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Reminds me of the scene with the Mortgage Brokers in The Big Short - "They're not confessing, they're bragging"

On Nordstream explosion "Russia denies responsibility for the explosions. But few doubt that the Kremlin did it." I can stop reading at this line to know that this isn't journalism…

The legal class is the big winner in these things - win or lose. Lawyers get paid

“There will either be Russian land, or a scorched desert,” Major General Valery Vasiliev is reported to have told his troops. Energoatom claims that Ukrainian intelligence services…

There are two narratives being told - one to the top brass to increase investment and one to gen population of not to worry we're going to win so don't be a defeatist/pacifist/coll…

I've heard this dangerous narrative down playing dangers of nuclear war from people who have never experienced a total war before & are leaning into narratives spread by the milita…

I agree - but the decisions on the recruiting process is not on the team, assuming this is a mid-large sized company - that decision could be made miles away from the people interv…

I've seen that happen when they are either 1 - Uncertain about something about you (I imagine technical aptitude), and want to rule out their concern 2 - There are 2 close candidat…

I'm saying it's a broad term - forget Russian news. Go ask take a Fox watcher and a CNN watcher to point out what they interpret as "Fake News" and you'll get 100s of differences.

You're splitting hairs when you say down ranking is not censorship - you know full well the impact to a websites traffic once it gets out of the top 3 results let along the 1st pag…

Your last statement directly contradicts your tweet on March 10th. "Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it contin…

This is a quote from you “[W]hen you search, you expect unbiased results, but that’s not what you get on Google,” @matthewde_silva quotes @yegg" Seems you're backtracked on being u…

DuckDuckGo showed face when they start down ranking "fake news".

"The assailant fled up to the street and has not been caught, the police said. He was described as a dark-skinned man, heavyset with a beard, wearing a dark sweatshirt, an orange T…

Depending on the political leaning of the writer - different types of Mass Shootings are lumped together. Buffalo was a terrorist event, no one lumps in 9/11 with plane crash figur…

It annoys me when they compare countries and don't consider income tax - you don't pay with pre tax income... If you earn 150k in High Tax Euro Country you're losing 50% of that. I…

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Seeing more of this Revisionism of WW2 since the cooling of US-Russia relations (adding to the long time downplaying of Chinese suffering in WW2 vs European suffering) 1 - While Ru…

April Fools?

"The fact that the regular replacement of leaders has turned out to be democracy’s strongest feature underscores" That also assumes power is concentrated in the Leader as much as i…