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The God Kek demands many more human sacrifices, otherwise Trump will continue to discard all of his campaign promises. Sacrifice children for the glory of Kek and the success of Trump.

Update: The child sacrifices have satisfied Kek, and Trump will continue his policy of draining the swamp.

Fake News Joke Tweet Leads to Call From the FBI

Posted by takyon on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:59AM (#2162)
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The FBI Is Investigating Me Because I Tweeted A Joke About Fake News

Trump and Duterte's Drug War Bromance

Posted by takyon on Sunday December 04 2016, @01:52AM (#2158)
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Duterte: During phone call, Trump praised my drug war as the ‘right way’
Duterte Says Trump Wished His Drug Crackdown 'Success'
Duterte says felt rapport with Trump, assures U.S.-Philippines ties intact
Philippines President Says Trump Congratulated Him on Violent Anti-Drug Crackdown
Duterte Call With Trump Seen Warming U.S. Ties After China Tilt
Rebooting our relations with the US
Trump lauds Du30 grisly drug drive?
Duterte invites Trump to the Philippines

He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11

Abbreviated Arguments

Posted by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:21PM (#2157)
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I know a lot of you are disappointed I didn't go ahead and finish the debate on the MIT petition story. Tough.

Most days it's fun smacking down the willfully ignorant but sometimes outside forces conspire to make me too tired to bother. I just delete all the messages, pop open a beer, and watch some TV.

This was one of those times and you're just going to have to live with it.

MIT Technology Review is Stupid

Posted by n1 on Friday November 18 2016, @02:23AM (#2146)
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The 'editor in chief and publisher' of the MIT Technology Review Jason Pontin took to twitter today. He was replying to WikiLeaks posting a picture of Eric Schmidt wearing a "Clinton Campaign Staff Badge". I with agree with Jason, that image is pretty meaningless by itself. Schmidt private citizen and can support a candidate if he wants to.

However, Jason goes on to say, after being shown differences between suggested searches on DuckDuckGo and Google; "Well, I doubt it... but oooh, no autocorrect: that will swing an election."

Where he goes off the deep end and is either lying or being completely ignorant is when he says "You have no evidence, except your own paranoia, that Google manipulates search results." ... This is from the Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review.

Here is the leading paragraph from an engadget article written in 2015:

A few years ago, the FTC decided not to pursue an antitrust lawsuit against Google despite finding that its search algorithm really was biased. Now, we finally know the details of that lengthy investigation, thanks to a report written by FTC staffers that recently surfaced due to an open-records request. According to the 160-page report, the employees found evidence that Mountain View was demoting its competitors and placing its own services on top of search results lists, even if they weren't as helpful.

I'm sure most of us have seen the effects of localization and other 'personalization' on search results and suggestions when using Google outside your normal state/country.

This sets an extremely low standard for what the MIT Technology Review publishes from where i'm sitting.

Moderation Today

Posted by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:19PM (#2134)
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So, I've been sitting here watching the Spam moderations page and the mod-bombs page post-election thinking someone's gonna get butthurt and abuse moderation. It has yet to happen. Kudos to everyone for managing to restrain themselves. You guys make me fucking proud, so I'll leave you with this little bit of humor on an otherwise tense day:

Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.

America: Hold my beer...