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The ones featured in their secondary passports.

You're painting with broad-strokes here which comes off as disingenuous, I presume that's not your intention but it calls into question your understanding of the history between these states being laid bare.

I suggest reading Hamas' 2017 charter in full for proper context.

Might behoove you to know how schooling in that "country" is handled..especially when it comes to Palestinians. Below is an excellent insight as to how this is a "country" wide homegrown effort to raise unhinged cilivians that celebrate the murder of children & women.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/book-review-how-israe...

Here I thought leaving reddit would provide a break of low quality bait, yet here we are.

I believe it considering that Phillip Morris engaged in a consulting-like service during their peak. Corporations like this absolutely follow the playbook of addiction and leverage to their benefit.

The economics no longer support families—and after decades of calls for “fiscal responsibility” across cultures and states, is it any wonder birthrates are falling? Burnout among the working class plays an equal part in the decline.

“It takes a village to raise a child” isn’t advice, it’s a policy framework because massive support is needed to rear kids and the majority today have less than their previous generations.

Not really, cigarette companies targeted minors, same with alcohol, they got slapped on the wrist. Worth mentioning this happened during the rise of a neoliberal policy order of checks & balances.

I’d argue that just because there’s no clear indication of fraud or deception immediately apparent doesn’t discount the reality that much of society has become dependent on their phones.

It’s pretty clear it’s designed that way—otherwise, its effectiveness wouldn’t be nearly as troubling as it is.

Advertising absolutely has overlap as of that of propaganda, and engagement remains the central focus of the millions of apps that populate stores and devices (along with the constant stream of ads that accompany them).

Working in transitional housing brings a unique perspective that’s often unshared with the vast majority of everyday people. When you do this for a time, you start to recognize patterns and the overlap in environments around you. In the case of addiction, it certainly applies to a whole swath of life that most never notice.

additional fun fact: Philip Morris (yes that one) controlled the majority of these companies and brands during the 80s & 90s.

I was thinking Robocop had the relevance factor these days, though I do enjoy the aesthetics of Dredd.

I mean engagement is the game. The overlap of other mediums like TV, movies, music, gambling clearly have the same focus, though they could only wish to have the same death grip that social media has been tuned to achieve.

And before that, it was the crack epidemic—and cigarettes before that. None of this is new tho, just the medium.

I recall Philip Morris pivoting their main business when it began hemorrhaging money. Essentially this pivot came in the form of becoming the largest “box-to-mouth” food producers in the world, of course applying the same addictive principles that fueled their tobacco empire to maintain profitability.

I doubt, however, social media corps like Meta will follow suit today—mostly because accountability feels more like a suggestion these days.

Now that China has become more adversarial

I think it's the other way around here. I say that as China's policy has primarily focused on self-reliance to the degree that it's overshadowed the west in several sectors with the exception of a few (Tech/AI, Finance, Bio) and given their persistence to close the gap I'd say we aren't too far from being eclipsed entirely.

One just has to look at the economics of it all and come to the conclusion that many have already arrived at...

This was always about running defense for the likes of Israel and it’s ongoing televised genocide….

This isn’t about national security, if it had been this would’ve never gotten as far as it has been, the door would’ve been closed long ago.

TikTok and its algorithm isn’t beholden to the US’s government mandate like the other social media platforms. It also just happens to be the one with the largest amount of users and engagement, compared to the others..

Anyone who’s been paying attention to the numerous times TikTok has been on the chopping block (nearly every year it’s existed) understand what’s at play here.

Basically, whatever the liability insurance wants for you to be in compliance, than that’s the standard.

Just to be clear, are you insinuating that my comment is somehow misleading or untrue?

Gotta love neocons and liberals voting this down as if you’re making up facts…when it’s objectively the truth

What difference does its government make when you purposely employ collective punishment via embargo?

For a country that prides itself as “democracy driven and human rights protector” it sure seems just as hostile as the supposed acting government.

The US embargo includes NATO members. I don’t have the source handy at the moment but it’s clear that any current trade partners with the US would be violating the embargo if they attempt read with Cuba.

and agent orange, and destroy literally everything before we tail it back to our own country, not before we tell our vets to “suck it up” and bootstrap their PTSD due to exposure of aforementioned war crimes.

The profit motive has proved, over and over, to be a more effective motivator than anything else.

The USSR and it's space program would argue differently.

then you would agree that warning labels are the lowest common denominator solution to a well known fact, vis-a-vis all processes, products, & procedures are aimed at the lowest factor.

The label doesn't confirm if the coffee is hot, it warns that it might be.

The disease of Enshittification ?

I mean it's par for the course. What better business model exists than the turning a want into a need. Caffeine comes to mind

Society can't be built with the idea that everything has to work for the most troubled and challenging individuals.

But it is, nearly every product, procedure, process is aimed at the lowest common denominator, it's the entire reasoning warning labels exist, or fail safe systems (like airbags) exist.

I’m a fan of RustDesk for my IT consulting needs.

https://rustdesk.com/

Personally I like the AI dogman angle. AI trained to beat other AI (resumes tailored to beat ATS algorithms)

It enabled high speed streaming of data to enable games like Ocarina of time to essentially be seamless when going from location to location

I recall reading this very same statement in a game mag during that time. It made a lot of sense considering how often the PSX would need to load in the map. Resident Evil 2 comes to mind, then MGS. MGS got away with the loading because it hid it behind the various FMVs.

Hell the PSX has that terrible fixed point integer based calculation so it causes polygons "snapping into place" that causes the wobble effect so its not like they were the only ones making decisions that made the final product not as good as it could have been.

Yeah, then there was this. To be fair to Sony, I think they went cheap on the initial PSX as it was uncharted territory and I'm certain the finance gurus had pumped the brakes on being too lofty out the gate. Now the "wobbly" graphics are viewed as an aesthetic lol.

I'll take a look at this, thanks for the link!