It’s a pretty old grift to take a word and weaponize it just because the word has power already. Most people are stupid and it plays right into what they want to hear. They have no idea what the definitions are, nor do they care.

The left have been calling them “low information voters”… Just call them what they are. Idiots that have the same voting power as everyone else. And no critical thinking skills to understand the world around them being shaped by their own actions.

An uneducated populace deserves a fallen empire and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.

It’s so stupid how everything just be growth. Flat is fine. 23%+ stock gains, more than fine. Laying off people before the holidays, evil.

Absolutely. I 100% prefer the Chinese to have all my data. I am a nothing person with no political power so if China wants to surveil me and train datasets with my data, cool. Because the alternative is the US and five eyes having that data and I absolutely do not want that.

Unfortunately it makes you look like the crazy uncle in the tinfoil hat if you try to bring it up. It’s so outlandishly crazy like a Hollywood movie people don’t believe it’s real.

For anyone that still doesn’t know, this is already a thing for all US made (owned) hardware. Has been for 15 years+. This is expanding it to everything that would be sold on the market. You know phones are hotspots too… That’s right.

You know why the US is so against Huawei? Because they CANT spy on every packet like they can with a Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, etc switch. And when those start to be installed in scale, it’s a problem for the intelligence collection. This is just a small change to make what’s already there more palatable in stages. So that in another decade when things become declassified fully and more publisized, Americans don’t believe it is an issue.

Not at all. Get your head out of the American propaganda and you’ll see what a war hungry corrupt nation it is. Shithole country that needs to burn down and start again.

So now she’s not crooked? Just an ordinary vanilla politician? Because yes. She is a vanilla boring politician. She is not corrupt like a Trump. She is not idiotic like a Dubya. She’s not a criminal like the majority of the cabinet positions from the 2016-2020 era of dystopia.

But being a money hungry politician running for political office in an oligarchy. And since Citizens United, the US is one of the most corrupt oligarchies on the planet. It takes money to play and she knows what she has to do to get money to run and win a non-rigged election for even the highest office while giving some energy back to supporters way down the line that voted for her. This is American politics. And it’s disgusting.

She’s been investigated for bullshit more times than anyone else. Ever. Either the Republikkkans are the stupidest people on earth and can’t find a shred of evidence for any supposed wrongdoing after three decades of fine tooth combing, or she’s one of the cleanest, boringest, little old white ladies in politics there is.

While I don’t doubt the stupidity of the modern republican, even Mr. Magoo would have found something after 30 years.

Yes that’s the talking point Americans like to use as to why their infrastructure is shit. Ok so why does it work in Europe, as a continent? Why does it work in China? Why does it work in Canada? I can be in the Arctic circle not having seen another vehicle for hours on the highway and have full reception. This is in the mountains in the Arctic in a country larger than the US in an area more remote than anywhere that exists in the US.

The reason it doesn’t work in the US is because corporate greed and a population that is ignorant to what it should be. Where’s the outcry over the billions of dollars that the ISPs lined their pockets with for the FTTH rollout and never even remotely got close to delivering, gave up, and walked away…

This is a US problem but Americans don’t travel enough to understand.

In the US I get shitty coverage and frequent tower handoffs to lower bandwidth signals. In a downtown capital city, I generally get 30Mbps to maybe 100Mbps outside on a clear day.

Contrast that with where I usually am, using actual good technology and true 5G, I get fibre-like pings with 1Gbps all the time, even inside buildings. If I’m outside near a tower like in the US, I get 2Gbps nearly symmetrically. Constant excellent signal, no disconnects, no dead zones.

It’s just sad how easily the American populace is duped. Even the article mentions how there were continuous lies and the actual rollout to 5G will take many many years. The rest of the world has already done it. Heck, even Korea has announced 6G consumer installations in the next 5 years. And if you’re by the Samsung Campus with a demo tech, you can use it now!

95% crazy, but federally funded mental hospitals? That sounds like a gateway project to univseral healthcare. I can’t be outraged over that. Unless the “hospital” is where they put you in a padded cell and beat you with twigs until you convert to MAGA.

In the before times you would go to a store and it was essentially a warehouse with a desk. You walk in and the dude behind the counter asked what you wanted and you gave him your list. He’d then rummage around the boxes and get you what you needed, you’d pay, and go. You didn’t pick, you just paid. You could even phone in your order and the store would hold for pickup or deliver cash on delivery with options and take back what you didn’t want.

Moving to a self-pick model involved the risk of theft but most of the studies showed it was cheaper to eat some theft than to employ more pickers or have customers leave because of waiting. And that’s what happened. But theft has continued to rise to where now it’s no longer a viable tradeoff.

Of course the recourse is back to company picking. And we now have reverted back to the old way except prepayment is required and some items can be returned… It’s annoying but I see the need.

Having said that, if I’m in a store to self pick, if what I need is locked away I just leave anything else I collected there and walk out. I’m not dealing with that.

Starts? It has started. BRICS has seen the writing on the wall and lots of oil is now transacted in Non-USD currencies with the growth continuing.

I would have agreed with reddit before but the moderators are killing it the other way. Too much power, zero oversight, and quick to delete or even ban without having knowledge of what they’re supposed to be moderating.

It’s one of the reasons I’m here now, hoping for less of that. And I don’t mean “the vaccines are making my 5G reception weak” type of posts. I mean factual information just getting removed of it doesn’t align with the random moderator of the day when someone inevitably reports it. So much information there is scrubbed that’s accurate and what remains is just an echo chamber of outdated or false information. I don’t know how anyone can solve it other than relinquish control to our robot content moderator overlords.