It's more likely bloomberg is just lying. However much you hate journalists, it isn't enough.

Thanks for admitting you have no idea what you're talking about. POTS lines get ringing voltage from the line itself, they have five 9s of uptime even during power outages.

Intel isn't struggling against AMD or Nvidia, they're still sitting at 70% market share. Facebook, Google, and Twitter were a collusive oligopoly. Google bought youtube, Facebook bought Instagram, TikTok is a freaking state actor.

You're trying to argue that casinos are fair by pointing at the people who temporarily beat the house.

Amazon didn't RKO anything. Sears committed suicide by refusing to get into e-commerce and deliberately sabotaging their own company from the inside with policies so idiotic and self-destructive you wouldn't believe they were real. Amazon walked into a complete vacuum and then jumped straight into monopolistic practices.

I'm going to continue our trend of uncomfortably agreeing with each other, but pivot a bit and say the Democratic/Republican "fight" over this is a sham. Neither party wants to give up having a handful of ultra-powerful oligarchs who control access to information and conversations for literally half the human race, they just want to be sure they're getting enough of that pie.

So Democrats and Republicans take turns whipping up a frenzy about the other side... but it's always in order to move towards greater centralization. There's a reason nobody's broken up the AWS monopoly, or the payment processor duopoly, or the Google/Facebook duopoly, but a less-rigged twitter has now suddenly magically become public enemy number 1.

It's the same reason every time someone starts a genuine competitor to one of those it's either bought out, crushed legislatively, or demonized to the point they can simply be locked out of society.

Yeah we don't talk about that one.

The thing I never understood, and none of my friends with one could explain either, is why CPAP masks all seem to be built backwards to conventional wisdom about "sprung" vs "unsprung". You'd think the better design would be to have the straps and stuff as close to the contact point as possible and then allow the rest of the mask to move much more freely.

Five, I would say. There's also the smooth under-nose style of the airfit n30 and the adhesive patches used by the bleep dreamport. Everything else is a variant on those.

"Does less, costs more, it's that simple".

And yet they still have, what, 8% market share in the desktop world?

The US already has some of the highest per-pupil spending in the developed world. What private schools did differently was they spent less time burying kids in busywork, treated them more like human beings, fed them better, and let them actually spend more time being kids.

Exactly. And yet antifa still threatened him and screamed that he was a nazi. Thanks for proving my point.

Sure thing. So since Trump counts as an insurrectionist despite explicitly ordering people to stop rioting, obey police, and leave the capitol what does that make the entire Democratic leadership for explicitly ordering people to violently attack the Supreme Court (resulting in actual physical violence against justices)? What does that make the Democratic leadership for deliberately inciting the largest attempted mass political assassination in recent history?

Here's a simple hypothetical: You have two candidates running for president. One candidate and their supporters can use the internet freely. The other candidate and their supporters are delisted from search engines and kicked off hosting and infrastructure.

Is this a fair election?

Let's make it less hypothetical: On 31 May 2010 five cargo ships were peacefully searched and sent on their way. On a sixth ship the crew violently attacked the search party with knives, clubs, and firebombs. The world's media photoshopped large amounts of weapons ,blood, and unconscious bodies out of pictures of the ship and published stories claiming there had been a catastrophic unprovoked assault involving "summary executions" of innocent peaceful protestors. A combination of social media manipulation and search engine delisting ensured nobody saw the original pictures and live video evidence proving what really happened. "Unbiased and Trustworthy" media had spoken. Fact Checkers(TM) had spoken. Anyone trying to say otherwise, even if they had copies of the original unaltered photos, was dismissed out of hand.... if what they said was visible at all.

Contrast this with October 7th 2023. CNN aired an interview insisting that not one civilian had been killed and no rapes were committed by Hamas. However due to the de-censoring of twitter the entire would had already seen Hamas' own footage proving that CNN was lying. The same pattern of institutional disinformation followed by a humiliating grassroots debunking was repeated numerous times shortly thereafter.

Never before in human history has it been possible, let alone this easy, to control the conversations of and information seen by billions.

Then instead of being evil scary doubleplusungood "right wing nationalists" they would be innocent oppressed brown folx endangered by the violent racism of a white supremacist corporation.

Ironic given that the people who made that comic are the ones who hospitalize female professors just for having the audacity to listen to someone they disagree with, and who consider using violence up to and including targeted political killings to be a completely legitimate first-response to people tweeting things they don't like.

It's almost as if Popper's Paradox wasn't about people saying things you disagree with but about people literally trying to attack the entire institution of freedom itself, regardless of whether they do it under the pretense of good and noble causes. After all every atrocity in history was perpetrated by people who claimed they were oppressed victims trying to protect themselves from an evil "other" that posed an intolerable danger to the innocent and society itself.