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Part of the reason the USA has gotten to this state is because we allow unverified sensationalist slop like this to get the public's attention and be used against them. We've already seen 1 bullshit study linking vaccines and autism that is STILL being widely circulated and used to this day to convince people not only that vaccines are bad but that the whole GOVERNMENT is bad. Look at the results.

Now we're going to convince people toothpaste is bad using the same quality of "independent research"?

If we allow large countries to conquer part of a small country and hold it for a few years and it becomes theirs, isn't it obvious to everyone that ALL LARGE COUNTRIES are going to do that continuously and aggressively from now on? Because they've seen that it's not only possible, it's acceptable and rewarding.

It's not about "battlefield realities" and "practicality". We cannot allow slow creeping aggression and erosion of borders because it won't stop at Ukraine. It won't stop anywhere. It's a recipe for WW3, if you actually want WW3, that's how you get WW3. We've allowed them to get away with it too often and too passively. The line must be drawn here, because the lines are only going to get harder and harder to enforce and we will keep getting weaker and more divided. It's already happening. This is almost certainly our last chance.

Crimea is Ukraine. It was in 1991, it was in 2014, and it still is, and it always will be unless it goes through a proper, legal and internationally recognized independence or annexation process. Any deviation from that position is a sign of incredible weakness that will be punished and abused for a century. This is an extremely dangerous game Russia is playing, and they simply cannot be allowed to win, that's not brinksmanship, that's standing up for what's right. Ukraine understands that. Why don't we?

I mean, it depends what you're willing to call "research".

The testing, conducted by Lead Safe Mama, also found concerning levels of highly toxic arsenic, mercury and cadmium in many brands.

I'm not sure I would put this on the same level as a controlled, reproducible double-blind peer-reviewed study by Harvard and MIT published in a prestigious journal, but I'm sure it's really close. /s

Edit: Ok, so people argue she's at least a little legitimate, but why the fuck can't we use actual scientific institutions anymore? We have a scientific method for a reason. Where's the peer review? Where's the people reproducing her results?

Both the tool and the craftsman are to blame if you intend to use duct tape to build a house. The appropriate and acceptable uses of AI chatbots are similarly limited.

I don't trust polls with my vote or my voting choice, but I do use polls as a gauge for my optimism. Everyone must ALWAYS vote, no matter what the polls say. The more important the election, the more important it is to ALWAYS VOTE.

But I am very optimistic, and I believe everybody will vote.

Android: It's based on Linux, except it replaces any and all of the things that make Linux worth using, with Google, and runs it on hardware so proprietary, closed, encrypted and nefarious nothing the OS does can be plausibly trusted anyway.

AI is just a search engine you can talk to that summarizes everything it finds into a small nugget for you to consume, and in the process sometimes lies to you and makes up answers. I have no idea how people think it is an effective research tool. None of the "knowledge" it is sharing is actually created by it, it's just automated plagiarism. We still need humans writing books (and websites) or the AI won't know what to talk about.

Books are going to keep doing just fine.

The US military is run by the E5 mafia. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

He's not interested in winning any hearts and minds legitimately. Those are "easy come, easy go" they will desert him as soon as he does any of the bad things he has planned. They're useless to him.

He's trying to find the people that are fully devoted to him, mind and soul. The ones who will support him to the end, and follow his orders when he tells them to shoot at protests. The ones who will obey when he tells them to arrest the opposition. The ones who will defend him when he announces he's not leaving the White House just because some court or election said he has to. Those are the people he's going to spend the next 4 years shopping for, so he can put them in every position of power he can.

I agree with OP. I think he is preparing an actual coup attempt. This is how those things go. Will he succeed? I don't know. I certainly hope not. But don't underestimate him, or his ambitions.

Ground News... so many American Youtube sponsorships... I was surprised to learn it's Canadian.

Similarly, Reuters, one of the main worldwide news distributors that most other news media rely on, along with Associated Press (AP), both are pretty much omnipresent in the US and around the world. Reuters is a UK company.

I doubt that. Why wouldn't you be able to learn on your own? AIs lie constantly and have a knack for creating very plausible, believable lies that appear well researched and sometimes even internally consistent. But that's not learning, that's fiction. How do you verify anything you're learning is correct?

If you can't verify it, all your learning is an illusion built on a foundation of quicksand and you're doomed to sink into it under the weight of all that false information.

If you can verify it, you have the same skills you need to learn it in the first place. If you still find AI chatbots convenient to use or prompt you in the right direction despite that extra work, there's nothing wrong with that. You're still exercising your own agency and skills, but I still don't believe you're learning in a way you can't on your own and to me, that feels like adding extra steps.

I'm glad I read the article, the dripping irony and mockery in the title for some reason didn't trigger for me until I actually started reading. The idea that someone who considered Google Plus the "next big thing" has any ability to predict the success or failure of social media platforms is indeed pretty comical.