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Hmm, I wouldn't trust that account. Promised to double my bitcoins a few weeks back, still hasn't come through... Where to report?

Quite frankly, the entire world can learn from China on how to protect its own economy from bullies. I'd hate to live in a world where the Microsofts buys all the Skypes and ruins all sorts of innovations you all claim comes from this freedom. You shareholders only have $ in your eyes, this means shit to the young people looking towards their future. I don't mind you all protecting your interests, you're human.. but it definitely adds too much taint to your 'genuine' perspectives.

Sigh, very hypocritical but I guess we can't let a non-american company siphon our data. I wouldn't mind if we didn't keep yelling 'freedom' and 'free market' every week into the social abyss. But but China does it too you say? They never claimed theirs is a free market did they? Definitely solidifying for me, banning social media apps LMAO! Their minds are only for our feed no? Good proof that we are easily manipulated by feeds. Why not educate for better content consumption? Oh because then we will lose our own influence. So lets remain dumb and stare at screens only approved by our great western lords. Pathetic IC, pathetic.

Empires fall. Always. Good riddance. Either fall or transition into a normal state. Quit wasting time imperializing.

I like to take that to the extreme and say -- how many hospital beds would be empty and pill shelves full if these drugs weren't around? How many dentists would be out of the biz if they didn't shove glue-like candy in our childrens teeth? Then I see that I'm being silly and take another swig.

I agree, just to add in my own words -- it gives you a fresh perspective, as if your staring at the world from the eyes of a tree. But is it really that important for those in power to maintain a certain narrative/perception? These sentences sound too rough..

Seems like the pot is calling the kettle black and waiting to blast it for its retaliation. I wonder which way we will spin it. Fun times, this was probably going to happen earlier if not for covid. What really kicked this off? Was it when they stopped accepting the world's garbage? Cant recall if we were poking them this hard before that..

Since it is still working to great effect, it looks like we will never have internal enemies within our government(which makes sense you don't want to look divided/weak). It will always be The Russians or the Chinese of the day. All too convenient, I hope someone on the inside can gather resistence but it feels like the machine is well oiled and programmed. We can only hope/work towards better education in content consumption.

I didn't want to imply we automatically trust it more, but just skimming through a thread I realize that thats what usually happens. It is likely because I don't consume content in such a way (I am guilty of just reading the headline sometime and jumping to personal conclusions) but to even go through a normal thread it will feel very tiring to go and validate all claims.

It sounds very lazy of me but I usually just don't trust the web in general. I don't really have anything valuable on my computer but I still get scared some site will serve me malware. So now to get through a normal discussion we will have linked sources and discussions about the sources (with more required sources ofc). When do we get to the meat of the content? I realize HNers are more capable in digging through sources, but I'd like to think the rest of the users are more lazy-scared like me, so I am going off of that experience.

And ofcourse wild claims without any sources will always be ringing bells for me, I just want to hear the same amount of bells with the sourced claims as well.

I would've agreed with this a bit more if we hadn't started banning content we don't like from the internet. Here I am without a link, but chasing away groups we don't agree with to the dark side of the web makes it very convenient for the current political saints to shape our views. I take any claim with URIs or without, try to think about who gains from such perspectives, weigh it with past experiences. I'd hate to just see a URI and go "OK, I am convinced ty" and automatically pick up the pitchforks against those without. I doubt even newspapers did this. It sounds like a good idea but only on an open internet and not what we have today.

From what I have heard, Musk bought the electric car company and not built it with his bare hands in his garage in college. But to your point, everyone is on the spectrum sure.

alright, so who pays when the lawsuit goes through? Taxes? How do we get it from the guilty department's budget?

I would just like to add, on American soil.

I recently had a finch(i think) nest underneath my window AC unit and one of the parents caught a cold for about one week. I heard more calls from that specific bird throughout the time, it was much squeakier while making what sounded like normal calls. It made me think that they relay info on frequencies that our ears dont tune into. Just a hypothesis, but was interesting to hear more inbetween sounds that the other birds didn't make. Could also just be a sort of mask for birds, a call that says 'hey Im sick stay away.' Although I think it'd be obvious for them from the change of voice. Overall it was interesting to listen to them communicate with their young ones. The nest is constantly chirping unless they get warning calls then it gets super quiet until their folks let them know danger has passed. It was unfortunate when I had to replace the unit, at least I waited for the young ones to start flying. My new unit is half the size and they disliked the new roof I tried building to mimic the size of the old one. I wish them luck. Tough little fellars.