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Comment Re:People worry about government surveillance? (Score 1) 49

People believe that they can just stop buying from corporations anytime they want and that would solve all the problems.

Nobody pays attention to the insane amounts of market consolidation going on because the brands are different although they're owned by the same companies. People do not know what a parent company is...

Comment Re:Or maybe (Score 2) 33

Pretty much this. It is extremely well understood how to dope and get away with it. Everyone does it.

We know this because the reality is human beings can't really do what people want athletes to do.

Every now and then one of them screws up and gets caught but it's getting rarer and rarer.

Also the public bodies that oversee and try to catch doping are more or less in on it because nobody wants to see regular human beings in sports. It just isn't as exciting.

Comment Re:People worry about government surveillance? (Score 1) 49

Plus in most jurisdictions (especially China and more recently the US) it's quite easy for governments to get access to corporate data for "security" purposes. So any data corporate surveillance collects, government can get access to as well. Often just for a small fee, no ominous security laws required.

A lot of people don't realize this. Gun nuts in the US get bent out of shape about the idea of a gun registry, all while you can be pretty sure the NSA already has something similar based on data from buyer transactions with corporations.

Comment Re:The thing "progressives" always miss... (Score 1) 163

I'm sure you can find some idiot, probably a false flag, saying that. Or twist something someone said to imply it, the classic one being that beyond 1.5C is pretty bad and we had about 20 years to prevent it. But that's all it was, fringe stuff and lies.

There were plenty of credible sources, plenty of people on the political left accurately relaying the scientific consensus.

What does it matter though? Even if what you claim was true, that's no excuse for you to continue to ignore the science.

Comment Re:Because not everything needs fucking encryption (Score 2) 43

Having my DNS queries encrypted is very low value. It just seems like one more tactic by large companies to squeeze out small companies, much like DKIM. It's got marginal value and "solves" a problem that spam filtering already took care of decades ago only to make it harder for small server operators so they'll hopefully throw up their hands and give the business to Google or M$, instead. That's what they want, not "security".

And what method do you propose that your DNS queries have not been tampered with? DNS runs quietly in background every time you use a web address. If someone were to redirect DNS queries of [yourbank.com] to their [fakebanksite.com] and got your banking credentials, I would guess you would not think that was of "marginal value".

Comment Re:Easy Answer (Score 1) 43

Most people are not worried about their DNS traffic being examined.

That is not why DNSSEC exists. The reason DNSSEC exists is so that DNS queries cannot be altered so when when you ask for the IP address for [yourbank.com], a malicious attacker has not populated queries with IP addresses of [fakebanksite.com]

And the problems with DNS traffic being altered or redirected has yet to be a widespread enough problem for the masses to care about.

So we should wait until a fundamental part of how the Internet works is exploited for people to do something about it? DNS cache poisoning was found to be exploitable in 2008. DNS was patched to plug the exploit. It was not actually fixed.

Comment Re: Room Temp policy a problem? (Score 1) 62

Working a job when you're young is good for you. That 15hr a week part time job provides a lot more value to a high school student then just spending money. I don't think any of the affluent parents who arent encouraging their kids to get jobs when they're young are doing them any favors.

Even with a part time job one still has plenty of time to get into all of the trouble one should when one is a kid.

Comment I wasn't really listing them in order of value (Score -1) 62

Although I do think that the training in how to avoid breaking laws is the most important because if you screw that up your ass is going to prison.

An argument could be made though that what really keeps you out of prison is that network of high wealth individuals you make in school. Nepo babies ftw.

Also you're mixing things up here. I don't care whether people are mindless capitalists or not that doesn't matter.

The problem isn't people being mindless capitalists the problem is we have an entire system of education designed to create economic predators who devour people.

Comment High interest rates are designed for recession (Score 0) 34

It's the dirtiest little secret of our economy we never ever ever talk about except in highly technical terms that disguise what's actually going on.

The way it works is pretty simple.

So most companies do not keep much cash around. Besides the ones that are making so much money they literally can't spend it fast enough like Apple computer or Nvidia most companies are a few bad weeks maybe a few bad months away from disaster.

This is because any cash in the company is immediately extracted for the shareholders or if it's a small business the owner.

Now companies also tend to make all their money at once. You go through months of losing money only to make it all up in a few months at the end or beginning of the year depending on your industry.

So this means that companies often need short-term loans or they are in deep shit.

When money is cheap, meaning interest rates are low, they can easily borrow and get past the lean portions of the year.

If money is expensive, high interest rates, that means that the very first thing they have to do is turn the layoffs. Stock BuyBacks don't help here because companies very quickly become desperate to get cashed prop up their stock price.

So this means that the Federal reserve can trigger Mass layoffs anytime they want by hiking interest rates.

And that's the goal. To get you fired.

Because the idea is you're going to get your ass walked out the door and then you're going to blow through all your savings and you're going to pull back on your spending so that's going to reduce inflation.

This does not work. Back in the '70s it did but this is not the 1970s.

Costing a bunch of people their jobs now doesn't help reduce prices because we've had 50 years of non-stop market consolidation and at the end of the day you got to eat and there's only a few companies, about 7, that you can buy food from now. And if you grow your own food congrats you're going to be buying the supplies to do that from one of those seven companies.

So our entire economic system is based on the idea that when things get tough we're going to kick the shit out of you until they get better. And just because that doesn't work anymore doesn't mean we're going to stop.

Of course the problem with this is I just spent several paragraphs explaining and like Ronald Reagan said if you're explaining you're losing.

The takeaway is the game really is rigged against you.

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