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rangoon626··on Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
I think most people don’t understand that the regime will define and redefine what hate speech is, over time.

It’s those icky conservatives now, but the same mechanism will be used against more people tomorrow, as needed.

rangoon626··on Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
How do you reconcile the whole “if you don’t like Facebook moderation go build your own” bit.
rangoon626··on Facebook Incubated the Insurrection
All Facebook really did is show blue city liberals how their fellow countrymen actually are. Yes, they have been like this the whole time, you just either didn’t care or were insulated from it your entire life.

If any of this is news to you, you should probably think twice before blaming it on Facebook, alone.

rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
> Yes, you have no answer for it.

You're going to post stuff from CNN, and I really don't want to argue with their slanted fact checkers via you. You also won't understand anything you don't want to. There's no point. It hasn't mattered to your side that there is video evidence and testimony from postal workers.

Reality is, six states stopped counting votes on election night all at the same time. Very fishy.

At least admit you got what you wanted, and because of that, you're fine with the fraud.

> They disagree with you. To quote them, "Our president wants us here. We wait and take orders from our president":

Again they wouldn't have come if things were going well in the country. Also, I don't care about your links. I'm not a redditor.

> So you're saying that it would have been better if Trump had been a competent president and had actually helped people instead of stroking his own ego. Instead, he is now unambiguously the worst president in America's history. > I blame Trump.

If trump is the only person you blame for all of this, you are going to be sorely disappointed with what comes next. Congress is the one who sat on the second covid relief bill.

rangoon626··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
And what percentage of religious people voted for HRC?
rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
> And what's that got to do with Trump constantly lying and falsely claiming that the election was somehow "rigged"?

There's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise, so I am going to skip over this.

> He's not making America great, he's making it worse. He's trying as hard as he can to turn America into a banana republic.

I thought "America was never great." Whoops!

> In the time since this article on disinformation was written Trump has incited a mob to invade the Capitol Building, again based on his false claims that the election was "stolen".

Trump didn't incite them, they were already incited. You are being willfully ignorant if you think otherwise.

To me, this looks like a lot of people who are angry at the congress critters over the lockdowns, the hypocrisy of those who impose them not following their own rules, burning cities for months, and overall disenfranchisement.

Do you think these people would go to the capitol building for something like that if they felt like the system was working for them? I don't. The system no longer works, people feel disenfranchised on both sides, the regime went too far and became too oppressive. The public struck back.

If you have a conscious, the only people you would blame for the events of 2020 are the politicians at the federal, state and local levels, and not their disenfranchised constituents.

I keep saying this over and over again and for some reason people on here don't get it. Quit blaming powerless citizens!

rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
And here's a quote from a recording that Biden did:

“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Biden said in a clip posted to Instagram Oct. 24.

His words, not mine!

BTW, you can "fact check" that all you want but whichever way you dice it, he's senile and will likely be quickly replaced by Harris.

rangoon626··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
> trust absolute quacks like anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, Trump, etc. ???

PR agencies send their love

rangoon626··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
> Nah, the right trusts everything the tv and radio hosts tell them.

I don't agree. The media, as a whole, leans left. Except for comparatively far fewer right leaning news outlets. I don't think I can name a single newspaper that doesn't have a left slant. LA Times, NY Times, WashPo are the giants, plus any of your local city newspapers. People on the right are not likely to trust any of those entities.

For news stations there's CNN, NBC, ABC, which all lean left. For the right, there's Fox and a couple a low-key bum ones like OANN and NewsMax. Again, right leaning people are likely to view most of tv media sources as untrustworthy.

rangoon626··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
Just wanna add that the left seems to believe what institutions and the legacy media tell them, at face value.

Many on the right use critical thinking, however they seem to believe that numbers and “science” can be spun into any narrative the gatekeepers want (whoever they may be).

Most of the schism really seems to be based on trust. Left trusts by default, the right does not. The left trusts that the government knows best, the right does not. The right believes in personal responsibility for running your life (not trusting it to any other party), the left does not, requiring collectivism and social programs.

rangoon626··on Archiving the Capitol Hill Riots
Democrat politicians, however...
rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
You guys are so deluded. But I understand, it makes life easy.
rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
When I read this, I had to do a double-check and make sure I wasn't on reddit
rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
There was election fraud though. https://hereistheevidence.com/
rangoon626··on Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Then you don’t see it. Middle East terrorism has been replaced as “the thing” and medical terrorism is what has replaced it. Global warming was too unconvincing, so it seems like TPTB picked this instead.

It’s not about the masks, it’s about being stuck with this for two decades as they try to frighten and terrorize everyone with medical diseases, which allows the government to do whatever they want unopposed. Non-compliance with the masks is usually people protesting this more than they are trying to be inconsiderate to other people. Also, if you think a crappy cloth mask is going to protect anyone else, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. (For the record, I would have a different opinion if our government had mobilized producing actual medical grade masks and mandated that.)

This crisis may be even scarier than the Middle East terrorism thing though, because it encourages self righteous dingbats to rat on their neighbors and use the state against their neighbors. It’s all in our own backyard now. And people are doing exactly what the party wants, and it looks to me like like how the neighbors and kids behaved in 1984.

And there’s endless obscure diseases they can highlight that everyone mostly just glossed over before. COVID-19 headlines starts to run flat? Just highlight a new strain of it to whip the fervor up again... oh wait.

You’ll surely call me a conspiracy theorist, even though I’m simply applying that I learned from the Middle East terrorism situation on to this one, but I don’t care. I have already seen this for what it is, a real disease but being hijacked as a tool to manipulate and control people, and have moved on. Don’t be fooled, there’s to be no “back to normal.” Ever. The mask non-comply-ers are simply having a hard time of letting go of the life they knew.

You have to be either incredibly base or willfully ignorant to not understand and have empathy with your fellow citizens.

rangoon626··on HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash
Everyone knew to clear their browsing history, but most did not know to clear their Flash caches. Mhahahaaaa.
rangoon626··on Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China
Yes
rangoon626··on California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
Wrecked a beautiful state
rangoon626··on California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
Between this and the "pork" that was recently scrutinized, I am completely disgusted that local, state and federal government thinks that they have a blank check care of tax payers. Of course it's been this way forever, but this is getting out of hand.

200m missing, and the state is having massive forest fires, electrical outages and way too many people living in tent cities.

What an absolutely disgusting waste.

rangoon626··on Working at Apple (2011)
It would be like expecting a woodworker to come up with new techniques for each project. You develop a style, a way of doing things, and your employer is buying that from you.
rangoon626··on Big Sur 11.1 External Display Issues
I’m always surprised by this. Their sealed machines have heat throttling issues, graphics card failures, they’re not repairable (iMacs are THE WORST for this), keyboard issues, and that’s all ahead of the Intel chipset issues.

Until the m1 chips, I could say I don’t care at all about their hardware. Their software is buggy, but it’s irreplaceable and the most important thing for me. There’s nothing else out there like it.

It wasn’t always like this though... the rolling yearly releases changed much.

rangoon626··on Ask HN: Is C++ a better language than C?
It makes string handling much easier, that’s for sure.

However I always liked the way Objective C did OPP vs how C++ did it.

rangoon626··on Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources
People were waiting in lines for DAYS to get the first iPhone.
rangoon626··on Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources
Did they?

Not that much about the iPod changed between 2001 and 2005. A simple to use interface, large storage made it great from the start, but windows support it what made it successful.

rangoon626··on Apple targets car production by 2024, eyes ‘next level’ battery tech: sources
Please, stick to the computers!

There are MANY car manufacturers. Do we need another?

There are only TWO mainstream desktop operating systems/platforms. We could use another, but the barrier is now too high.

If the company has that much profits that they can dabble in the automotive industry, then maybe they didn’t need to use every tax minimization, supply chain efficiency, and globalized slave-labor manufacturing option at their disposal.

Ppl: Why can’t you invest in manufacturing stuff inside the us? Other ppl: “You want your iPhone to cost 5-gajillion dollars?”

This seems wholly unhealthy, maybe big tech is due to be broken up.

rangoon626··on Ruby 3.0.0 RC1
Ruby just never clicked with me, and I feel like if I am going to use something other than a scripting language, like python, it should be something that has insane native performance.
rangoon626··on Back to the '70s with Serverless
We need to meme c++ back into popularity
rangoon626··on Gmail having issues
The less google services we use, the better
rangoon626··on Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
The great consolidations of linxuses of the 2020s. Back to BSDs?
rangoon626··on Chrome Is Bad
They could make an exception, for the larger benefits to their platform. Custom updaters are helping no one, and it seems like the spark has left Sparkle (the last I looked, sparkle 1 was for an era long past, and sparkle 2 was still incomplete).

On an alternate timeline, Apple could have allowed software vendors to hook into the old software update application, and pull in updates through that mechanism, in addition to the first party updates.

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