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Ethically, comparing to the CIA is about lowest bar possible.

No, physics is such that semantics are important. What’s the observable difference between absorption/emission and reflection? If the latter doesn’t happen at all the distinction i…

I thought the poster was implying that the USPS was enforcing ownership even though they didn’t create or provide the content, so making your own mailbox wouldn’t help at all.

Yes that’s exactly the practice that I am pointing out you can replace.

You’d have to ask them.

Not if the society makes an effort to keep the pizza place.

> Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal Not if you enter a feedback cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. That is DEFINITELY the enemy of good.

I’m open to it, but I suspect it would be difficult to figure out all the things we’d miss even on a biological level. You don’t think people would read about planets and realize w…

> It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs. Yea but people want to…

I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.

...assuming we have any skill at maintaining infrastructure, and looking around this country we really don’t. Look at the oil pipeline leaks just in the last year .

> That's extraordinary nonsense. What are you basing this on?

> Was Buzzfeed trying to manipulate people or just get clicks? Publishing is an act of manipulation, including caring about what's happening around them (which is typically conside…

> It's a semi-automated system for creating clickbait to manipulate public opinion. What differentiates this from any other media outlet?

> And the linked article showed you that, in practice, "a shambles" is perfectly correct English. I'd think "in practice" would mean evidence of contemporary usage.

...for traditional use, maybe, but any editor worth their salt will stop you from doing so. At least in America. Many words have changed their meaning and use over the last 500 yea…

> Facebook claims this violates their TOS. Based on that, the data can be called stolen. They can call it that sure, but if they didn’t restrict access it’s hard to take this as an…

What places pay less for benefits? No relocation, working sub 40 hours a week, greatly increase time off (none of this “unlimited vacation but really it’s just up to your manager” …

You don’t argue with propaganda. Completely missing from this article are all the reasons we can’t say shit about china: our own human rights record is terrible and everyone knows …

How does my comment qualify but not the submitted article?

I read this as too violent/unfriendly to amass substantial interest from people, not a value judgement per se.

> Apple TV+ is so locked down with DRM that you can't even easily take a screenshot from a show and share it on social media. This seems incredibly blind. Do they realize how much …

How convenient that the part of humanity they finger out as running the “crime of the century” is economically opposed to Quillete’s love of the american free market. In reality bo…

> So uhhh, isn't this like not science? Very little of technology has anything to do with validating hypotheses. > meaning that humans, even those who design them, cannot understan…