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>youtube can do what they want on their website.

This isn't a sophomoric forum like reddit. This is meant to be a place where adults discuss. Adults can see that there are democratic implications of the scenario you're describing worthy of discussion. 'Another platform' may take years to develop, and nothing stops Youtube or another hostile player from simply buying it out and kneecapping it, and how many elections are influenced while that takes place?

Please don't just repeat talking points, it adds nothing to the conversation.

If they're not dying from COVID then why are they dying in such excessive numbers? Because whether you believe it's COVID or not, you're stacking up ~1500 more bodies per day than you were three years ago. What's the cause?

It's common these days for the headline - and sometimes first paragraph - of an article to be utterly contradicted by the body of the article.

CNN does it constantly. The headline and first para is editorial, the remainder is reportage. Totally untrustworthy.

And the media, who echo the statements of those blue checkmarks as though they were the authoritative words of god himself.

Yes, that too. The printing has to catch up with them eventually.

>vaccines are required for everyone as a child (in the US)

Do continue please

Precisely. Knowing, from experience, what a good school should 'look like' (in terms of what to expect from the teachers and staff) - in order to determine that your kid isn't in one - is privilege.

Not everyone survives. That's life. You can't expect society to shut down to protect the tiny percentage of people who can't be vaccinated or are immunocompromised. That's never been an expectation of society before so why would it be one now?

>I refuse to get infected

Avoiding COVID just isn't possible unless you're prepared to curtail social interactions to the point at which you're barely living. I leave my apartment about once a week (yay depression) yet I still got Omicron. You're deluding yourself if you think it's avoidable.

>Crypto is fairly easy to avoid as an individual

It's probably contributing more to inflation than people believe. Both in the demand for resources and in terms of redistribution of wealth. Although probably not as much as the new work-from-home paradigm.

>It braked and slowed like any other car.

Imagine you're following - at a safe distance - a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle you're following doesn't notice that the car ahead of them is emergency braking. They notice at the last second and swerve around it to avoid a collision.

You are then face to face with a nearly-stationary object which was concealed from you by the vehicle ahead of you.

From your perspective, it fell from the sky. If you don't swerve, a collision is unavoidable.

>Safe following distance isn't predicated on defying physics, it means assume the car in front might stop dead for any reason

No, it's based on assuming the car in front might brake at standard non-physics-defying rates at any time. The 'safe' following distances that are advised don't allow for encountering stationary objects. That's why they're called following distances, as in, you're following another vehicle that obeys the laws of physics.

>anyone can act on a belief they hold

Knowing how to act in a productive and effective manner is privilege.

>Having a strong defense deters this kind of thing.

Yes, and it appears to be working. Russia is invading Ukraine, not Poland.

>access to the knowledge

Having 'access to knowledge' is one thing. Believing that knowledge - say, from personal experience of it applying to people you know - is privilege.

>plenty of statistics

I think you know very well that you're being asked to cite them, not merely say they exist.

>Parents who are interested in boosting their children scholastically are not necessarily privelidged.

Believing in the value of education and pushing your children to achieve educationally is an inherent demonstration of the possession of privilege.

>rationing is more efficient tham subsidizing

You can't ration energy in a democracy while simultaneously being staunchly opposed to the development of new energy generation infrastructure. No electorate will tolerate that.

It is as pure an example of 'you're not doing your job' as I can imagine. One of the core roles of government is to guarantee food and energy security for its populace.

You're talking about flipping the polarity, going occasionally from conductor-positive to conductor-negative (the shield must remain at ground potential.)

If I remember correctly that actually makes things much worse if you've operated at one potential for a considerable amount of time.

You could operate the cable at AC ~ 0.1Hz but your ability to actually transmit MWH would suck.

But what's happening in the Ukranian theatre validates all of that. The Russian military is being revealed as a paper tiger. It makes no sense to invest heavily in defence when your enemy doesn't have any real forces they can deploy.

Unless you choose to believe that the Russian military, for some reason, is throwing green units and third-tier armor into the field - and holding back battalion after battalion of elite troops equipped with elitely-maintaine vehicles - it seems very hard to criticise European levels of defence spending given the reality of the enemy forces it appears to face.

>What could have changed it is if the Dutch, the Belgians and most of all the Germans had acted like adults in the world. Instead they have been dancing on the edge of a disaster.

Vague and weird words that could mean almost anything.

Speak plainly.

Having read your quoted text and your link and found them to be spurious and random it seems necessary to restate the question that was posed by the person to whom you replied:

Any supporting links to these claims?

>The best defense is to not absorb the data to begin with.

The despair that can result from this is almost unimaginable though. When you separate yourself from the propaganda infrastructure then try to have conversations with people and at the slightest prompting they start vomiting talking points and a viewpoint that's purely based on propaganda... oh god, it's unbearable. And you can't call them stupid because they're not stupid they're just... outmatched by a professional force.

The issue with DC transmission in subsea cables is that the XLPE insulation can become polarized and - from what I remember - have water drawn into it due to the consistency of the field.

>If someone is going to work harder for something they simply deserve it

What if they only know to work harder for something because of their privilege? Plenty of groups, due to lack of privilege, simply don't believe - because it hasn't applied to their cultures in the past - that hard work yields rewards.

Imagine a slave. What incentive does a slave have to work harder? Why would a person from a culture that's backgrounded in slavery believe in hard work?

>I was speaking hypothetically.

There are well established grammatical constructions that indicate hypothetical speaking and you didn't use any of them.

When someone links an article in support of their argument you're not meant to read it, silly goose.

>This ruling can't be allowed to stand.

Sounds like a great ruling from a security and user perspective. Just changes a design paradigm. If it kills a business model that's based on intrusive user-tracking and the user being totally unable to know who has their data and who their computer should vs shouldn't be connecting to - great.

Trying to figure out from traffic analysis alone these days whether a website is malicious or not is an absolute nightmare as every single site pulls in 20 or 30 externally-hosted resources for totally impenetrable purposes.

Let's migrate to an easily understandable model where sites host 100% of their own resources. If that means the site engine has to run CI behind the scenes and pull in those resources, great, it centralises responsibility.

> As we can see, most Russian armor movement happens on roads

That's why they're being annihilated. Moving your forces on roads is something you do after you've secured an area, not before.

>what do you expect is the solution

Arm them and bus them to the frontlines, pour encourager les autres?