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This is like watching someone (tech companies) wrap a rope around his neck while standing on a ladder. HEY HOLD MY BEER! Its all fun and games when an administration "in charge" has your back. It's going to be 100% different the day that changes. It's almost like people forget the pendulum of leadership in the US has a well known tendency to swing. Don't get me wrong, in principal I can get behind the idea of this bu…
Amazing they have the gall to think they still can arbiter truth, considering how YouTube up until recently was banning the "conspiracy theory" that the recent pandemic may have originated from a Wuhan Lab... Something that now all the experts are saying may actually be true.
Why is conspiracy theory in quotes? It was a conspiracy theory, peddled by conspiracy theorists, and laundered into the public discourse by conservative media outlets. One of many dozen such claims about COVID-19. A broken clock is right twice a day (in this case the clock is probably still wrong).
The road to hell is paved with "good intentions". We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides. Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are fantastic services in that they work really well on a massive scale. However, Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information puts too much power into the hands of one corporation, whose best inte…
If I can ask this in a non-snarky way, did you ever honestly[1] think working on ads was contributing to a better world? If so, how?
[1] 'honestly' contrasted with "it pays well so I'm not going to think about that" or "I say it does in public but I don't believe it".
The road to hell is paved with "good intentions". We desperately need to find a globally adoptable alternative to google and the services that it provides. Docs, Sheets, Drive, etc. are fantastic services in that they work really well on a massive scale. However, Google's increasing role as an arbiter of right vs wrong and a steward of information puts too much power into the hands of one corporation, whose best inte…
resignation or gtfo
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Early on Fauci was telling everyone how useless masks were [1]. I have a couple people in my social circle that were banned from fb for saying he was wrong early on about masks being ineffective. And several others were banned later for pointing out fauci's earlier stance and calling it all propaganda. You are not allowed to think for yourself. Pick up that can. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-XVfZCX-o
N95 masks were never useless and Fauci should be seen as a monster. What I don't understand is why there were no nations giving away n95 masks and education on how to wear it. It seems like we hivemind to the unsustainable lockdowns.
Don't know if you remember last march/April, but there were no N95 masks to give out in a lot of places...
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Why is conspiracy theory in quotes? It was a conspiracy theory, peddled by conspiracy theorists, and laundered into the public discourse by conservative media outlets. One of many dozen such claims about COVID-19. A broken clock is right twice a day (in this case the clock is probably still wrong).
both sides think the propaganda they consume is closer to reality and truer than the propaganda others consume.
I read regular stories on HN about employee activism on certain types of popular issues around gender and race, involving petitions and publicity. Spotify, Apple, Google. Yet nothing about the march towards totalitarianism and information control - always with good intentions and to our benefit - promulgated with stories such as this. Not a peep from our young Silicon Valley activists. Do we still teach history at sc…
As I read this, there is not one link to an alternative to Google Drive in the comments. Any suggestions? Distributed solutions (or self managed) preferred.
I highly reccomend people look at Cryptomator[1]. It encrypts all your data on your google drive or dropbox etc, but works like normally on your local machine. Allows you to use these services while blocking the provider from being able to view your unencrypted data. Also its free and open source! [1] https://cryptomator.org/