ChonkyOwlbear

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I just got done listening to an old Behind the Bastards about Trofim Lysenko who was a Soviet scientist whose job it was to increase crop yield. He ignored Darwinian evolution in favor of a type of Lamarckian evolution that fit better with Stalin's politics. This involved planting massive amounts of seeds per acre with the idea that the seeds would help each other grow better. He falsified his data to show that this worked and in the long run led to the starvation of 30 million people.

I don't mean to criticize communism by mentioning this. Certainly capitalism has shown the same adherence to ideology in spite of evidence with climate change. I just think it was an interesting bit of history in light of the post which is actually good agricultural science they also fits with collectivist thought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This headline makes it seem like Sean Combs was involved in trying to shoot Trump.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

And why don't we stick the whole thing underground to further minimize damage to the landscape. Besides it's way cooler to be called a vault dweller than a condo resident.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The picture on the left is just an argument against lawns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Absolutely agree, but at some point there will still be someone reporting expenses to the government and that needs to be trustworthy info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You make a good point, but think of it this way. Someone Googles "tips on buying a new laptop". Companies enrolled with the Google program bump up their prices for that user. But what about websites not enrolled in the program? Their prices stay lower, so if the person buying the laptop ships around even a little bit, they will likely buy from one of the non-affiliated sites.

It only works if the whole marketplace is under the system. Amazon is a shopping experience tailored to keep people inside their system, so it works with them. You aren't going to take the time to price match across multiple websites for a pair of socks. I think it is a lot harder to manipulate prices with big-ticket items, where people will put in the effort to shop around.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

This guy had convictions for possession of a machine gun in 2002 and 2022! How the fuck did he get a third one!!!

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/donald-trump-assassination-attempt/3970611/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like the company needs to be forced to pay for full time government employees who supervise the company to insure compliance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I agree with the broad premise that your information has value, but I wouldn't worry about Google increasing prices just for you. Companies still control their own websites and they aren't going to allow another company to change what they change directly.

What Google sells is the ability for a company to get their website in front of your eyes. They sell the top spaces in your search results. A company who doesn't pay Google gets pushed to page two.vor three. Now in a sense that increases your prices because the cost of the companies increased ad budgets is passed on to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Hating people trying to harm you is justified. Hating people because they are different is not. Trump and MAGA Republicans are an existential threat to this country. Moving the country forward is only an option if it still exists as a representative democracy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In other words, he not only failed to challenge the core of Covid ideology—that other human beings are pathogenic so we need to restrict our freedoms and isolate—but used his social media presence, such as it was, to urge others to accept all the dominant lies by the government. He bought the Covid and lockdown ideology and broadcasted it. He seems to have no regrets. 

The author is a plague rat who thinks libertarianism means being able to harm others with impunity. Don't waste time on this trash.

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