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Grakel commented on The ACLU Suddenly Reverses Its Support for Transparency inquiremore.com/p/the-acl... · Posted by u/steelstraw

BoiledCabbage · 4 years ago

Do you ever wonder why the conservative party in the US is pushing so strongly for Voter IDs and arguing them being mandatory when voter fraud is virtually non- existent?

Always take time to understand why people push strongly for a solution to a problem that isn't occurring. And usually when you do, you'll find there are second order effects that cause that group to benefit.

Looking into that gets to the root of the issue and the reason why people are correctly labeling it as anti-voter rights.

Grakel · 4 years ago

Need a vaccine card to leave the house, but no ID to elect the government, it would be hilarious if it weren't literally destroying the country.

Grakel commented on The ACLU Suddenly Reverses Its Support for Transparency inquiremore.com/p/the-acl... · Posted by u/steelstraw

_-david-_ · 4 years ago

There seems to be more and more cases where the ACLU is putting politics over there previously stated ideals? Does anybody have some organizations that still hold to their ideals? My understanding is the EFF is still pretty good, but quite limited in scope.

Grakel · 4 years ago

Project Veritas

Grakel commented on UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption theregister.com/2022/01/2... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn

Grakel · 4 years ago

Government power is inherently corrupt. Everyone wants their government to step in and implement their pet preference, and very few people are willing to say: the less a government does, the better.

Edit: apparently I'm blocked from replying below, so: Saying that people who disagree aren't knowledgeable is the biggest thing making politics so hateful today. Small government works great. The smaller the better. For me, that's no dumb abortion laws or carbon taxes.

Grakel commented on CIA says 'Havana Syndrome' not result of sustained campaign by hostile power nbcnews.com/politics/nati... · Posted by u/jc_811

Grakel · 4 years ago

Well until they know what it is, they don't know. Didn't the CDC say it was psychosomatic? Seems a bit widespread for that to be true.

Grakel commented on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright bariweiss.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/imgabe

terminatornet · 4 years ago

Me (angrily) to the global pandemic: "Enough is enough, mister, if you don't stop ravaging our population, we're putting you in a timeout!"

I'm sure bargaining with covid will work.

Grakel · 4 years ago

Ravaging the population? It's this exaggeration of the disease that I'm saying we should stop. Just accept it like it's a weird sequel to the flu and move on.

Grakel commented on The mystery of social behavior in octopuses hakaimagazine.com/feature... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

DoingIsLearning · 4 years ago

They are also notorious for finding increasingly cleverer ways of escaping aquariums. Which again adds to the case that an aquarium is not a suitable environment.

Grakel · 4 years ago

IDK, their main aquarium is the entire ocean, and they still come up on land.

Grakel commented on I’m a public school teacher – the kids aren’t alright bariweiss.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/imgabe

Grakel · 4 years ago

I'm a professor and we're seeing drops in enrollment and huge drops in work being done, learning, and creativity. We need to say, hey it's been two years in March, we're done. March Onward, or something. No more.

Hah, this comment dropped 6 points in less than a second. This article will be flagged soon.

Grakel commented on Is old music killing new music? tedgioia.substack.com/p/i... · Posted by u/tysone

bsder · 4 years ago

> I'm honestly pretty sick of all the 60s-80s stuff I've been listening to, but what else is there?

Listen to a whole album. This is THE fundamental problem with streaming.

Any band that produced one good song probably produced quite a few other good ones. Bands that got pigeonholed into a "sound" probably produced other songs on their albums that weren't in that sound.

Even for mega-popular bands like "Journey", for example, 3/4 of the songs on their albums never get played anywhere. You'll probably find something you really like in that set.

Sadly, this seems to break down starting in the late 1990s.

Grakel · 4 years ago

Oh man, I wish. For me even the biggest names barely have more than 3 or 4 songs worth listening to.

Grakel commented on Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable interneteconomist.com/net... · Posted by u/techdemic

stathibus · 4 years ago

Netflix is part of the FAANG acronym because they have all these highly paid engineers. Presumably those people have been doing something for the past 5 years in anticipation of being disrupted by Disney/HBO/etc. besides maintaining their CDN and tweaking recommendation engines, but it's not clear what - the product is more or less the same as it always was.

Grakel · 4 years ago

Netflix's user experience has always been bad, and it's worse than ever. Engineers also don't make content, so if they're doing any good, I guess it's backend.

Grakel commented on Trudeau Plays Dangerous Game Demanding U.S. Truckers Have Shots bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/DannyCasolaro

anakaine · 4 years ago

You're thinking in terms of just US vs Canada. You're also forgetting that Canada is part of the Commonwealth. You can bet your bottom dollar that Commonwealth nations (at least a couple of whom are nuclear enabled, and some of whom have their own defence industries including ship and fighter jet production) would become involved. The US would find themselves on the short end of the NATO stick, including free trade agreements being jeopardised. Then there's the opportunism by Russia and China. Any distraction such as an invasion of Canada, and one that drags in allies, would provide an opportunity for them to apply global trade and banking restrictions, leverage geopolitical issues, disrupt supply chains, etc.

It would not be nearly as straight forward as "America military is big and grunts loud, Canada has beavers and mittens."

Grakel · 4 years ago

You're insane if you think that either those nations would take any real action OR that the US couldn't take them all at once without breaking a sweat. The scope and quality of military power and technology wielded by the US is astounding. Probably just the Navy could take those countries.