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I live in Seattle and have lived in Seattle. I know exactly the effects this has, and it's not beneficial except to the already wealthy. Great if you're rich, terrible if you're anything other than rich (hint: most people aren't rich).

>Russian propaganda bots are that, propaganda bots.

What is Russian propaganda though?

USA is doing this too, but it gets reported on entirely differently. Facebook & Twitter are banning domestic American citizen accounts for simply acting like "Russians", whatever that means. They aren't claimed to be hate accounts either, it's just raw censorship. They won't provide example accounts so we can research what they're banning specifically.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks this is OK, but coddles their cozy propaganda blankets when China is doing it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...

Toronto dodged a bullet.

They're doing the community a service by creating high paying jobs? The people will be shipped in from all around the world and displace the current communities. This destroys communities. This segregates poor & lower income people out. Only already rich people get to experience the benefits of this.

The subsidies and tax cuts they got are an embarrassment to our system and a wonderful look into how this country isn't working for lower classes and small local business that actually build communities. Amazon doesn't need subsidies, this is just a race to the bottom.

John Titor will fix it for us.

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

It was confirmed by multiple aircraft on Shannon ATC. It's certainly real and happened, but UFO is any unidentified flying object.

I'm not singling out Bitcoin at all. I think all polluters need to become carbon neutral or quit existing. It's a part of the problem, no matter how small of a percentage of pollution it is.

Do you know how large 73TWh is? 0.04% is huge when compared to total energy consumption

Keeping the blockchain going requires enormous amounts of electricity, which contributes to Climate Change greatly. Unless it can solve this issue, it must be shut down for the survival of humanity.

What if this guy is right?

>However, the study only found an association and could not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.

Garbage tier study.

>Zonszein said that getting high on marijuana may impair people's ability to give themselves the correct insulin dose.

I've been using marijuana for 5 years now while giving myself prescribed estrogen injections in the leg longer than that. I can only remember one time when I would've too high to dose myself, and often took marijuana to calm myself before the injections. I live in Washington and have done absolutely everything with cannabis of all forms. Just how high are diabetic patients getting, or how high isn't Zonszein getting to form such a bad opinion?

Small companies also aren't shipping 25,000 people in from all around the country or world to displace your family and friends by raising rent and living costs hundreds of percent. The incentives are given so that already rich individuals get even more rich; so already rich property owners get to drown in profits while the poor and lower middle classes struggle and are segregated out of their cities.

Incentives for small local community buisnesses that care about your community should be a higher priority for all Americans.

I'm 27, single, no family/brothers/sisters.

I have a tech job that requires a lot of non face-to-face human interaction through slack, with people I never build relationships with. Still super lonely :D

Dating is also near impossible because I don't want to use social media.

Those look awesome and I love supporting local businesses. Thanks!

>Also, tops are cut with darts for tits, which, no matter how it's done, always burns a large number of women unless they wear a padded prosthesis

I've only experienced this in poor clothing. T-Shirts don't have it, button down shirts don't have it, blouses don't have it, dresses will allow for some 'leeway', but can be worn with 'flat chests'. Padded bra's are really for making your boobs look better, not really any function.

>often meant to be worn very tightly

Tight is totally dependent on your size and what you prefer. I can buy women's clothing that's too big for me and feel comfortable but still have the fit cut. If you're looking at yoga pants, sure. There's also a difference between "tight" and fitting close to your skin, which is very comfortable in my opinion. A lot of women's material's are stretchy where men's aren't.

>it's flimsy

I don't agree. I have $15 jeans from Old Navy that I bought in 2011 that are still going strong. I never buy anything that's super flimsy in the first place, which is terribly easy to do even for cheap. Material on women's clothes almost always feels better than comparable priced items in Men's clothes as well.

Mine are natural from years of estrogen, though I probably have a wider chest. Getting properly sized bras I don't even notice they're there anymore. If I get one that isn't sized right, it can actually leave bruises and make me want to scream during the day. I have also heard a lot of women are wearing incorrectly sized bras.

West Coast cities pretty much ignore clothing and gender standards at this point.

Yoga Pants are such a wonderful thing from a comfort standpoint. Women have such better lightweight comfort options that also allow function.

I'm mid 20's and male-to-female transgender for about 6 years now. In good shape, average height, average sizes. Obviously fat has migrated over that time to give me a more feminine shape. I migrated entirely to Women's clothing like jeans and t-shirts a few years ago, I have dresses, skirts, etc, but most of it is really bland casual clothing for lounging around or going to work (no dress code at all), however I have way more options, all kinds of colors, all kinds of textures, all kinds of cuts, all kinds of patterns, everything feels absolutely amazing. I am so comfy in jeans now that I can sleep in them with no issues. I don't really pass well, but nobody has ever said anything to me negatively wearing a flowery women's cut long sleeve shirt and tight women's jeans that make my butt look wonderful. If anything, I feel much more stylish and totally physically comfortable now. Even bras aren't bad and I don't understand why they're always hurting women so much :D

Regarding pockets, I just carry a backpack with my laptop now. Phone in back pocket, tiny wallet for cards that fits in my front pocket. I will never buy women's jeans with really tiny pockets, but I feel like most retailers have figured out an acceptable size. Who even likes heavy jeans carrying around so much?

Mens clothes may have changed by now, but I remember them being stiff, feeling bad unless you paid a lot of money (not a problem for women's clothing!), having limited neutral colors with no patterns except thin stripes.

I'm so happy we're coming to a point where we can get rid of gender standards for what fabric people are allowed to wear on their bodies enforced by society.

Most of this is opinion, so I'll answer the legitimate questions.

>What are those next two major Android releases include that I need?

These are future releases, so not sure. Android 9 'Pie' should be available soon and the features included in that can be researched with your preferred search engine.

>Also, how can I remove the Google surveillance code from the phone?

You can install a third party ROM if you'd like. LineageOS doesn't come with Google Play Services.

>Comparing any Android device to iOS is hard because the the former is a data collection device with some features reminder of a mobile phone while the latter is a mobile phone primary designed and build for the best UX.

Use what you like. I personally find iOS to be terrible with ergonomics, UX, and just plain everyday features. You can't open zip/rar files, can't download MP3's, can't play m4a's, can't play .webm's, there's no file management system. I can do pretty much everything my laptop does on my $160 Android, but not on a $1400 iPhone.

I've been off social media for years now, entirely, and I'm back to a point where the rest of my friends and just society itself are so fully entrenched into some sort of social media that I'm getting very lonely and depressed. I've actually thought about making a Facebook or Instagram account again and just placing strict rules on it, but even that really creeps me out.

My friends are always telling me about cool events on Facebook, their Instagram stories at the really fun and cool places they work non-profit, all of these cool groups. I feel super detached from even my best friends, and feel like I don't get a full friend experience. While our relationships are strong and have been for years, they're kinda dull because they use social media so much. They understand why I don't use it and don't give me a hard time (anymore), but always bother me to come back.

I just bought a $160 Android One phone from China. Headphone jack, dual sim, 256GB SD, FM radio, IR blaster, tiny notch & chin with a really respectable IPS panel with great colors & saturation, receive at least the next 2 major Android versions & monthly security updates, 12 hour screen on time battery life, works fine with T-Mobile & ATT in USA, camera that would easily compete with mid-range 2018 phones with a portrait mode that actually works better than I've seen on any other phone.

Why are people buying these $1200 phones that have taken away pretty much everything?

Just got ATH-m50xBT headphones, brand new as of last week, comes with a MicroUSB. WTF Audio Technica!

It's an extremely selfish country. Some people are less than others and deserve less is exactly the mindset in USA now.

HN appears to have a more highly paid engineer out-of-touch with financial reality user base, it's not everyone, and I don't think they're doing it on purpose, but it's certainly noticeable. Even on my barely-enough-to-live wage in Seattle it's tough to not find myself forgetting the struggles of people lower in class than I. Workers rights are not popular here, and I'm guessing it's because engineers and higher paid people are often treated pretty fairly and have workplace freedoms the rest of the workforce could only ever imagine in their dreams.

It's the way USA rations healthcare. I've had serious knee injuries from biking this summer that I had to decide to just 'walk off' because I don't have the finances to go to a doctor, get an MRI/Xray, potentially more tests. My knees are probably screwed for life now. I feel like a good portion of the USA is going to be deformed because they can't get quality health care or avoid it at all. It's really weird having to decide that your finances and rent are more fragile than your health.

My insurance for an ER visit would be roughly $4500 right when I walked in, or they wouldn't cover anything. Every time after that though would be $300 until next year when I'd have to pay $4500 again.

This article is straight up propaganda. It wants to limit ideas and is whining about the spread of free thought. The second it mentioned Iran the whole article fell apart. Using the internet in this way is no different than the thousands of 'Vote YES on 1631' ads placed everywhere on Washington State soil right now by big oil companies and their PACs.

Want to stop this in USA? Take money out of politics and ban political advertisements in print and on the internet. Bolsonaro was not elected for the reasons they say. Glen Greenwald claims it was Desperation and Hopelessness [1]. The ruling class was their enemy, they failed them too much, and the lower classes ran into the arms of anyone who promised change from the establishment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq2pvabDN7c

So they can pay them $9/day? I doubt there's any other reason than wage slavery.

I don't know if I've ever heard of the NSA having any good effect on the USA, just always negative. Always leaks about how everything they're doing is illegal. There have still been terrorist attacks and mass shootings all around the country since it's inception. I agree with your point above that it's probably likely that these agencies are more so there to track and crush domestic and foreign dissent (and I think it's intentional, see COINTELPRO).

That money definitely could've been spent on infrastructure that benefited the actual citizens of this country and actually saved lives. Unfortunately a great part of American culture is pure jingoism and war propaganda, so nothing changes.