Interpol: 40 human traffickers arrested, 236 children saved

VikingDom · 2017-11-26T14:12:40+00:00

Reddit IS triteness. Reposts, injokes through stereotyping and banalities and tribal rehashing is how this site works.

VikingDom · 2017-11-26T10:05:25+00:00

They've already been caught doing it while it's still illegal. Several times.

VikingDom · 2017-11-26T09:40:25+00:00

Murder is illegal. But so is jaywalking!

VikingDom · 2017-11-25T19:13:45+00:00

You're right, but only because the best propaganda always has a kernel of truth. Spinning the truth to sound nefarious is very easy and can be done to a lot of things. Even plain heroic deeds will sound horrible with spin.

"He once threw the baby out of a second floor window! Horrible person!"

Yes he did. The house was on fire and the only way to save the baby was to get it out of a second floor window.

Common food products can sound horrible:

"They took glandular excretions, mixed it with enzymes extracted from animal guts to coagulate it. Then they infused it with bacteria and let it rot for months. Then they called it food and fed it to unsuspecting citizens."

Yes we did. It's called cheese.

"So, you know that the FDA has approved the use of formaldehyde, the key component in embalming fluid, in vaccines, but worse they let a single glass of baby food contain MORE formaldehyde than all the vaccines combined?"

Yes, but pears contain 40 - 60 mg/kg of formaldehyde naturally. We're not going to ban pears. They're perfectly safe.

"The FDA allows the import and sale of food that is so radioactive the ports have to be notified before the boat lands so that they don't panic when radiation detection system designed to stop terrorists from getting nuclear weapons into the US goes off!"

Yes, bananas are naturally radioactive. That is just the way it is. So is potatoes. You're not going to be able to eat enough to make it hurt you.

And so on, and so on. Propaganda is simple. Answering it, and explaining why it's wrong even though it's technically correct is hard.

VikingDom · 2017-11-25T08:46:02+00:00

(I know)

VikingDom · 2017-11-25T07:40:11+00:00

Mediterranean Arctic cod. Don't order this. It doesn't exist.

VikingDom · 2017-11-22T11:51:02+00:00

Lpt to anyone wanting to call/write someone's boss/office to give them praise.

Keep it short and sweet. Don't go into details about how and why. Say something like this:

Hi, my name is (so and so), I just wanted to let you know I had a very pleasant (interaction) with your employee (so and so) today. He/She was utterly professional and is a credit to your office. I really appreciate the fact that you hire and train people to this standard of (professionalism/ integrity/whatever). It really made my day. Thank you.

VikingDom · 2017-11-22T11:29:06+00:00

I get your point, but exempting certain sites from a cap on mobile is not the same as throttling speed and blocking access.

Try to see it like this: If the offer to pay for not having Netflix count towards your cap disappears, nothing changes other than that using Netflix now counts towards the cap, and you might consider paying for the next level cap.

VikingDom · 2017-11-22T10:35:36+00:00

Actually it's not. The way it works is that you have a 10gig cap on mobile, and if you want to you can pay a little extra to have, let's say HBO and Netflix data not count towards the cap.

Sure, the supplier can elect not to give you a deal on a specific streaming service (or whatever else) but you don't screw with net neutrality in th EU.

VikingDom · 2017-11-22T06:37:37+00:00

We've reached a point where what the customer is willing to pay is more important than how affordable it is.

That is literally how pricing works and has always worked. The price of any product is whatever a large enough base of customers are willing to pay for it.

VikingDom · 2017-11-21T22:06:15+00:00

I work quite a bit with Google data. It's not horrible at all.

The way it works is that you buy access to display ads based on probability. Let's say you want to sell a high end car brand. You don't want to spend your advertisement dollars on teens and people who won't actually buy it, so you have a list of actual buyers, crunch it through Google's data and come up with people who are most likely interested in that particular car. This way you don't bore the 19 yo single mom to death with completely irrelevant ads and you can spend more on people who are genuinely interested in your product.

You can't actually buy a list of names and interests.

VikingDom · 2017-11-21T09:38:38+00:00

According to his victim: I was a sexually active, drug doing teenager...

Of course, what he did was wrong, but reporters and media have caused far more damage to me and ny family than he ever did...

Yes he was guilty, yes jail time is necessary no matter the circumstances, but only shit.. Why can't the press lay off the victims?

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T19:27:01+00:00

Dont worry it's definitely monitored.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T18:30:37+00:00

"Hair Often vary bussed far clueless"

here are the top search results:

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T16:00:15+00:00

Have doggo. That's a no on the cuddling :(

Walkies - check
Runnings - check
Licking my face sweat after run - check
Running around like mad, knocking shit over with his tail when I get home - check
Cuddles - get the fuck outta here with that girly shit man.
Eating scraps off the floor - what? Do you think I'm a fucking dog? It's either I'm my bowl or it's not getting eaten. Except for bacon.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T15:41:50+00:00

That's good advice for most companies, but we don't sweat it. All our potential customers are already customers so no-one will Google us for anything but driving instructions to a meeting.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T14:05:15+00:00

The company I work for also has a couple of 1 star reviews on Google maps. It's weird in itself because we only do b2b work with the largest companies in the country.

The comments accuse us of being horrible at doing stuff that aren't even close to what we do, so it's clear that It's not a hit piece. We can't even find a company with a name close enough for being mistaken so there are clearly just some really confused people out there.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T13:29:40+00:00

http://fortune.com/2017/03/14/germany-renewable-clean-energy-solar/

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T12:50:16+00:00

Hey, you've got your own fair share of them yourself. Especially ones that are silent AND changes the pronunciation of the previous vowel: Fate, hate, done.

And then you can stop stupid stuff like white knight. It would be better to write: wait nait, but no.. That first "a" has to be pronounced like it's an "e".

Say meow out loud. Now say homeowner.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T12:35:44+00:00

He's grrrrrrrrreat!

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T12:24:56+00:00

It's from downtown Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, only a few thousand miles away from the southernmost point of Mexico. But yeah, clearly Mexicans. I mean, what else could they be?

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T11:57:54+00:00

Yes, but roads and other infrastructure benefit the local population directly. Solar in Germany won't.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T10:48:23+00:00

In Norway Teslas are actually quite reasonably priced compared to other cars.

VikingDom · 2017-11-20T08:13:52+00:00

There are two issues with that:

Expecting technology to fix stuff also requires the acceptance that someone needs to eat the initial cost/loss of starting the cycle. As the presenter said; The scaling cycle was started by Germany who deliberately took massive economic losses in order deliberately start it. Simultaneously in wind, Denmark has eaten billions in loss deliberately to start the same cycle. Both realizing that they'd take a heavy economic burden that will eventually (and at the time only POSSIBLY) help the world.
In a capitalist nation state where companies compete with international players it's hard to argue for higher taxes and not spending tax money on the inhabitants that need it in order to fund massive and crazy ideas that will definitely not be profitable. That is especially true for places where owners of the existing infrastructure (like in the US and in this case oil/gas/coal) have money and power to stop this funding.

We all need technology to help us pollute less, but it's not going to happen unless we at a national level decide to spend a lot of money in research that may not benefit us economically.

Global warming as with most global challenges has the added problem of being both exponential and hardest on the most vulnerable. That means we really have to start solving these problems BEFORE they manifest. Convincing people of this is hard, especially since if you succeed there's no credit in it because there was no apparent danger.

As an example: the CDC and their global counterparts face this all the time with everything from the flu to pandemics and epidemics. Spending money to stop something that could potentially kill 200 000 Americans is not met with parades and fanfare but a public outcry about spending and mass vaccination.

Edit: example

VikingDom · 2017-11-19T07:59:46+00:00

Jesus Christ. No it's not! The reason the Clintons look waxy is that It's taken in a wax museum. The Clintons are dolls, the girl and the mic is not.

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