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Comment Re:Dissonance (Score 1, Insightful) 19

Rogan has quite an inside view of censorship, as totalitarian mouthpiece for an treasonous insurgency or criminals.

When Tiny Hands tries to revoke broadcasting licenses from journalists that criticize him, as he pledged to do, will Rogan mumble qualified criticism before immediately flying into some pathetic "whatabout" excuses? Or will he go the full Nazi psychosis and call it "defense of freedom," like slavery was to the Confederates?

Comment Soil lost to erosion is not easy to replace. (Score 4, Insightful) 75

Often takes decades of regeneration and careful protection to redevelop arable regions. However "concerned" global powers feign to be, they sit comfortable knowing that whatever valuable resources remain will certainly belong to them, often personally.

Comment Re:I'm sure physicists love this (Score 1) 62

There really isn't an antidote to psychopathic manipulators. Other than ignoring them. If one con fails, they try another. Rinse, repeat. These people are very predictable, actually. Just toxic to anyone who stays in close proximity or listens to them. Self-care requires boundaries excluding them.

Comment Re:Here's a thought... (Score 1) 43

"The real solution is the disconnection of internet connections for large swathes of the world. Basically, if you can't get an extradition agreement going with that country, you can't allow them to connect with you. You'd be surprised how easy that kind of alteration of the paradigm might go."

Sounds good to me. Why the actual fuck do we have active Russian domains when we know for a fact that all of them are just rogue state agents and the people of Russia are largely blocked by their captors in Moscow?

Comment Re:Here's a thought... (Score 2) 43

"Russia would never agree to that. They tacitly approve of ransomware attacks on Western companies."

There's nothing tacit about it. Russia has been engaged in 24/7 electronic war on Western civilization for at least a decade. We just live in la-la-land, and pretend to defend against it with one hand while the other jerks off.

Comment Re:They should probably... (Score 1) 296

A corporation is a legal structure defining ownership. There's a difference between A owning B and B owning A, or mixed partnerships between them. The difference may disappear if you remove the legal veil and look at individual owners (if the same person ends up owning both, it doesn't matter), but laws mainly address the paper structure.

Comment Re:knowledge is power except in the US (Score 1) 33

Yeah, I probably overstated. It's been a long time since I used any of those resources, but I do recall decently-sized public libraries having remote access to at least some journal databases. It is kind of silly and melodramatic to blame lack of convenient access to peer-reviewed journals for public ignorance though. Most people can't even handle pop science written with any degree of detail.

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