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It's bad when bad things happen, no one will protect against bad things happening unless bad things happen, so it's good when bad things happen.

Will it be a good case study because it might expose "cancel culture" as non-existent, or because it might expose "cancel culture" as a tool used only to target those who don't toe…

I think the closing was effective in what it was going for: implying that this has all been a "grift." The abruptness is intended to leave the reader with a reverberating final not…

Consider that you know a lot about this topic and are disgusted by their handing of it. Consider that this might not be an outlier, and you may not be outraged by their handling of…

Thanks for including this link. I read the response before I read the NYT article. And while it was a pretty uninteresting article, the tactics used to obfuscate who holds what bel…

Personally, all over. You have to know the biases of the particular source you're consuming, and take that into account with every article. It's possible to read NYT and get some g…

Just a recent example, from yesterday: One of their columnists made a big stink about not being allowed in a particular Clubhouse chat, and how it was incredibly dangerous for peop…

I came to a similar conclusion after hearing their "The Daily" report on phishing attacks pre-election. They described the phishing attempt as "looking exactly like a Facebook logi…

Are you saying this isn't an example of "government is the problem?"

Oh true, I thought the parent comment was talking about this DOH event specifically.

Who on the "right" is cool with this? Genuinely asking.

Yelling fire in a theater has never been a problem, it was only a metaphor used to defend the ridiculous supreme court decision that handing out flyers opposing the draft during Wo…

Sounds like you're pigeonholing Damore (of Google Memo fame) the same way that you don't want to be. You should read the original memo, and not an opinionated summary of it, it's n…

What was disgusting about it?

Amend it so that the state could ignore that part of it too, just like they do with the rest of the 4th amendment?

Corporations work by providing a product or service that customers believe to be worth more than the dollars and cents they're paying for it. It's inherently consensual. The only w…

No, they just push for infinitely increasing military spending, which leads to needless wars resulting in millions of deaths. Both are horrible, let's be real.

What meaningful changes have people affected in democratic republics in the recent past? Companies that don't keep up with customers' desires go out of business all the time.

Corporate power comes, largely, through government power. Corporations coopt the government and use its power to protect or enrich themselves. Why would corporations want to weaken…

What does that have to do with anything?

"Conspiracy" makes it sound like the US government hasn't been building the largest spying apparatus in history over the past 2 decades. Reality says otherwise.

I'm enjoying the amount of pushback this is getting here on HN, given that we all probably think we're not victim to this, and are actively exposing ourselves to be.

Reminds me of a little Sam Saccone project from 2014... https://github.com/samccone/light-paint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lrWmQsVXog

This was me for most of my life. But it was cucumbers and pasta with butter (no sauce, no cheese). I took the radical step of my first cheese pizza at 23 while working a long shift…

> You, similarly, are just providing cover for these terrorists. That's a pretty intense claim, in what way is OP "providing cover"?