>> You ask most people and they're like, "Nah, that can't be true." But true it is. And not Alex Jones True, but real life true.
Well, the regularity of atrocities has approached overwhelming proportions - videodrome.
>> your network card's MAC address would stay the same.
You could possibly have your MAC "reported" differently on every boot.
But you don't think they categorize access by site/time/device/other metrics?
So even if a different machine goes a different place and does similar things,
hits keys in certain ways, always uses certain words/phrases, always talks to
certain people
Just turn it all off and get a pen and pad.
>> A long serving totalitarian regime, known for suppression of dissent, would invariably condition generations of its populace to avoid confronting the status quo.
And you are sure that conditioning has not been enacted upon you, US Citizen?
Anything that's politically incorrect will be blacklisted from being labeled as a result.
And considering something to be 'black-listed' in no way negatively reflects on people called 'black' - it is simply coincidence that both terms share the same word.
"It will be free for XXXX" they are not showing you the fine print which says "for the first 90 days."
I'm skeptical.
Its not quite that - more that "free" in this case means "in exchange for unprecedented amounts of your personal information."
Is this like Windows 8 where it nags you to sign in with a @msn or @hotmail account?
Because I'm very much uninterested in having Microsoft follow along with my daily activities.
More than that; using their browser, their search engine and local search facility,
their anti-virus, all send copious amounts of information to Megasoft.
Using the default settings sends numerous types of data over the wire.
>> many deliberately avoid academic and STEM fields because their own peers disapprove of it.
Break it down. Where do you get your information from? The addressing of any problems
requires understanding the framework in which they work, which begs the question.
Institutional discrimination, impoverishment from colony establishment, obfuscated history,
and extremely biased education create the problems you speak of.
In some ways, yes, the black kids you talk of are being told they cannot achieve, in
wide-scale ways, from their marketed culture, to their lack of family structures, to their
loss of history, knowledge of who they are in the world, and a myriad of other ways.
Understanding why these things exist leads to one of two conclusions: 1) that for some
reason 'these people' can't seem to get it together, either due to genetic or cultural deficiencies
or that 2) their destruction was systematic, planned, and on-going, in such an extreme way
that precludes all notions of a segregated society where everyone 'gets along'.
The only words of wisdom available now are "don't trust a conquerors history, listen to the oppressed."
The theory of genetic basis for intelligence is still alive and well.
It has been masked and rationalized to an almost imperceptible degree.
And in other places, it still makes headlines without modification.
Insightful comment, but digging further you will find that that bias effects quite a lot more.
For instance, when oppressed people are required to put their race on a test, they do worse.
When children are shown white and black dolls, they invariably consider the white doll 'good'.
This bias is deeply rooted in American culture, language, and history, to a frightening degree.
According to other studie(s) a majority of Americans are subconsciously biased against 'black' people.
Some don't afford the system the possibility of reform, while others don't seem to do enough research.
Doubt they would - they have the market dialed in - plus anyone capable of independent thinking would be intimidating.
The IBM 2250 is impressive ... if you compare it with a system selling for a tenth its price. -- D. Cohen
