xcryogenicx

AS in CS working in IT here, can confirm.

My college classes were programming C++, physics, calculus, and hardware architectures. Barely anything to do with IT.

What a wildly inaccurate analogy. The odds that the sometimes dozens of ad networks are collecting your data without your consent (which is legally not your property once they have it in the US) are hugely more likely than randomly needing to defend yourself.

Why would you even say that? Are you implying it's paranoid to block ads like there arent huge corporate and governmental data collection apparati in place?

> This kind of mentality that someone's news article counts as a source is poisonous.

Most underrated comment in the world.

This coupled with for-profit journalism and the atrophy of critical thinking is giving rise to nonsense like anti-vax, chemtrails, and flat Earth.

In America, the public has been led so astray by both the media and the government about things like basic macronutrients that a recent report found 1/3 of Americans, 100 million people, are diabetic are prediabetic (will have type II diabetes in 5 years).

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics/statistics-repo...

It absolutely does. Most US cities only have enough total food for three days, regardless of size. There are case studies of cities in China that run out of food. The first thing that happens is the annihilation of local animal populations, then starvation. When you're starving, you either die and fight, and most people would do both.

> That is disputed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Rel.... for claims from critics that official accounts of the exposure were low by a factor of 100 to 1000.

> Regardless of which version of the facts you consider more believable,

Believable has nothing to do with it. An average dose of worst case 1000 times higher, 1.4 REM, doesn't even violate the US federal annual dose limits. Attempting to equivocate this with dirty bombs is either ignorant or a malicious, inflammatory lie to generate fear for an ulterior motive. If you're trying to insinuate some kind of cover-up, the did a pretty terrible job because no new reactors came online after TMI for like 50 years.

>Just see 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.

The fact that you would reference TMI in reference to dirty bombs is extremely telling in that you have no idea what you're talking about. The average radiation exposure outside TMI compound was less that an airplane flight or x-ray. Bananas are literally more dangerous.