Recent content by Agema

Presuming you're talking about who I think you are, it's the guy who proudly talks about supporting Bernie Sanders - who is literally the only self-declared socialist in the Senate - for president and then writes about socialism being a load of crap that will never work. Or starts banging on...

So I have read, this is arguably what Piketty's book "Capital in the 21st Century" indicates. tl;dr: people earn money faster through investment than labour. Therefore overall the richer people are the proportionally faster they earn and wealth accumulates in fewer and fewer people. Eventually...

No, but in the rhetoric, that's sort of where things have been going. The argument clearly has been advanced that pretty much any consequences people pay for exercising free speech is stifling their free speech: effectively, if they exercise free speech, you can't exercise yours in return...

Sure, if they also think that a guy who stops them in the street, holds a knife up to their throat and demands their wallet is a criminal mastermind.

It's pretty chaotic, at minimum. Assuming organised intent, it does make it look like it was a very crude attempt to strong-arm Ukraine into conceding to US demands. Presumably this attempt has now either succeeded or failed and so normal service can be resumed. Alternatively that Russia was...

Sounds to me like that would be better called "assault and false imprisonment".

Indeed, and you'd be amazed at how many companies appear to think that if they're not getting security breaches, it means they're wasting too many resources on security. You can guess the rest.

Possibly more problematic is that he got away with it. When people do awful things without ramifications then they'll learn that they can do awful things without ramifications. It's a societally concerning lesson.

This wouldn't be the first time he's lied about a DDoS attack on FKA Twitter. He tried to stream a big political interview back in election time that crashed FKA Twitter, and blamed it on a cyberattack rather than admitting the more prosaic reason that his platform wasn't capable of handling...

To be fair, the US government could have done a lot more to cripple Ukraine if it had wanted. The USA has turned off or "paused" a series of relatively non-critical services to Ukraine, which has the character more of an ominous reminder who's boss than making Ukraine the enemy. It doesn't serve...

Is it really your position that people should not comment where there is evidence government action may be pointless and wasteful?

It was fascinating looking at the action that the US Dept. of Agriculture was going to take to get US egg prices down. It just turns out that maybe the Dept. of Agriculture maybe doesn't need to spend anything at all: the appropriate action might actually be from the Dept. of Justice. tl;dr...

I know that it's hardly big news for AI to spout bollocks, but I just I thought I'd share this one Google's gifted me because I'm not allowed to turn the AI function off from my search settings:

Let's look at the positive: Americans can take some pleasure that at least for a little while during Infantino's visit, Trump was not the most corrupt person in the Oval Office.

Indeed. As is pointed out by Trump and many of his supporters, Putin didn't attack Ukraine while Trump was in office. What this neglects to consider is that Putin didn't invade Ukraine whilst Trump was in office not because Trump was strong, but because Trump was weak and thus would leave...