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I don't disagree, but I have two issues when people bring up Fox and news radio.

Fox is a single entity, and let's be fair in terms of conservative/Republican vs liberal/Democrat, the split between media outlets is like 80/20 in favor of the latter. So when people focus on Fox they're ignoring 80% of the lies and half-truths that are put out there. Because that's done by outlets like MSNBC and CNN and your local outlets.

The second issue is that, unlike many liberal outlets, Fox at least brings on actual liberals to push back or give differing opinions. On the other hand you have companies like the BBC who are literally banning opposing views on topics like the environment and coronavirus.

You mean the social media sites that made every effort to suppress stories that reflected poorly on Democrats during the last election (and before)?

Anyone who trusts Big Tech, social media, or Late Night talk shows to give them factual information deserves to have their voting status revoked.

I'm joking, but I'm kinda not.

Yeah, I do the same. Although my 1070 is very long in the tooth thanks to the last couple of years of GPU madness. And now that prices have come down significantly, it's not really a good time financially for me to buy a new GPU.

Murphy's law...

For someone with large hands like myself, it can be a pain sometimes to deal with the space issues and angles. And those tiny screws.

Instead of cleaning out "some" apps, I would have suggested a complete wipe and clean install of his OS (after backing up, of course).

Better yet, an SSD is always a great speed upgrade (I'm assuming he has a mechanical HD), as well as adding/upgrading RAM. They can really breathe life back into old computers.

It's so strange that this was posted today (for me at least). Yesterday we had the FDNY break in to the house because there was a fire in a garage somewhat connected to the house. I heard some people banging around in the hallway and went out of the apartment to fin at least 3 firefighters. They had broken the lock on the gate and bent part of the metal, they broke the main wooden door, and they knocked down a part of the brick wall that separates our yard from the neighbor's yard. They also went into the cellar and tracked hella mud through the house.

Anyway, insurance will pay for the damage so whatever.

Let's face it, the only reason that 'fake news' exists in its current form is because the corporate media has done such a piss-poor job of holding to journalistic ethics, which has been declining steadily for decades. If people actually had an alternative that they thought they could trust, there would not be a market for 'fake news' (which sometimes turns out to just be the whole, unbiased facts presented in opposition to the agenda-driven and manipulated 'news' of the legacy media).

Businesses are supposed to be separate entities from the individuals who own them. I don't understand why people think businesses need to be political. If that's the case then just start your own Political Action Committee.

I had been looking at an electronic soldering iron they had produced. Not sure how I feel now.

I literally just watched a video on the Pine64 Pro and the reviewer basically said he couldn't recommend it.

I stopped using Google News once I realized they literally won't even let you add certain sites to your feed for no other reason than politics.

So I now use Inoreader to curate my own news feed from RSS feeds as well as many sites that don't have a feed. Instead of spending time blocking or deleting "approved" news sources that are the definition of fake news these days, I just add any sites that I come across that I feel are useful for information gathering.

For road trips, I always go to the classics. Lord of the Rings. Either the Rob Inglis audiobook or the BBC Radio adaptation.

If I get to The Ride of the Rohirrim, I know I've driven too far.

""Nazi" is not a slur, and it should not be used for anyone who does not advocate those ideas. But it should be used for those who do.

And for those: no peace, no sympathy, no quarter, and no mercy."

Yeah...I don't think we read the same article.

"intolerant of the intolerant"

I don't like that phrase. Because it's extremely vague and implies that things other than physical violence could be a focus of suppression. Intolerant opinions and speech are not and should not be policed in any meaningful way. The free and open exchange of ideas is crucial to a free society. Even those that are "intolerant" or offensive.

And, after seeing what happened over the last couple of years, I wonder how far people these days would take "intolerance of the intolerant"? Can a person who is known to be "intolerant" be banned from a grocery store for no other reason than their opinions? Can they be banned from all grocery stores? Should they be? Should they be fired from their jobs? Should they be harassed whenever they leave their house?

There are way too many ways to abuse the notion that you should be "intolerant of the intolerant".

Perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying. It sounded like you were saying that the general public should be violent towards people who are "intolerant" as a way to promote tolerance.

But now I see that that could not possibly have been what you meant because this isn't Twitter and people on this forum aren't that dumb.

I don't understand what you mean by "being selectively violent".

Who decides when it's time to be "selectively violent" and who gets to apply this "selective violence"?

Because I'm sure this same principle of "selective violence" could be easily used (and would gladly be used) as justification by the folks who think they're "fighting fascism" and the like.

> "Intolerating intolerance, violently if we must is the only way for tolerance to exist."

No, That literally is the antithesis of tolerance.

Also, IF (and that's a big if) some things are to be proscribed, they must be proscribed BY THE LAW and with DUE PROCESS, not "violently" as you claim.

I have no issue with bringing attention to police violence against any citizen. The problem is that not every instance of police violence or killing is unjustified, which is the way it is portrayed by BLM and the media. In fact, most of them are justified based on the circumstances.

Nor does it make sense to call your organization or movement "black lives matter" when you literally ignore the everyday violence in black communities that kills 99% of black people.

> "For one, it has been well established that the "racial" group that is overrepresented in violence against Asians is not "white" people."

Its a typical tactic of the media and the globalist. Find a problem, but instead of dealing with the real cause, find some way to turn it towards attacking the desired group.

They did it with "black lives matter" except its summertime and every weekend for a decade you could find black people being murdered in record numbers in places like Chicago and Baltimore by other black people without so much as a peep from them. For some reason the 1% of deaths outweigh the 99% because the race of the shooter is ultimately what matters, not the fact that black people are dying.

Is that supposed to mean something?

These days, anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders is labeled a "fascist" by the leftists.

Yeah, I've never felt the way about Tom Bombadil that the author implies. I find his character fascinating. But I also understand why Jackson didn't include him in the movies. There's only so much you can do before a movie becomes unwieldy.

You mentioned the social and political resistance to the covid vaccine.

I watched a supercut of world leaders and health officials saying with absolute confidence that the vaccines were "effective" and that, if you took it, you would NOT get the virus and everything would return to normal. Then it showed them all rolling up their sleeves and smiling getting jabbed. Then it showed them all announcing very seriously and sadly that they had coronavirus.

The social and political resistance to the vaccines were because, from the outset, so much of the response to the virus was media and governments reacting (or overreacting) without knowing whether the actions they were taking were actually going to be effective. It was throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, regardless of science or even common sense.

Add to that the fact that you saw the same politicians and health officials ignoring their own rules (I just read an article about a California health official who, on the same day she announced a renewal of mask mandates was later pictured partying in a group maskless) and it just completely eliminated any trust many people had in what was being told to them. That's where much of that social and political resistance comes from.

I'm going to buy lots of beachfront property and fly around in my private jet.

Seems to be what all the other "concerned" people I keep hearing talk about this are doing.

I have kind of the opposite problem from most. I tend to not be very social at work and avoid joining groups, cliques, etc. or making small talk. And it seems to be an imperative for some people to try and "draw me out of my shell", which inevitably results in their feelings being hurt because they can't (and possibly because I'm fairly direct or short with them).

Ionians. I remember them from TNG.

There's probably a middle ground where persons can be allowed to use their private property for businesses such as the one in this case, while still being subject to reasonable regulations that prevent environmental abuse and other such issues.

The article doesn't give enough information to determine whether this was a reasonable judgment. What actually happened when they discussed the event afterwards that led to his termination? That could have been completely justified even if they had originally been in the wrong for ignoring his request.