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admiralspoo··on Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
Why does it have to be toxins? What about diet?
admiralspoo··on Trump Impeached for Second Time
Reminder: Democrats lost house seats even with the huge surge in covid mail-in voting.

With this action by Pelosi, I guarantee Trump will hold office again after the next presidential election.

admiralspoo··on Apple launches new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative projects
It doesn't matter if it's illegal, there won't be any consequences from the incoming regime.
admiralspoo··on Joint Chiefs remind U.S. forces that they defend the constitution
Someone remind Pelosi https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-coup-of-pelosis-own-116101487...
admiralspoo··on Extremists move to secret online channels to plan for Inauguration Day in D.C
The incoming regime will push for it, no doubt.
admiralspoo··on How America Bankrupted its Cities [video]
That seems to go against the core thesis of the video.
admiralspoo··on Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'
"All he has to do is say there are five lights"
admiralspoo··on We need a new media system
Axios is not any better than other sources such as CNN, NYT, etc. The main problem is that news is cheap and free in the digital era -- so what is left to sell is opinions, conjecture and analysis. Axios is no different in this regard than other organizations.
admiralspoo··on Ron Paul blocked from posting on Facebook
Google and Facebook already have documented ability to rig elections, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_manipulation_eff...

Politicians, including the incoming regime, are at their mercy and ought to be careful not to step on any toes.

admiralspoo··on Stripe bans Trump campaign
The QAnon folks are no less irrational than any other (pseudo-)religious devotees and should be afforded the same protections under the first amendment.
admiralspoo··on Wikipedia is 20
Its reputation is severely declining, especially on topics relating to current events, figures, or politics.

It, however, remains excellent for technical knowledge.

admiralspoo··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
It likely doesn't stop with Parler. Fox News, OANN and Newsmax also have targets on their backs placed by the incoming regime.
admiralspoo··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
There are already calls in congress for similar measures against OANN, Newsmax and Fox News and also calls for action by lower-level providers such as AWS.

It doesn't take much thought to see the US is going for the next few years.

admiralspoo··on EFF's Response to Social Media Decisions to Block President Trump’s Accounts
Well, I won't be donating to the EFF again.
admiralspoo··on Platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
The fact the echo chambers are algorithmically determined or not is quite irrelevant -- the end result is the same -- cults. The historic precedent for minimizing bad influences of cults is decentralization and distribution so as to prevent systemic failure cascades in case where cultish behavior is endemic. This is federalism and anti-monopoly policies (for either government and private enterprise).

The solution, therefore, is that these centralized echo chambers need to be broken up into smaller pieces.

admiralspoo··on FBI, Homeland Security Int. Didn’t Issue Risk Assessment for ProTrump Protests
The DC mayor didn't want any federal assistance https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/dc-mayor-told-federal-l...
admiralspoo··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir

Funny, that account isn't banned.

admiralspoo··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
Note that accounts such as Iran's Kamenei or those associated with groups in Pakistan, which have called for the destruction of Israel, are not banned

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir

admiralspoo··on The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
Twitter seems to want to ingratiate itself with the incoming administration and government.

Shortsighted.

admiralspoo··on Twitter appears to have removed the president's last two tweets
It's clear that the logical endgame to this is the left and right will have their own platforms. Bad move by Twitter.
admiralspoo··on Haven, Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding
Covid is already disrupting health care in ways they perhaps envisioned, so perhaps the project's plans became redundant.
admiralspoo··on Harvard professor has claimed in new book that alien debris passed near Earth
Avi Loeb is notorious and generally not considered serious. He wants to sell books.
admiralspoo··on CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]
A lot of techy Germans are like this for some reason.
admiralspoo··on [dead]
Correlation != correlation. Globalization has been a force for 50 years in all of the countries they studied, and inequality has worsened even in communistic countries like China.
admiralspoo··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. The M1 is ahead by 2-3x in performance per watt and highly competitive in performance/dollar. This result is indeed quite meaningless as Apple will have 16 high-performance core variants of the M1 soon.
admiralspoo··on New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
There also ought to be an economic incentive, for example refunds to paying readers.
admiralspoo··on Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular (2016)
Somehow I doubt the NYT includes or mentions gender assignment surgery in this article.
admiralspoo··on New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
Does it matter? The NYT is not as relevant as it was in the near past, nevermind a generation or two ago.

And the NYT has no standard for peer review, and in the digital age routinely edits its works after publication without any discernible changelog. See the 1619 scandal.

admiralspoo··on California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
False. If demographic trends (how Texas hispanics shifted to the GOP from 2016) are extrapolated, Texas is actually trending towards the GOP.
admiralspoo··on California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year in the state
False. If demographic trends (how Texas hispanics shifted to the GOP from 2016) are extrapolated, Texas is actually trending towards the GOP.
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