Yeah great job. Great job letting cruise ships almost fuck us. Great job spreading rumours about medical staff having illegal dinner parties. Great job sacrificing teachers and students by declaring social distancing isn't required in schools (which personally I think may likely lead to our downfall here). You're just wrong. They got lucky and brought in the lockdown at the right time. We have a more geographically distributed population than almost any country, and we're coming out of summer not winter. WE GOT LUCKY. But our luck won't last.

> The "security" issue is not so much that the sessions can be "tapped". It's that some asshole might join a video conference including underaged students and then start sharing pornography, or shouting obscenities, or such. The same kind of mentality that likes to put violent images into YouTube videos targeted at little kids.

You mean like underage kids can physically walk into a school and share pornography on any regular pre-COVID nightmare day? The insanity is the way the law has failed to deal with online sharing sensibly. We're just reaping the rewards of that stupidity as schools rush to cover their backsides under insane laws passed by luddites and wowsers who'd prefer to put the kid that shared the porn in prison to "protect" them than to actually prevent harm..

Mask work like vaccination, have enough of the population wear one and you have a good chance of stopping the disease from spreading. If you only wear one after you started getting sick and coughing, it's already too late, you ran around for two weeks spreading the disease.

The issue with the response to the mask shortage is that they actively discouraged people from wearing masks, thus making the problem worse, instead of encouraging the wearing of DIY masks, which can still be very effective.

It is a useful joke and the idea isn't a joke but in it's current form it is a joke indeed. No edit I've ever contributed in the early years remained long enough to be worth my time adding, regardless of citations I provided. I pretty much fact check every thing and look directly at the sources, plus try to find other information now. It's still a useful starting point so long as the topic is one their politics hasn't ruined. i'm surprised individuals they have defamed haven't sued them into oblivion yet.

"The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it has stopped allowing employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency "

Hardly the same as telling them they can't use the app to post goofy videos with their kids. Totally reasonable.

Misleading headline. This is just another scam school for the desperate, gullible and those who can't do math. Even if they had provided a decent course, $30k is expensive and could go towards a real well recognized university degree.

> It still won't save IBM. They'll go down in the coming year or two along with the rest of the industry we used to call IT..

Oh well then better find a building to jump off since I'm in IT and the whole industry is going, right? Or maybe instead I take this article and chop it up nice and small so it doesn't clog my toilet.

> There were plenty of polls, after the fukashima accident public opinion turned against nuclear power. When 80% of the country is against it, it simply doesn't matter if they are wrong or it's a bad idea.

You are writing an epitaph for the human race, you realize.

I don't think most people realize just how many products Google has killed. It isn't prudent to depend on their products being around in the medium term, no matter how cool.

Take a look:
https://killedbygoogle.com/

Back then if you wrote clean code, or code that was clever and earnt or saved the company money or got customers, you were respected. Now they just wonder why you haven't been outsourced yet and lump you with enough red tape to drown in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's not exactly a new idea, here it is documented back in 1996: Ewiges Logfile". But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to adopt it. Your average news organisation can't even figured out the hyperlink. Even if an original source is available on the net, they hardly ever bother to actually link it. All they publish is their own stuff with their own little spin on it. Videos are edited, photos are cropped and selected, study results get often twisted into the opposite and the user is never informed of where all that information came from in the first place.

If you want to stop fake news, you have to stop mainstream news organisations first, since they are the ones that like to spin and twist everything around. Reporting the truth is a noble goal, but it's one with very little commercial value, click bait and spin doctoring is what sells and I don't expect that to change anytime soon.

You are expecting clairvoyance. Virginia Giuffre was active from 1999 to 2002, Epstein's first criminal case only started in 2005.

Um, that's how SJW is pretty much defined. People aren't bothered by other people who want to solve issue, they are bothered by all the deplatforming and thought crime policing that is going on, based generally on nothing more than lies and accusations. SJW is a slur term to describe that behavior, it's not meant to describe solving actual injustices in the world.

Just look at this issue in particular. It happened decades ago. Nobody really knows what exactly happened (one source says Minsky simply said "No"). And who gets thrown under the bus? Not the guy that organize the whole thing. Not the guy who visited that island. Not the police and politics that allowed Epstein to get away with all this. Just some completely unrelated guy that committed the crime of thinking for himself. That's the issue, that's almost always the issue.