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Which enlightened search engine did you switch to that doesn't bias results?

At some point you have to take personal responsibility for the leaders you elect or your failure to keep a poor leader from office. If you didn't vote for them due to apathy or whatever, it's not an excuse. Apathy can have its own form of malignant harm. If your leader is causing global malignancy and harming innocents, only so much sympathy can be invested in the general population from others. Also from what I've gathered from other Russians, not just ones friendly to westerners which are more prone to be against the war, it seems just as many Russians are for the war as against it.

The ones I know of seem pretty bent on it, especially civil war.

>Or you know having your tribe so convinced that they impeach the sitting president twice. People were calling for impeachment since day one.

The false equivalences continue. The first you mention was standard course of action when laws are possibly broken and the second is just free speech by individuals.

>And in 2020 there isn't zero reason to think the election was stolen. There is overwhelming evidence that the amount of likely fraudulent ballots cast exceeds the margin of victory in several states.

The few cases I've heard were committed by conservative-leaning voters. Or are you implying it wasn't a few individuals but a conspiracy? This dead horse again. Trump's people already tried with all the money they had to find a national conspiratorial bias and were shot down for lack of evidence many times even by members of their own 'tribe'. I guess you think everyone loves Trump so it must be a conspiracy. You're probably so entrenched in your own informational hugbox, where nobody can say anything against the tribe or else feelings get hurt, that you think it's impossible for the majority of people to not like Trump. I'm sure you think the opposite but I think it's caused a lot of people on the right to be so out of touch with what the majority of Americans really think but they can't see otherwise because they're trapped in a hugbox. And to be fair, the left has this issue also in some circles.

I think therefore I am. And so the world outside can't be confirmed, only your own existence? I get it. But what if the more objective party, society, a collective of subjectives, disagrees with you and your existence? It doesn't matter what you think, you will not think or be if they deem your "truth" an untruth or a threat. I think it's at least for this reason that the ego should be somewhat tamed and not undermine the objective or else the subjective becomes more endangered.

>You act as if this is some new phenomenon

It's not new. What's new is having your tribe so convinced that an election was stolen and them so unquestioning that they storm and loot the capitol while being armed.

Definitely, my old network does. My human benchmark reaction average is more than the time it'd take for an automated program to send a digital signal across the world to click a mouse, ie, upper 200ms. I'm in dire need of optimization.

You just awakened me that our nerves, and body in general, work more like a network than I cared to analyze. What other kinds of similarities can we gleam from this analog? Have those who work on digital networks made any useful discoveries from how the body and brain network? I vaguely recall a few things in which digital communication has learned a bit from animal communications and language itself but can't recall exact sources; brain like a sponge, it leaves as easily as it soaks up.

Calcium worked for you? It's not been my experience nor some others. I've heard it explained that since calcium is needed for nerve transmissions, pain can be worse if you take excess Ca. It's all anecdotal but I feel like my back pain is worse when taking Ca supplements.

That statement's pretty vague without defining "freedom". And if you go on that journey, you'll find out it'll be a long one that never ends. For instance, for whom do you define freedom? Freedom to do what? Freedom from what?

>society moves forward freedom continues to grow

That's a big claim to say we have more freedoms now. We're encumbered by far more laws now than almost any time in history and watched by more authorities than anyone in history who have access to far more systems to know who you are, when you are, etc. Those same authorities also have more power than ever to execute those powers for "justice" and more power than ever to catch you. But hey, at least you have material freedoms, now you can choose Coke or Pepsi and forget about the other freedoms closing in around you.

More power draws more responsibility so not necessarily. Yes, you have more freedoms as in choosing what to buy but material freedoms are only one branch in the many freedoms one can have. So I can agree with OP in that ability of one to manipulate power for freedom is a good definition of one's true potential for it. One can also give away certain powers or responsibilities for more freedom.

It used to be called boycotting but it, as a thought-stopping cliche, couldn't be assigned to only one party and wouldn't be as catchy so they had to make one up. Same with "political correctness" or "sjw". In the US if you said the wrong things, historically, that weren't politically correct, you'd be ostracized or if you were of the wrong class, race or religion, the social warriors at the time would want justice and seek to persecute you as you upset the order of what they saw as just. This has been going on all throughout history but if you assign them, these actions that you don't like and of a group you don't like, a new name and equate it with a certain political group, you can more effectively distinguish and dehumanize the other group as an out-group.

Personally, Horseshoe Theory makes sense. The extremes of both, as Snowden was implying with China and the US, are more like each other than not. Should any get their way and you're in the out-group, you're on a scale of fucked. Even the "peaceful" religions or ideologies are guilty of persecuting those in the outgroup in sometimes very heinous ways. Incidentally, it's strange, but not surprising, that he didn't mention Russia, his own host, where censorship is even worse than the US.

Yes. And Asuswrt is based upon, iirc, the open-source Tomato.

They do with Windows Store. Anyone remember when Firefox was actually available in the Windows Store as either an alpha or beta with Windows 8? I still wish this were so because my most used apps I use the store versions.

>but in Windows it's been a drag and drop or a right-click since 1995.

Until Windows 11, now you can't do that. Supposedly they're going to enable it later, I hope so.

On Linux, I can even move my taskbar to the top of the screen or to the side and drag & drop things to the taskbar. So now I can't have my normal screen brightness shortcut on my taskbar nor is there a way I know of to use hotkeys to launch it via command other than 3rd party like Autohotkey. I tried Windows 11 and I can't forgive MS for taking away these simple and essential features.

Windows 11 has things like core isolation and "memory integrity" on by default now and that, so I've heard, can lower benchmarks by 10%-20%. Not to mention Defender running in the background constantly scanning all processes, which unfortunately can't easily be disabled.

You might get a kick out of watching old NetCafe or Computer Chronicles episodes on archive.org, fellow netizen. Did anyone ever really use that term? I like to playfully use it after watching NetCafe episodes a few years ago.

I'd argue that the explore/exploit model has worked bi-directionally between entrepreneurs and consumers on the internet. The big companies have explored our weaknesses and exploited them in ways to monopolize our time and interests while having a few decades to perfect it. That, and as you mentioned, a growing elderly base on the internet that's settled more on the sources of information they consume.

I didn't learn anything from this comment while passively reading. /s

Seriously though, I've learned a lot just from reading and watching media growing up, in some cases much more than school because it's something I actively wanted to do. For me, doesn't matter whether it's active or passive, if it's something I enjoy I can learn from it much easier.

Yes that's very frustrating. I'm scared to even listen to new music on it because I'd try to use it for discovery but it would mistake what I listen to for what I like. Besides that it hardly recommends me any new music anyway. I now just use youtube for discovery.

Interesting. I never cared to learn how we get negative voltages from power supplies but turns out it's all just a big pump and dump scheme.

And ironically the author became the abusive politician.

So as a dev is reponsible for alpha testing before possibly unleashing it to the public and possibly ruining someone's minute, you want lawmakers to test their own laws first before possibly ruining someone's life?

Come to think of it, car makers, product creators and such are also responsible for testing before unleashing to the public. I wish it wasn't such an amusing notion with lawmakers but good luck with that.

The author of that article who kept looking for reasons to be offended bluntly dismisses the Church's endorsement of slavery because it was standard practice at the time while also basically calling Twain a bigot because of his southern American-based view of Catholicism, which was also standard practice at the time.

You and the author both act both bigoted and ignorant towards Twain and call him childish in response to perceived bigotry. Twain was also not an atheist, he was a deist who attended church regularly. Someone can be of a religion and also criticize religion, it doesn't mean they're an atheist because as we all know, religions aren't perfect. But at least to the author's credit, he took a bit higher road than you and didn't go as far as calling Twain "childish".

Oh, but on the contrary. Money buys better lawyers, more time and more research capabilities so in essence you can reliably say, at least in the good ol' USA, that money can buy immunity. The same can be said in many other countries where the corruption of buying justice is more direct.

It becomes the government's and everyone else's business because who's going to look after you if you get disabled and can't work? You'll then have to proceed to beg, steal or live on government benefits and then you become everyone else's problem. As long as we live in a society we are our brother's keeper whether we like it or not. The only escape is to move away from society so you have no interaction with it so then you can't complain about society interacting with you. Which in today's world is impossible as society will still at least affect your natural environment, unfortunately.

The ones with the power to decide or power to yield that power to another, as what already happens anywhere you go. You can't murder someone for slighting you, that would be intolerant in US law. Don't like it, yield power to change the law.

Why tax anything then? The big guys will always have the resources to hire the best accountants to get the biggest discounts.

>Just saying that it’s not terrifying

If you think China's social credit system isn't terrifying, then I guess I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't find this terrifying.