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kronazoan

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kronazoan··on California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exodus of residents
I only took Uber mostly but would also commute from downtown to Beverly Hills. I never once got stuck in traffic but we always left after 10am.

Also it depends on which way you are going. The 405 north of Sunset is a disaster if you (in general) are going from West LA to the Valley after work but if you travel the opposite ways, traffic is generally fine...

kronazoan··on Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (2011)
I might not even be against this practice because if it is truly countering bad ideas, then it could be effective. Bad ideas can spread fast and influence people in subtle and profound ways. But obviously they should be countered in organic ways by moderates or skeptics or Neil deGrasse Tysons- in their countries.

What I don't understand is how the US military can say, oh this is illegal (and thus unethical) to do in the US to Americans, but foreigners are exempt, so let's create a world of false personas and disinformation for them.

The only argument for using tactics like this and others, like spying on people, is in a time of temporary war.

We Americans are a nation built on the acknowledgement of natural rights and to deny that all humans have these rights against any oppressive government, is absurd and wrong.

Endless ambiguous and 'total war' is more dangerous than radicals posting on a message board or even the threat of terrorism. The existential risk to human freedom is far greater when we have an infinite budget military mandated with doing unjust and immoral things forevermore with no sense of what made America great or what will eventually make the whole world great; natural rights and secular governments.