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Itâ(TM)s hard to tell these days what is or isnâ(TM)t a legitimate service. My guess is that this non-profit is actively engaged in trying to gather stories about people being affected by what they believe is electronic censorship, tracking, or whatever, and then republish those stories as a form of advertisement.

I wonder how much it costs to run a story like this on all the tech media outlets? Are we just reading ads, paid for by other ads at this point?

Russian? Iranian? Doesn't really matter you're not American. We do not give a flying fuck about foreign policy. There was a concerted effort from Arab American voters to show up for the primary to try and get Joe Biden's attention but the fact is it's not like those voters aren't painfully aware that if Donald Trump is reelected it doesn't matter if they're native born or not they're getting deported. Where? Do you really think Trump cares where he deports them to?

so those voters are going to show up and vote for Joe Biden because they are well organized and highly politically aware and the rest of Americans couldn't care less what's going on in Gaza. Americans do not vote based on foreign policy. And if there's another 9/11 you can damn well bet that Joe Biden will win reelection in the landslide the same way Bush Jr did.

It's all kind of fucked up and it would be nice if we would do more for people in the Middle East after all the shit we've done to them but then again the same is true for about every country we have meddled with.

People are calling them indulgences. Indulgences at least served a social function, these are actively destructive because they slow fixing climate change to a halt. Plastic industry did the exact same thing with recycling and it pisses me off that unless you are terminally dialed into the internet you have no idea.

cryptoland. It's how you launder money through the system. That along with rug pulls, pump/dump and ponzi schemes is really the only good use for crypto. The systems have been shown to be too volatile for exchanging value at very high dollar amoungs and too slow/inefficient to do it for lower amounts.

The reason 90% of the currency is "whales" is because they're manipulating the market. One of the major exchanges had the price of Bitcoin drop from $60k to $10k in a "flash crash" because of a single whale. And if you buy in it can be hard to find buyers to cash out...

modern communications plus critical thinking lets us break down those petty clans and outgroups. Everybody becomes a member of the ingroup.

That's the goal. That's what it means to move from a competitive to a cooperative society. Endless petty fighting only really helps the upper castes who use ingroup/outgroup differences to justify their lavish lifestyle and absolute power. Right wing politics in a nutshell. Obedience for it's own sake. Power for it's own sake.

Uber and Lyft aren't inexpensive anymore. I had to take one to an eye doctor appointment where I was going to get my eyes dilated recently and with an okay tip it was $20 each way for 40 bucks total. I mean yeah it's cheaper than getting in a wreck because I can't see. But it's still kind of pricey. I guess if I was out drinking with three or four friends and we split it it wouldn't be quite as bad but it still wouldn't be what I call cheap anymore. What we really need is a proper public transportation system

were written by the industry that makes car breathalyzers. Another good example is that corporations that own and leave empty huge numbers of single family homes are currently paying for scary stories about squatters because they want to be able to leave houses empty for decades in order to drive up rents and values on their portfolios. And of course there's all those stories about the "shoplifting epidemic" pushed by retailers that want you the taxpayer to pay for their security...

It's an old trick, and if media literacy and critical thinking were taught in schools it wouldn't work.

you can't think outside your ideology.

Humanity has for *millennia" prospered best when it cooperated. Competition has only kept us down. Wasting resources and destroying knowledge in wars. How many scientists did we sent off to die in wars for "competition"?

High achievers aren't held back by cooperation, they're enhanced by it. Ayn Rand was a laughingstock in her day for a reason, and outside of ideologically motivated circles remains so.

There is no such thing as capitalism. Not the one you idolize. The system always break down into neo-feudalism as wealth accumulates at the top. It's inevitable. The kind of competition you dream of is just that, a dream. You're a man now, it's time to put away childish toys you played with during your 4 to 14 boyhood.

You have to remember that you can get breakfast, lunch, and dinner at work at many places, for free....so you need a place to sleep until you can figure out what you want to do. I could live there for a long time and focus on being anyplace but home. If I was in my 20s and just hired by Google, I'd love one of these...spend most of my hours at work or out in the city enjoying my life and just go there to shower, sleep, and maybe hang out in the cocoon and watch movies on play games there. For many, it would beat having roommates or spending so much money on a shitty apt with a shitty landlord and a restrictive lease.

A long time ago, I was living with a girlfriend and things got really bad really fast. She hid a substance abuse issue from me and when she lost her job and fell into a pit of depression, started using...she started getting violet when I'd confront her about it. While I am literally twice her size, I wasn't fearful for my safety, but she took a swing at me while high. She's no fighter and gave lots of warning, so effortlessly stepped back and she fell without me touching her...broke her wrist. I was really she didn't lie to the police because they were questioning if she was a victim of domestic abuse in the ER. I needed to get out. I just moved to that city for her, so all my local friends were coworkers and I didn't want to look unprofessional, so I got a shitty hotel and staying a few nights there cost a lot more than $700.

So yeah, cheap housing is handy: New job, domestic abuse or drama...or for people who are generally nomadic or need short-term housing. In fact, I can imagine a lot of women wanting these because they basically live at their boyfriend's house. Why have a huge place of your own when you can have a small bed to sleep in when the BF is not around? My wife paid rent at an apt she never was at when we were dating.

Now that I am in my 40s?...I wouldn't consider one unless I was going through a divorce and didn't have kids. But when I was younger, I would have loved it.

slavery wouldn't be necessary. Yes, go back to stone age and you've got droughts and famine we don't have today... but we're seeing signs of those same problems creeping up because we're fighting among ourselves instead of working together.

Slavery is a byproduct of that. Every few decades a war wrecks everything and we've got to put it all back together. And we've got to do that while giving 50-70% of everything to 1% of the population (Kings, Emperors, CEOs, whatever you wanna call them this epoch).

Slavery went away not because of tech. Slaves are just as useful in factories as anywhere else and the Southern American states had plans to put them there after the won the civil war. Slavery went away because the more education and knowledge spreads the more we as a species break down petty tribalistic barriers are cooperate

The aforementioned Kings, Emperors and CEOs though are very much pushing against that. They don't compete, they're at the top and protected by their wealth and power. So they want us fighting among ourselves. They win sometimes too. Parts of America have brought back slavery via prison labor...

You mean like these Athenian boys?

Yet in all likelyhood that slave had it better than most of the "free people". For.their work they were guaranteed housing, food, healthcare. Many had families.

If they died, the damage was their owner's.

Today, we sell away most of our waking time just to survive, and in many instances (in the USA) are guaranteed none of that. If we die, or are crippled by a preventable medical condition, the damage is our own.

Yet nobody winches at callng this "normal".

Trucks have been doing this for decades. It did save lives indeed.

I knew a professional gambler. He made good money. It's not actually that hard to do if you just do a statistical analysis across all the races and keep track of the state of the horses and jockeys using public information. The hard part is it requires nerves of steel because you will be up 100,000 one day and down 200,000 the next day and up $120,000 a day after that. The point is it's all doable mathematically.

I haven't kept up with it does Madden football still predict the winner of the super bowl every year? Not that it matters since you usually have to gamble on more esoteric things because it's generally not that hard to predict who's going to win it. I always used to wonder how gambling with football was profitable until I found out you don't gamble on the actual outcome of the match you gamble on point spreads and whatnot which are much harder to predict

is that he was a Republican plant (his money comes from big GOP donors) that's so crazy that Democrat nut jobs (we've got plenty of ours) seem to be nopeing the **** out on him leaving him pulling more votes from Trump than the candidate he was actually trying to spoil.

It's telling how weak the modern GOP is that they haven't been able to get a spoiler off the ground. Even the Green Party doesn't have a real candidate this cycle, and from what I can tell what little talk there is around their candidate is just another GOP backed spoiler that the actual Green party voters are spotting a mile away.

Back when Karl Rove & Dick Chaney were in large and in charge of the GOP none of this would be happening. Those bastards could make a spoiler. But the modern GOP just seems to be nothing but gifters lining their own pockets. I wouldn't be surprised if the party split between the pure girfters and the corporate backed guys. Normally the Billionaires would step in and sort it out but the grifters aren't interested in their money, they wanna sell bibles and Trump Bucks (look it up).