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They fund the universities through debt in the form of student loans. The schools then funnel indebted graduates desperate for financial security into various industries where thei…

Homelessness is obviously increasing though it’s difficult to measure with precision. Homelessness is worse than poverty and homeless aren’t even counted in official poverty calcul…

Many live in daily terror of becoming homeless or worse. I feel like social isolation matters more than wealth in making people feel secure. Many homeless people had money, good jo…

Your point is that everyone who buys or sells assets is implicitly amoral? That seems a bit extreme though you are not the first to say it. One wonders how you can escape such cond…

Anybody that doesn’t know the code their device is running is a fool to trust it by default. Even knowing the code well, devices are compromised all the time. Yours seems like the …

Packs behave as packs.

Nobody else said Wikipedia or yahoo finance, so I will.

Like stocks, you can buy ideas “low” and sell them “high.” Some ideas are cyclical too, AI, mainframes/cloud, etc... And this extends beyond tech for instance “equity” is currently…

False flag down votes are real too.

“ At least it goes back into the economy. ” Actually no, at least 40 billion went to a Nigerian scammer group. That’s a national security issue and overrides concerns about charity…

“carbon-taxation bloc” This will be labeled imperialism with shades of white supremacy.

Billions in unemployment fraud last year means billions in government services that will not b we going to help people that really desperately need help.

Reddit is a net negative for the internet. Facebook isn’t wonderful but at least it’s better for society, and less dishonest to its users than Reddit.

Or it could make them less cautious about taking on large debt.

Aaron Schwartz comes to mind. Move beyond anecdotes. There are libraries full of books on this very subject, the experiences of all the people you know not withstanding. Consider t…

Education isn’t an answer. It’s good and we should as a society optimize for it, but it’s vastly overrated. There will always be cognitive differentials. Educated people are easily…

Masks yes. Or “travel bans don’t work.” The official response from the ministry of truth appears to depend on who it is that institutes them. If it’s a president that happens to in…

Yes, I was banned “for spreading disinformation”from a popular online forum for suggesting mask wearing could be helpful. The authorities at the time were fighting “disinformation”…

Tina. Real estate, bonds, cash. Buying companies while state run capitalism in the east cold wars against American mega corporations like apple, with a neoliberal pro-trade adminis…

And if that stops being true, it probably won’t happen suddenly. Sp500 with a trailing stop seems like easy mode, until ww3 or some other sudden drop but there are circuit breakers…

And trying to stop bad stock tips on the internet is the ultimate fools errand.

I think it is but help me understand the counter argument. Why and how would they lie about the death toll?

I hope you never experience America’s “due process.” You thinking highlights your own inexperience. The system idd as heavily flawed and often makes mistakes. Many convictions are …

I’m more interested in why. Internet vigilantism isn’t a surprise, but when it’s done to defend the establishment against populism it seems wholly unprecedented.

This is simply false reporting. The play had a everything to do with Ryan Cohen. Arstechnica is long since being credible. They’re owned by conde naste and it shows.