Interesting. Makes me want to work at a chemical plant for a while to see how it goes.

It's not particularly insightful to say that political preferences don't fit in a single left/right dimension, or even two or three dimensions.

Also this https://slashdot.org/comments....

They are lying when they claim that no one approved the torrenting.

My idea was that if lawyers are involved, then that is evidence higher-ups are definitely also aware of it (otherwise lawyers wouldn't be involved). Upon further inspection, I'm not sure if the timing matches correctly for that to be supportive evidence (ie, the lawyers might have come after the torrenting ended).

I think you have a point, but it's not clear what it is.

There's a reason in school they teach you about a topic sentence and supporting sentences.

The US is engaging in an arms race escalation, putting weapons in space. In particular, the US is trying to develop the ability to shoot down ICBMs in space, meaning Russia and China's nuclear arsenal is effectively useless (effectiveness of the defense shield is another matter, but it doesn't matter as long as the adversary believes it will be effective). Russia and China and North Korea are not happy about it.

There are too many satellites in the constellation for Russia to shoot them all down one by one. If they feel threatened enough, Russia (or China, or even N Korea) may induce Kessler syndrome as a way to deny the capability to anyone, thus re-leveling the war field. North Korea is worried enough that they are trying to respond by building a submarine fleet.

It may be worth noting here that N Korea could just end the Korean war and then they wouldn't have to worry, just focus on building their economy, but if evil dictators were rational they wouldn't be evil dictators.

If the worst thing Ilhan Omar did was mistake her birthday on her citizenship application then she's an amazing person. People need to focus on what matters.

The word formally is hiding a lot of lies here. The lawyers got involved because Facebook knew it was illegal.

What possible reason could Meta employees ever have for wanting to steal?

ok, so you have bad memory and some ignorance. Fix that and you won't be so confused about things.

No.

If both parties are a blight on America, then it doesn't matter much if one is a little worse than the other. Getting rid of them will make the world better.

The Big Lie is that you have to join either party. Neither party cares about you.

Reject the false duality of left and right.. (Anyone who completely agrees with the stated platform of either party is a psychopath, since it's a compromise by definition)

WW2 was just a brain-dead retread of the losers from WW1. They were just a bit more friendly the first time. Also, Munich 1972 shows they didn't go away, they just get quiet. It takes many years to build a friendship with someone from southern Germany.

It's not that I don't realize one party is better than the other, of course I dislike one party (not so much because they hate gays, illegal immigrants, or blacks; but because they are always looking for someone to pick on, and those are all symptoms of the core problem) more than the other. Of course, Ds also look for people to pick on, but picking on billionaires is somewhat less grating, even if it's karmically equivalent.

No. I know they're not the same.

They are both bad. The only people who join a party are leeches, hanger-ons, control freaks, and useful idiots. No point being a useful idiot.

Worse, supporting either party only serves to perpetuate the system. And that is the core of the problem. Supporting a political party makes the country worse, in the same way supporting internet advertising makes the internet worse. It is your moral obligation to block ads. Even if it's the better party you are supporting. It is your moral obligation to not support parties. My vote doesn't matter anyway.

This is the way of the anarchist.

Don't do illegal things at work. When shit hits the fan, the lowest engineers are the first to fly. Same thing happened to the Volkswagen engineers. In some cases, employees can make a lot of money by reporting illegal behavior (for example, to the SEC) so do that.