Saddam Hussein did quite a bit more then just “challenge the bully”…
I suppose genocide of the Kurds is acceptable on the internet as long as your suitably anti-American while you do it. Those darn American imperialists!
Readit NewsThe US is slowly bleeding its tech supremacy to EU. I guess losing manufacturing to China wasn't lesson enough.
Well that’s just not true. And a webpage of “European Alternatives” that 99.99% of Europeans have never heard of, much less come even remotely close to adopting, means nothing.
Why do Americans think they represent the world? Your adversary is not our adversary.
Does America “represent the world”? No.
Does America represent the national security strategy of essentially all of Europe, most non-Chinese nations in Asia, and much of South America?
Absolutely, and to pretend otherwise is to be dreaming.
If you’re not in one of those areas then you are correct that your adversary is not our adversary. But it’s pretty statistically likely you are, and in that case the two are linked.
You’re welcome to return the trillions spent on your defense, of course, and set up your own naval strategy and naval supply chains to defend your trade routes.
> Meanwhile if it’s anti-American he leaks it in full without taking any standard journalist precautions.
If it's true, what does saying it's anti-American mean? Would you rather be in the dark about shady shit your government is doing?
It's entirely possible that he just has better access to US sources than Russian ones.
> If it's true, what does saying it's anti-American mean? Would you rather be in the dark about shady shit your government is doing?
Sure, as long as it’s accompanied by safe journalist practices (which it isn’t) and also calls out the shady shit of other, opposed, countries (which (which it doesn’t).
> It’s entirely possible that he just has better access to US sources than Russian ones.
That’s fine and possible, but even if that wasn’t the case - and he had access to Russian leaks but didn’t leak them - this is still exactly what he would say.
And it’s possible both are true - that he’s simply releasing what is given to him, and the Russian state saw this and took the opportunity to feed him information as a result. At that point, after he has continually irresponsibly released covert information from a hostile state, how is he any different in practice than an intentional hostile actor?
> Everything they're accusing TikTok of - from data harvesting to the government having access to said data - is true for western companies as well and that should be the problem. Not the fact that the data is now in the hands of the Chinese but that the data is being collected at all provided to the government.
Yes western governments are totally full of shit too, the proof of this is that Julian Assange is still being crucified for leaking information, for being a whistle blower.
We're all so trained to thinking the Government is ok now that it's really hard to know what to do about it.
> Yes western governments are totally full of shit too, the proof of this is that Julian Assange is still being crucified for leaking information, for being a whistle blower.
That’s just not true. Many leakers and whistle blowers aren’t prosecuted every year.
Julian Assange is a pretty transparent Russian asset and has been for a number of years. There’s a reason he never leaks anything that is negative of Putin. Meanwhile if it’s anti-American he leaks it in full without taking any standard journalist precautions.
Of course he can pull the “I’m just a journalist bro” card, but the act is over and his time is up.
It seems to be your idea, that America is prosperous despite freedom, and that we must carefully dole out the freedom lest we lose our edge.
I believe that America was founded on the idea that we could be great because we are free, and that giving our people the opportunity to thrive and be productive will only, in the long run, make our prosperity that much greater.
It's been said that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. You would interpret this, I think, to mean that we should toss out the Bill of Rights anytime it seems inconvenient to our short-term ends. But I see it as a statement that, even when it seems contradictory, investing in the people rather than the power over them will lead to a greater nation even when that seems counterintuitive.
> we should toss out the Bill of Rights anytime it seems inconvenient to our short-term ends
We already do this. You have the right to bear arms - just not nuclear ones.
America has always had to place reasonable restrictions on rights to ensure the public good.
In the US, you are expected to uphold the line that brings you donors. That makes leftist parties non-viable. That’s not such a big difference from the Chinese situation as you’d think, except in direction.
What makes leftist parties unviable is the majority of the population disapproving of socialism.
People online vastly overestimate the actual effect of money on political results, naturally disregarding all the donations made to candidates that lose and ignoring races where the lesser funded candidates win.
If Americans wanted a leftist government, they’d vote for it, simple as that. And yet even in the most left leaning states and cities in the nation , leftist principles have failed to gain much electoral ground.
FreqSep commented on Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse reuters.com/technology/am... · Posted by u/pseudolus
> The facility had about 5,300 employees around that time.
So over 2 notices per employee. It would be interesting to see the distribution.
Well, the notices were over a year.
Amazon has massive weekly turnover numbers so the real number of employees over that full year is likely well in excess of 5,000, putting it at least at 1.something per.
Then consider it’s almost certain a small number of employees rack up most of the notices, and I can see this happening.
FreqSep commented on Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse reuters.com/technology/am... · Posted by u/pseudolus
It's pretty easy to imagine both of these things being true, and the one fulfillment center you visited having substantially less than 13k disciplinary notices. I worked 7 years in industrial staffing for a variety of large distribution centers (not Amazon), and the automated discipline systems in place around voice-pick efficiency were borderline draconian.
The real question is, are there any examples of companies achieving what Amazon is achieving at its scale, *without* employing these techniques? And if so what are they doing differently?
That’s odd, as I generally vote Democrat and the only post here I’ve submitted is to a math blog post I enjoy.
At any rate, let’s try to avoid having this website turn into yet another Reddit or Twitter in terms of quality of comments and obsession about anything seen as not left leaning enough.
I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree about the merits of Saddam Hussein, here. Have a good weekend.