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throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
I was thinking Game of Thrones.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Coincidentally, Americans' trust in woo and pseudoscience continues to climb.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Musk is mad he got caught.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Hooray for regulation.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
It's really hard to do on modern operating systems. Too many services that will dogpile a low bandwidth link once they see that a network adapter is up.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
So what sort of symbol rate becomes theoretically possible within a HF frequency band?
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
This company certainly knows what it's doing! Such long term vision!
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Only if you're predisposed to thinking that lab leak is the default explanation.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
It's funny that Bitcoiners are saying that Bitcoin isn't crypto. The term is so toxic that they've disowned it... even though Bitcoin is literally the original crypto!
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
IMO the games which flexed VDP2 were the most impressive since you could do crazy raster effects without dropping the frame rate one iota. Equivalent effects on the Playstation, if even possible, came at a cost of GSU fillrate.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
If you want more context[0], here's more:

But if you don't want to follow a link, here's a quote: Over the years, Moon’s hidden money has helped many Republicans through hard times. In the 1980s, the American Freedom Council defended North against Iran-Contra charges and distributed 30 million pieces of political literature to help elect George Bush in 1988. It was later revealed that the AFC was backed by $5 million to $6 million from business interests associated with Moon.

Moon’s organization also kept the right’s direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie afloat in the 1980s. At one stage, Viguerie profited from a big contract with the Washington Times for subscription solicitations, then, while facing a financial crisis that threatened his company’s future, Viguerie sold a building to a top Moon aide, Bo Hi Pak, for $10 million.

Yet, even as Moon has gained influence in GOP circles, the sources of his money have always been suspect. In the late 1970s, a congressional investigation tied Moon’s Unification Church to the “Koreagate” influence-buying scheme directed by South Korea’s intelligence service, the KCIA, against U.S. institutions. In 1983, the moderate Republican Ripon Society raised warning flags, too. Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa), then Ripon chairman, charged that Moon’s church had “infiltrated the new right and the party it [the new right] wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.”

But President Ronald Reagan embraced the Washington Times as his “favorite” newspaper and Moon’s newspaper returned the favor by defending the Reagan-Bush administrations at nearly every turn. In 1991, President Bush invited the paper’s new editor-in-chief, Wesley Pruden, to lunch “just to tell you how valuable the Times has become in Washington, where we read it every day.”

[0] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-16-op-54375...
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Oh, TIL. I've noticed Newsweek's decline. Lots of flame-fanning.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
The First Amendment says that religion and government should remain separate. I have the right to freely observe that some religions are aggressively testing that boundary more than others.

But, "intentionally misleading"? Can you please explain the ways I've mislead people? Here are some essays which go into the claims in more detail.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/technology/epoch-times-in...

As for The Epoch Times' reputation, its slant is immediately obvious upon reading the paper or seeing YouTube ads for it.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Simple: grifting. Influence is what's important to them. They tap into wellsprings of conservative grievance to increase media outreach. They became antivax when antivax sentiment went up, they're here for the trans freakout, and they'll surely work to be in place for the next hot button issue, too.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
The Moonies have woven themselves into the American right wing for decades. Reagan said the Washington Times, which is an organ of the Unification Church, was his favorite newspaper.

You can see Falun Gong attempting the same in the United States. The Epoch Times is Falun Gong's "media outlet" and it sponsors and shapes a lot of content online. It's all bankrolled by Shen Yun performances too. These rabbit holes go to strange places!
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
It keeps happening. From the very beginning "free" software has been plagued with overloaded language.
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
And it will pump the stock in the meantime!
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Knowing the quality of Saturn 3D games I can't imagine the 3D GPS feature was any good..
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
Thank you for sharing your link.

Groan, I'm A/C!!
throwaway128128
·há 3 anos·discuss
It would unlock insurance money for treating the root cause.

Long COVID's effects are so random and personalized that many people have to throw the kitchen sink at it until they find a solution that works for them.