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You've still provided no evidence? These are all simply opinions and without any hard evidence you can't even really prove assange didn't get the emails in late September and then released them in early October ASAP.

Mueller isn't making much if anything public and we're told to prepare for disappointment regarding the whole Russia narrative [1]. This kind of undermines the whole thing.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/19/mueller-investigat...

Probably in a body bag at that point.

There's no way the ruling class lets Assange even step a foot out of the embassy without immediately taking him into custody.

It's definitely somewhat anti-left sentiments built into our culture/society through means such as mccarthyism and anti-communism, as well as purposeful lack of education. It's also our media and entertainment. These tactics can be further learned about in Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'.

When you have almost 80% of the population living paycheck to paycheck [1] with practically nobody in that percentage with a significant savings [2], and workplace laws where you can be fired for literally anything, you can easily stifle workplace unionization efforts and discourse. People literally cannot afford to do anything that would benefit them.

This article is about Canada, but it's really becoming a worldwide issue.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...

>Why is it so taboo to talk about the fact that a significant portion of the political ruling class is eager to actively subvert democracy, no matter what technical solutions are available?

I get called a conspiracy nut for talking about this. Neither Republicans or Democrats really give even the slightest of care towards election integrity. What have the Republicans or Democrats done to actively try to fix anything? Republicans prefer to not talk about it at all, Democrats love to talk about how they're for election integrity but do nothing about it. Democrats even conveniently purged voters in Brooklyn just in time for Bernie vs Hillary primary and were sued for it [1].

Almost none of the ruling class cares. Only maybe 3 or 4 senators, congress, actually care. If you let the people actually vote and participate in Democracy, those people might stop being part of the ruling class and money may actually start trickling down.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-york-city-boa...

They were taken away from us around a year ago. They were very beneficial, but leadership said they 'were a waste of time'. Our team has suffered with communication and staying on track with problem issues since. Oh well though. I just keep doing the same work.

>do you think non-profit corporations are in the same boat?

There are really bad non-profits, I've worked at them. However, endless search for endless profit by shareholders, CEO's, and executives is usually the cause of a loss of morals and ethics. I think it's nearly impossible for very large corporations making profits to do actual good for society except give us endless growth with products and services we really don't need. This doesn't mean a small local bakery taking in profits isn't doing the community good, but extremely large corporations don't benefit the same way.

>It seems like most of the private companies who act in the public's interest are newer ones that are either run by a founder, or still influenced by the original founders ideas from not long ago.

Have any examples of private companies who act in the public's interest? I can't think of any.

People go to work in what are essentially private authoritarian governments, now they want to fully live under one too? This reads like an Orwell book. The fact that such a major privacy issue is arising so soon should doom the project for good.

I'm extremely quiet at work and don't really have any work friends at least in my department (helps stifle drama), yet am consistent with my productivity, have clear ticket queues every day or they're in a status where I'm waiting for a response from another engineer. I've had my manager tell me in 1:1's that people report me for doing nothing all day except listening to music. I've been here 3 years.

I'm content with just sitting here and doing this job for now and get paid enough to live at my means, so I make no attempts to get a promotion where I'll have much more work and stress, and make little attempts to go above and beyond. I just stay consistent and I'm seen as a free loader by some. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So is the rest of the internet.

Stop polluting entirely and plant trees? All of these useless ideas above could be solved by getting rid of the endless growth required by capitalism, but nobody wants to give up their Alexa to save the entire population.

Food, basic cell phone plan (necessity in 2018), health insurance, electric, trash, water. That's either having absolutely $0 left over, or not livable on the given $1400/mo wage.

Name me an 'urban center' with adequate transit where you can live on $1400/mo? Anywhere within 30 miles of Seattle, that's rent.

50% of Americans are in poverty or low income though. Probably worse since this data too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/census-data-half-of-us-poor-or-...

>You can argue about inflation or whatever you want. I don't buy it.

This is literally ignoring factual evidence. Inflation has happened, there's no denying it. Wages have stagnated since the early 70's with a good portion of the country making less than they did in the 70's, or are making exactly what they made in the 70's. Chances are your "less than 1/3 of what I make now" was probably what you make now, or was at least worth much more than that same salary would be today. The cost of almost everything that's necessary & essential has risen by insane amounts since your children have been born.

Try an inflation calculator: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

I got the Dyson Ball Animal in 2016 and it flexes as if it's made out of wet cardboard when you pick it up. I expected much more for the price and would never buy a Dyson again. It wasn't better at cleaning than most newer vacuums either.

My $250 Shark Duoclean/TruePet is a much better value, has the same if not more powerful suction and is solid.

Wouldn't this be an end goal for malicious bots? I also think this article puts too much emphasis on people "being lied to" by all social media bots with statements like: "One question begs for closer analysis; why would a small percentage, though small, find anything positive about the bots, about being lied to, that the information is not free of salary packet or automated word strings?", when that's absolutely not true for all bots.

For example, a National Weather Service severe weather social media bot just posting severe weather warnings probably isn't lying to you.

I think this is out of touch. I make near $60k outside of Seattle and can barely afford to take care of myself in the slightest of comfort possible. I don't get luxuries, and I haven't been on a vacation since I started my working life. I'm away from home for 12 hours every work day, not by choice. There is no way to responsibly care for even a single child at this income in a non-rural area in 2018. I can't even responsibly get a dog.

I think as a poster said below, your views have probably not been updated for a very long time. The cost of everything essential has gone up since you had your children.

There are plenty of safety nets when you're low income if you take advantage of the available benefits. Your children will be taken care of with medicaid/medicare, you'll receive food stamps, housing assistance. If you're not low income, you're on your own, which can be really tough for people in a middle income range slightly above being able to get those safety nets.

This is the real reason fertility rates are dropping. Children are unaffordable in many places in the country and as work requires more out of all of us with stagnated wages, we don't have the time, money, or required health insurance to participate in raising a child.

I'm late 20's and I want a child, but I just can't see myself ever being able to afford one. It's certainly a luxury to responsibly have a child.

Subsidies? No, it's called free trade and efficient shipping. If I'm buying clothes anywhere else and it says made in China (most), I'm probably supporting child labor. I'm skipping the retailer charging $12 for the same thing I get for $1.88. What kind of country do I live in where I'm not allowed to dress cheap but well to go to work? What the absolute f*?

I walk to work, so I don't want to subsidize your commute or travel by roads, and I don't fly often so I'd rather not subsidize the FAA as well.

I'm low income for where I live and buy a lot of basic $1-$5 clothes from China that would be $20-$30 equivalent in USA. This is going to hurt me directly. It's not like I'm buying food, housing, electricity from China, but having good quality fashionable clothes for very cheap when I can't afford anything except Goodwill here is beneficial for professionalism at my job, and overall satisfaction about myself.

Trump should focus on putting more money in our pockets rather than making things more expensive and hoping the pipe dream of any manufacturing is coming back to US is a reality.

You can't. Hyper unregulated capitalism in an increasing dog eat dog world leads to a lack of ethics or morals for a quick buck.

It's definitely our media not on the side of citizens. How many lies do your hear about your health care system?

I still have all generation Zune's and I still use them quite often. They're off the grid, Zune software still works with no online features, FM radio, and the interface is pretty decent. I wish they didn't get discontinued as well.

>The real question: Why do we let governments get away with this kind of behavior?

Not many care anymore about privacy except basically, us, the tech power user community and then a few stragglers. This new generation just doesn't care because they never really grew up with any in the first place, just shoved right into Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. They probably didn't go too depth into privacy laws, why your privacy matters in their grade school either.

This is extremely low quality and unprofessional. Reading multiple articles debunking this, it seems it's nothing more suspicious or 'unethical' than Google Now, because China doesn't use Google Play Services they needed to make something of their own similar.

Hopefully it becomes just the new Youtube.

>If you think the US is erratic, check out how China bullies its neighbours and always seeks to control the infrastructure of the countries that supply it with raw materials it needs.

I see you've ignored nearly the entire Middle East and what the USA has done almost everywhere in the world throughout its history.