What we've generally seen is massive archives of emails that the public has an interest in knowing about. Run of the mill phishing campaigns and other trivial OpSec errors are the most likely cause for the vast majority of major leaks. Compromising a massively important resource from Google is a very different ball game than getting idiots in a politician's circle to click a link and send their password.

The cows that only had black stripes apparently didn't see a significant reduction in bites.

The argument that US sanctions on Venezuela are an act of war is 100 times stronger.
The argument that Stuxnet was an act of war is 100 times stronger. The argument that phishing and z-tier memes is an act of war is pathetic.

It's also important to keep in mind the original purpose of whataboutism: to use foreign actions to excuse domestic actions. New Zealand actually is a more sensible focus in some respects, because they are part of the anglosphere, and theoretically share more of our supposed values.

They are correct, if by "AI" they mean an RNG.

They pick the politicians out of the choices they are given in a system that limits choice.

Or, you could cut from the overpaid executives and middle management, invest in labor savings. Also, you're ignoring that by putting money in the hands of workers, that money is sent back into the system in increased sales.

The net result is that, without cheap labor, they will take steps to reduce the labor needed that they ignored because they could just throw cheap labor at their problems.

UBI is basically just compressing the range of incomes. It cost nothing on average because the average worker pays into roughly what they get out.

That's because the early symptoms of autism present around the same time as scheduled vaccines.

But they'd provide the jobs without the subsidies because they have to run their business somewhere. The only reason it can be argued to "create jobs" is because they provided the sweetest bribe instead of actually being the best city to locate. Why not just outlaw such bribes, and then governments won't have to endure the problems of a prisoner's dilemma.

And let's cut the bullshit, the companies are getting a better deal than the workers already, so "jobs" as an argument can fuck right off.

In all fairness, a lot of that was bought by Google instead of created by them, and so, someone else likely would have filled the same niche.

Of course that's the case, collaboration is one 1/3 of the work. You also have to stop and listen.

I agree with your assessment, except the crap about the Dems running to the left of Sanders. There's no way in hell that'll happen, and I suspect it's more the opposite. The Trump/Russia hysteria has been used by the useless centrists to avoid actually advocating for anything remotely on the economic left.

I'll stop telling the DNC what to do when at least one of two things happens:
1. They stop taking tax dollars from me to fund their party
2. We adopt an electoral system that practically allows for more than two parties.

Until then, they should be treated as a de facto part of the government, and should be criticized as such.