommy issues/etc go out of their way to try and get some attention.

  21. Re:I would feel insulted. on Fired Tech Workers Turn To Chatbots for Counseling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be we care about your mental health but you aren't worth a human's time.

    Yell at the people who pushed the big anti-mental health hospitals in the 1970's and 1980's, then further pushed the revolving door medication system. We're still suffering from that massive screw-up and probably will for another 30 years.

  22. Re:The CASE? on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're right it doesn't need to be, because everything like this has a bubble of some kind. The real question is just what will the ripple be when this bubble pops. How many people have say mortgaged off equity in their house to try riding the bubble? You can bet your ass that people have. How many companies have sunk short-term possible high-loss futures into this as well?

    30 years ago people were selling equity in their homes at high interest rates to try cashing in on the condo bubble happening in major cities around the world. Believing that they could "sell out" and still get a head. Now just think what happens if you have a several thousand people in a major city who've done the same with the stupidly low interest rates we have and were already say $50-100/mo difference from going under, but believed they saw this as a quick way to cash out. And directly lied on the line of credit for this. People did the same thing with NORTEL stocks.

    Not really gonna know just how much of a mess this is going to be until that bubble pops, but as a warning to anyone who knows someone who's done something stupid like buy into this believing that "it can only go up" when they've lost all that money, they'll probably become suicidal.

  23. The McD's and the Walmarts are going to have to boost their $10/hr to $20/hr and attract those for which the smell of hot oil and metal shaving is a turn-off

    Can tell you're pretty messed up already. Those are the two greatest smells in the world, right beside the smell of heavy axle grease and the "almond" smell of CO from a properly running car.

    Go work a trade.

  24. Sure .. and he personally signed off on the working conditions of these drivers

    Funny thing, he probably did. He and the board discussed ways that they could make more money, and someone suggested using side-cuts in employment law aka gig-type jobs, or temp agencies which pay below the minimum wage because someone else it taking a cut. Not only now did they not have to worry about various taxes because of it, they reduced the other costs associated with maintaining a fleet and passed the costs onto other people.

  25. Occupy WallStreet? The organization created by communists in Canada in order to try and push communist controls. Yeah everyone remembers them.