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check89on Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas

> there is no political meddling in the school syllabus

> standards are set nationally by the Education Dept

check89on Tax prep companies: $90M lobbying against free tax-filing

> easier tax filing

> everyone confronted annually with how much taxes they pay

The latter doesn’t contradict the former.

check89on Why Socialism? (1949)

He praised Hugo Chávez, was a Cambodian genocide denialist, dismissed the eyewitness testimony of its refugees as "distortions", and praised Mao's moronic policies shortly after they caused the deadliest famine in human history.

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2003/5/the-hypocrisy-of-noam...

> With a bit of squinting this just reads as something “a corporation would say”

This reads as something a commie would say.

check89on X/Twitter has updated its terms of service to let it use posts for AI training

> the pro-Elon crowd shrink and get quieter

Source?

> he really has been screwing up bad, and in ways that are indefensible by anyone with common sense.

Examples?

check89on Analysis: Health care CEOs hauled in $4B last year as inflation pinched workers

Robert Reich is a far-left hack who claimed that "a libertarian vision of an uncontrolled internet [is] the dream of every dictator, strongman and demagogue".

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20220412104542/https://www.thegua...

check89on Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole

For what?

check89on Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole

> The alt-right stuff is usually a reupload by some tiny account so it seems like there's a concerted effort to keep putting it in the feeds.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory.

On the other hand, I do see a lot of left-wing garbage, and YouTube leadership is known to lean in that direction.

check89on Very, Very, Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole

> Personally I think the truth is somewhere between MaoistRebelNews and Contrapoints

LMAO

check89on AI Crap

What do you mean?

check89on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is

> Some of the people Kiwifarms harassed were driven to suicide.

Who?

check89on Baghdad closes LED advert screens after hacker shows porn film on a screen

> It's ok to show porn to kids, and if you don't want to, you're a bad person.

This is the state of leftism in 2023.

check89on Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store

Your comments suggest you do.

You describe people who reject your radical woke leftist beliefs (let's not beat around the bush here) as "intellectually and emotionally adolescent" and lacking "basic human decency". Pot calling the kettle black.

check89on Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

As expected, you (and the GP) don't have any answers. You're just bloviating because you're leftists.

check89on Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

> Roe being the exception.

What do you mean?

check89on Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store

Don't worry. You can find your far-left echochamber on the fediverse.

check89on Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

> The current USSC is very politicized

How so?

> departs strongly with jurisprudence as it has been understood for decades

How so?

> they want to legislate from the bench

How so?

check89on Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

> the Supreme Court is a fascist institution

> that will always side with the police

Both claims are false.

check89on Kansas Bureau of Investigation takes lead following police raid of newspaper

> With the current US Court System, I expect this will be allowed if this raid ever gets to the Supreme Court.

What do you mean?

check89on Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

> I'm objective

No, you're not. You're a denialist and Communist apologist.

check89on Lynn Conway's Story (2000)

You're deranged.

check89on How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

> Well that shows how un-serious your arguments are. We were discussing facts and evidence, not fairy tales and woo-woo and talking magic ghosts. If you're not a fact based person living in reality, you will believe whatever you want no matter the evidence, so your arguments are pointless.

Very applicable to your own posts.

check89on Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

I'm not ignoring history. You are. (Because you're a Communist.)

Communist policies caused the Great Chinese Famine. And many other man-made famines.

check89on How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

Pot calling the kettle black. Your comment proves you didn't read it. (You even admit as much, but felt obliged to post your tripe anyway!)

check89on How Thomas Edison Tricked the Press into Believing He’d Invented the Light Bulb

Making yourself look unhinged is not helping your case.

check89on Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

No "blockade" caused the Great Chinese Famine, except that carried out by the Communist government itself (starving the people of the country to death).

check89on Plunder and Urbit

> especially one that was a sort of Maxwell’s minimally defined set of functions that represent computing forever and ever in the most reducible form.

Can you elaborate?

check89on Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos

Incorrect, the historical record of Communism leading to famines is very clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1931%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%931985_famine_in_Et...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine