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  1. Re:From Russian With Laughter on Did Cambridge Analytica Harvest 50 Million Facebook Profiles? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, let's go to war with Iran, Russia, and North Korea! Because they're...doing stuff in the middle east and the Korean peninsula, which is sovereign territory of the United States!

  2. Re:bbbut the black turtleneck... on SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    But anybody who said her claims seemed fishy and this was all a PR smokescreen was a misogynist who just can't handle the idea of strong independent wymynz CEOs.

  3. Re:Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't moving to a lower-tax jurisdiction just an extension of "tax avoidance mechanisms?"

  4. Re:Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I could believe that about personal tax rates but not corporate (before the recent cuts). When you have billion dollar businesses fleeing to tax havens we're in the "economic activity (in this country) comes to a halt" phase.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...based on a 10% reduction of 2005 US tax rates. That does not discredit the concept of Laffer curves in general.

  6. Re:the warning signs have been around for years. on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Alex Jones is smarter than to question the holocaust. Dude will rant for hours on interdimensional psychic space vampire pedophiles, but Alex does not fuck with Jews.

  7. Re:Idiots make thigns worse on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have attended sexual harassment classes. They almost always make things worse.

    Sexual harassment classes are not intended to prevent sexual harassment. They're intended to cover corporate's ass so when Manager Jim gets sued for sexual harassment, the company's lawyers can say "We here at Microsoft have a zero tolerance policy on sexual harassment, and every employee is given sexual harassment training certified by the National Board of Sexual Harassment Extortion. Jim completed this class once a year and ignored the fine, fine instruction so he's clearly at fault and we're blameless."

  8. introduce a misandric version of Clippy....

    "Hi! It looks like you're FUCKING A WHITE MALE! Would you like to apologize?"

  9. Re:So all Rachael Maddow clips will be tagged? on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, FaceBook disclosed that, mostly in 2015, some people in Russia ran clickbait ads for and against Black Lives Matter. Therefore, Donald Trump is a traitor and Hillary becomes President now.

  10. This is exactly what conspiracy theorists do. Take one line, from one email, from one crank, and say "see this proves the greys and the lizard men are conspiring with the illuminati to corrupt our precious bodily fluids WAKE UP SHEEPLE!" The entire idea that Donald Trump, the golf course and casino guy from the TV show is really a secret Russian agent is ludicrous. It's one of the stupidest conspiracy theories of all time. Not only is there no evidence, it doesn't even make any sense. How the hell did the Russians know Trump was going to win? Nobody thought Trump was going to win! How the hell did they swing the election with a few thousand dollars worth of FaceBook ads about Black Lives Matter when the campaigns were spending billions?

    The alternative explanation is a lot simpler: lots of people voted for Donald Trump because Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate and fuck illegals, fuck muslims, and fuck China. Doesn't that make a lot more sense than sinister Russian plots?

  11. I wouldn't say "suppress." Just propagandize. Things they disagree with will get "corrected," but completely erroneous bullshit that confirms their political prejudices will show up on your recommended list.

  12. Re:Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What is a laffer curve?

  13. Re:Wikipedia is reknown for it's own politics, bia on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The mainstream media does this all the time. Some garbage outlet like Buzzfeed reports "Florida Man Claims Bigfoot Sighting," and then Huffington post reports "Buzzfeed Reports Bigfoot Sighting," then WaPo comes in with "According to a Huffington Post Report, Bigfoot on the Loose in Florida," then the NYT asks the White House to comment on the bigfoot sightings reported by WaPo, then CNN runs with "NYT: Administration Dodges Bigfoot Questions" and has a 12-person panel analyzing the White House response to the bigfoot crisis, and then the next day we've got "Jennifer Lawrence Eviscerates Trump on Jimmy Kimmel Over Bigfoot Controversy!" trending on YouTube.

  14. Re: Doesn't matter. Won't convince anyone. on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, debunking is great...when the conspiracy theory is false. But for a long time people would call you crazy if you thought the CIA was conducting mind control programs, the NSA was faking evidence to get us involved in wars, or the spooks were recording your phone calls and email.

    I have a sneaking suspicion that YouTube has no interest in sorting fact from fiction in "conspiracy theories." I'm pretty sure they just want a method of attacking political views they disagree with. In the meantime, CNN will continue their hard-hitting reports confirming that sources familiar with the thinking of former acquaintances of Donald Trump speculate that Trump's use of Russian salad dressing confirms he's a double secret Putin agent and that Hillary really won the election #RESIST.

  15. Re: Donald trump is a RUSSIAN! on YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really. There's personal racism, structural racism, scientific racism, disparate impact, privilege theory, critical race theory, lived experience, etc. Racism is not simple, at all, and the way it's employed and criticized rhetorically is toxic to any sort of rational debate. You cannot simply handwave away the complexity of race in American society with "Racism is really just racism, it's a pretty well-defined notion."

  16. Re:The detoxification of the internet on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I think their official kill list includes males in general (unless gay)

    This is incorrect. Male homosexuality is extreme misogyny and emblematic of toxic masculinity.

  17. Re:Russians are in a no lose situation. on Reddit Admits Russian Trolls Got Into Website During 2016 Election (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How much criticism of Hillary Clinton was allowed on the subreddit for her supporters? How much criticism of Bernie Sanders was allowed on /r/sandersforpresident?

  18. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was unaware of the GPU/RAM shortage until I bought Kingdom Come: Deliverance a few weeks back and said, "ya know, it's time to upgrade the GTX 760." Now I'm just really angry and want to burn cryptominers at the stake.

  19. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what they were intended for. What matters is what they actually get used for, and it's not buying and selling goods and services. And some of the reasons for this are unfixable because they're baked into the technology: the transactions are slow and costly.

    Other currencies may do better, but these are the ones I want to tank, anyway, because Bitcoin is mined with ASICs, and all I care about is a new GPU, damnit.

  20. Re:Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nvidia does not seem to be in any huge rush to replace to the 1000 series cards though, so who know when the next gen will be released.

  21. Tank them all on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Please please please let this tank all the cryptocurrencies so I can finally buy a new GPU for less than $200 over MSRP!

  22. Re:They did explain where he was wrong on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As for agreeableness, I can't say if it helps or hurt their careers, but I don't think he ever claimed that. IIRC, he simply said one of the reasons their salaries were lower was because they were more agreeable, and more likely to accept an initial salary offer rather than negotiate for a higher salary.

    And instead of pretending this situation doesn't exist, it should encourage managers who want to keep female talent to be sure they're keeping their salaries up with market rates. Do not assume that because your star female employee has not asked for a raise she's happy with her salary. She may very well get picked off by a headhunter who offers her what she's worth, and you had no idea, because she was too agreeable to complain.

  23. Re:That's harsh on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But they didn't punish him for "negative PR" or whatever. They fired him for promulgating gender stereotypes.

    Why didn't they just say they fired him for wasting time and attracting attention or whatever instead of specifically stating they fired him for expressing his bad viewpoints? Did Google lie about why they fired him? What evidence do you have that they fired him for PR reasons and not, as they stated, expressing opinions they don't like?

  24. Re:more like dividing people on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah all FB is doing is bringing people closer together so they can hear each other yell "GET FUCKED ASSHOLE" more clearly.

  25. Re: Hate filled libtard on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Shocking, socialist thieves murdering other socialist thieves!

    Like you would know anything, at all about history. You're just a Russian rape-baby who's been fed propaganda your entire life.