freddybobs

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by freddybobs 3y ago
Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day. Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white supremacist terrorist
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by freddybobs 3y ago
I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where it didn't and I had to follow other instructions.
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by freddybobs 3y ago
There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided housing. The
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by freddybobs 3y ago
Good?
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by freddybobs 3y ago
> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong. What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong. Unfortunately the article referenced doesn't appear to have the g
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by freddybobs 3y ago
So the majority of trade was/is/likely to remain with the EU? Perhaps I should clarify on the EU law point. I made the point that most EU laws were copied, but the trade point was not about laws in the Uk. It's that UK comp
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by freddybobs 3y ago
This. The Uk copied large amounts of EU law verbatim. That is not a blip due only having recently left. It's due to their main trading partner is the EU and it will remain the EU. To trade with the EU you have to follow EU laws. I&#x27
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by freddybobs 3y ago
There is a documentary about this called "the spiders web" https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-spiders-web/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfnkLurLA8
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by freddybobs 4y ago
I use an old ipad2 as a music controller. I have my music stored on a [subsonic server]( http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp ), and then use one of the subsonic player apps on my ipad, connecting to my old skool amp
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by freddybobs 4y ago
140 million to sign the deal with Rwanda. Will cost 100k GBP per applicant. Rwanda will 'process' 200 applicants a year. Clearly that doesn't come close to solving anything and is expensive. It is a simple to explain non solu
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by freddybobs 4y ago
Article starts with... "The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical socialist fashion, they weren’t content with simply enc
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by freddybobs 4y ago
The Telegraph that promoted Brexit, Boris & Liz. Brexit slashed trade with the Uk's biggest trading partner. That created worse trade deals such as with most obviously recently Japan. Boris and corruption - such as the billions giv
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by freddybobs 4y ago
> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise go to waste, at least from the capitalist perspective. B
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by freddybobs 4y ago
The documentary "Spiders Web" talks about how the UK after the second world war, used offshore jurisdictions as places which desirable place for finance being safe (because UK connection) and opaque (so can avoid taxes), and yet n
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by freddybobs 4y ago
> "the market’s ability to self-regulate" The market is artificial. For an example it it operates (largely) within constraints that are external - laws. Modifying the money supply is a lever that can be used to achieve goals
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by freddybobs 4y ago
> If someone says "black lives matter," what are people meant to make of that? I know the snarky response is to say that it means that "black lives matter," but what does that really mean? That shouldn't really
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by freddybobs 4y ago
Right. The claim of "virtue signalling" makes a pejorative from an activity that is virtuous of all things. If the point is to question the reasoning behind the act, the act is still virtuous regardless. If the problem is it won
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by freddybobs 4y ago
No 'they' don't. And prefixing with 'to be fair' is sadistically hilarious in context. To clarify. There are people who want fascism. Who want authoritarianism. Who are purposefully breaking political discourse.
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by freddybobs 4y ago
I can't speak for original poster. But in 2018 - fascism, authoritarianism and break down of political discourse were very alarming. Now in 2022, we see it is likely Roe vs Wade gets overturned. The basis of that argument works for t
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by freddybobs 4y ago
"The outspoken investor likened environmental, social and governance policies to the Chinese Communist Party" Interesting choice "Chinese communist party". I mean really? How does [ESG]( https://en.wikipedia.or
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by freddybobs 4y ago
This is an article from newspaper The Times in the UK. The origin isn't a rumor on reddit. I don't know if it's true or not - but if it's false, the real issue would be a credible news source, The Times, got it wrong, no
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by freddybobs 4y ago
"Woke" doesn't really seem to mean much anymore. It has become a code word used by the right, which could be summarized as "the enemy". There are other code words like "cancel culture" which similarly appl
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by freddybobs 5y ago
> I've watched RT on a few occasions and I never thought their reporting outright propaganda. This is the problem. For effective propaganda you don't want it to be easily detectable as such. Therefore the majority of your mater
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by freddybobs 5y ago
No not in general. There are facts. There are ways to make rational arguments based on those facts. Those arguments don't have to be the same, or even produce the same results to be useful - because they state their basis and how, base
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by freddybobs 5y ago
In many ways the current democratic party could be cast as 'conservative' in the classic sense of 'to conserve'. They are trying to conserve the status quo - institutions, democratic processes, norms, how government work
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by freddybobs 5y ago
> "gulf stream environmentalists flying to conferences in private jets is hypocritical" Perhaps it is. Or perhaps it's necessary to get things done. Who knows? It's a kind of an odd argument though. That "discern
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by freddybobs 5y ago
You might find the podcast about "cancel culture" interesting. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1270-youre-wrong-about-497649... They observe the term means different things to different people, and as other pe
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by freddybobs 5y ago
"Continuous democracy" was something attempted by Tony Blair in the UK (apparently originating in the US) - the terms meaning there is somewhat different to your description. In this scenario continuous democracy was achieved usin
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by freddybobs 5y ago
We had something that largely worked, the fairness doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine Was removed in 1985. That wasn't perfect but was considerably better than what we have now. It seems to
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by freddybobs 5y ago
Micro "Communism"?! You are aware what communism means... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism So no - not communism. Fascism? Authoritarianism? Perhaps? Agree we need right to repair for ordinary users an

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