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Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day. Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For exam…

I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where …

There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homel…

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> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong. What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong. Unfortunately the …

So the majority of trade was/is/likely to remain with the EU? Perhaps I should clarify on the EU law point. I made the point that most EU laws were copied, but the trade point was …

This. The Uk copied large amounts of EU law verbatim. That is not a blip due only having recently left. It's due to their main trading partner is the EU and it will remain the EU. …

There is a documentary about this called "the spiders web" https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-spiders-web/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfnkLurLA8

I use an old ipad2 as a music controller. I have my music stored on a [subsonic server]( http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp ), and then use one of the subsonic player apps on …

140 million to sign the deal with Rwanda. Will cost 100k GBP per applicant. Rwanda will 'process' 200 applicants a year. Clearly that doesn't come close to solving anything and is …

Article starts with... "The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical …

The Telegraph that promoted Brexit, Boris & Liz. Brexit slashed trade with the Uk's biggest trading partner. That created worse trade deals such as with most obviously recently Jap…

> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise…

The documentary "Spiders Web" talks about how the UK after the second world war, used offshore jurisdictions as places which desirable place for finance being safe (because UK conn…

> "the market’s ability to self-regulate" The market is artificial. For an example it it operates (largely) within constraints that are external - laws. Modifying the money supply …

> If someone says "black lives matter," what are people meant to make of that? I know the snarky response is to say that it means that "black lives matter," but what does that real…

Right. The claim of "virtue signalling" makes a pejorative from an activity that is virtuous of all things. If the point is to question the reasoning behind the act, the act is sti…

No 'they' don't. And prefixing with 'to be fair' is sadistically hilarious in context. To clarify. There are people who want fascism. Who want authoritarianism. Who are purposefull…

I can't speak for original poster. But in 2018 - fascism, authoritarianism and break down of political discourse were very alarming. Now in 2022, we see it is likely Roe vs Wade ge…

"The outspoken investor likened environmental, social and governance policies to the Chinese Communist Party" Interesting choice "Chinese communist party". I mean really? How does …

This is an article from newspaper The Times in the UK. The origin isn't a rumor on reddit. I don't know if it's true or not - but if it's false, the real issue would be a credible …

"Woke" doesn't really seem to mean much anymore. It has become a code word used by the right, which could be summarized as "the enemy". There are other code words like "cancel cult…

> I've watched RT on a few occasions and I never thought their reporting outright propaganda. This is the problem. For effective propaganda you don't want it to be easily detectabl…

No not in general. There are facts. There are ways to make rational arguments based on those facts. Those arguments don't have to be the same, or even produce the same results to b…