Everyone pretends that convicts are oppressed and are just decent people who made a mistake and want to get on with their lives. This is not so, lots of them are terrible people who relieve their families while they are in prison. I remember I used to work for a phone company and call people about bad debts from prison phones. I would tell them I was going to disable their ability to accept collect calls, and a surprising amount of time I was thanked.
Tencent will fit right in at Reddit. Reddit isn't some kind of free speech platform. In fact, they censor daily and with great enthusiasm. The top admin was caught red-handed altering people's posts in the database. The problem with youtube, google, facebook, twitter, reddit... we took this open platform of the internet where anyone could do anything and we gave control over our behavior to a few big players because their products were slick and had a lot of cash invested in them. We centralized... and in centralizing we gave control over this free wheeling space of the internet to a handful of companies.
And now we're seeing the problem with that. The same problem we had before with the handful of media companies that provided our TV, Newspapers, Radio, etc...The freedom is gone if you centralize.
Wikileaks released emails which showed that Shareblue/Correct the Record was astroturfing many subs on Reddit.
I used to think 1984 was a crazy exaggeration and that it could never get that bad. Every year I am proved more and more wrong. Here, let's look at his principle of crimestop:
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
You mean it's not a left-wing echo chamber like you're used to, and people with diverse opinions can be heard? Gosh, how awful. And you try to delegitimatize such opinions by calling them trolls. This kind of shit is how we got Trump. Go back to your safe space. You can't compete in the marketplace of ideas.
You seriously think that the intelligence community is under the control of Trump? They're not. They control themselves and are not under the control of the elected government.
This is them, under their own authority, declaring that everyone should NOT use gear that is not backdoored by them.
And yeah, the EU and NATO have been real shitheads to America. Ungrateful freeloading jerks who take American security for granted and have no problem unloading vile abuse on a daily basis. There is absolutely no reason the US has to care for the security of Europe. It's time to pull out and that's what American voters want. We should shut down NATO and let the Europeans create their own version without the US. That would be ideal and Trump has been saying this for decades. It's no secret.
Europe is a free rider and net importer of security. How about sharing the burden? How about contributing instead of taking? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, isn't that the quintessential European sentiment?
I guess these days Europe has made a lot of progress in dealing with hateful prejudice and bigotry. I mean you guys have managed to go a whole 25 years without committing genocide on the continent.
The court is not "stacked". The justices have all been legitimately appointed. Stacking is how the current majority will be removed after a Democrat gets back into power in 2021. Appointing two new justices to bring the court to 11 total will restore the balance and ensure the alt-right never sees its dream come true.
Imagine inviting Russia into NATO because they're one of the worst offenders actively involved in finding a solution. Not a bad idea, right?
Face it, the UN is an anti-Semitic joke. It was someone's good idea that didn't work out. It needs to be disbanded and completely reworked. Nations like Sudan need to be told firmly to change or be ostracized. Basically how we treat North Korea and Russia.
In America, the comic book majors essentially fired their customers. They are now making books that appeal to a social justice audience and dumping their old audience of white males. It's causing a lot of disruption as the whites don't like their heroes being diversified. It's canon that Captain America is a Nazi and was all along. A nice fist to the face of the old fascist fanbase, that was.
Muslims in France are powerful? Seriously? Name an office they hold. They're a marginalized community, that's why nobody except extremist free speech fundamentalists shed a tear when that happened.
That's selfish and he should think of the needs of his people. They'll never get any better if their highly educated leave. But you like other countries poor, don't you?
You comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Not the other way around. The next time you find yourself attacking poor working class people, ask yourself how it came to this.
How are their home countries ever going to get better? If all their good people flee, they're going to stay stuck where they are and never progress. They badly need their educated people and it's a crime for America to rob them like this. America is already bloated and fat with wealth, it can afford it.
Sigh...quoting fictional TV shows as if they were some kind of factual confirmation. Boy, that happens all the time now, doesn't it? Really shows you how TV controls people's reality these days.
Hmm, maybe. You'll be able to sign up for a subscription service that will rotate your doll out once a week/month. They'll be professionally steam-cleaned and groomed. Choose from a catalog and some guy shows up at your door with one on a hand truck.
As will women. So the recolution might not point where you expcet...
Women don't need sex NEARLY as much as men do. It's not even in the same league.
Having advanced masturbatory aids is not going to change human nature.
I disagree. I disagree a *lot*. Sexbots won't be as good as a woman, but they'll be good enough. Good enough that a lot of men will be able to get the satisfaction they crave out of them, and leave them to look at women with a more sober eye. It's going to be a particular boon to those "incels" you posses such hatred towards, as they will lose their grievance.
Sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm not "incel" and how'd you assume that? I did quite well with the ladies before I got hitched.
Sexbots are going to be a revolution. Men will be able to get sex, and women won't be able to wield that power any more. Men will judge women without reference to their looks. This has been the feminist dream for a long time. It's coming, and sooner than you think.
So a coal mining man with calloused, bearpaw hands is going to sit in front of a computer and compete with Achmed and Nasheem for IT jobs?
Assholes among us, eh? A single car making pollution? Tell me, how many in middle America get to craft industrial policies that harm the planet? How many wars did we start? That's all on you, assholes. And you're getting ready for another war in Venezuela. Good job, I'm sure that will totally turn out just as well as it did for you in Iraq.
Whether Obama said it or not, the sentiment has been around for a while.
A lot of people there were really optimistic that the solution to technological unemployment was to teach unemployed West Virginia truck drivers to code so they could participate in the AI revolution. I used to think this was a weird straw man occasionally trotted out by Freddie deBoer, but all these top economists were *super enthusiastic* about old white guys whose mill has fallen on hard times founding the next generation of nimble tech startups.
It's a hard-hearted lack of sympathy. Working class stiffs from Middle America get told to fuck off and learn to code because the coasts are eliminating their jobs with globalism.
When I was young, most people in the upper half were perfectly willing to respect those in the bottom half, and some people (leftists) practically worshipped them. Today, it is vastly different. Remarks calling working class "deplorables" and worse have become quite common today on the left. Leftists say that working class are racist, misogynistic, intolerant, etc. In reality, they are the bigots and not middle America.
The feminist dream will be realized: Men will no longer judge women by their bodies. And that's going to destroy the only leverage women ever had over men.
When your enemy tells you you're stupid and you should be doing something else, never do that. She'll always say things like "you're wasting your time on useless efforts" - if your enemy really thought that, she'd rejoice that you were wasting your time.
Your enemy is not worried that you will fail. She is worried that you will succeed.
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Everyone pretends that convicts are oppressed and are just decent people who made a mistake and want to get on with their lives. This is not so, lots of them are terrible people who relieve their families while they are in prison. I remember I used to work for a phone company and call people about bad debts from prison phones. I would tell them I was going to disable their ability to accept collect calls, and a surprising amount of time I was thanked.
Tencent will fit right in at Reddit. Reddit isn't some kind of free speech platform. In fact, they censor daily and with great enthusiasm. The top admin was caught red-handed altering people's posts in the database. The problem with youtube, google, facebook, twitter, reddit... we took this open platform of the internet where anyone could do anything and we gave control over our behavior to a few big players because their products were slick and had a lot of cash invested in them. We centralized... and in centralizing we gave control over this free wheeling space of the internet to a handful of companies.
And now we're seeing the problem with that. The same problem we had before with the handful of media companies that provided our TV, Newspapers, Radio, etc...The freedom is gone if you centralize.
Wikileaks released emails which showed that Shareblue/Correct the Record was astroturfing many subs on Reddit.
I used to think 1984 was a crazy exaggeration and that it could never get that bad. Every year I am proved more and more wrong. Here, let's look at his principle of crimestop:
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
You mean it's not a left-wing echo chamber like you're used to, and people with diverse opinions can be heard? Gosh, how awful. And you try to delegitimatize such opinions by calling them trolls. This kind of shit is how we got Trump. Go back to your safe space. You can't compete in the marketplace of ideas.
You seriously think that the intelligence community is under the control of Trump? They're not. They control themselves and are not under the control of the elected government.
This is them, under their own authority, declaring that everyone should NOT use gear that is not backdoored by them.
And yeah, the EU and NATO have been real shitheads to America. Ungrateful freeloading jerks who take American security for granted and have no problem unloading vile abuse on a daily basis. There is absolutely no reason the US has to care for the security of Europe. It's time to pull out and that's what American voters want. We should shut down NATO and let the Europeans create their own version without the US. That would be ideal and Trump has been saying this for decades. It's no secret.
Europe is a free rider and net importer of security. How about sharing the burden? How about contributing instead of taking? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, isn't that the quintessential European sentiment?
I guess these days Europe has made a lot of progress in dealing with hateful prejudice and bigotry. I mean you guys have managed to go a whole 25 years without committing genocide on the continent.
The court is not "stacked". The justices have all been legitimately appointed. Stacking is how the current majority will be removed after a Democrat gets back into power in 2021. Appointing two new justices to bring the court to 11 total will restore the balance and ensure the alt-right never sees its dream come true.
Imagine inviting Russia into NATO because they're one of the worst offenders actively involved in finding a solution. Not a bad idea, right?
Face it, the UN is an anti-Semitic joke. It was someone's good idea that didn't work out. It needs to be disbanded and completely reworked. Nations like Sudan need to be told firmly to change or be ostracized. Basically how we treat North Korea and Russia.
In America, the comic book majors essentially fired their customers. They are now making books that appeal to a social justice audience and dumping their old audience of white males. It's causing a lot of disruption as the whites don't like their heroes being diversified. It's canon that Captain America is a Nazi and was all along. A nice fist to the face of the old fascist fanbase, that was.
Muslims in France are powerful? Seriously? Name an office they hold. They're a marginalized community, that's why nobody except extremist free speech fundamentalists shed a tear when that happened.
That's selfish and he should think of the needs of his people. They'll never get any better if their highly educated leave. But you like other countries poor, don't you?
You comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Not the other way around. The next time you find yourself attacking poor working class people, ask yourself how it came to this.
Whataboutism. It neither addresses nor refutes the premise established by the other poster.
How are their home countries ever going to get better? If all their good people flee, they're going to stay stuck where they are and never progress. They badly need their educated people and it's a crime for America to rob them like this. America is already bloated and fat with wealth, it can afford it.
Way to punch down. Speak truth to the powerless!
Sigh...quoting fictional TV shows as if they were some kind of factual confirmation. Boy, that happens all the time now, doesn't it? Really shows you how TV controls people's reality these days.
Science and statistics must never be abused to reinforce harmful stereotypes.
In America, the home of corporatism, where big companies pay for laws to be passed? Did you forget where you live?
Hmm, maybe. You'll be able to sign up for a subscription service that will rotate your doll out once a week/month. They'll be professionally steam-cleaned and groomed. Choose from a catalog and some guy shows up at your door with one on a hand truck.
As will women. So the recolution might not point where you expcet...
Women don't need sex NEARLY as much as men do. It's not even in the same league.
Having advanced masturbatory aids is not going to change human nature.
I disagree. I disagree a *lot*. Sexbots won't be as good as a woman, but they'll be good enough. Good enough that a lot of men will be able to get the satisfaction they crave out of them, and leave them to look at women with a more sober eye. It's going to be a particular boon to those "incels" you posses such hatred towards, as they will lose their grievance.
Sorry, did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm not "incel" and how'd you assume that? I did quite well with the ladies before I got hitched.
Sexbots are going to be a revolution. Men will be able to get sex, and women won't be able to wield that power any more. Men will judge women without reference to their looks. This has been the feminist dream for a long time. It's coming, and sooner than you think.
Assholes among us, eh? A single car making pollution? Tell me, how many in middle America get to craft industrial policies that harm the planet? How many wars did we start? That's all on you, assholes. And you're getting ready for another war in Venezuela. Good job, I'm sure that will totally turn out just as well as it did for you in Iraq.
Whether Obama said it or not, the sentiment has been around for a while.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/06/notes-from-the-asilomar-conference-on-beneficial-ai/
It's a hard-hearted lack of sympathy. Working class stiffs from Middle America get told to fuck off and learn to code because the coasts are eliminating their jobs with globalism.
When I was young, most people in the upper half were perfectly willing to respect those in the bottom half, and some people (leftists) practically worshipped them. Today, it is vastly different. Remarks calling working class "deplorables" and worse have become quite common today on the left. Leftists say that working class are racist, misogynistic, intolerant, etc. In reality, they are the bigots and not middle America.
The feminist dream will be realized: Men will no longer judge women by their bodies. And that's going to destroy the only leverage women ever had over men.
Your enemy is not worried that you will fail. She is worried that you will succeed.