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CNET: Snowden warns government surveillance amid COVID-19 could be long lasting
by jim bell 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

CNET: Snowden warns government surveillance amid COVID-19 could be long lasting. https://www.cnet.com/news/snowden-warns-government-surveillance-amid-covid-…

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opportunities/ plan of action, for Trump
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Never let a good crisis go to waste, and with Trump's nationalist and patriotic agenda at issue, a common sense 5 point action plan: 1. Reinstitute the generals Obama sacked (modulo those willing, of course). 2. Investigate actions to date of those appointed by Obama. 3. "COVID-19 inspired" Martial Law on the US/Mexico border - guarantee re-election :D 4. Extradite all foreigners with criminal records - further guarantee re-election 5. What to do about the sky-high US dollar? PRIME opportunity to urgently re-industrialize the USA - with a sky high US dollar, NOW is the time to purchase (/structurally motivate/ incentivize) an abundance of manufacturing and industrial equipment from nations producing such items (e.g. Germany, Russia). Also, with the Aussie dollar around record lows, now's a great time for the USA to stock up on Aussie raw materials and do economic deals with your actually literal greatest ally! And then at some time in the future when the AUD is again strong, it'll be our turn to re-industrialize. "How can this possibly be useful?" asks the anarchist. Well,: - we are presently in a regime of socialist corporatist governments; a "politically viable" (i.e. in the minds of sufficient numbers of people) alternative is (sadly) not presently apparent - nationalism is better than globalism - entanglement with China is unwise, to extremely unwise https://listverse.com/2017/03/10/10-pieces-of-propaganda-that-reveal-how-ch… https://listverse.com/2018/06/18/10-ways-life-will-change-if-china-becomes-… https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/how-did-china-become-a-global-superp…

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sci study: the flu shot ("vaccination") increases risk of coronavirus by 36% - avoid the flu shot - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Take notice, "lame stream media" recommendations to get a flu shot (NYT) or in the (near?) future to get a coronavirus "vaccination" shot, may be exactly the thing to NOT do. (Your circumstances may vary, I am not a doctor, if pain persists, see your doctor.) A scientific study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31607599 says: .. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus.” .. Examining non-influenza viruses specifically, the odds of both coronavirus and human metapneumovirus in vaccinated individuals were significantly higher when compared to unvaccinated individuals (OR = 1.36 and 1.51, respectively)” In other words, the flu shot is known to INCREASE your risk of contracting coronavirus by 36% (and increases risk of pneumonia by over 50%).

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Dysfunctional Decision-making
by Ryan Carboni 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Every society is run by an increasingly small number of cynical decision-makers. Barring a change of circumstance where cynicism is discouraged, their actions and plans are ultimately rewarded, and more power is accrued to them. Success begets success. Secrecy and immorality is incompatible with a free society, a free press is necessary to provide the necessary information for which society's members can decide the direction society may go. However if the response to a given event is to claim that it isn't happening, this constrains the freedom of action by which society's leaders can devote resources to an issue. Furthermore, it is the interests of cynical decision-makers in the accrual of power to alter society so that various leaders are cowardly and so unlikely to take an unprecedented action. Organizations that operate in accordance to inertia can be easily predicted and deviations from a course can be noticed and responded to accordingly. This is paradoxically incompatible with long-term stability, the people who desire access to the levers of power do not disappear, and if they did, cynical decision-makers do not make up a majority of society's members, they themselves are constrained from making public decisions or actions that would in it self be threatening and lead to a reaction by society's leaders to effect their removal out of a desire for self-preservation (unless it was sufficiently clear that ambition was not synonymous with hazard). Thus even the response to threats to a political order is constrained by perceptions, and this in turn constrains the allocation of resources to respond. The press, if dedicated to preserving the current political order, cannot describe a threat to the political order in terms that would allow for the threat to expand in support beyond society itself is willing to provide in responding to it. Every lock has play. The only lock that cannot be picked is one that cannot be opened.

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From Fox News - Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelan-president-maduro-drug-trafficking-… Jim Bell's comment:Has the Federal Govt set up a system to allow a person to anonymously supply information, and anonymously receive a reward, and yet (later) show the public that everyone was treated fairly?(As per my AP idea...)

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SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials. https://scitechdaily.com/5-weeks-instead-of-50-years-neural-networks-optimi…

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Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down
by Georgi Guninski 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down. Only few months downtime for Wuhan.

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"heroin candies are a human right" - hypothetical toddler world
by Zig the N.g 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

So imagine trying to "talk a heroin addict toddler out of eating heroin candies".. According to the Amblin Memer, this is -almost- the world we live in, which he presents in the following incisive and cutting, intellectual argument: Giving Heroin to Toddlers http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/giving-heroin-to-toddlers/ [very slutty pic, definitely NOT attached] .. You must understand this: men who defend slutty behavior in women are no different than people saying toddlers should have free choice of whether or not they eat heroin candies. These men are enablers. They do not care about fixing society, they do not care about helping women, they only care about serving women and doing the commands of women in order to get little pats on the head, as they hope that eventually a woman will take pity on them and reward them with sex. These men must also be shamed and humiliated, and called out as faggots whose minds and souls are dominated by women. Because they are lower than the sluts themselves. They are the ones making it possible for the sluts to behave like they do, and unlike the sluts, they are not even getting any benefits from this behavior. They are not getting pleasure. They are simply engaging in a masochistic exercise, due to the weakness of their character. ..

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Engadget: An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours
by jim bell 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Engadget: An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours. https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/25/hpe-ssd-bricked-firmware-flaw/ Jim Bell's comment: Self-destructing SSD. My SemiDisks never did that.

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Ethically Sourced and Conflict-Free Cocaine
by Ryan Carboni 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

I don't plan on selling any. Has anyone succeeded in buying any?

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