Building trust in media
by timlangeman
THERE’S NO EXCUSE FOR THESE KINDS OF DOCUMENTS TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, THEY DON’T DESERVE TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, THEY DESERVE TO BE PROTECTED SO WE WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS
by timlangeman
Breaking Points reports:
so if you survive this and then you start making tremendous profits you think they’re going to pay any of this back like you think they’re going to pay some sort of fine or anything if anything that’s going to pass on the fdic’s FDIC fees to all of us customers and then they will increase even more of their profits and they’re gonna either pay dividends out or they’re going to buy back their own shares or they’re going to pay themselves out big bonuses
by timlangeman
I’d make a case that what Kim jong-un is doing is very reasonable.If I were Kim jong-un I have nuclear weapons and I’d never ever get rid ofthem never why because the United States is running around the world knocking youoff regimes that’s what liberal hegemony is all about. That means if you’re not a liberalhegemonic state think about what Michael Doyle said you could be in thecrosshairs and how do you prevent regime change. The best way to do this havenuclear weapons.
by timlangeman
The BBC Reports heavy losses in Ukraine:
Analysts say Bakhmut has little strategic value, but has become a focal point for Russian commanders who have struggled to deliver any positive news to the Kremlin.
by timlangeman
Breaking Points said:
basically his entire life I mean Charles is a sports commentator a very you know former very successful professional athlete pop culture figure in his own right but does he really have
by timlangeman
In 2018 at the UN, Donald Trump said:
we are not going to put up with it these horrible prices much longer reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation
by timlangeman
Peter Thiel talks with Peter Robinson:
and if you go to the anthropological myth of the Enlightenment it’s the myth of the social contract so what happens when everybody is that everybody’s else’s throat what the Enlightenment says is everybody in the middle of the crisis sits down and has a nice legal chat and draws up a social contract and that’s maybe maybe that’s the founding myth the central lie of the Enlightenment if you will and what Girard says something very different must have happened and when everybody’s at everybody’s throat the violence doesn’t just resolve itself and maybe it gets channeled against a a specific scapegoat where the war of all against all becomes a war can of all against one
by timlangeman
during 2008 housing bubble the unemployment rate was around 10% currently there are more than 43 million people unemployed the University of Chicago estimated that 42 percent of recent job layoffs will be gone for good if it do some simple math for itsu percent of 43 million that’s roughly 18 million people will remain unemployed slightly less than 10 percent unemployment rate will remain that is the harsh truth
by timlangeman
Here’s a speech Malcolm Gladwell gave at Google:
the dumb students at Harvard are as smartest as smart students at Hartwick so you’d think everybody at heart at Harvard should be getting the math and science degree right why would they drop out
by timlangeman
Bug: no hash
the people who are who are arguing oh it could have come from the lab this could have um you know when you say stuff like that you you’re making you’re lodging charges against identifiable people you know this is not a trivial matter this is something where there there are individuals that the lab has a director who’s responsible for it and you’re saying they they screwed up and they’re covering up i mean that’s the charge that’s being lodged when you make this argument i’m not saying we shouldn’t that we should say that we can say that it’s impossible but just we need to approach this with skepticism and we need to insist on actual evidence and not just speculate it’s not impossible but there’s zero evidence