zephyrvs @ zephyrvs @lemmy.ml

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According to Brave's CEO, that's not really true though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25840586

Can you provide contradictory evidence? I tried to no avail. I would stop using Brave if it turns out that Thiel is having a bigger stake in Brave than I knew so far.

What is the logical reason to drop 300 million USD on a wide range of media companies? Philanthropy? Please, tell me, I'm open to logical suggestions. (Not kidding, no sarcasm.)

Could we tone down the rhetoric? Why does everything have to be Bill Gates/Microchip/killshot-whatever maximum? They had to produce a shitload of vials in a short time under extreme pressure. This leads to mistakes, bad handling, good and bad batches, supply chain issues, etc. Having batches that get extra testing for "people more critical to operations" wouldn't be unthinkable. If it's that innocent, so be it. But I want transparency and debate. We're still living under capitalism so even if they just had 1st and 2nd class batches, I'd want to know.

Come on, man.

What if a certain oligarchs made sure the press would never step out of line?

https://ntm.ng/2021/12/08/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets-to-promote-his-global-agenda/

Not saying that's what happened during a certain thing that made headlines over the last few years, but it's sure suspicious that Bill Gates, WEF and other billionaire foundations invest these huge sums into basically the backbone of Western without an agenda.

No.

I didn't think he was serious, fwiw.

Do we have /r/hailcorporate on Fedi yet?

ad hominem: in a way that is directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

If you think his narrative is skewed and based on selectively chosen facts and twisted words, you could correct that.

The West is already losing. What worries me is that Western elites will sacrifice us all just keep their unipolar world order while the instability helps prop up the populist right due to a lack of alternatives.

I don't expect Russia/Wagner to care much about the wellbeing of Africans but since they never colonized and enslaved them, I get why Africans and Russians will unite for now.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing new data points instead of just coming up with reasons to assume my questions had malintent. Appreciated!

Can you provide evidence that people on these instances want to kill minorities?

I don't like right wingers either but I do not believe that suppressing speech helps anyone (unless people start doxxing, swatting, dogpiling, etc) but I just went to check out exploding-heads and the first I saw was this clip of a Pfizer representative admitting that their employees got a different COVID vaccine in a senate hearing. I mean, can someone debunk that? Is it just taken out of context? Is the video doctored? Is this "fake news"? If so, provide data and sources. If you suppress something like this you're not doing anyone a favor.

And now that almost 80% of the population are vaccinated anyways, the "vaccination hesitancy" argument doesn't really hold value.

Just went through some other posts there and I don't agree with a lot of their takes. Reading their rules I see no reason to defederate.

The problem isn't that they're spending money on political causes and I wouldn't even expect them to do some false balance bs where they'd spend money on left and right wing politics, but spending money on political causes with almost zero transparency (like what do orgs do with the money, how effective are they, are they actually aligned with certain values, who is involved in these orgs, etc) seems fishy as fuck.

It's still just ad hominem.

Uhm, aren't all questions raised in that text completely on point?

I'm as far left as it gets but none of these expenses make any sense to me. The CEO pay is bonkers. Wtf are they doing? Why does the CEO deserve to basically collect the entirety of donations for... basically just extending a cash cow deal with Google?

I don't give a damn if the author is on the right but so far this looks sus as fuck.

Firefox being as good and fast as it is probably more an accomplishment of individual teams inspite of company leadership and that should be called out.

Can't sell yourself as the underdog if you're got almost half a billion in assets.

Has my research on this been just been somehow skewed over the past months or does it really seem like Western media is suddenly turning on Ukraine?

Until like 1-2 weeks ago it was really difficult to find anything overly critical about Ukraine and now it seems as of there's a sudden change in coverage.

Is it just me? I think I've been rather thorough.

Anyone else had no idea that archive.is is actually archive.today?

A different perspective from Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/KLCd6vxniow

Dedollarization commences. Will probably take a few more years to be really noticable but with African countries attempting to build their own transaction currency and India and Emirates dropping the Dollar, the US is rather silent on the topic, as far as I know.

Pocket knife/multitool.