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Comment Bee Ess ... (Score 1) 70

Carr said the items could allow China to "surveil Americans, disrupt communications networks and otherwise threaten U.S. national security."

Bullshit, this is basically just a license for all the other manufacturers that can't compete with the Chinese on prices to charge the American public more for those very same types of electronics.

Comment Re:Agree (Score -1) 131

America's allies were warned for many years on becoming reliant on Russian energy and how that could be used against them in the future. That time has come.

EU countries did that to themselves by cutting off their main natgas supplier, not from any action taken by Russia. And then whistled and looked the other way when the US blew Nordstream.

Comment Wait till you get a load of nuclear downtimes (Score -1) 131

The sun doesn't stop shining and the wind doesn't stop blowing for literal months at a time. Your radioactive water heaters do for maintenance. Nuke fans love France for their nuclear fleet but half of their plants were down at one time for maintenance. Nothing is more unreliable than nuclear power.

Comment Can anyone here back this up? (Score 1) 76

When it comes to writing code, I'm maybe just shy of intermediate...it's not specifically part of my job and most of my coding experience was either in university or from the occasional side project done for fun. I've used AI a bunch recently for coding, again mostly for fun stuff. Right now, I'm using to code in a language I have zero experience in and I've found I spend an enormous amount of time fixing its mistakes. So much time that it's difficult to say if I'm even saving any time over just learning the language slowly and methodically. But a 5x increase in speed? Hell no. Maybe that only comes into play for upper-tier programming?

Can anyone here attest to gaining anywhere close to that level of improvement?

Comment Re:Cost and Culture War (Score 1) 359

every bit of land that is occupied by islam has been stolen from some other culture. by the sword, 100% of the time.

you want some justice? have the arabs give back all the land they stole from the native peoples of the time. every land they have was stolen. why is that never talked about?

there were religions long before islam, but all the countries that are islamic were forced under threat of death to convert.

genocide is what the arabs did to everyone who did not convert.

funny how you guys want to flip the narrative.

actually, its not funny.

Comment Re:Cost and Culture War (Score 1) 359

the real culture war is islam vs the west.

islamic countries with big pockets are paying to have 'good PR' in universities. they are playing the long game. they are not stupid.

they have a clear goal in mind. you either know this or you dont. go search if you dont know what I'm talking about.

but they have funded the universities in order to have their message forced on all the students.

is there any natural reason why women would protest against their own rights? and yet, that's the side they picked.

its about funding and buying mind share.

they are winning. and its sad to see.

but this is what's going on.

Comment Re:At some point....they catch on... (Score 5, Interesting) 359

6 years at two different universities. Never once did I experience anything like indoctrination. Not even a gentle nudge.

I think the right sees a liberal bias among students and incorrectly concludes the colleges and universities must be to blame. I think it's more likely though that kids at that age and going through that process are full of hope. The act of getting a degree is driven by hope for a new and better future, and hope is the foundation of the left so kids will naturally gravitate toward a liberal bias.

Fear is the foundation of the right. As people age, elements that stir or instill fear become more of a concern. This is likely because we have offspring to care for and protect, and we have ever-less time to achieve our goals.

Comment Re: Propoganda -LOL (Score 2) 174

That California was more diligent in tracking covid deaths while Florida deliberately went out of its way to hide its numbers.

And yet, you quote Florida's numbers? Which is it?

He didn't quote Florida numbers I did, and you do realize that if Florida succeeded in massively under reporting their COVID deaths so as not to embarrass DeathSantis their death toll is way north of 50 k which makes the carnage in Florida way, way worse than I said it was. That being said Florida's deaths per 100k were 404 people while that of California was 256 per 100k so whatever California did they must have done something right Vermont did even better than both with only 149 deaths per 100k and so did Utah with 165 deaths per 100k. Most of the US red areas (Utah being a notable exception) and the anti-vaxxers, Ivermectin preachers and other quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers that inhabit them were, and still are, one of the biggest COVID virus incubators on the planet. None of this changes the fact that adopting strict measures, implementing them with discipline, doing so early, locking down your country and cracking down hard on COVID incubating anti-vaxxer morons like Japan did will massively reduce the death toll. The EU's reaction to the COVID pandemic was anything but exemplary but their total deaths per million rate was 2827 while that of the US was 3594 (assuming US COVID death statistics from red states can be trusted), Japan had 597 and a bunch of EU countries that can be better trusted than Florida to provide accurate COVID death statistics came in at under 1500. I shudder to think what will happen if we get something way worse than COVID, like a highly contagious strain of Ebola and the bleach drinking red hat crowd start going anti-vaxxx again in the name of FREEDUMB!!! because Ebola death rates range from between 50-90%.

Comment Re: Propoganda -LOL (Score 4, Insightful) 174

Nobody knows how to even quantify the number of lives lost, harm due to increased mental illness, and many other impacts of listen to the official advice either.

Meanwhile the officials literally tried to silence anyone who tried.

I am not crying any rivers about government boot lickers like you losing elections either.

Speech did not kill anyone of those people. Making a choice to listing to some quack on facebook did, and yes the price of freedom has always been and will always been that some people will take that freedom and chose to ignore good advice like "aim away from face" in favor of "just use your teeth its quicker"

That is just humans.

Bullcrap! You count the COVID dead in Japan, count the COVID dead in Florida, compare the population sizes, population densities and observe that the Japanese don't take medical advice from qacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers, Floridans do take medical advice from quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers and then compare the death tolls of those that got vaccinated and followed pandemic protocol to the death-toll among those who didn't. There is no room for 'interpretation' on the basis of 'deeply held beliefs' here, misinformation related to COVID that was deliberately disseminated by quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers killed tens of thousands of Americans completely needlessly.

Comment Re: Propoganda -LOL (Score 5, Informative) 174

I came here to say the same thing. Governments, politicians and large institutions are the worst offenders when it comes to censorship, this is just their latest attempt to make censorship sound needed and important.

I came here to point out that Japan has 124 million inhabitants, they lost 57,262 people to COID. Flordia has a population of 23.37 million, they lost 51,240 people to COVID. Florida could have reduced that death toll to ~9000 (probably even less because their population density is lower than Japan's) if they hadn't listened to anti-vaxxers, Ivermectin preachers and other quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers. The death toll Florida suffered is quantifiable harm done by deliberately disseminated misinformation by psychopaths who think their little grift is worth more than a human life. Freedom of speech is a laudable ideal but your freedom of speech ends when human beings are dying because of what you are speaking about and I am not going to cry any rivers over the state intervening by muzzling quacks, snake oil salesmen and conspiracy theory peddlers if it saves lives.

Comment Re:Sailing the high seas (Score 1) 84

Enshittification due to fragmentation and ads combined with price increases will push people back into piracy.

More like losing $4 billion in market cap and lord know how much in subscription and amusement park revenues after groveling before his most orange majesty by attacking free speech is now being offloaded on the customer.

Comment Fractions of a drop in an ocean (Score -1) 144

The Congressmen and women doing the investigation are all taking money from the Teacher's Union.

They're taking infinitely more money from the corrupt worker hating oligarchs that want no taxes (on them) and hate workers - teachers included. Your sense of proportion is broken and priorities misplaced.

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