skylan_q

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by skylan_q 9y ago
Poverty should be considered the natural state of humanity, not an anomaly that needs explanation. This is the truth. But for clarification that's not to say that we shouldn't fight it.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
There was a referendum and a parliamentary vote. What else would need to be done to not make it an aberration?
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by skylan_q 10y ago
It doesn't matter how many votes there are or how many times it's done, it's not democracy if it's not the outcome you like.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
I sure hope Intel is not up to the same antitrust-worthy shenanigans again. This is what it smells like to me. I hope they've learned from this, though.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Everyone I know from #FrogTwitter got banned so the remaining few went back and deleted all their tweets.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
I'm curious to whether the Democrats will ever come to terms with reality here, or will they just double down and continue the blame game? I've been following. They're doubling down on the Russia conspiracy theories, identi
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by skylan_q 10y ago
It means what it says it means. He's in an echo chamber and well-grounded counterfactuals are no longer worth considering anymore.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
And what's the difference?
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Fact checking is a good tool (critical thinking and self-verification would be better). Humans don't act this way and don't respond to it. The media isn't out to inform people through content, but to program people through
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Whether Google is good or not is irrelevant to whether your particular accusation is baseless. The perception of whether Google is good or not is all that matters. This is how media and mass psychology works. This isn't about fact-ch
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by skylan_q 10y ago
I'm for it. I'm saying that it doesn't really solve the problem of lies in mass media and the impact of the lies. It's a mitigating factor at best, a polarizer at worst.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Google was good. Then Google was bad. Then the Democrats lost the election and Google was good again.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Cheap labor. There's plenty out there. Google will tell them what the facts are and they'll promote/hide stories based on truthiness.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
He's right, though. Google itself cannot be trusted. The size of the organization itself along with how many state actors it's colluding with should set off alarms.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Rumours spread fast. Corrections to rumours don't fully negate the rumours. Journalists are also held less accountable than even elected officials these days.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Agreed. An important part to this is transparency of the members working on this as well. Almost every fact-checker I've read up on has a conflict of interest on many of the "facts" they're checking.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
I can't wait for automation to take away the jobs of people who write "automation will take away our jobs" articles. We're not far off, right? http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php Then again,
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Excellent analysis. Completely agree. I have never seen a piece complaining about the usage in "insurgent" vs. "rebel" when the news speaks of foreign affairs, but that is a perfect example of newspeak. Instead, we speak
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Political correctness isn't language control... attacking it is!!
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by skylan_q 10y ago
I don't get why everyone assumes that you can only be a female if you have a vagina
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by skylan_q 10y ago
but only the media can be right cause DRUMPF
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by skylan_q 10y ago
What's your point? That not all terrorists are from abroad? We know that. Why is it necessary to bring in people who have high risks of radicalizing? Homegrown terror isn't a reason to stop trying altogether.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
You're right. You've changed my mind. They need to get rid of all counter-terrorism operations and ignore the problem because all attempts to stop any attacks have been without effect.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Your source (correctly) says they were mostly from Saudi Arabia, which has a rather extensive history over several decades of terrorist attacks That's a detail that doesn't matter. What matters is that we open the doors to men w
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by skylan_q 10y ago
An option: Stop immigration from places that are prone to terrorist attacks happening and then you won't have to give up nearly as much privacy in the name of fighting terror at home.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
https://twitter.com/WLTaskForce/status/819900557049597953?re... He's giving intel agencies more power in an attempt to box in Trump.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Good job. This is an example of falling into the 3rd category and not the first.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
This practice has been in place for the past 50+ years and practiced by all advanced and developing economies. The question is to what end will this be done, and will it be effective in reaching that end?
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by skylan_q 10y ago
He's a populist, which is bad, but lost the popular vote (which is probably the biggest marker of a populist) so therefore... what, where was I again?
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by skylan_q 10y ago
"capitalism" That word is the problem. It means something different for every person. To you it means one thing, to him it means another. When people criticize capitalism their arguments are always convincing because you project y

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