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There's generally a better venue for a lot of messaging, but I don't get a vote in it.

Who is we, who will pay for it, and how will such informational inoculation benefit the rich?

The current media status quo, and its consequences does, which is why we get to enjoy it.


Is there any way that people can work to re-introduce it into society? I know some folks are making a lot of progress with MMR.

Gun control (for minorities), speech policing (for liberals), deficit spending (when they are in charge), and a plenary executive (when Obama isn't president) are core conservative beliefs.

They say that they don't like those things, but you can't listen to what politicians and talking heads on TV say. Politicians and talking heads lie all the fucking time. You have to look at what people do.

They aren't stupid in not understanding the hypocrisy.

We are... for thinking that they don't know that they are hypocrites.


> . This reminds me of the chemical swipes done on your bags to detect explosives. Those swipes can only detect a narrow set of explosive chemistries and everyone knows it.

Meanwhile, you get swabbed, the machine produces a false positive, the TSA drone asks you why the machine is showing a positive, you have no fucking idea why, and they just keep swabbing until they get a green light and everyone moves on with life.


Automating away shareholders can't come soon enough.

It in itself does nothing, but it is necessary to embolden anyone who can do something.

If nobody protests, people who have the choice to do something will see that nobody gives a shit... And why should they stick their necks out for a cause that nobody gives a shit about?


Oh, and, of course, a deficit is a tax increase that's deferred to the future.

It's one thing to spend a deficit on something long-term useful, it's another thing to piss it away.


Removing identity politics? The American right can't shut up about the 'woke agenda', about how the gays/immigrants/foreigners/whomever are destroying the country.

How exactly do you propose to remove identity politics? Do you have any concrete steps for it? Are you going to pull Fox & Friends - the primary drivers of identity politics off the air?


In business, your customers aren't the people who buy your product, they are the people who fund your company.

Sam Altman, is that you ? /s

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