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How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.
A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques. "What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American. "Exactly," the Russian replies.
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I think they are, and strongly. The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem. Well adjusted individuals just chill out after a few million and work on whatever is fun/important for them. Only rarely does this also happen to be something that can take you from 10M to 1B. (and if it can it would take a lot of work you can't be bothered to do unless it's some core value like he…
> core value like helping the poor beat malaria) Gates just doesn't want to be remembered for Windows. Much like Nobel didn't want to be remembered only for dynamite.
Whoever fulfilled this contract gets a stop work order for gross incompetence and the CORs/COs should be terminated immediately
Do these posts just get upvoted due to the graphics/animations? I find this site incredibly difficult to read with things re-playing as you scroll up and down and the articles I've read from here are often light on details. The graphics seem very AI-generated (overlapping text and other little issues) which makes me think the whole thing is from an LLM. While this post does have some interesting information, I have t…
> Do these posts just get upvoted due to the graphics/animations? I don't think so. It's more likely that they're upvoted as a signal-boost; convene here to talk about bad government tech. Some submissions are less about the subject matter than they are about providing a space to talk about only the subject in general. I've found this to be the case when the content is AI-generated.
Also, FWIW, while I found the layout of the top section of the article to be weird, the actual text body and linked sources were easy to read for me.
Relatedly, I just registered for PACER to download court documents. It's pretty shocking that to get public legal documents the US Federal Court system requires full name, birthdate, address, phone, email, credit card info... and I THINK (it's past the initial registration page so can't confirm 100%) also mother's maiden name and 2 common security questions. Just a treasure-trove of PII if it ever falls into the wron…
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I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.
I have no doubt in my mind that, more than once, Kim Jong Un has found himself watching TV going "come on, this guy is fucking ridiculous"
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Right? If I had enough money that I could make a serious dent in local or even global poverty without noticing the change in my lifestyle, and I just... chose not to, I have no idea how I could sleep at night.
Huge numbers (billions) of people have enough money to make massive changes to the lives of those less fortunate than them, but don't, and prefer instead to make incremental upgrades to their own lives. New rugs, more savings, first-class airline tickets, eating out a few more times a month, etc. This is just human nature. People who are at wealth level x tend to say, "I can't believe that people at wealth level x+1…
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At least there you might be asked to stand in front of a canon if you don’t kiss ass hard enough.
Imagine telling those North Koreans that there are millions of people in the US that do it all for free. Hell, some will even pay extra for access to the highest levels of ass kissing.
Wow such integrity, much win.
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I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.
I have no doubt in my mind that, more than once, Kim Jong Un has found himself watching TV going "come on, this guy is fucking ridiculous"