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• On the post: US Press Continues To Help Prop Up Bullshit 5G Conspiracy Theories

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 13 May, 2020 @ 11:48am

  Re:

  WiFi was a conspiracy proxy for 4G

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 09:58am

  Re: Re: Re:

  (appending the last paragraph from outrage to *seeking outrage)

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 09:53am

  Re: Re:

  I've a secondary point. It's somewhat less precise but I arrived at it thru decades of honesty-driven analysis. The most productive path to fixing the other team's bad behavior lies thru fixing the instances of that bad behavior in one's own team. Conversely, when someone isn't holding their own team accountable, in a way that consistently effects observable change, they are enabling, emboldening, condoning, instructing, guaranteeing (how many more participles do I need here?) the other team's bad behavior. The phrase "Clean Your Own House" is most frequently used as a bludgeon, usually as response to someone else's bad choices. This accomplishes nothing because the phrase is only powerful as a self-applied principle. It's the actual cleaning of one's own house that effects change. If we truly want an effective society, all of us need to become better, more mature, more considering individuals. We'll know we got there when we've stopped demonizing people we don't like and discarded the harmful things-we-hold-dear (like outrage or winning an argument). Seriously, we all need to grow up.

• On the post: Sketchy Gets Sketchier: Senator Loeffler Received $9 Million 'Gift' Right Before She Joined The Senate

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 May, 2020 @ 08:41am

  Re:

  The discussed corruption regularly happens in right wing circles - only - or it doesn't. If non-right instances of corruption aren't of any meaningful amount than yes - injecting them into the conversation is a counterproductive distraction. Otherwise, the point that this corruption not limited to one party is valid. Is saying that corruption is endemic to both parties a worthwhile point to make? I think that depends on what you want to eliminate.

• On the post: New AT&T CEO Says You're A Moron If You Don't Use AT&T Streaming Services

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 May, 2020 @ 12:26pm

  Re: Re:

  Oh just say it already, "Cream of the Crap".

• On the post: AT&T Keeps On Firing Employees Despite Claims The Trump Tax Cut Would Boost Job Growth

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2020 @ 07:27am

  Re:

  I didn't feel anything. Maybe you have a grammar sensitivity?

• On the post: Chinese Skiers Training In Norway Ask Local Library To Remove 'Controversial' Books

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2020 @ 10:35am

  Chinatologists

  The skiers remind me of devout religious acolytes, from one of the faiths that compulsively overreact to criticism.

• On the post: New Study Suggests That YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Isn't The Tool Of Radicalization Many People Believe (At Least Not Any More)

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2020 @ 08:07pm

  Anti-Radicalization

  What's it like to be radicalized by endless, pointless, loud, eye-ball hooking videos that aren't ever something I'd want to watch?

• On the post: Appeals Court Denies Qualified Immunity To Cop Who Argued Citizens Have No Right To Defend Themselves Against Armed Intruders

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2019 @ 07:04pm

  Re: Re: Again...

  Plenty of teachers of bad cop behavior - and they are the defacto teachers because ~0% of police ever, ever, ever, ever speak out about any bad cop behavior. That's likely because speaking out against bad cops is the only thing they'd recognize as bad behavior.

• On the post: Biden Spreads False Info By Saying That Taking Away Section 230 Will Make Facebook Liable For Spreading False Info

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2019 @ 01:32am

  Did CNN set Biden straight?

  I didn't see the clip.
  Did CNN correct Biden & carefully explain what Section 230 actually does?

  Not trying to call out CNN here but news orgs that don't (or can't) defend the simple and primary laws that protect their business, really should die in the vine.

• On the post: John Oliver Takes On Fucked Up Voting Machines In The Way Only He Can

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 10:52am

  Re: w/o the EC

  Quickly restating our reality w/o the Electoral College: A select minority of counties will pick every presidential election (ftr: I'm in one).
  https://i.ibb.co/Kysys65/electoral-college-population.jpg In most elections, only 4 states would decide every PotUS.
  https://i.ibb.co/0sKFgxx/Without-Elecoral-College.jpg
  Most states won't matter, ever. Now if we were meaningfully individual thinkers, there would be little need for the EC. But we aren't. We're highly susceptible to group-think. Worse, elections are decided by manipulating voters into select conclusions, that they'd never come to on their own. The primary issue with elections is that everyone is fine with the above. I'd agree that the EC is a poor alternative to manipulation-resistant voters but it's all that we have.

• On the post: FBI Director Deploys Straw Men While Calling For The End Of Straw Men Arguments In The Encryption War

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2019 @ 07:31am

  Need for grammatic logic

  those out there who are resisting the need for lawful access...

  The Need For Lawful Access is created by crime.

  Crime rates are down. FBI's shrill aggression is up.

  Okay. The FBI hates whatever results in less need for lawful access.

• On the post: People Freaking Out About Amazon Copying A Shoe Are Totally Missing The Point

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2019 @ 02:13pm

  Re: IP Prohibition

  "From than" Oh dang. One more!

• On the post: People Freaking Out About Amazon Copying A Shoe Are Totally Missing The Point

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2019 @ 02:12pm

  IP Prohibition

  From what I can tell, more minds are lost to IP-Think, from than every psychoactive drug combined.

• On the post: Months After Christchurch Shooting, The Australian Government Is Issuing Site-Blocking Orders Targeting Footage Of The Incident

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2019 @ 08:57am

  Imagine that 9/11 coverage was illegal

• On the post: AT&T Hopes A Confusing Rebranding Will Help Its Muddled Video Plans Make Sense

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 03:50am

  Yeah our cable bills rise every month but so does the quality and quantity of commercials. I don't get why people aren't flocking to that.

• On the post: The Newest Growth Market For License Plate Readers Is Those Assholes Running The Local Homeowners Association

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2019 @ 03:59pm

  Re: HOAs

  you choose to live in an HOA neighborhood

  A true assertion yet not an honest one. I found my current rental via checking each day's new rental listings at 6am, so I'd be the 1st applicant. Every day, without fail. Many listings met our budget, distance & space needs, all of them in really tough neighborhoods (usually w/ HOAs, btw). It took 6 months (as in 180 attempts) to find ONE suitable house in a reasonably safe neighborhood - w/ the most notorious HOA in the county. So yeah. Technically I chose to live w/ an HOA (that occasionally fabricates bizarrely false violations) but only to avoid living in an even worse Hell.

• On the post: Instead Of Parents Spying On Their Kids Online, Why Not Teach Them How To Be Good Digital Citizens

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2019 @ 11:15am

  Re:

  The challenge is that parents are zeroing in on fully controlling kids' environments.
  For most of history, kids had far more unsupervised play time than they do now. Now not only are they under constant scrutiny, we've erased free ranges by walling kids in w/ endless subdivisions & blanketed everywhere else with No Trespassing signs. We're undermining childhood as effectively as anyone can.

• On the post: Instead Of Parents Spying On Their Kids Online, Why Not Teach Them How To Be Good Digital Citizens

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2019 @ 11:38am

  Preparing for the improbable

  Surveillance seems designed to prevent the very, very rare and very, very unlikely disaster scenarios

  This is true because nearly every justification for surveillance is a lie. Police & legislators hammer us w/ a false narrative (ever amplified by the news) that kids are at meaningful risk from kidnapping. The truth is that kidnappings by strangers are vanishingly rare.

  Historically, the greatest human risk to kids has been sexual and other forms of abuse, often by larger and older kids. And the reason that abuse was a persistent threat is because (historically) kids knew that cops weren't likely to protect them.

  Fortunately, that last bit has been changing - which leaves kids pretty dang safe to spend hours away from adults.
  If kids had any adult-free places to range w/o fear of arrest, that is.

• On the post: Instead Of Parents Spying On Their Kids Online, Why Not Teach Them How To Be Good Digital Citizens

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2019 @ 10:54am

  More Watched = Less Capable

  Kids learn how to handle experiences by handling experiences. Parents break that process when they insert themselves into it.

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