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stopadson Young people in U.S. dying at high rates

Poor people are literally dying younger, and you're trying to argue that they are somehow better off? This is some Monty Burns level of delusion.

stopadson Young people in U.S. dying at high rates

Life expectancy is going down every year. These are good times for a few privileged elite, everyone else is moving backwards.

stopadson AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review

Great review, but the highlight for me is that windows task manager view of CPU utilization. It's like looking at a spreadsheet:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15044/3970X%20Task%20Manag...

stopadson Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

Where I live people give their phones and unlock code to others to drive under their name. They usually do this for drivers who can't pass a background check or even don't have a driver's license, but still need money.

The legit driver almost always gets a cut for this, free money on your vacation days or while you're working other, better jobs.

stopadson The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

Back in 2015-7 or so yes, you'd be immediately dogpiled on here and reddit and most other sites for daring to criticize Google. I was trying to warn people about them and was always banned or downvoted to some shadowban realm immediately.

Google isn't the actual problem though, advertising is. The backlash needs to be primarily about ads, not the companies that just lie repeatedly in order to bend all tech infrastructure towards the needs of advertisers.