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derp_dee_derp··on Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
the person you responded too didn't mention anything about twitter and you seem to be chasing straw men.
derp_dee_derp··on Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
Wait, Am I banned or the other person? I'm confused by the wording and context. You replied to me, but warned them in another comment.

Also I don't think I've ever been warned before.

derp_dee_derp··on Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
pointing out hypocrisy is not a false equivalency, but nice try.

also, you calling a foundational work in propaganda theory a meme book isnt exactly a sound counter argument, either. Here, educate yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

derp_dee_derp··on Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
funny how you didn't call out the OP and ask them for "some additional arguments backing" up their claim that the Iranian TV show was propaganda, but here you do when its American politicians.

Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

as for context, a good book on the subject is "manufacturing consent" by Noam Chomsky. In it he details how american media of all forms is used as a propaganda vehicle in order to shape and create the american public's politics.

The TV shows linked are just applications of that strategy.

derp_dee_derp··on Trapped in Iran: My Summer as a Guest of the Revolutionary Guards
very clever propaganda indeed.

our politicians do the same thing.

Madam Secretary [0] was propaganda for Hillary Clinton

Diary of a Future President [1] is propaganda for Michelle Obama

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_Secretary_(TV_series) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Future_President

derp_dee_derp··on The Internet of Beefs
and you're assuming it was legal, based on... what? Why assume the best rather than the more realistic assumption?
derp_dee_derp··on Every Google result now looks like an ad
maybe tech companies, but not any company.

coca-cola is still going strong. so is BNSF railway. so is McDonalds.

i mean, i could go on here with more counter examples if you want?

derp_dee_derp··on The Internet of Beefs
There is nothing on their post that implies age or student status, unless you think staying with your parents is something that only college students do and is not possible after graduation.
derp_dee_derp··on Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
That's not a problem with escalators, that's a problem with your liability laws and regulations.
derp_dee_derp··on U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
it is entirely possible that you have been radicalized from a normal moderate folk to a "crazy libtard" by watching whatever channels you watch, and, i suspect, this is a broadly true statement amongst a very large swatch of the millenial generation.

(note: using "crazy libtard" here not as a personal insult, but because it is the right's version of "crazy consipiracy people").

anyways, take the speck out of your own eye before complaining about the beams in your parents eyes.

derp_dee_derp··on U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years
lets parse this out:

"U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years"

becomes

<economic statistic that is rarely cited and no one has cared about before> post biggest drop in more than <arbitrary time frame>"

becomes

<economic statistic taht is rarely cited and no one has cared about before> post <scary descriptor> in more than <arbitrary time frame>"

becomes

"<holy shit live in fear the sky is falling and you should panic>"

derp_dee_derp··on Please make your products work with URLs
As much as HN wants to whine about it, the truth is that Javascript is a primitive, basic, use case of the internet.
derp_dee_derp··on Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: poll
this is a classic case of tyranny of the majority.

Majority of Americans favor stealing wealth from others.

derp_dee_derp··on Judge orders Google to turn over a full year of actor’s data
warrants' purpose is not to protect privacy, their purpose is to make it difficult for governments to target citizens they don't like.

Or, more generally, warrants are not a positive attribute of an individual, instead they are a negative inhibitor of governments.

derp_dee_derp··on A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (2010)
The concepts behind this essay have helped my career more than any other besides the gervaise theory.

No one cares or gives a shit about how good you are if they can't understand it.

derp_dee_derp··on Show HN: MassCode – a code snippets manager for developers
There was nothing unfriendly about the original phrasing.
derp_dee_derp··on Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’?
Yes, we've removed most evolutionary pressures so we are kinda just drifting aimlessly.
derp_dee_derp··on Google Donated To A Senator Who Voted Against Gay Conversion Therapy Ban
Who cares? Google and every other large corporation donate to all the candidates covering the entire spectrum of politics.

It's a hedge bet strategy focused in risk management: the hope is to have influence over whoever so happens to be politically popular at any given time.

derp_dee_derp··on [dead]
he signed an NDA and this whole article seems like muckracking and mud slinging to make Buttigieg look bad.

par for the course for Huffpost so its no surprise this article even got written

derp_dee_derp··on Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
YouTube was pre alphabet, was a purchased acquisition under the Google umbrella, and didn't "come out of non-google alphabet"
derp_dee_derp··on Charles Schwab to give up SF headquarters in TD Ameritrade deal
Yeah I'd move too considering the difference in tax rates at every level when comparing Texas to California.
derp_dee_derp··on Why is everyone a bank?
Can you explain why you think Robinhood is unrelated to finance and is jumping into it just because it's easy to?
derp_dee_derp··on Traffic Vis: Traffic Theory Explained Visually
there doesn't seem to be anything on this page to explain traffic theory verbally or written, and without that the visual aspect is useless.

unless maybe the full page isn't loading for me?

I'm on latest version of chrome on a mac

derp_dee_derp··on As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots
If enough people lose their jobs at once, they may organize, turn violent, and overthrow the government.

You may think im being hyperbolic, but this is a very real situation if the longshoremen, truck drivers, and loaders all lose their jobs to automation with a few years of each other. This is especially true in LA as those jobs make up a significant percentage of employment in that area.

derp_dee_derp··on In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas
good points all around and I agree. lets get rid of all the technology we've developed as a species over the last few thousand years because its obvious that it has all been a big step backwards and life was better in the stone age.
derp_dee_derp··on Google are removing URLs entirely from search results?
It's not fair to say that at all.

DDG has better results than Google for most has cases, and Bing has better results for just under half of use cases.

derp_dee_derp··on The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
Do you ride a horse to get to work, too?
derp_dee_derp··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
> This will definitely affect whether I choose Github or Microsoft in the future.

I see you've linked your Github in your profile. Why not put your money where your mouth is and delete your Github account now?

derp_dee_derp··on Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud
Shhh! The church of climate change has found a witch and is conducting an inquisition here! Who needs the law when a company is literally causing climate armegeddon?!?!?!??
derp_dee_derp··on Women Under the Spell
Feminism
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