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The Dancing Monkey left the company, after that Microsoft got better.

> Finland has mandatory military service for males.

How is that kind of institutionalized sexism still legal?

Sure, that would make an inspiring Hollywood movie.

But in real world terms, it just sounds like a large number of Uber drivers.

Step 1: be a millionaire.

Same here, people working across the border get special permits. But they do need permits if they want to cross.

Closing border refers to closing it for regular people.

It was in the newspapers in February and first half of March.

The "big switch" was 14to 15 of March. The MSN here ran a fake story about Trump wanting to buy some German pharma company (all large newspapers retracted the story around March 17), but it was enough to get people sufficiently distracted to completely change their previous policy.

It was pretty interesting to watch how it was orchestered.

That would be really bad. I used Ubuntu for the past 15 years or so, but that would make me switch to a different distro.

So shortly after the Mir fiasco, why does Canonical feel it necessary to come up with the next dumb idea?

Here in Germany, the government called Corona "a trick by the political right" to "achieve border closing". We only closed borders way after every country around us did. Because ideology is more important than human lives, apparently.

The NSA spying on everybody was pretty crackpotty. Until Snowden, and suddenly it wasn't.

> Current WHO advice: "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19."

That's really dangerous advice. Because most people with COVID19 don't even know they have it.

Remember when the WHO didn't want to recognize it as a pandemic for weeks and weeks, and the entire world was wondering why?

Weird choice to select the WHO to be the only source of truth in this one.

That's really bad.

In my country (Germany), the government changed position so many times. What was yesterday "a hoax", became official government position few days later, etc

Treating WHO positions as "the only truth that may be publicly discussed", seems rather authoritarian and dangerous.

So the "old people" are the bad guys for you, hmm.

Then again, it's mostly "old people" who are discriminated against when it comes to hiring.

Why not judge people by the result of their work, instead of their age?

There has been no recent US president who didn't try to silence whistle blowers.

Therefore: no, it doesn't. It's something people in power will always attempt. That's why "checks and balances" are so important (and I don't know any country where they are so well implemented as in the US).

So what was "misleading" about it? Compared to Spain or Italy, the limitations were fewer. And of those, many have now been lifted.

Not sure why you felt the need to call it "misleading".

Discussing a topic controversially is just that, a discussion.

When the Chinese government "attacks" somebody, that person disappears and often dies.

Just wanting to remind people of the difference.

Could you tell me what "data cherry picking" I did?

And yet shops up to 800sqm are open again and the shopping street in in front of me apartment (in a larger German city) is crowded.

And no, we didn't contain the outbreak. But we have 20,000 ICU beds. Unlike France, Italy or Spain, who only have about 5000 each.

While in those countries, people could not be treated for lack of capacity, here in Germany we still have about 50% free ICU beds (as of two days ago, according to the health ministry).

That's why we have low mortality, while still having a pretty large number of infected people.

Who fact checks the fact checkers?

Isn't that what the market economy is based on. Making money off of information asymmetry?

Honestly, it mainly sounds like you are pretty quick to judging others without actually knowing what they are doing.

So much for "doing things that damage society".

Always remember that "the NSA is spying on everybody" was "conspiracy stuff" too. Right until it wasn't.

And regarding Corona: Sweden never introduced a quarantine, and they seem to be in good shape compared to others. Not saying I agree with that policy, because I don't. But the topic isn't as "black and white" as it appears.

Here in Germany, as of today, many of the already few restrictions where lifted as well.

That's great for the cats. But it looks a bit over engineered. Nailing a curved piece of wood to the wall would also do the trick. Cats are very good at climbing trees.

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Isn't their strategy basically the same that Johnson was doing in the UK initially?

Wasn't there an investigation that found no evidence on that?

From the site's text:

> and plenty of Americans and Russian's willing to use whatever means necessary to ensure Trump gets re-elected

That is not what the Russian attacks are about.

In fact, the maker of the site seems to have fallen for the attacks himself.

The attacks are about dividing society. Radicalizing people towards the left and right. The "Trump haters" are just the same as the "Trump fanatics".

The author, by implying that the "bad guys" are just one site, is playing into the hands of the Russian trolls. Its exactly what the attacks are trying to achieve.

...just to then realize that the computer was still logged in and the focus was on a chat window, and it was only the screen that had been in power saving mode. :-}

What's hard about it? I cancel my prime membership every other month (always switching between Netflix and Amazon). Click cancel, five times okay, and done.