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- Comment on What are easy to present criticisms of mainstream outlets like BBC and CNN? 2 years ago:
Too many headlines are designed to be a provocative attention grabber, but don't accurately reflect the contents of the article. Also, the CNN 24 hour news model means they have to generate enough content to fit those 24 hours, so often times that coverage leaves people less informed, especially when they have poorly vetted "expert analysts" on.
- Submitted 2 years ago to meta@lemmy.ml | 2 comments
- Comment on Michael Parenti: How counter-revolution pushes socialist countries to authoritarianism 2 years ago:
This sounds uncomfortably like the fundamentalist capitalists who try to justify McCarthyism. Just saying.
- Comment on I realized i'm unfireable 2 years ago:
It has gotten a bit old, yes.
- Comment on Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed 2 years ago:
I too am interested on why Biden is keeping mum on this massive shift in policy. All but the most blood thirsty people seem weary of the level of involvement that the US has had.
This also reminds me of something that I've heard Biden told Obama, that the generals always ask for more, more, more. It's part of the president's job to know when to say no. Civilians, not the military, ultimately are supposed to call the shots.
- Submitted 2 years ago to usa@lemmy.ml | 2 comments
- Comment on Activision Blizzard Hires Union-Busting Firm As Workers Start To Come Together 2 years ago:
In the US the laws haven't kept up with the ruthless tactics "labor relations" industry. For example, the law says that the company cannot threaten to retaliate by closing a workplace that unionizes. What it can do is "project" that the workplace will no longer be economical to run. This apparently happened with Amazon in Alabama recently.
- Comment on Announcement: Tightening of anti-vax ban 2 years ago:
There are many, many legitimate discussion topics around the pandemic. What measures are effective? How should governments proceed? I'm even fine with discussions that are not so flattering to vaccines or pharmaceutical companies. But that thread yesterday really crossed the line in terms of the fire hose of misinformation. While in theory misinformation can be countered by rebuttal, in practice it takes so little effort to make a false claim in relationship to making a rebuttal that antivaxxers can just exhaust their opponents. It also tends to derail more worthwhile conversations.
- Comment on Announcement: Tightening of anti-vax ban 2 years ago:
unvetted vaccines
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines went through the full FDA approval process. This is a first warning. Further such posts will lead to a ban.
- Comment on Announcement: Tightening of anti-vax ban 2 years ago:
I'm okay with the instance rules being a lot looser, then delegating further restrictions to individual communities. I just don't want /c/coronavirus to become yet another hub for misinformation spread. These sorts of conversations have been largely played out already elsewhere.
- Comment on Announcement: Tightening of anti-vax ban 2 years ago:
Actually, I need some help modding. I'm keeping an eye out for a couple of people, but I'm not sure who is 1) trustworthy and 2) interested.
- Submitted 2 years ago to coronavirus@lemmy.ml | 21 comments
- Comment on Why so many commies in this app? 2 years ago:
Does it? I'm unaware of any site-level bans for being communist. Individual subreddits are obviously another story, but that's by design.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I can't wait for my friend who routinely falls for anti-vaxxers misinformation to bring a twisted version of this to me. Bleh.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I went from having a roommate to cohabiting to being married. Through it all, my rent has stayed similar. Overall I think it has helped because we're sharing more assets.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
No idea, but that's inconsequential. Immunization via infection just provides a chance for a new variant, and people can be infected multiple times. Immunization via vaccines does not have that risk.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
It's not just avoiding damage to individuals. Each new infected person means billions of new copies of the virus, each with a chance of mutating and causing a new variant. Until we see the end of a continent being left as a human petri dish, we're just going to be seeing more and more variants.
- Submitted 2 years ago to coronavirus@lemmy.ml | 1 comment
- Comment on 2 years ago:
It's not the US that I'm personally most worried about, though we must do better internally. It's nations with vaccination rates that make even heavily anti-vaxxer regions of the US look good. Almost all of Africa is in incredibly bad shape. There are a couple of African countries that have broken 50%, but it is common to have rates below 10%. Its third largest country, The Democratic Republic of The Congo, has 100 million people and a 0.2% vaccination rate. The world must do better in helping Africa get vaccinated, both to stop variants and to end the erosion of Africa's hard won progress in recent years.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
It's been in progress for a while, but it's not gotten to market yet. The team's pretty small and there is a lot of work to do as with any new architecture. It does provide some interesting potential to vastly reduce the power usage compared to out of order architectures. It also provides various other interesting innovations like an alternative to registers, L1-only memory, a single address space, and an intermediate instruction set that gets specialized to the individual processor.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I'm curious to see if the Mill architecture will take off any time soon. Unfortunately, it's not an open platform, but it would represent some interesting innovations in processor design. They've apparently been making steady progress, but publicly facing information about progress is limited.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
Unfortunately, Fairphone only ships to the EU. Even the UK is out, presumably because of Brexit.
- Comment on 2 years ago:
I'm not quite up for a laptop upgrade (I just repaired the speakers), but I'm a year or two away. At that point, I'll be choosing between System76, Framework, or Librem. Each company is moving forward a value that I care about, and I want my spending to reflect that.
- System76: The Linux Desktop via Pop OS! and some other projects
- Framework: Repair, device longevity, and the associated environmental benefits
- Librem: Privacy and security
I am currently leaning towards a Framework. They came out the gate with a solid product and I am hoping they will have time to address some shortcomings.