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The government is completely ambivalent about what is and is not posted on social media. The government is simply providing a method by which private citizens can obtain relief from multinational corporate interests who are operating within their jurisdiction.
The largest social media platforms are American companies. Exactly. Why should Poland submit itself and it's people the the machinations of corporate conglomerates controlled by ultra-wealthy individuals from around the world? imo everyone should have access to the entire internet, period. I disagree with you that Polish people not having access to Facebook, Twitter and Google, (or any site really) would be "the best thing that ever happened to them". That's not what freedom looks like. Each person should decide for themselves whether or not they want to visit a social media platform, not the government. Whether or not you agree with how they handle political content that users post on their platform is irrelevant. Your argument supports authoritarianism, not freedom. You should do a little research on what's been going on in Poland recently, by the way. |
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The government is completely ambivalent about what is and is not posted on social media. The government is simply providing a method by which private citizens can obtain relief from multinational corporate interests who are operating within their jurisdiction.
The largest social media platforms are American companies. I'm fine with the government dealing with stuff like data protection or requiring companies to follow certain procedures to prevent children accessing certain types of content. They should have nothing to do with how a private American company chooses to deal with politics. If they want to call the president a liar, or ban the president, or delete user posts they don't like, they should be able to. It's their company. |
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Wow. To be honest I actually was not aware of how large viewer base was. But still video game addiction can be a problem because these companies will purposely design their product to be addictive. Realistically it’s about the most harmless addiction there is so it’s not like it hurts anybody else. My main point was mostly about video game addiction because clearly there are some positive benefits to video games like bringing people together or a potential way to create jobs. There are definitely games that exploit this, mostly mobile apps that are built similar to slot machines. Kind of mindless, lots of clicking/tapping and constant monitoring every day/hour to make sure you don't lose whatever it is you did all the mindless clicking/tapping for. And it's always easy to buy that premium thing for $1 in game that doesn't actually do anything just looks pretty. Farmville was one of the first I believe. Those games exist, but they don't represent, imo, "video games" and really shouldn't even be lumped into the same group as your Xbox/Nintendo/Playstation or PC games like League of Legends or DOTA. If your kid is playing Farmville in all his spare time, for god sake buy him a XBox or something. |
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So, massive corp/govs censoring and deleting admittedly factual content because it could 'help anti-vaxxers' is in your mind 'freedom of speech', and a country to allows the censored person to sue the corporation for blocking the perfectly factual and accurate content is 'repressive', eh? Orwell is rolling over in his grave. I think the government should have little say when it comes to enforcing how a business moderates online user content, especially when it comes to anything political due to the obvious conflict of interest. In my opinion the business, not the government, should decide and let the market respond. So if a private prison corporation had some extra room they should be able to pick up people off the street to get up to 100% capacity? As described, Poland is not telling these international corporations what to do. All Poland is doing is allowing her citizens to avail themselves of the court systems (which they pay for with taxes) in order to attempt to uphold their rights and liberties. It's 100% freedom of choice whether the corporations wish to adhere to the national norms vis-a-vis human and civil rights, or whether their desire to ' control the narrative' overrides. Of course the international corporations are also free to pack up and leave the country if that is their desire. There are plenty of totalitarian countries who will support their anti-liberty methods (China, U.S., Russia, etc.) I'm being sincere in saying you should look at China and Russia if you're considering moving to Poland because of their authoritarian government.
Whatever. If slavish support for international corporations is 'freedom' and support for individual liberties is 'authoritarian' to you then it nicely explains our respective positions and why we don't see eye-to-eye on things. In fact, as 'liberal' drifted toward your way of looking at the world I stepped off the train and no longer identify with that group. The only individual liberty violation would be the guys who created these apps being forced to run them the way the federal government thinks best all the way down to what posts they are allowed to remove from their own platform, rather than themselves. It's their business, not yours. If you want to use it, you have to follow their rules. Use it, don't use it, create your own- those are your freedoms. Think about it objectively, you aren't just arguing to force Twitter to stop removing posts that you don't think should be removed - you're arguing that future administrations that you may not agree with as much should have the same power. That's no roll the federal government should take on imo. |
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Well fuck me running! I might have to add Poland and Belarus to my to-evaluate list of '3rd option' countries if things go badly south here in a certain English speaking SE Asian country. If Joogle, Facefuck, Twatter, etc voluntarily left Poland it would probably be the best thing which ever happened for the Poles. And if native startups pop up to fill the vacuum I'll be one of the early customers, particularly if the government carries through on it's promising path which respects individual liberties. I never had any social media accounts except for Google which, in my situation, was fairly unavoidable. You should add China and Russia to your list as well. Their governments do a great job of enforcing what is or is not posted on the internet. So, massive corp/govs censoring and deleting admittedly factual content because it could 'help anti-vaxxers' is in your mind 'freedom of speech', and a country to allows the censored person to sue the corporation for blocking the perfectly factual and accurate content is 'repressive', eh? Orwell is rolling over in his grave. I think the government should have little say when it comes to enforcing how a business moderates online user content, especially when it comes to anything political due to the obvious conflict of interest. In my opinion the business, not the government, should decide and let the market respond. I'm being sincere in saying you should look at China and Russia if you're considering moving to Poland because of their authoritarian government. |
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Translation: We can sell the idea that accelerating evolution using the technique of swapping bodily fluids between sick people to explain away any changes in our 'SARS-cov-2' (purported) virus psy-op. Take-away: We can impose the 'new normal' using Gitmo-developed methods (masks, physical distancing, mass house arrests, arbitrary constantly changing rules, invasive monitoring, etc) indefinitely even while we are forcing people to become genetically modified organisms under the design of corporate interests and their eugenicist boards of directors via the (not) vaccines. "the technique of swapping bodily fluids between sick people"...you mean developing a vaccine, right? Are you against anything coming out of one persons body and going into another for medical reasons? Once again, you aren't really saying anything of substance - all I have to go with (other than the fact that you said the paper had no thesis - which gives me reason to think it's unlikely you actually read it) is your tone, which makes your stance clear but does nothing to actually defend it. Are you telling me that even now you don't understand, even at a very basic level, the meaning of 'convalescent plasma therapy'? Or are you telling me that you didn't read the blurb yourself? Oops, I thought we were referring to a different study. My mistake. I do understand what convalescent plasma therapy is, although haven't read much about it. "the technique of swapping bodily fluids between sick people" is not really an accurate way to describe it though. It involves taking the blood from someone who was sick, but is now recovered, and then using it to help someone who is currently sick with the same illness. Are you saying that moving bodily fluids between people is bad? Is that something you're against? |
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Well fuck me running! I might have to add Poland and Belarus to my to-evaluate list of '3rd option' countries if things go badly south here in a certain English speaking SE Asian country. If Joogle, Facefuck, Twatter, etc voluntarily left Poland it would probably be the best thing which ever happened for the Poles. And if native startups pop up to fill the vacuum I'll be one of the early customers, particularly if the government carries through on it's promising path which respects individual liberties. I never had any social media accounts except for Google which, in my situation, was fairly unavoidable. You should add China and Russia to your list as well. Their governments do a great job of enforcing what is or is not posted on the internet. |
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Video games are harmless, but I fear the new incoming generation is getting heavily dependent on them so they lack social skills, or the will to even go outside. Perhaps the unspoken benefit is the population will naturally go down because they won't get laid.  I think you are a bit misinformed. Gaming became much more accepted over the last few years. Actually there are a lot of girls in gaming these days. A good friend of mine is married to a gamer girl that is still streaming. Also the demand for gaming gear is high than ever with a lot of different styles and colors for all sexes. Of course they're more accepting of gaming. Doesn't mean it isn't taboo to stay inside playing video games all day. I'm sure some woman would find that to be a bit off putting? But to each their own. Also, video games are distracting, if they get out of hand. Why bother doing work or studying in school when you can play world of warcraft all day  Anything entertaining is distracting. That's what entertainment is for. And it's not the 90s anymore. It's not a bad thing to be a 'nerd'. And video games are a way to make friends, not a sign you don't have any. Times have changed. In North America ESports viewership is expected to be more than MLB, making the NFL the only league with more viewers. League of Legends 2019 World Championship, streamed live by over 100 million:  |
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As I usually do, I just picked one 'paper' at random. It happened to be this one: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/1274 Total and complete nothing-burger which had no information or thesis of any value whatsoever. What passes for 'science' these days is a hopeless circle-jerk of nonsense between a gaggle of useless 'academic institutions'. They only bother to tap out such a piece of drivel since one cannot be attacked for saying nothing of any consequence whatsoever. They have to hack out some words once in a while to justify a paycheck I guess, but clearly it doesn't have to mean anything or contribute to knowledge in the slightest. Pretty vague criticism... "that's stupid!" would've conveyed the same message. Did you not make it to the abstract? It begins on page 2. [img_]https://i.gyazo.com/8562d281dade1b2bdd7c418dac20034b.png[/img] Translation: We can sell the idea that accelerating evolution using the technique of swapping bodily fluids between sick people to explain away any changes in our 'SARS-cov-2' (purported) virus psy-op. Take-away: We can impose the 'new normal' using Gitmo-developed methods (masks, physical distancing, mass house arrests, arbitrary constantly changing rules, invasive monitoring, etc) indefinitely even while we are forcing people to become genetically modified organisms under the design of corporate interests and their eugenicist boards of directors via the (not) vaccines. "the technique of swapping bodily fluids between sick people"...you mean developing a vaccine, right? Are you against anything coming out of one persons body and going into another for medical reasons? Once again, you aren't really saying anything of substance - all I have to go with (other than the fact that you said the paper had no thesis - which gives me reason to think it's unlikely you actually read it) is your tone, which makes your stance clear but does nothing to actually defend it. |
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As I usually do, I just picked one 'paper' at random. It happened to be this one: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/1274 Total and complete nothing-burger which had no information or thesis of any value whatsoever. What passes for 'science' these days is a hopeless circle-jerk of nonsense between a gaggle of useless 'academic institutions'. They only bother to tap out such a piece of drivel since one cannot be attacked for saying nothing of any consequence whatsoever. They have to hack out some words once in a while to justify a paycheck I guess, but clearly it doesn't have to mean anything or contribute to knowledge in the slightest. Pretty vague criticism... "that's stupid!" would've conveyed the same message. Did you not make it to the abstract? It begins on page 2.  |
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tldr; Get another state to ask the Supreme Court to do what Texas did, and this time hope the Supreme Court doesn't make the same 'error' they did the first time. Nope, read again. Oh my bad. Get the Federal government to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin and hope the supreme court doesn't make the same mistake they did with Texas and decide to hear the case and then rule that all the votes that have been counted, recounted, litigated, ruled on, certified, and then used to determine where the electoral votes went....don't matter. Even shorter tldr; Supreme Court was wrong, try again maybe they won't be this time? Do you really think this could happen? Is it possible you think it should happen not because of the facts, but because you would prefer Trump had a second term instead of Biden taking over? |
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tldr; Get another state to ask the Supreme Court to do what Texas did, and this time hope the Supreme Court doesn't make the same 'error' they did the first time. |
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Replies here seem to portray Trump as a savage who cant just get things done in a peaceful atmosphere. For all i know, his a man of peace though
“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said I think it’s great, but we don’t go far enough. It’s true. We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.” -Trump “There’s a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches. We’re not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. I’d like to punch him in the face.” -Trump |
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wtf even is this? This didn’t make any headlines in the fake news media.
Georgia Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted last night on a senate report on election abuses, fraud, and abnormalities.
The Georgia committee recommended there is enough evidence to decertify the vote for Joe Biden. That's the whole article^^^ They voted on a report? What did they actually vote on? What was the outcome of the vote? Why did only Republicans vote on it? They 'recommended there is enough evidence'? wtf? Reads as if a few politicians in Georgia said Trump should win and a high school freshman tried to fill a page about it - triple spaced, in big font because the teacher said 'one full page' and he wanted to go play video games not do stupid homework. |
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covid is a real thing, and must be taken seriously
COVID is far from new and no one is saying it's fake, it's just being sold to the public in a super scammy way and people like you eat that shit up! Molecular clock dating analyses of coronaviruses suggest that the most recent common ancestor of these viruses existed around 10,000 years ago. I think it's safe to assume he was referring to the disease covid-19, which is caused by a recently (about a year ago) discovered corona virus. The world is constantly changing and evolving... Corona Virus appears to have been around for 10,000 years. Corona Viruse s have been around forever. They are a pretty big family of viruses. The Novel (new) Corona Virus behind this pandemic is called SARS-CoV-2. AIDS is caused by two Letntiviruses, the HIVS. Think of it this way: Animals : Birds : Red Tailed Falcon is same as Viruses : Coronaviruses : SARS-Cov-2 is same as Viruses : Letntiviruses : HIV (where HIV refers to two viruses) Covid-19 is the disease that is caused by SARS-Cov-2. AIDS is the disease caused by HIV. |
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covid is a real thing, and must be taken seriously
COVID is far from new and no one is saying it's fake, it's just being sold to the public in a super scammy way and people like you eat that shit up! Molecular clock dating analyses of coronaviruses suggest that the most recent common ancestor of these viruses existed around 10,000 years ago. I think it's safe to assume he was referring to the disease covid-19, which is caused by a recently (about a year ago) discovered corona virus. covid-19 = corona virus disease that was discovered in 2019. |
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The same can be written about those who earn money by their labor. Overall, I agree that video games are a waste of time. For your work, you will at least receive money that can be spent in the future to improve your life and not only yours. If a teenager plays games, this is still half the trouble, but after all, many adults play and are addicted to them, not realizing that this time could be spent more productively, so you always need to consciously approach any type of waste of time and think about what benefits it will bring you.
That's the main selling point of video games. Find ways how to get players hooked in their designed games and rip money as much as they can. If you are a gamer, make sure you can afford this kind of lifestyle, because this is quite expensive. Not only your resources but your time is really put into it. You need to contemplate on your life why you need to spend so many hours on this activity. Some people enjoy playing video games. It makes them happy. That's the main selling point. Sure, some would like to spend all their time doing only things that make them happy in that moment like playing video games, but they don't, because they are responsible. I'm guessing you don't enjoy playing video games and likely aren't interested in trying. That's fine. But it doesn't mean other people that play them are wasting their life away. Different people entertain themselves in different ways. |
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