Doesn't it embarrass you to write something that's stupid? At the very least I bet you wouldn't show that to your mom.

I'm sorry, but when you look at the current administration, are the people at the top people who scream to you "I reached my position because of my competence and skill"? It is the crowd that's constantly screaming about "DEI" that has been the most obsessed with promoting people based on appearance and personality over any actual competence whatsoever in the fields they're being put in charge of.

And for the record, the guy who led the X mob against this person - Nathan Cofnas - has stated that beyond "whistleblowing", his motivation is that Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'. Are these the sort of people whose side you want to be on?

You seem to really have it in for being woke. Which implies that you've gone to sleep and that you think that's a good thing.

I mean this is all metaphorical being woke means being aware of systemic abuse of power. That's all it means. Do you honestly believe there are no systemic abuses of power that you need to be concerned with? Personally or morally? Do tell do tell...

That's the problem with the right wing they have this imaginary world they live in where everything is perfect until it's not. You can keep your head in the sand for a long time if you're part of the old in groups but those are breaking down fast. So unless you're planning on dying in the next few years you need to get woke or you're going to be broke. Because the top 1% have had enough of you walking around with property and money in your bank account that rightfully belongs to them.

But not you of course. None of this applies to you. Your exceptional. You're special. I'm sure you're just posting to a dying web forum in between lunch with Elon Musk and dinner with Jeff bezos...

False. It is still indefensible, because it is a problem of Apple's own creation. If Apple wants to charge for it, that's fine, but only if they also allow their devices to download apps from somewhere other than Apple.

For in-app purchases of content, it already works that way, of course, but I'm assuming this isn't what is being discussed here, because it would be particularly heinous of Apple to want to charge up to a 15% tax on content that it had no involvement either in payment for or distribution of.

And in such obvious ways. As a reminder flock has a training manual that teaches cops how to lie about using flock cameras in there investigations.

It's like how we all just found out that data centers use 10 times as much water as they report.

We already knew that and we know we're being lied to and we keep letting them do it.

And kept doing it. Now he got a really tiny slap on the wrist for that so but even so, the fact that he keeps doing it implies he's done it before and it's worked.

They tax absolutely everything coming into the country. If you're going to use tariffs to protect local industry that's fine but that's not what we're doing here. Besides you can't compete with countries that are willing to poison their groundwater and make cancer villages.

Nah, I think it's mutually-beneficial. If Spotify didn't have an Apple app, their revenues would decrease. And I'm only saying that free apps that get a lot of downloads should be billed extra... like maybe 200K downloads per month or so.

This is a roundabout way to implement a national sales tax. Rich people love that and by Rich I mean if you're reading this you aren't one of them.

Tariffs shift the tax burden to people who work for a living. That's because you and me have to spend most of our resources just surviving. Maybe if you're doing really really well only about half of everything you get your hands on goes to food and shelter and transportation and medicine and saving for when you can't physically work anymore.

The goal is to eliminate income tax and replace it with taxes paid at the point of sale. This of course means that if you're wealthy you stop paying taxes but if you are a working stiff well, you're basically going to have $15 a dozen eggs.

There's an easy fix for that. If someone distributes a free app and that app receives more than a certain (high) number of downloads per month, then charge them a fair fee for hosting the download, where that fee reflects the actual costs of hosting that app plus a small markup for Apple to get some profit.

This is defensible because Apple is recovering actual costs here. Not just piggybacking on someone's subscription service.

If students are being subjected to 4 GPa of pressure (40,000 bar), that's a real problem. I mean, that would crush their bodies beyond the limits of molecular cohesion, rupturing all cell membranes and turning all of their bodies' water into high-density ice. If the university is regularly murdering students this way, they should be stopped.

I'm not sure how pass/fail grades help, though.

Also, people think they're so clever when they do this, when they generally don't actually work with modern models anyway. It just makes you look manipulative and unprofessional.

"who is this even for?", Peter Thiel, he's hoping for a new brain.

to be blunt they're kind of insufferable" that's not it. The Bubba Class decided they didn't need no stinkin' experts in anything, e.g., science, health, diplomats (not campaign crazies), etc. The intertubes gave them the feeling they were somehow just as expert as anyone else. So they elected la Presidenta. And now what we have is an America that is in their image: corruptible, stupid, vapid.

It won't get better until the Bubba Class decides education is important and the Christian Right is booted to the curb as an experiment for what can happen when you believe in shit that isn't real.

There can't possibly be enough miniature human beings to make this research worthwhile. I mean besides Mark Rubio who is this even for?