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byJah-Wren Ryel
er 22, 2022 @11:05AM
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Attached to: Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty?
The party leader incited the first putsch in the history of the republic and instead of abolishing him, the party rallied around him and expunged the members who tried to hold him accountable. A desire to overthrow elections is the definition I'm using.
Tell me, does that juvenile begging the question stuff ever work for you in real life?
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byJah-Wren Ryel
r 21, 2022 @11:03PM
(#63070324)
Attached to: Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty?
> The people who pull their strings know exactly how to get them angry at the wrong people.
Exactly.
The best propaganda capitalizes on truthful grievance and
directs low information people to the wrong conclusions.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
r 21, 2022 @10:56PM
(#63070318)
Attached to: Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty?
Because they would rather prop up fascism than spend that money on their own progressive candidates.
Its not like any of those fascists needed the help, they all easily won their primary races because maga voters voted for them.
It was just cynical playing with fire that harmed the party's credibility. You can't tell people the country is on the brink of fascism and then spend money helping fascists if you want anyone to believe you. They were damn lucky that the ~5 fascists they ran some ads for didn't actually win in the general.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
r 21, 2022 @10:47PM
(#63070304)
Attached to: Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty?
His business partner, FTX CEO Ryan Salame spent money on maga.
Salame spent about $24M, and the largest single spend that either of them made was about $2.5M to mitch mcconnel's PAC, the senate leadership fund.
It should not surprise anyone that Reason, a koch bros front, neglected to mention any of that. Nor that the so-called liberal media left Salame out of almost all their reporting too.
https://popular.info/p/seven-p...
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byJah-Wren Ryel
ber 21, 2019 @08:10PM
(#59546068)
Attached to: Vox Media Fires Hundreds of Freelance Writers, Blaming California's 'Gig Economy' Law
All these contractors who are being dumped are being replaced by full-time employees. Which is exactly the intended result. The law is intended to make employers hire people as official employees instead of hiding behind contractor status in order to skimp out on things like retirement plans and health insurance and paying their writers on net-90 terms (or worse).
The post on SB Nation, a Vox media site, said exactly that:
To comply with this new law, we will not be replacing California contractors with contractors from other states. Rather, we’re encouraging any contractors interested in one of our newly-created full-time or part-time employee positions to apply
Yes, lots of stringers will no longer get to sell an article or two a month to Vox. But they will be replaced by a smaller group of full-time employees with a complete set of benefits and enough job security that they won't have to constantly worry about making rent that month.
If you think its better for society to have a bunch of stringers who get work unpredictably, I actually agree. But in order to make that work, those people can't be living in constant jeopardy. That means eliminating worries about healthcare and savings. A medicare-for-all plan where no one has to worry about health insurance premiums, deductibles, paperwork or fighting with their insurance company for coverage would go a long way to making the freelancer model something that can actually work. But as long as we are stuck with a system where the only way to be secure is to have a full-time job, then we need laws like this that maximize full time jobs.
It is really messed up that this story was submitted by an editor at Slashdot who should know better because they are in the industry.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
4, 2014 @11:18PM
(#46753461)
Attached to: Mozilla Appoints Former Marketing Head Interim CEO
They stood by and watched their CEO get ousted because of a donation to a cause that the majority supported.
It is weird how so many anti-freedom people like yourself are so quick to claim majority support for what Eich did. Sure, a slim majority were anti-gay marriage back when he tried to enshrine his religious dogma into law. But the overwhelming majority did not support "the cause" enough to spend money on it. By his own actions he revealed himself to be an extremist.
Furthermore, the whole idea that being part of a majority somehow excuses a person from judgment and consequences of their actions is itself morally bankrupt. The civil rights movement was a struggle against majority opinion too.
BTW, the freedom to restrict another person's freedom is freedom in name alone.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
1, 2014 @10:14PM
(#46731543)
Attached to: Can You Buy a License To Speed In California?
> I'm not sure what the exact charges are.
Racketeering.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
uary 12, 2014 @12:34AM
(#46226093)
Attached to: FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft
So, you don't want the pilots to see any green from their instrumentation?
Nice.
Think again.
What part of "reflective cockpit windows" do you fail to understand?
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byJah-Wren Ryel
ry 11, 2014 @04:10PM
(#46222081)
Attached to: FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft
> For which wavelength?
~532nm.
99.9% of these cases involve the cheapo frequency doubled greenies. All the other colors are significantly more expensive for the power levels that are dangerous to pilots and are thus both exponentially more rare and much more likely to be owned by people who know better than to do stupid shit with them.
There is no theoretically perfect solution, but there is a practical solution.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
ry 11, 2014 @11:36AM
(#46218531)
Attached to: Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player
From what I remember, the Romney campaign ignored their own polls that said they were losing.
That's pretty much the last time that will ever happen again. Nate Silver's nearly perfect prediction of nearly all 50 states was a major wake-up call to the people who didn't believe in basic stats.
More than Obama, the nerds won last presidential election and its a permanent win.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
y 10, 2014 @07:30PM
(#46213973)
Attached to: Verizon Discontinues Home Automation Service After 2 Years
Mark my words, within the next 36 months there will be an explosion in that marketspace
Indeed. Both Lowe's and Staples have been farting around with standards-based (zigbee, z-wave and wi-fi) home automation equipment for about a year and it looks like they are ramping up for 2014.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
y 10, 2014 @07:15PM
(#46213899)
Attached to: Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program
The story of al-Awalaki's 16 year old son doesn't get enough coverage. Presumably, he's one of the 4 americans that have been (officially) killed by drone strikes.
Obama's campaign staff said that the boy should've "had a more responsible father."
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
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byJah-Wren Ryel
y 10, 2014 @07:09PM
(#46213863)
Attached to: Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program
The world is much more terrifying than you realize.
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know, that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the truth, because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like "honor", "code", "loyalty". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you", and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Asshole.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
y 10, 2014 @03:23PM
(#46212121)
Attached to: Dyson Invests £5 Million To Create 'Intelligent Domestic Robots'
There is also the problem with hand-driers in that they kick up any loose bacteria in the path of the air stream. So, kind of gross to use in a bathroom.
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byJah-Wren Ryel
y 10, 2014 @11:52AM
(#46210541)
Attached to: Dyson Invests £5 Million To Create 'Intelligent Domestic Robots'
And don't someone come up with the BS about everyone will sit around in blissful nirvana writing poetry or music or coding or go kayaking all day. It ain't going to happen.
And don't someone come up with the BS about it ain't going to happen without even bothering to state a reason.
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