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CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA

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Re: CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA

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Post by sitkack »

saulrh wrote: post #18
Roritharr wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would mark the first time the broad public actually changes behaviour because of a perceived threat to their anonymity and data. I'd be putting my money on the soap people if that were to play out.

American public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_in_Pakistan#Repe... I do not want that shit going on in any country, but I especially don't want it going on in my country. Fuck that, fuck them, fuck everybody involved in these retarded ideas.

So not only were at least 70 health workers murdered, but hundreds of children were paralyzed or died from polio so we could execute Bin Laden. Fuck that. Just fuck it.

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Post by rayiner »

rhizome wrote: post #27
Aelinsaar wrote: post #7

History is going to be so monumentally unkind to this period of American history. :/

Eh, not necessarily. This could be the last period when things were still really really good.

Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

rayiner wrote: post #42
rhizome wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, not necessarily. This could be the last period when things were still really really good.

Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.

Can you provide any examples of things that are less fair and less just now than they have been any time in the past 100 years?

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Post by CamperBob2 »

rayiner wrote: post #42
rhizome wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, not necessarily. This could be the last period when things were still really really good.

Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.

The problem is, the next time we have a genuinely bad government, that government will own us all.

Can you imagine a Stasi or a KGB with the power the FBI is demanding, or the power combined with the legal carte blanche that the NSA already has?

Re: CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA

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Post by lucaspiller »

daveguy wrote: post #31
ced wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The DDG results are about snopes, or Skincential Sciences CIA, but not both. If you remove snopes, the Google results look fine to me.

Thanks for the confirm. Maybe someone at google listened to people complaining (or their algos learned) that when people search many specific words they are looking for a specific thing and not to randomly drop it. Also, as a side note (not directly to you but so I don't clutter the feed). The CIA does not have a "venture capital arm". The company in question is a private company, who's purpose is to develop intel te…

> The CIA does not have a "venture capital arm".

Plot twist... YCombinator is the venture capital arm of the CIA /s

Re: CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA

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Post by joering2 »

daveguy wrote: post #28

Can others confirm/deny this: Google this, no quotes: snopes Skincential Sciences CIA Then duckduckgo the same, no quotes. Did anyone else get disturbingly little response from google, but very detailed and recent results from duckduckgo? I searched this precisely because I was skeptical, but that search result was just weird. EDIT: For me it happens both in regular, tracked search and in an incognito tab. EDIT2: Dro…

Or perhaps, you know, something to do with Google being funded by branch of CIA?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

themodelplumber wrote: post #33
nuttinwrong wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god... as soon as word gets out of this coming to reality there will be a surge of unwashed public restroom hands. Good god! It's bad enough most old guys don't wash their hands after touching their dicks and door handles, now we'll have poop hands everywhere.

Nah, I think you'll have more personal hygiene kits being carried around. Hit the market now and get in before the rush.

I thought the same. My girlfriend carries hand sanitizer with her everywhere, it wouldn't be big of a deal to carry your own hand soap (liquid based) if you find a pocket sized one that fits in a purse or your pocket.

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Post by anexprogrammer »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #44
rayiner wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Barring disruption of the government, the future will be fairer and more just than today, just as today is fairer and more just yesterday.

The problem is, the next time we have a genuinely bad government, that government will own us all. Can you imagine a Stasi or a KGB with the power the FBI is demanding, or the power combined with the legal carte blanche that the NSA already has?

That's really not as far away as you seem to imply.

Just look at the difference between current politics and forty years ago. If politics changes as much to the extremes in the next 40 years, you get your genuinely bad government in far less than 40 years.

Add in the known tendency of humans globally to take refuge in extremism and racism in a recession, well, one more deep recession could do it.

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