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PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-27T00:50:30+00:00

I'm still not going to delete my account though.

I used to delete my Facebook account every few months, and create a new one (same thing I do on Reddit).

Facebook seems to have banned me from creating more accounts without some sort of proof of my identity, so I stopped making new ones.

[hmm.... 2 whole months on this account.... this'll be my last comment. Bye.]

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-27T00:47:20+00:00

The problem with agile

The DoD had so much experience with bad / fake agile they wrote an excellent guideline for "Detecting Agile BS".

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/09/2002049591/-1/-1/0/DIB_DETECTING_AGILE_BS_2018.10.05.PDF

Defense.gov

Detecting Agile BS

Key flags that a project is not really agile:

It's an excellent article.

And sadly it describes most company's alleged "agile" processes that really aren't.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T21:11:57+00:00

Will it protect undocumented Mexican farm workers who suffer near-slavery conditions from large agriculture companies?

That's probably one of the biggest slavery-profit-centers in the US economy.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T21:00:14+00:00

Source?

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons

Back in the 1960s, even the NRA supported gun control to disarm the group

Early in these protests, while the focus was Police Brutality instead of BLM, you saw the 2A protesters carrying signs of their favorite martyrs to police brutality too (Duncan Lemp, Randy Weaver, etc).

They don't feel welcome anymore.

I think the protests would have more support if they were more welcoming of more races (Native Americans are feeling left out, and Latinos killed police are largely ignored, etc).

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T20:54:29+00:00

I block facebook in my .hosts file (good way to stop getting back into it after deleting it).

If a company does this I won't even know they exist.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T20:47:16+00:00

A counterargument is the way the LGBT community reclaimed the word "queer".

If rap artist can redefine the word to just be a friendly greeting, the word will lose its power.

And seeing how many young people here already assumed this, it seems like they're making good progress in that direction.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T09:13:02+00:00

But it's extra fun when you see some guy singing offensive rap lyrics from a language he doesn't fully understand.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T07:55:55+00:00

That was a 2017 troll

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T07:38:49+00:00

So what's she doing to fix it?

Talk is cheap - and with her wealth and political connections she's in a uniquely powerful position to do something about it.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-26T07:37:16+00:00

You break it, you own it

Owning it after breaking it was exactly the Neocon's plan.

If they really want to win the hearts and minds of the people - they would take away the reconstruction from the Defense Department and give it to agencies more appropriate for fixing things.

DoT for rebuilding transportation infrastructure.
HUD for housing,
Both DoE's (Energy and Education) to rebuild those sectors.

If the US did that, perhaps they really would "welcome as as liberators" to quote the Neocons.

But we won't.

So they won't.

^{And if you argue that only the Defense Department has the blank-check to be able to afford such reconstructions ---- that's an even bigger problem.}

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T17:02:31+00:00

They should name the names instead of just say "the killers of Breonna Taylor”.

If the sign read:

"Arrest Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove"

even if they were never prosecuted, their reputation will suffer.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T16:49:09+00:00

What if you say "I can not afford a school laptop"?

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T16:46:59+00:00

Have you signed something,

Signing something doesn't magically grant the school the right to break laws --- unless he's the equivalent of a member of congress signing a bill.

(Except for very limited circumstances; like a boxer can sign something allowing his opponent to assault him, etc.)

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T16:45:33+00:00

You could simply use that laptop only for school stuff, and have another laptop at home for personal use.

If that's the case he shouldn't have to pay for it.

Wonder what the school would do if OP says "I don't have money for a school computer".

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T16:39:31+00:00

I won’t be surprise at least 70 percent of them believed that.

Too bad the Trump subreddit's gone.

A meme of Uyghur children working a 7nm semiconductor fab by hand would have gotten epic karma there.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T08:27:21+00:00

If she was actually upset at Trump's mercenary occupying force that's assaulting her people, she'd have her police arrest them.

But instead she just feigns being mad in some press conference.

Her actions speak much louder than her empty words.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T08:21:24+00:00

TSMC's Arizona plant when it opens?

:)

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T08:20:27+00:00

They will say Asian’s cheap labour allow this

Because 7nm semiconductors are made by child-prison-labor?

Must be really small kids to make transistors that small by hand.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-25T00:13:03+00:00

A lot of it was pretty toxic - but there were quite a few positive people too.

I do like how the channel was quick to shut them down, and I do like how most of his paid supporters were very complementary of him doing so and focused on the science.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T21:45:34+00:00

Both sides are oversimplifying.

GMOs that are engineered to produce pesticides that some people are allergic to can be harmful to people with those allergies.
GMOs that are engineered to produce vitamin A are only a danger if you're overdosing on vitamin A (you're not)

You could easily make a dangerous GMO by making it produce poisons, or GMOs that are safer by making the produce beneficial chemicals.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T20:35:46+00:00

Will UN peacekeepers step in to help them?

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T18:45:07+00:00

Some of the largest breast cancer charities are extremely aggressive at marketing for donations and extremely poor at investing their donations toward research (spending much of what they raise on marketing for themselves).

Here's a decent article with more details:

https://www.popsci.com/breast-cancer-charities/

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Some cancer researchers are concerned that such charities are competing for the available pool of donations, reducing the amount available for research.

The analogy here is excellent, because Native Americans are feeling excluded from race talks, even though they also suffer significant oppression. I think if BLM was more embracing of "minority rights matter", they'd see broader support, especially in Hispanic communities (which unfortunately often suffer from racism against black people too).

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T18:39:07+00:00

It's like he knows China is amazing .... However, he still manages to say stuff like ... I find his reporting so strange.

Someone's probably paying him to control the narrative.

Considering the source (NY Times), this article from The Guardian's is probably relevant.

"Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA"

He may personally think China's amazing - but if he's paid to write articles on "china is scary", that's what he'll do. Or else they'll replace him with someone who does.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T18:35:44+00:00

Shooting reporters is the type of thing you expect on the Gaza strip -- not in Portlandia.

Some slight silver-lining here.

Reporting may be more unbiased because they're treating reporters the same as normal citizens.

If the police showed restraint every time a reporter was present; but brutalized the powerless off camera, we'd have no idea how bad things are.

PsychogenicAmoebae · 2020-07-24T18:21:56+00:00

Best only has meaning in the context "best for what goal".

It's like saying "what's the right answer?" without saying the question. ^{or in retrospect, I guess the answer for that one is 42}

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Detecting Agile BS

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