HashingtheCode

No you don't have to listen, you can walk away.

Exactly how is someone not believing in the holocaust, hate speech? Aren't people allowed to have their own opinions anymore?

Are Flat Earther's next to be classified as hate speech because they also believe something different?

The message FB is sending is; if you have a different opinion to the mainstream you are inciting hate speech.

Why can't people believe whatever they want to? I thought we were free to think, to feel, to believe what we wanted.

Not really Mr T from the A-Team is it, but, ok, fair enough. Jibba Jabba.

Mr.T does not use the words jibba jabba

Yes, this is stated in the Vedic literature of the Srimad Bhagavatam, where it states in detail that our universe, which is one of millions, is created and destroyed with each breath of Vishnu;

"In Hinduism, a Kalpa is indicative for creation and dissolution of a universe. However, there are a few cycles of time mentioned in Hinduism, which consists of several iterations of such "Kalpa"-s. First one of them is referred as "One Month of Brahma", which consists of 30 Kalpas and successive dissolution phases. Each Kalpa in the series are distinctly identified by different names. Current "Kalpa" is referred to as "Sweta-Baraha", next one will be "Neel-Lohita". Combining 12 such "Months of Brahma", one year of Brahma is formed. 100 such years of "Brahma" is called as a "Maha-Kalpa". Length of a Maha-Kalpa is almost 310 Trillions years. 8000 such "Maha-Kalpa"-s form one "Yuga of Brahma", whose length is 2.4 Quintillion years. There are other greater cycles whose lengths are 22.3 Sextillion years, 670 Sextillion years and 201 Septillion years respectively."

https://legendofbharatbarsha.home.blog/2019/12/07/detailed-h...

Scientists really should read the Vedas.

I never realized that there is soooooo much kiddie porn on Facebook that it warrants creation of "back-door access" :-) no pun intended, for governments to spy on people's private communication so as to SAVE THE CHILDREN.

riiiiight.

I pity the fools who rely on these maps for real-time directions. Whatever happened to reading a map and making mental notes? What ever happened to people being able to follow street signs and using your common sense?

How did we become so utterly dependent on this technology that only a generation ago was unnecessary?

Driver-less cars with AI powered navigation coming to your house in the not too distant future. It will plot the most efficient course to get your meat-sack self from your house to the corner store to buy bread & milk....and you don't need to think at all about what your legs are doing. That is if you even still walk. Maybe you are so lazy you will order by the noise-polluting drone delivery service.

People marvel at tech, and don't misunderstand my rant, Google Maps, Openstreet Maps etc are extremely useful in researching places, but, we should not become reliant to the point where we cannot function without them. Otherwise we are becoming mindless zombies in this ever tech-infested world of ours where we are loosing basic skills such as navigating from point A to point B.

Very sad state of affairs.

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/navigate-without-gps/

Good way to reduce your plastic consumption....NOT!, by unnecessarily 3D printing the housing for this project.

Sure the plastic will be here for a long time after we have all parted this earthly plane.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.

low-middle income people making ends meet? just like storm troopers in Star Wars

went on to show that from their point of view they weren't all that bad.

Exactly, just like the Nazi soldiers weren't all that bad either but they were just following the orders of their superiors and believed in a united Germany. But really they were ok.

i didn't say nor imply that

unrealistic tropes

mmmmm...some tropes are rooted firmly in reality, maybe a little exaggerated sometimes, but there is truth to them nonetheless, just like there is some truth stereotypes.

I think there is nothing inherently wrong with using tropes. Freedom to choose is what is important. If the author wants to use tropes, they should be able to.

Sure, if they want, if they choose to. And that's the point for me at least; freedom of choice.

Writers should be able to write how they want, employing whatever literary devices they want, about whatever topic they want. There should be no restriction imposed.

On another note; writers can't ignore reality, if they are writing about reality that is. Homeless people exist. They are smelly and unclean and in many cases can be violent. Ask anyone living in San Francisco, Los Angeles etc. Sure, not every homeless person is white, but the majority are. Trying to pressure writers into adding forced "diversity" due to wokeness is ridiculous. Reality is not woke, it is what it is.

If they want to use tropes, no problem. If they want to find different ways of representing real life situations without the use of tropes, no problem. Whatever. Choice.

What i disagree with is the imposition of language that the OP (Chris Winkle) is trying to impose; that tropes are somehow bad and to be avoided or "cleaned up" because they are somehow demeaning or offensive.

My friend found out the hard way; challenging the ideas of her manager. She now has her head on the chopping block and is under constant passive-aggressive attack by said manager. Her co-worker "friends"....nowhere to be found, no support, no anything except a deafening silence.

All because of fear.

Deadly serious.

If writers actually follow these guidelines, god help us. Imagination will be curtailed and suffer, and we the readers will suffer as a result.

This misguided attempt to "wokify" storytelling is reminiscent of the attempts by INGSOC in 1984 to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent in ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English). In order to reduce the language's function of communication, Newspeak uses concepts of simple construction: pleasure vs. pain, happiness vs. sadness. Goodthink vs. crimethink linguistically reinforces the State's totalitarian dominance of the people of Oceania.

I hope nobody follows those guidelines. I pitty the fool who does.

Tribal instincts reduce the ability to challenge bad ideas because no one wants to get kicked out of the tribe.

Spot on. In the work place, this is toxic. Especially if on top of this fear of being kicked out, you have a psychopathic boss.

What happens in this scenario? Bad decision after bad decision with workers even though they know it is wrong, won't challenge out of fear.

So people either willingly nod along with bad ideas, or become blinded by tribal loyalty to how bad the ideas are to begin with.

Damn office sheep....

In the newspaper articles they make references to the research. For Example in the first paper from 1975 it is Paul R Erlich who is the researcher.

If you want, you can track down the paper. It may be difficult though.

Edit: In 1968, Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a well-publicized book entitled The Population Bomb . Ehrlich predicted widespread famine and disaster unless population growth was reduced to zero in America and throughout the world by compulsory methods if necessary.

Edit: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/173/3992/138.abstract

Thanks for the free books to read

Sounds like you are under the illusion that human beings are a species worth saving, but if you look at the destruction we have caused over the past 100k years, you can make an argument for the opposite, especially in the past 200 years since the industrial revolution.

Human will not change. We will cause destruction no matter where we go, no matter the planet or galaxy, we will destroy it and move on. Even with all our technological advances, we are causing more destruction than ever.

Humans unsettle the balance of nature, we are the problem.

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus."

This research negates the possibility that intelligent beings higher up in the universal simulation coded the building blocks of life....

Makes use of Canonical's proprietary SNAP container format.

:-(

Hey, didn't you know, there is an ice age coming ....

In 1970, The Boston Globe ran the headline, "Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century." The Washington Post, for its part, published a Columbia University scientist's claim that the world could be "as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/failed-climate-change-predi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDLRm3jhc8

He's saying humans are insignificant in terms of the lifespan of the planet and all the creatures that came before us. He is saying the Earth doesn't care for a bit of plastic we have created as it will be incorporated into the Earth. He is saying that the Earth has faced far greater threats than this 2 legged ape and will be here long after we are cleansed from it. He is saying that our arrogant attempts to "save the planet" are ridiculous.

Why is that so difficult to understand?

As far as we know, he is free to travel through all of Russia. That's a lot of freedom

It's pretty clear what he is saying; which is that humanity will have little if no impact on the Earth.

He is not talking about climate change and the people panicking about possible 25m sea level increase.

Read the full transcript;

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin...

They have committed no crime

Not true. Assange hasn't committed a crime but Snowden has committed a crime of theft from the NSA; unlawfully retaining a National Security Agency (NSA) documents containing information classified at the TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS/SCI) level.

Let me clarify. What he did in exposing PRISM was fantastic, the people had a right to know, absolutely, but, the act in itself was still stealing. It's no different to any other theft. When you work for a company and you steal, you can be prosecuted.

We can argue from two points; moral and legal. Morally he did the right thing. Legally he did not.

The difference between Assange and Snowden is vast. Assange is a published of information, no different to The Guardian. He did not steal the data he published. Snowden did, as did Chelsea Manning when he stole the known as Cable Gate.

The point in the article is that the OP thinks Snowden should receive a pardon. My point, is that Assange hasn't even been pardoned for his supposed crime of publishing. If Assange hasn't been pardoned for a lesser crime, then what hope does Snowden have of being pardoned for an actual crime of data theft from the NSA?

Another lady stole data from the NSA. SHe is now facing prosecution and 10 years.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/west-virginia-woman-admits-wi...

Fair enough. But did you have a read of the failed climate predictions over the past 50 years? It's hilarious.

If Assange isn't being pardoned for the nonsensical "crime" of exposing war crimes by the US Government, there is no chance that Snowden will be pardoned. Snowden willingly stole state secrets whereas Assange only published.

Still, when you consider that Snowden is living in Russia, essentially free, and Assange is in a 3.5x2m cell, I don't think Snowden has anything to worry about, except that the royalties from his book will be taken away....but he has his freedom.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919261319/court-rules-edward-...

Just a comment from the late great George Carlin in regards to environmental issues like this;

"Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet... nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine... the people are fucked! Difference! The planet is fine! Compared to the people, THE PLANET IS DOING GREAT: Been here four and a half billion years! Do you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years, we’ve been here what? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus four and a half billion and we have the conceit to think that somehow, we’re a threat? That somehow, we’re going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun? The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us: been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drifts, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?

The planet isn’t going anywhere... we are! We’re going away! Pack your shit folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that... maybe a little styrofoam... maybe... little styrofoam. The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone; just another failed mutation; just another closed-end biological mistake; an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance. You wanna know how the planet’s doing? Ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position from volcanic ash how the planet’s doing. Wanna know if the planet’s all right? Ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. How about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii who build their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room?"

BTW, you people that keep down voting me because I don't agree with your position, trying to shut me down, stopping me from expressing my opinion, you guys, are fascists.

Don't believe me about climate change scaremongering, here is a long list over the past 50 years of failed environmental disasters....

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...

Investigation was dropped because evidence was not strong enough.