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Oh no, is Dr. Hawass problematic? I used to love Egypt stuff as a kid and he was in everything about it

This is the kind of solution your buddy in high school with a 92 Cavalier he bought for 300 bucks with a missing tail light and four mismatched hubcaps would have to deal with lmao

The point about Kim Jeong is how I feel about Uncle Roger. I like cooking content on YouTube, but every time there's any sort of Asian food involved someone references this minstrel show character as if some Malaysian stand-up comedian with a fake accent is the authority on all Asian cooking even if it's neither Chinese or Malaysian

So let's say that hypothetically, China actually was going for a mass data harvesting. There's of course no concrete proof of that, but let's, for argument's sake, say they are

Of the two options, what is the least harmful to an American:

• giving their personal data to their own government, which has been revealed to have been spying on their citizens for literally decades, and has been known to use this data to target minority groups, in exchange for free software

Or

• giving their personal data to a completely unrelated government that will not share it with the west and that most people will never ever interact with otherwise (barring a visit to China or the person is a member of the diaspora), making it impossible for this data to be used against them, in exchange for free software

This is actual Battletech canon

ComStar says pay your bills or else

The ad revenue is worthless compared to the facial recognition data it can generate. They've all got inward facing cameras, and most have outward facing ones. The company gets the absolute best marketing data they possibly can: demographic information, a face to match to other information, what products you looked for, how long you shopped around for a product, which products your ultimately bought

It's an immensely invasive system but incredibly lucrative for the company. Millions of data points for millions of shoppers nationwide to sell off

Western sources refuse to report on the truth, and any non-western source is automatically dismissed as biased disinformation propaganda etc

Can't counter a narrative if no accepted sources ever differ

Boycott, Divest, Sanction. A call to action against companies that either work in Israel or otherwise materially support the Zionist government, which directly supports the genocide of Palestinians

Fuck do you mean failed to get word to her she's a senator during a senatorial vote and she's still sitting Vice President

Where the fuck else would she be if not vooting?

Saw a reddit thread of Canadians all saying they would die for their awful settler-colonial country, and it's like... why?

Fucking nobody would even have time to die for Canada lmao, all the major population centers, half the vital infrastructure, most of the major military bases, and the capitol are like two hours from the American border

If the US invaded the war would be over with a total US victory before the news could even start running breaking stories about it

Every episode opens assuring us the Borg have a plan but it becomes increasingly apparent the closer you get to season 5 that neither the Borg nor the showrunners had much of one