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by pannSun 4y ago
If the students are united against this statement, and only the administration and current faculty are for it, then the battle is already lost. Because the students of today are the faculty of tomorrow, making this statement a temporary pat
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by pannSun 4y ago
I didn't read that response as a defense. It sounded more like the opposite.
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We are discussing whether the event is notable, not if it is legal. And as someone not from the US, I care more about making people aware that Twitter collaborates with the US to help spread their govt. propaganda (in the same way I would w
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by pannSun 4y ago
Did you miss [1]? The US govt. used its influence over Twitter to help sell its foreign policy (military interventions included) to the US and global audience. The only way you could not take issue with it, is if you're fine with govt.
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by pannSun 4y ago
I don't follow. The post is long on his odd upbringing, clumsy propaganda campaigns on 4chan, the unlikeliness of some conspiracy theories, and amateur psychoanalysis casting an unkind light on various factions. So.. what? How does tha
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by pannSun 4y ago
I don't know - is it interesting that the US govt. used its influence to conceal Twitter influence campaigns that served to justify and whitewash the kind of military operations whose ugliness Manning revealed [1]? What happens in US m
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by pannSun 4y ago
> People have the right to decide who to spend time near Unless they choose wrong, in which case the federal government uses legal and economic measures to correct their choices.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Like clockwork. When it comes to claiming Europe has always been diverse and its countries have no identity, and demographics trends must be obfuscated, different European ethnicities are looked at separately, as if they have nothing in com
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by pannSun 4y ago
> ...When Stanford could not remove a student organization for bad behavior, they found other justifications. One such case was the end of Outdoor House, an innocuous haven on the far side of campus for students who liked hiking. The off
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by pannSun 4y ago
Good guess. While London was 87% white British in 1971, that is now down to 37% (54% if counting all whites, not just Britons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Ethnicity...
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Women wait around ten years in America for a diagnosis of endometriosis, a painful but historically little studied gynaecological condition. [..] Might such delays and biases reflect skews in academic research? That's a nice anecd
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by pannSun 4y ago
"Struggled" meaning tried to hide until the secret got out internally. In completely unrelated news that didn't make the cut for the NYT or Washington Post or most other wikipedia "reliable sources": Facebook, Twit
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by pannSun 4y ago
For those few deliberately obtuse souls that need evidence the fox may have ulterior motives for guarding the hen house: In response to a 2017 request from the Pentagon, Twitter kept online a network of accounts that the U.S. military used
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by pannSun 4y ago
> There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for
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by pannSun 4y ago
I am struck by how incredibly mild the accusation resulting in Fiedler's removal was, and reminded of the saying: If you let the front line collapse, then you get to be the front line. It was a thousand small steps that led to this.
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How the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy (2012)(theguardian.com)
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by pannSun 4y ago
It's irrational to expect "ex" government agents and spies to still pursue that government's agendas? You are confusing rationality with naivete.
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by pannSun 4y ago
One way to look at it that makes it clear CVS was deceptive: Nothing on the checkout screen donation message implied that a donation made there would differ from one made through other channels. That ADA agreed to the terms does not make th
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by pannSun 4y ago
> I don't really see how your point invalidates any of it. Correct, it does not. Just wanted to emphasize part of it.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Others are even less misinformative; there are lots of articles about members of some group Infowars doesn’t like committing a crime or doing an offensive thing; usually other sources confirm that these crimes or offenses are real. Tha
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by pannSun 4y ago
Yes, your wildly misleading characterization of marriage does sound bad. But here in the real world (at least the West, unlikely it applies to the Middle East), "Women drive 70-80 percent of all consumer purchasing, through a combina
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by pannSun 4y ago
Evidence of editorial and policy decisions subtly favoring US government agendas? No, there will always be plausible deniability that someone willing to play as dumb as you will interpret as innocence and impartiality. And if I may be more
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by pannSun 4y ago
Nothing to see here, move along. Key positions in social media companies filled with ex-spies and police is no different than a high-school chemistry teacher going to work for a glue manufacturer.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Unpaid? Did they not share household income/expenses, and in case of divorce, were entitled to part (half, I believe) of their ex-husband's wealth? In addition to child-support.
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1710: The banker who helped William of Orange conquer England dies(haaretz.com)
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Excited for the TVs that detect the amount of people in a room. The term is "telescreen" > Piracy feels righteous if it’s denying them even a penny. Denying them funding feels like self-defense at this point.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> the good of software But it's not just the good of software, because software is eating the world. Software is in your phone, in the tractor that grows your food, in the gene sequencing machine (and gene sequencing software) used
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by pannSun 4y ago
Also NPR: Saying the BLM protests involved riots or looting is "misleading", because most of them were peaceful [1]. (570 riots over the course of 3 months breaks down to 190 riots a month. That’s 47 riots a week or 7 riots a day.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Bill Gates isn't doing good - the money he stole [1] from us is doing good. And he didn't have a change of heart - he hasn't opposed any of the IP maximalist, pro-corporate lobbying that helped MS grow so wealthy. Do you see
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by pannSun 4y ago
Another small step to make people even more rootless. How can local communities form, when what used to be inter-generational homes become as transient as a hamburger? Our only links to society will be through corporations and government. B

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