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'The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10662666

“MGM rushed through response owing to incompetent staff, had multiple system vulnerabilities, and did not care about customer safety, alleged ransomware group ALPHV who also blamed VX underground for spreading misinformation.”

Zadie Smith Makes 1860s London Feel Alive, and Recognizable https://justpaste.it/5sz5k

Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism.

Populism, that's code for the voters think the politicians work in their interests. I wager that if you mentioned any subject under the sun Mahajan would connect it with "Trumpism".

> Thanks, GPT.

Haar!

@DonHopkinsSee: "See my other posts about McNealy wanting to be as Evil as Bill Gates and Microsoft"

Do please enlighten us out of your own extensive experience.

> One of the more popular Schizophrenia drugs also cause diabetes :(

Not to mention, weight gain leading to type two diabetes, thyroid problems leading to fluid retention in the legs and memory loss. Not much of a cure :(

My Schizophrenic friend tells me the difference between schizophrenics and normal people is that normal people can hear their own thoughts whilst schizophrenics can hear other peoples.

Serious point, maybe schizophrenic symptoms are cause by a disruption in REM sleep. As in the suffers are experiencing a waking dream. Some time back they did an experiement on students and kept them awake for days-and-nights on end. Eventually they couldn't tell the difference between the dreaming and the real world.

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So, your Facebook posts are neither anonymous or private.

“Why no Roman industrial revolution?”

The entire economy seem to have been based on invading somewhere, taking all the goods and people into slavery.

Is there a metric for how fast your new account gets banned from: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Reddit, Threads and Twitter. I'm asking for a friend /s

“Marc Andreessen is an entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is co-creator of the world's first widely used internet browser, Mosaic, and cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz”

“Security personnel keep watch outside Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021.”

and who spent all of FOUR hours at the lab examining Chinese provided records.

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‘No one claimed Wikipedia was "woke" until around 2016, when a certain American presidential candidate adopted a strategy of saying whatever the people wanted to hear with absolutely no regard to fact whatsoever (even when it directly contradicted his prior statements!).’

I assume you mean the SlenderTrumpMan. Trump is a symptom of everything rotten in the state of Washington.

“Bloomberg writer Noah Berlatsky, who recently penned an article attacking Sound of Freedom and moviegoers attending the film, was quickly exposed as a pro-pedophilia activist.”

“On Bullshit” Harry G. Frankfurt

https://archive.is/5igKo

> Western agression (if you want to put it like that) does not justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nor would it reduce the threat Russia poses. Surely it would increase it!

How many times has Russia invaded western Europe? How many times has Europe launched an invasion of Russia (3).

“in light of potential Russian aggression in Europe”

Who was it pushed NATO right up against Russia's border. Despite repeated statements from the Russians that there would be push-back. --

coob > “NATO have always been on Russia’s border.” (deleted)

On the Soviet Unions border. When the Soviets relinquished control of the client states to the west, they were given an understanding that NATO would not expand east.

(and modded down)

“The European Media Freedom Act, primarily designed to safeguard the EU media market, can also serve as an important tool in preserving the rule of law in member states such as Hungary and Poland, that have experienced an alarming assault on media freedom and pluralism in the past decade.”

“QAnon and ‘Sound of Freedom’ Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes”

“Sex trafficking movies routinely skip over some very important questions, which gives the conspiratorial right room to run wild.”

Was this "financial instrument" designed by the same people that designed credit default swaps. All it does is kick the risk down the road not even mitigate it, just disguises the fact that it isn't "risk-free lending".

"It is useful for risk-free lending, as the swapped amounts are used as collateral for repayment"

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/derivatives/...

What exactly did Penrose say. Seems to me the New Ageists over at New Scientist are about promoting quantum wooism in the vein of Deepak Chopra.