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Political correctness keeps finding new old, trivial things to retroactively demonize as "racist." At this rate, because one person maybe offended somewhere, all art must be destroyed, and making or possessing art will be punishable by death. "No singing either! Burn the racist heretic!" Has anyone ever surveyed actual gypsies to ask them if they find art in a card game fictional universe to negatively portray them?

Meanwhile, what are the same busybody zealots doing about grotesque socioeconomic apartheid (including criminal justice, disproportionately incarcerating precious minority brothers and sisters for a little weed), neocolonial pan-militarism, inverted totalitarian klepto-plutocracy corruption of democracies by rent-seeking, feudal billionaires, or the origins and prevalence of all types of mass shootings in the US? No, the Redskins need to change their name right now because reasons. [0]

People need to take a stand to reinforce that the social contract is implicit and doesn't need someone else's arbitrary Code of Conduct pseudo-legalese foisted onto every group or else you're somehow signaling that you're a terrible bigot because you don't do what others demand immediately. Oh, and apologize now, tomorrow, and the day after.. and defenestrate your worthless self properly or else!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins_name_contr...

Definitely. I need something different because I have some sort of treatment-resistant major depression that cannot be addressed with anything but medication, regardless of life circumstances, mood, health, or exercise. Although I'm not all that keen on psychedelics and disassociatives, I've tried at least 13 antidepressants and only 1 of them has done anything. The only one that's worked has been mirtazapine* with the caveats of partial GI paralysis and major weight gain. I was on it for 9 years. I tried others as my cognitive faculties and alertness have been declining over the past 2 years.

* Which is also a powerful antihistamine.

I'm beginning to wonder about the medical establishment's depth of understanding and nuance on treatment of serious depression and inability to address so-called treatment-resistant depression. For example, genetics, inflammation, auto-immune issues, diet, GI flora, and other factors that don't seem to be considered clinically. And then there's psychiatry, which is one of the few "medical professions" that doesn't directly test or examine the organ or systems they claim to treat. Psychiatry in particular seems unscientific, arbitrary, and crude.

I don't think there's any panacea, even shrooms, ketamine, or LSD, but the neuropharmacological field has a long way to go and depression is only going to become more commonplace.

Mundays* ;-)

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment!

...for 10 hours: https://youtu.be/oFwkL1WgD_0

Anecdotal. Demand on particular goods and services has shifted, but is overall net down. And whenever there is a threat of recession, large corporations scale back investment, jobs, purchases, and manufacturing.

The 1968 pandemic was roughly as bad the 1958 one. What's interesting is that there was either little/no surveillance in the US or there may have been censorship about it until after it was almost over, because it wasn't widely-reported when hospitals were overflowing and turning-away patients. It also caused severe delirium much like SARS2. I would wager there were asymptomatic carriers of it: my mom said she was bed-ridden with it while my grandparents didn't seem to get sick.

This doesn't pass the sniff test.

- Apple doesn't volunteer device unlocking to the government. Why would they help them reach into random people's phones to disable their cameras? This sounds like a pizzagate conspiracy theory.

- Apple patents everything they possibly can, even if they never intend to use it and for a variety of reasons.

- Cell phone jamming would be unsafe.

- Phones with cameras will still take pictures with cell, wifi, and bluetooth turned off.

- There's nothing preventing people from taking pictures using the previous method of whatever was happening, or supposedly happening, and then posting them later.

Something else happened like a stinger MITM blocking certain sites, cell tower issues/overload, or it's a fabrication.

This is such a stupid assertion and attempt to control others. The world isn't going to sanitize every terminology word because you say so. Get a grip.

You're erroneously conflating two different uses of the same word. It means both things, but control-freak SJWs don't get to sanitize every meaning of every word.

The problem with this is it's another signal of "we're above the law and special." In California, non-federal government plates, including local police, are all numeric regular plates but without registration stickers. Maybe California government plates should pay registration if not to be consistent too.

What's your goal here? Don't you think a measure of outrage is legitimate?

Why are they surprised after FB's enabling the genocide in Myanmar? Or the hypertargeting mass persuasion 2016 election Cambridge Analytica fiasco? Corporations gonna corporate.

That's not a reasoned argument.

More energy... greater carbon footprint... faster climate change.

That's magical thinking. The gas will expand to fill the container. People will use it as much but download more.

This is pie-in-the-sky for most cities right now. Municipalities must vote for enacting community-led policing boards that set law-enforcement policies, benchmarks, goals, and hiring standards. It will take time to change their individual departments, but it will work.

See also: Michael A. Wood, Jr.

https://youtu.be/Ndg-JGmYryA

https://youtu.be/BopwzJ-9G0Y

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33293421

Yep. And there are no more "checks and balances" because POTUS stacks the SCOTUS, and POTUS and SOTUS work hand-in-glove. The last remaining hold-out is HOROTUS, but that can flip any session.

Even so, D and R are both beholden to the American aristocratic wealth class for support, legitimacy, and power, so there is effectively no difference beyond a few, token, mild progressives in D who don't hold sway over the majority of neoliberals.

If you're looking for conspiracy theories/FUD everywhere, you'll surely find it. This is what happens when people don't temper the hobgoblins of their minds with facts and the acceptance of unknowability.

Oh nice!! I was listening to your platform for NYC Citywide-1 for a couple of hours last night after someone in YT chat of Louis Rossmann's security cam feed (retail store that fixes Macs in Manhattan) dropped some Broadcastify stream links.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890 CW-1

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31439 Manhattan

Will someone help a bro out and text me when it is? ITMT, I'm going to wrap myself in bubble-wrap, bury myself about 100' / 30 m down, and hook-up my iPad Pro to a solar array. As long as the internet doesn... NO CARRIER

PS: Hygiene, food, water, and sanitation are WIPs. On the plus side, I'm in a mostly rural/ag county in NorCal rn and not buying the corona "all clear: everyone get back to making the billionaires richer."

A wealth researcher, the late Thomas J. Stanley, found that the biggest single correlating behavior to wealth was not purchasing of lottery tickets. This makes sense because of external locus-of-control (lack of agency), self-control, lack of goal-setting/planning, and magical/wishful thinking.

Furthermore, other researchers found delayed gratification social experiments with children involving more rewards later discovered those children who waited for more rewards later were wealthier later in life. [0](Economic background was found to be just as influential in later studies.)

Gambling (risking money with an expectation less than zero), in all forms, is a losing behavior. It doesn't matter if its lottery tickets, slot machines, three card monte, or financial instruments (without data).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...

Trump: When [Occupy Wall Street] was over, it was a beautiful thing.

Stop. There are no utopian technical solutions to human socio-econo-political problems. Please stop.

Libertarian talking-points ahead. Charles Koch Foundation = Cato Institute = climate change deniers (remember the fake IPCC-look-alike propaganda "addendum"?[0])

0. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

https://www.climatecentral.org/news/cato-addendum-tries-to-u...

OR: If the police were more Sheriff in The Andy Griffith Show and less Captain America meets Commando.

This is what happens when frightened, under-trained, under-experienced, over-militarized, desensitized "police" optimize for the wrong thing and defeat their fundamental mission by becoming an military occupation force of psychopathic a__holes who don't interact with "civilians" except to harass people, rather than a community service of human f__king beings.

And it happened again and again after the head of CNN spoke with the gov about Omar Jimenez. Either the gov has no control over MSP, the gov pseudo-apologized for optics, or both. No one is safe from this mafia of savage, wild dogs.

The actions of police prove the point of the peaceful protestors (as opposed to looters and pillagers the media conflates with the former as "protestors.")

Teslas have been marketed unsafely and promote unsafe behavior. They cannot see many classes of stationary objects, especially at high speed. And because of Dear Leader's over-reliance on "magic bullet" IP investment, they're not going to change how it works voluntarily.

That's not my point. It's not a user-accessible file, but still steals space from the user.

Host it in Iceland or Greenland. Do not depend on cloud services with servers in US-friendly countries.

Anonymize hosting and DNS whois details.

Setup good monitoring/DDoS protection.

Maybe research and talk with other police reform advocates before creating content. Michael A. Wood Jr. on community-led policing seems like a good first stop.

Both are false equivocations, and a bad analogy.

Blowing up a bus full of kids achieves no political goal in no scenario, nor should it.

Racism is racism, although reprehensible, is protected from government censorship and prior restraint. Companies providing for-profit platforms aren't the government and can do whatever they want since the first amendment doesn't apply to them.

If people really wanted free speech, they wouldn't popularize a company's platform but would pay a little to support and use a non-profit public commons platform that was sensibly/lightly regulated.

You didn't communicate that. There is no "download" to delete on iOS (and derivatives) and it's managed by the system on macOS. It's not a small delta when it should be tiny (100 MiB), that eats up data plan and storage.

I'm confused by the GP's us-vs-them animosity. There was an interesting issue that got buried in a polarizing "fan" vs "hater" dynamic. :'( Sigh

Like, shouldn't most high-end consumer devices include a dedicated update storage partition or flash area so that user storage is never impacted?