Calling out dogwhistles like "fine people" and "OK" isn't exactly dogwhistling. Of course, it's easier for you to just screw that up and add to the dogpile.

Clearly, we have to dig harder for his racism? Or... we could say "words have consequences" and Microsoft has every right to distance themselves from what's an obvious signal to anyone who can rub two brain cells together.

This is untrue. There are many for-profit colleges, but they are the minority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They are the vast plurality of student loan defaults however - that's something that can be fixed though.

Hey at least it wasn't a link to breitbart or 8chan.
You know, Fox is respectable fake news.

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And don't link to fake news sites, please.

GOP must just love the idea of rigging elections. I mean, why do none of them speak out against these situations?

Yeah, the CA thing was entirely different. The issue at stake was that because FB was really lax on security they effectively let CA pull the whole graph down on everyone even though those people may not have fallen for CA's dirty tricks directly. That information was then weaponized to create deepfake videos and radicalize the population.

This is more along the lines of the usual "Google doesn't understand humans" policy intersected with pedos being pedos.

If comments were turned off on YouTube would anything of value be lost? If Google had a policy where kids couldn't be the only people in a video (ML can figure that out), would that be enough?

That's bullshit. It's been bullshit for a long time. There is no comity in the congress. It's open warfare now, and you better pick a side.

btw, one side is funded by Russians and Saudis.

They fixed this in France (when I was working there in y2k) by having a government subsidized meals program that (all) employers could opt-into where employees get coupons that subsidize their meals for local restaurants (naturally employees paid for these coupon books but it was more or less mandatory). Company/client where I worked also had a cantina, but it didn't qualify for the coupons... they were only for restaurants.

The food ecosystem was maintained, the local farms had produce clients and "centralized/outsourcing" food producution wasn't promoted. They had a vibrant restaurant scene in a smaller metro that way.

That's assuming a few things:

1. You trust Comcast to have the same level of service as your community needs
2. Community sees local Fiber as a selling point (ie, why would you live here?)
3. Local = jobs.

This is highly appealing to city councils and communities in general.

So the equation has a few more factors involved - not just: Comcast vs. Fiber (but $1M more). To wit:

1. Tax revenues for infrastructure build
2. Tax revenues for jobs created with infrastructure
3. Future attractiveness of community for high-profile mobile workers.

Mark has realized his idea-child's growth may be malignant instead of benign.

As an aside, I'm wondering if the new content rules in the EU may have influenced this at all.

What's the truth here, that Russia hacked the DNC? You know what else is factual? Your personal contact information, SSN and banking details. Do you want that thrown up on pastebin with a "someone should do something" advisory?

Yeah, it's like (but not as good as) Google, but without the tracking. Figure that, it's popular that service.

Apple isn't insecure about it's phone/computer image. People there probably wouldn't even give you a 2nd look.
You might not be able to get on their wifi network though.

That's what I do. I answer in my gringo Spanish with a fake Mexican accent. Sometimes the recordings don't even play.

However, I'd be better to simply know not to answer, and even better to not be interrupted in meetings or while I'm having quality time with the fam.

AI desperately seeking your data...

Hey I support Nuclear and Solar and Wind.

We need to diversify our energy portfolio, and coal is dirtier than all of them (coal puts out more radioactives - in the air where you will breathe them - than nuclear reactors per MW).