ATTENTION IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in the Islamic calendar
Jumada II, 22, 1422 is Sept. 11th, 2001 (a Tuesday)
Jumada II, 22, 1442 is Feb. 5th, 2021
It's also a Friday.
Peer-reviewed, highly cited studies would show that there are more attacks on Fridays but they probably would never get published.
Watch out for:
- Improvised street surgery
- Autopyrotechnics
- Aircraft reliability problems
- Weak steel beams
Take care
But it's not as annoying as the regular paywalls where you don't have to just pay - you have to register, use a password, etc. Here you can just buy coupons as you're getting a pack of noodles.
Oh another idea, next to your comment the site could display the batch ID of your coupon. This would make it a bit more obvious if you have an army of shills that buy tons of coupons and comment all day.
Also, if a website operator notices that a certain batch of coupons is being used for bots, they could refuse that batch.
Physical coupons = real human
Crypto wise there needs to be nothing special, simplest implementation is just a random serial number on each coupon in a database, old fashioned reliable tech would work.
The hard part is setting up manufacturing and physical distribution of the coupons.
Can also pay for physical moderators.
Add to that GPT-3 text generation. They can and do make bots that can comment and generate English that is so realistic there is no way to tell if it's a real user or not unless you interact closely with them. That's how they're jamming 4chan with spam. Drowning useful discussions and investigations. They can use the same bots on Twitter, giving you the impression that there are millions of people agreeing with Pelosi. So we need a way of verifying humans, but then no one reasonable wants to upload their photo IDs. Having people make videos is probably the best option as deepfakes are still expensive and not realistic enough.
Next step would be to give somekind of percentage that tells you how much of a product is made in commie-occuppied Chinese territory. The reason is that a lot of components are made in PRC, so it's kind of hard to avoid using them.
But if you can see that product X has 17% made in PRC and product Y has 12% you can factor that into your choice, creating economic pressure by which product designers will start taking those choices into account when selecting their components, as in "So this chip is 57 cents but it's made in PRC, this other one is 82 cents but it's made in Malaysia."
The excuse is hilarious
https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1348319819498663944
They had to evacuate a control center to disinfect it because someone had chinkflu.
Does not make sense at all. Like, someone got their test results in the middle of the day? And aren't they all wearing masks anyway?
Did they replace all the personnel too?
It's literally the dog ate my homework tier.
Yep, communism sucks because it has no free market. Free markets are good because if something is wrong or missing, you can easily enter the market and provide a new or different product, and whether it works or not depends on you and on the customers. Having 6 billionaires own all the companies is no better than having 6 communist party central committee members making all the decisions. Hence anti-trust laws.
Let's go into the past and imagine, say, Saddam's Iraq. Everyone agrees that "evil dictator, no freedom of press !" Well, what if Saddam decides to make all media private, make the press "free" and it just happens that the Baath party members own almost all of the media and the banks? If you talk back, you don't get kidnapped and killed, but you get "deplatformed" and can't access your bank account, buy food or heat your home, because the utility companies, which are "private", have decided they don't want to do business with you.
Are we supposed to believe that this is a free society that conservatives are OK with because the government doesn't own everything?
Looky looky
http://web.archive.org/web/20200624141704/https://thousandcurrents.org/board-of-directors/
Susan Rosenberg Human and Prisoner Rights Advocate and Writer Thousand Currents Vice Chair of the Board of Directors Susan Rosenberg is a human rights and prisoners rights advocate, adjunct professor, communications consultant, award-winning writer, public speaker and a formerly incarcerated person. Her memoir, An American Radical, details her 16 years in federal prison as well as her conclusions about her prison experience and her past. She was released from prison in 2001 through executive clemency by then President Bill Clinton. Upon her release she worked at American Jewish World Service for 12 years beginning as a writer then becoming the Director of Communications. Post-AJWS Susan has worked extensively as a strategic consultant in organizational development with a focus on human rights, international development and criminal justice reform. She founded Sync It Communications, a communications-consulting group, and is the Director of the Erroll Garner Jazz Project. Susan is a founding member of the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and is on the Board of Advisors for Alliance of Families for Justice. She is an adjunct professor at Hunter College and a member of the prison writing committee of PEN America. Susan lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner.
Bill Clinton had her released.
So what? Big Tech only has as much power as people think it has. That can be fixed easily.
In the early 2000s you had to use a computer to go on the net, and not everyone had computers. We managed to survive. Second, there's still a web browser on Apple phones, right? Just use the web site.
Your first mistake was to think that logic applies to leftism.
Leftism works purely by word (and image, and sound) association.
That's why media is a crucial part of it.
They just need Trump to appear next to bad words, and Biden appear next to good words, the "blah"'s dont't need to make any kind of logical sense.
Then normies are programmed with Trump = bad and Biden = good like Pavlov's dogs.
They do need to repeat the message as often as possible.