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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Ooh, pool depth diss!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Propaganda is usually truthful or exaggerated truth. It's the framing that is important. Some facts are focused on. Some facts are omitted.

I acknowledge that Russia, China and the DPRK have made mistakes and even done things that are deeply questionable. But I'm interested in comparing their mistakes or misguided actions to those of the most powerful military empire on earth. The one involved in hundreds of military actions and dozens of coups since its inception. The one with the largest per capita prison population on earth. The one which controls many of the world's financial levers.

There is a difference in the scale of their mistakes or bad actions. Propaganda distorts that difference of scale. It focuses on the crimes of the "enemies" / "axis of evil" / "rogue states" but doesn't examine context or culpability of the empire. They'll choose one conflict, downplay 9 others, and give a one-sided view of that one conflict.

That's how propaganda works. Every state produces propaganda. One state produces billions of dollars of propaganda each year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Keepass2Android. Is there some reason Keepassxc is better, or just an alternative?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Calculator?! Those thieving, energy-sucking piles of garbage! Abacus till I die!

But seriously, AI is insidious in how it data mines us to give us answers, and data mines our questions to build profiles of users. I distrust assurances of anonymity by big data corpos.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Would be funny if Boeing started cutting corners with their hitmen, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You aren't. There's more backstory.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you'd be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Then it's not getting the freshest photons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Went downstairs and had a cup

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What if we didn't even have ads on the internet?

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