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Palestinians knew who they were when they elected them.

Getting rid of misinformation is great.

Getting rid of accurately reported, gruesome images because of a government mandate flies in the face of the core principles of free speech. And it would cause real damage to the world.

Remember that it was only when the world actually saw images of the Nazi concentration camps that the world actually believed it. They'd heard about it for years, but it was largely ignored.

The version of this technology that I would love to see is for each individual to have a database of people they've met before, so if you meet them again, your smart glasses can prompt you with their name and notes about them.

Basically Google allows you to do this in a limited form with Google Photos, minus the ability to do live recognition

What we need is a left-wing candidate to win a primary, and pull the party to the left the way Bush and Trump pulled their party to the alt-right

That might largely be a rephrasing of the same problem.

The main probably with scientific publishing is that our threshold for statistical significance is way too low.

If we allow the threshold to sit at a 1 percent chance that results of the study were random chance, it means that 1 percent of all publications at that level of certainly are going o mislead the public if the media reports on them. And with the volume of research published every day, that adds up to a LOT of misinformation.

It's not even bad science, it's bad reporting and widespread scientific illiteracy. But neither of those are going away.

Appeals courts NEVER decide fact. They are there to see if there has been an error of LAW.

Oh, it was nothing more than just showing off the technology, really. It wasn't a committed bit.

I cloned my voice then left a voicemail that said something like: "hey buddy it's me. My car broke down and I'm at... Actually I don't know where I'm at. I walked to the gas station and borrowed this guy's phone. He said he'll give me a ride into to town if I can get him $50 bucks. Could you venmo it to him at @franks_diner? I'll get you back as soon as I can find my phone. ... By the way this is really me, definitely not a bot pretending to be me."

In jury trials, judges don't decide fact. It would be fine.

I love watching folks who think of themselves as good people unabashedly defend terrorism (just so long as it's only happening to Jews).

The alt-right are a cancer on the nation.

This is nothing to get excited about. Like so many other things there will be constant innovations on both sides. It's an arms race between the scammers and the scam detectors.

Or that we'd be happy with Liz Cheney?!

Good. Hamas is an evil organization.

The shame of it is that the international community didn't come down harder on Hamas decades ago.

The international community should have fully cut ties and aid to Palestinians the moment they elected Hamas.

Instead it's just, "oh sure, your leaders have the genocide of Jews in their written charter, and proudly admit to targeting children, but here you go, have a cookie."

Going to an anti-Israel rally is being anti-Jewish in the same way that cops who do stop and frisks are being racist.

There may be no hate in your heart, but your selective targeting of one group over another is playing into a bigoted system.

Like, I'm sure the anti-Israel protesters are just as outraged about North Korea, China, all the Arab countries that are oppressing women, killing homosexuals, and are so anti-Jewish that they've killed off or exiled their entire Jewish population.

... But they only ever get around to protesting Israel.

Who?

I cloned my own voice to prank a friend, and... Wow, it was a gut-dropping moment when I understood just how dangerous this tool is for precisely this type of scam.

It's one thing to hear about it, but to actual experience it... Terrifying.

Biden is definitely doing much better than I expected. No question. Nowhere near the Bernie Sanders type that we need, but a pleasant surprise.

In another time, I probably would go on a rant about Boomer politics killing us slowly. But since Republicans have literally become fascist lunatics, Democrats have to stick together no matter what.

History has shown us just how bad things can get under fascism, and these Republicans are dangerous, stupid, and cruel, and stupid. And yes, I know I put stupid twice.

That's great, but a civil war won't be decided by citizens with guns. It's going to be military and police forces. How confident are you that they are all on the right side?

I fully agree with your assessment of the basic partisan realities, but the ACA is the perfect example of the problem.

Democrats aim low, and compromise even lower.

The ACA was sold to us as a stepping stone. Democrats told us not to worry that it didn't go far enough, because we would build on it.

What ACTUALLY happened was that passing it was like releasing a pressure valve, which took away all momentum for fixing the healthcare crisis.

Not only did they fail to expand it, they spent the next decade watching it get chipped away and chipped away.

15 YEARS LATER and we are STILL in a full-blown healthcare CRISIS.

So sure, the Republicans are evil fascists that will destroy the country, and must be defeated at all costs. But Democrats are embarrassingly incompetent, and I am so fucking tired of watching them tout their insufficient, mediocre accomplishments as if it's something to be proud of.