Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:What does this even mean? (Score 1) 130

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.

Comment Re: I think opinion vs fact needs to be distinguis (Score 1) 271

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?

Comment Re:I think opinion vs fact needs to be distinguish (Score 1) 271

I don't think web hosting is though.

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.

Comment Re:The speaker of the House (Score 1, Interesting) 110

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.

Comment Re:Don't buy HP. (Score 1) 30

You're missing a third issue: The tank style printers all have an insanely wasteful mandatory "cleaning" function that dumps tons of ink into a non-replaceable pad sitting in the bottom of the printer. It's not a special container or anything, it's literally just the bottom of the inside of the printer. Once they flood that pad the printer is bricked.

Comment Re:Coming from Kotaku, I wouldn't be surprised. (Score 1) 93

Not even that. Kotaku is a mouthpiece for those who want a world where your success is dictated by whether you paid off the right people in the right way, and where basic rights like owning things you buy and not getting malware or defective-by-design trash are considered "nazism".

There's a reason they always pull out their worst smear campaigns for people who are trying to bring up serious issues like companies stealing or degrading already purchased products, false advertising, and outright fraud like lootbox scams and "native advertising".

Comment Re:Reviews and Ratings (Score 1) 93

Define "review bombing" in a way that doesn't literally boil down to "people I disagree with" or "peasants who don't think as they're told". Why is it not "review bombing" when a handful of incestuous websites collude to stage a mafia shakedown against a developer, but it is "review bombing" when actual customers speak up about ponzi schemes and other scams?

Come to think of it pretty much the only time I ever see that and other derogatory terms against customers used is precisely when people come together to call out rights violating DRM, malware, false advertising, ripoffs, and defective products.

Comment Re: "Nazis" (Score 1) 271

Funny since the people who call everyone "nazis" these days, especially actual minorities like black people and jews, are the people who also shout "gas the jews" and violently attack Jews. They're also the people who've spent over a decade using a combination of institutional capture and outright mob violence to silence and terrorize anyone who tries to speak out against them and justified it by calling their victims "nazis".

Apparently the only thing needed for you to support everything you pretend to oppose is for someone to stick out a finger and shout "witch" a moment before they start doing all the things you pretend you oppose.

Comment Re:It's not about censorship (Score 4, Insightful) 271

If you were a Palestinian living in the West Bank, and a Zionist settler wanted to buy guns and a bulldozer from you, would you sell it to them?

Very telling choice of metaphor, since Judea was ethnically cleansed of its indigenous Jewish population by literal Waffen SS Nazis and then colonized for only about 20 years. What's even more interesting is that for the duration of that 20 year Nazi occupation and colonization the entire settler-colonial empire behind it staged a public boycott of what they called "Palestinians"... the indigenous Jews who had survived their attempted genocide.

It's very telling that you spend so much time talking about how Nazis can't be tolerated, granted rights, or allowed to exist as part of society at all... and then you turn around and support literal Waffen SS Nazis from World War 2 who committed a genocide against Jews in their indigenous lands, while simultaneously referring to those indigenous peoples as "settlers".

All of this just reinforces the classic point that leftists don't actually have a problem with things like Nazis, colonialism, and genocide... as long as they're the ones doing it to people they don't like.

Slashdot Top Deals

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

Working...