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For the sake of this meme, the 'left' consists of all that mob pushing the political extremism over the last several years. There have been some very civil folks discussing progressive politics here for a decade or so, but the TDS morons have railroaded any civil discourse with "defund the police", and "mostly peaceful protests" (with pallets of bricks dropped at convenient points along the parade route), and all manner of vitriolic hate speech. so yeah, this is aimed at _that_ left. the people claiming Trump is Hitler and other patently absurd nonsense.

This is aimed at the 'left' of Facebook and Twitter, with their now-public censorship of, well, they censored a sitting President, so that's about as extreme as anything we have seen since the mid-20th century, or maybe the Civil War.

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Nanook

@Max Mustermann Well I don't know what "90's" you are referring to, 1990's are gone and I won't live long enough to see 2090's. The crazy part is definitely here. You would think someone in congress for 40 years would at least know Economics 101, but definitely not the case with Dementia Joe.
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Nanook

@baptist_joshua_on_youtube Israel always has it's enemies attacking it without provocation. Wish I could go back and murder Rockefucker before the state was formed. Perhaps if this video had started earlier in history, at the formation and original borders of the country, shown how Israel invaded and occupied it's neighbors, how it bulldozed their homes with them in them and then built it's own settlements on their land, but no they just start in 2006 and pretend all of this was unprovoked.
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Mycroft


I installed Mycroft because I wanted to play with a voice assistant like Siri without Google or Apple or Microsoft listening in.

So far the experience has been less than satisfying. First issue I had is that I had to crank the microphone gain to maximum (past 100% slider all the way to the right) to get it to here me. Then by default it seems to be more of an artificial stupidity engine than an artificial intelligence engine. Even simple things like "help" it does not understand.

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@Vee McMillen I think of brainwashed as a kind of intentional stupid. I'm pretty much convinced that if someone could design a real-time IQ meter, you could watch the needle drop as soon as you set someone in front of a television or Facebook. It's like the Skeksis in Dark Crystal draining our essence. There are numerous studies that show a group of people generally make wiser decisions than individuals, but what those studies never include are the subjective filters put in place by those with agendas in the real world. Even if the agenda is as seemingly benign as trying to limit offensiveness, it eliminates a spectrum of exploration necessary for the best decisions and solutions to be arrived at.

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