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Time to check out the article and find out if you were right!

It's working for me in Chrome with uBlock on.

the tldr is that Americans (former officials, former NSA hackers) built an offensive hacking unit for the UAE that is now targeting other governments and activists in the region. Women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia and journalists and such.

It's easy to be wasteful and come out ahead in the short-term. I guess it's just some more plastic in the ocean or landfill to him.

At least in the US city councils there is often a hotbed of politics and corruption it seems. I consider the city-council/property-developer interface to be the greatest scale of corruption in the US.

Who needs CEOs when it's machines all the way down? Presumably two or more AIs will have some method of reaching consensus.

Pack-hunting tactics. Think about fighting one guy versus fighting even two or three guys of comparable size and capability.

"Don't be so open-minded your brain falls out"

Unless the wind gets too strong and you can't kite surf as much anymore...

Freedom of speech has nothing to do with private platforms that are subject to market effects. Zuckerberg's claims that corporations can and will guarantee free expression is obviously not true.

Orcs were corrupted/mutated elves and uruk-hai were corrupted/mutated humans iirc but could be mistaken It wouldn't necessarily be cannibilism then.

Family size may be a holdover or maintenance of a tradition that was once needed due to infant or child mortality and agricultural practices that require manual labor.

It's actually a change in perception and perspective. Since consciousness and reality are subjective results of individual perception and perspective, there is an altering of consciousness and experienced reality. Perception being perceiving and mapping out the external world outside of the individual mind. And perspective then deriving a meaningful relationship between "I" and external Abstract or Concrete Things X.

Banning cars has already happened: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life...

>few come close to the power held by companies in various colonies

any petty despot enjoys the same level of power

I guess I wouldn't expect to read an article about scientists discovering water vapor in Europe. Water vapor on Europa however is momentous and I can only wonder if we might be closer to finding extraterrestrial life somewhere in our solar system.

What Europa would be confused for the moon Europa?

"gonzo" means crazy or over-the-top Not familiar with "gonzo ball" but it probably means "large amount of craziness"

They're definitely a suburban status item in much of the West of the US.

There was never an era like that, it's more nonsense and outright propaganda from schemers who want to claim that their own free-style lies are just as valid as formal journalism.

Is short-term thinking a problem limited to teenagers? It seems even more problematic in adults who wield the power and from what I've seen short-term thinking is very prevalent at any age group in humans.

For our international readers, this is very uncommon behavior among Americans (taking out mortgages for a diamond ring) and it seems unlikely since it would require one of the two members of the marriage to own a house as a single person, which is also uncommon among Americans.

Spending too much on a diamond ring is common though

It takes a special kind of person to be happy with a cheap thing they paid way too much for.

Is that a problem or simply a fact? It seems like cheaper diamonds improve my life much more than more expensive diamonds would.

headphones? I guess I'm surveying their entire ecosystem

> the government would be left holding 80 billion dollars worth of stock, which they can't really do anything with.

The government seizes securities all the time and sells them with no problem. They probably couldn't sell all 80,000,000,000USD of stock all at once but neither can anyone else.

>it seems like they're later to market rather than on the cutting edge of things but bring a high design quality

That was true of Apple under Jobs but Tim Cook's legacy is one of terrible quality assurance and superficial design over considering function. Apple is coasting on their legacy.

They were fired three years after "what they did," and they included Kalanick in the original communications so it seems more that they were fired upon being publicly caught.

No I don't agree. I am just pointing out that you have outlets available to you. From what I can tell the media is mostly about middle-of-the-road inoffensive capitalism.

>Progressives dominate the media

Don't y'all have Fox News and Sinclair Broadcasting?

Those are a civil rights group and a health care provider. If your politics are opposed to civil rights or health care then you may consider them "political" but they aren't. Not by any reasonable definition.