Comment Re:I propose releasing the Epstein files (Score -1) 109
I meant this sincerely, with conviction. The FOSS world knew of Gates' bankrupt ethics and phony philanthropy for decades, and now we know about his reserved seat on the Lolita Express. Gates' dreams of an AI surveillance state "guided by" him and his Epstein juice-drinking pals could use a good derailing via exposure of the whole kid-fucking mess.
Comment I propose releasing the Epstein files (Score -1) 109
Instead of spouting off about AI, Gates and his Epstein Island buddies should take a taxpayer-funded 30 year vacation to Alcatraz together.
Billy's opinion on AI is as relevant as his opinions on Covid mask mandates.
Billy's opinion on AI is as relevant as his opinions on Covid mask mandates.
Comment translation for Americans (Score -1) 225
Americans might be wondering what this is all about. Literally nobody outside Quebec wants French on all our products or on Netflix. Demand for French outside of Quebec is manufactured entirely by Ottawa's self-serving decrees.
French matters exclusively in Quebec and limited regions of Ontario bordering Quebec; everybody else despises Ottawa's insistence on pushing French down our throats. Unfortunately the French vote is vital to forming a majority government so they an outsized influence in our politics, amplified by their occasional referenda on separation.
IOW this performative cultural component to the streaming silliness pushed by Carney is all about currying favour with French voters. The rest of us resent Carney's divisive and destructive charade that's destroying our economy and jobs and pushing Alberta to the brink of separation.
French matters exclusively in Quebec and limited regions of Ontario bordering Quebec; everybody else despises Ottawa's insistence on pushing French down our throats. Unfortunately the French vote is vital to forming a majority government so they an outsized influence in our politics, amplified by their occasional referenda on separation.
IOW this performative cultural component to the streaming silliness pushed by Carney is all about currying favour with French voters. The rest of us resent Carney's divisive and destructive charade that's destroying our economy and jobs and pushing Alberta to the brink of separation.
Comment Re:Uh oh (Score -1) 47
What's your definition of successful, and would you like to place a high-stakes wager on that outcome?
Comment Re:Sad that a company that actually does something (Score -1) 73
Most vaccines don't make money? OK Bourla. That's the most comically ignorant thing I've read today.They're the sacred cash cow. Manufacturers are literally shielded from any consequences, the intended demographic is literally everyone, and the profit margins are scandalous.
Vaccines are the definition of "treating something forever and ever", as you said.
Have you ever been near a real doctor or hospital?
Vaccines are the definition of "treating something forever and ever", as you said.
Have you ever been near a real doctor or hospital?
Comment Re:Sad, and but learn the right lessons (Score -1) 141
He nearly got away with it thanks to the complicit Cambridge hiring committee and other Didn't Earn It confederates embedded in the system. They covered up for Arday, using DEI as a pretext as if they believed he couldn't stop himself from cheating. Racism is the foundation of DEI's skin-deep philosophy.
Comment Re:DEI is to blame (Score 0) 141
The fact that you're being modded flamebait for facts is a sad commentary on the fragility of certain minds here.
Arday was a flagrant, unapologetic, practically illiterate plagiarist and any white-looking human would've been pilloried if not permanently excluded from acedemia for the same actions.
From the Atlantic: "By his own account, Arday rose to fame as a scholar and a writer despite staggering limitations; he became an academic who can read only a single page of academic text an hour and cannot comprehend what is happening at work 90 percent of the time."
Smells like DEI to me. Unqualified candidate by anybody's reckoning? Check. Racist hiring policies ensure that it's possible for the worst hire possible to occur, instead of weeding them out.
Jacqueline Mckenzie, a member of the hiring committee, said "Whatever the facts are on his extra curricular activities and on the plagiarism when things are examined, Jason has, seemingly, more talent than most of the people celebrating his downfall. Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs."
Notably, no apology for her own incompetence, dereliction of duty, and failure to vet even the most basic details of Arday's ridiculous claims which I assume we've all seen by now. The entire hiring committee is now committed to covering up for an incompetent plagiarist rather than calling for accountability. Not a single one has apologized or accepted personal blame. It's a farce and ought to be a wakeup call that coddling morons in the name of "equity" is wrong, plain and simple. Ethical standards in academia ought to be inviolate, and violations of this magnitude need to be dealt with openly and honestly.
Arday was a flagrant, unapologetic, practically illiterate plagiarist and any white-looking human would've been pilloried if not permanently excluded from acedemia for the same actions.
From the Atlantic: "By his own account, Arday rose to fame as a scholar and a writer despite staggering limitations; he became an academic who can read only a single page of academic text an hour and cannot comprehend what is happening at work 90 percent of the time."
Smells like DEI to me. Unqualified candidate by anybody's reckoning? Check. Racist hiring policies ensure that it's possible for the worst hire possible to occur, instead of weeding them out.
Jacqueline Mckenzie, a member of the hiring committee, said "Whatever the facts are on his extra curricular activities and on the plagiarism when things are examined, Jason has, seemingly, more talent than most of the people celebrating his downfall. Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs."
Notably, no apology for her own incompetence, dereliction of duty, and failure to vet even the most basic details of Arday's ridiculous claims which I assume we've all seen by now. The entire hiring committee is now committed to covering up for an incompetent plagiarist rather than calling for accountability. Not a single one has apologized or accepted personal blame. It's a farce and ought to be a wakeup call that coddling morons in the name of "equity" is wrong, plain and simple. Ethical standards in academia ought to be inviolate, and violations of this magnitude need to be dealt with openly and honestly.
Comment please childproof the world (Score -1) 264
What a creative way to tell potential employers to disregard UofM credentials. I'm excited to see where they go with this idea of amplifying mental health problems by coddling screentime-weaked minds.
Actually addressing the underlying issue would require reflection, discipline and potentially even conflict, so it's understandable the nitwits in charge would want to avoid it.
Actually addressing the underlying issue would require reflection, discipline and potentially even conflict, so it's understandable the nitwits in charge would want to avoid it.
Comment infection rate and transmissibility (Score -1) 209
Let's hope these new mRNA shots can, at long last, prevent infection or transmission. If Covid and Fauci's diary taught us anything, it's that pharma failures will be ruthlessly covered up, any coverage of those failures will be relentlessly attacked, and consumers will pay the price while Bourla et al will walk away rich.
Comment in which screen zombies learn a lesson (Score -1) 133
Hiking in a public park, for most of us, means reading the prominently posted signage - watching where you're going, in other words. It's not rocket science or even Fauci-level $cience. Just a little common sense, and looking up from the screen once in a while, goes a long way.
This isn't a Google Maps problem, it's a problem of kids outsourcing their thinking to an app.
This isn't a Google Maps problem, it's a problem of kids outsourcing their thinking to an app.
Comment Re:You lost me at "The Telegraph". (Score -1) 229
Disregard verifiably true & troubling events of political censorship because you dislike the people speaking out against evil?
People like you, with attitudes like yours, enabled Der Fuhrer and his minions to enslave a nation.
People like you, with attitudes like yours, enabled Der Fuhrer and his minions to enslave a nation.
Comment correlation (Score -1) 63
Living in a city increases likelihood of $DISEASE. Well isn't that shocking.
Comment Re:Money To Burn (Score -1) 13
Good for them, right? Guess they've solved all the real problems so the focus must shift to pretend problems: bring on the age of infinite narcissism!
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Comment Re:Context? (Score -1) 134
In an alternate universe where the word "free" means the opposite of our standard usage, you would be correct.
If you can take something for free, change it, or burn it, or wallpaper a house with it, without obligation, that clearly indicates that it is indeed free.
If you can take something for free, change it, or burn it, or wallpaper a house with it, without obligation, that clearly indicates that it is indeed free.