Monarque

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• Comment on What is the optimal length that a couple should date before moving in?:

  I moved in with my wife on like month 6 or 7 of our relationship. We've been together for over ten years now..!

  So... Just saying... it's completely possible to move in early and have a great long-term relationship.

• Comment on Ratings Blowout: Tucker Carlson’s 1 a.m. Rerun Beats All But Two CNN Programs:

  Lol imagine having a rerun at the one am slot that is more popular than nearly everything your rival runs including at least some prime time and prime adjacent slots .l

  Too embarrassing

• Comment on LBRY says it ‘will likely be dead’ following SEC loss:

  My odysee app is still working

• Comment on LBRY says it ‘will likely be dead’ following SEC loss:

  Does this mean Odysee will die?

• Comment on Irish Government to Criminalize Hate Speech, Effectively Silencing Those who Hold Different Opinions- Penalty is up to 5 Years Imprisonment:

  They are so ridiculous:

  According to Helen McEntee, Minister for Justice of Ireland, hate speech is not about free speech. She said hate speech is intended to silence people and to make them afraid to open up.

  Umm, sorry bigot, but your speech actually makes it so others are less likely to "open up" so we will send you to jail for saying things that magically prevent others from speaking.

  So ridiculous.

• Comment on Kayne West To Purchase "Uncancelable" Social Media App Parler:

  Agreed

  But Parler may be maintainign some amount of an active userbase. I am just not sure. I haven't gone there.

• Comment on Kayne West To Purchase "Uncancelable" Social Media App Parler:

  I generally agree with this... But I think it is the case that Parler has, to some degree, its own servers, right..?

  So we are seeing a lot of increasingly anti-fragile infrastructure since Gab is also run like that.

  Very overcrowded market but the fact that there's a lot of strong server space is good... and Maybe Kanye can do something with this. WHo knows, though.

• Comment on Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code:

  ADX is emerging the week after Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal to acquire Twitter, and one of Musk’s plans involves “making the [Twitter] algorithms open source” to increase trust in the platform. But Bluesky is a preexisting initiative with somewhat different goals. Former CEO Jack Dorsey announced in 2019 that Twitter would fund research into a decentralized version of its service. Graber joined in 2021, and Bluesky was established in February 2022 as a public benefit company focused on “large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.”

  This is all interesting. I will have to pay attention to this more.

  !TechNews

• Comment on Facebook reverses censorship of post saying men can't give birth:

  Part of the more libertarian, Christian pessimism in me says that this is exactly what people deserve - they use a service that censors people to enforce bizrre gender norms, they are going to eat the fruit of that rotten tree.

• Comment on New Amazon voice-cloning technology raises deepfake concerns:

  What is good about this is that anything that can undermine their ability to forge consensus and control the people will ultimately pay off for freedom loving people.

• Comment on NBCUniversal Bloodbath: Peacock Fails to Grow Subscribers and Loses $467M:

  They have not yet figured out the right pricing schemes.

  Ironically, I think that pirating might be more relevant to people again in 2022 than it was in 2000 when there was total Netflix market dominance (forgive me if my dates are a bit off - I am not in the Western hemisphere and so don't fully understand the market trends or timelines).

• Comment on NBCUniversal Bloodbath: Peacock Fails to Grow Subscribers and Loses $467M:

  There was also this very interesting blip:

  Peacock’s dismal results come at a time when Netflix has been bleeding customers at an alarming rate. For the second quarter, Netflix lost close to 1 million subscribers, its largest quarterly loss of customers in company history.

  As a result, Netflix has cut back on its profligate spending and enacted layoffs, including the recent axing of 450 workers worldwide.

  Makes you wonder what is in store for streaming in general.

• Comment on Telegram Hands Over Personal User Data to German Authorities:

  Potentially, yes.

  But...

  Moreover, decryption keys are split into multiple parts and never stored in the same place as the data they are supposed to protect. As a result, only if several court orders from different jurisdictions appear will Telegram be forced to give up data.

  It seems like requiring multiple jurisdictions to sign off on it is some sort of protection.

• Comment on Telegram Hands Over Personal User Data to German Authorities:

  The personal data is related to users who were suspects of terrorism and child abuse crimes, according to Spiegel. In the case of other crimes, it is still difficult for German authorities to get data from Telegram.

  I am vaguely sympathetic when it comes to child abuse crimes. I would want to know more about what they mean by terrorism, though.

• Comment on Emerson College Promotes Professor Who Urged Massacring Whites:

  This has some nutty stuff:

  The manual also tells parents they should prevent their kids from “socializing with other children who are being raised to have and perpetuate false and decrepit ideas.” Poku says there should be “educational interventions” against those children.

  ...

  McLarin, who is known for her racially divisive rhetoric, wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled “Can Black Women and White Women be True Friends?” She claims that black women and white women will never be able to have “true friendships.”

  ...

  In 2006, McLarin divorced her husband, who is white. In a New York Times piece she authored, McLarin admits that her ex-husband’s race played a significant role in her decision to end the relationship.

  Academia really fosters this garbage by giving ideological freakazoids sinecures.

• Comment on OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year:

  Yeah, and certainly it will eventually proceed to what is being talked about here.

  Nobody quite envisioned 12 year old trans-kids when Obergerfell dropped and not even a decade later this is a major issue.

  I am sure there is a lot that will be coming from this.

• Comment on OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year:

  This is very slightly deceptive title. I am not going to say that it is entirely inaccurate, but at no point does it actually say that grading has to be changed based on race.

  It proposes removing certain factors, like attendance and behavioral issues, and promotes this sense that maybe students who have made progress should be given more passing scores.

  We all know what the thrust is but, sadly, we are not in a position to quite say they have gone as far as the headline says without it being disputed.

• Comment on One Of The Largest Egg Factories In US Torched In The Middle Of The Night Amid Outbreak Of Fires In Food Processing Facilities Across The Nation:

  Yeah I do tend to agree.

  Tim Pool pointed out though that this could just be us noticing it. Perhaps these things do regularly burn down and now we finally see it because it seems relevant to food shortage concerns. But it does seem like that isn't the case.

• Comment on One Of The Largest Egg Factories In US Torched In The Middle Of The Night Amid Outbreak Of Fires In Food Processing Facilities Across The Nation:

  Very amazing. Could be the case that the there's some sabotage from foreign or domestic intelligence. Speculation, yes, but it does seem suspicious.

• Comment on Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?:

  The exciting part is considering that they are not mutually exclusive.

  He could simultaneously make a grave error ... while also being devious.

  This may account for more human history than we would like to even know about.

• Comment on Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?:

  I fully agree with this -- there's a massive issue with imbalances in wealth and resources.

  I also think that Gates trying to rebill himself not just as a health expert, but also as an environmental activist is dangerous. He is going to get duped by the charlatans in both of these fields who'll use his tremendous wealth and influence to screw things up.

• Comment on Should all recreational drugs (incl. cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines) be legalized for personal use?:

  Are you implying they weren’t trying? That isn’t even wrong in my opinion: groups like the CIA and corrupt LEA have had lots of involvement in enabling or even promoting domestic drug use. But I think as a nation state the US did honestly try to win the so-called war on drugs.

  The CIA was profiting off of the drug trade, so it could be thought of them as not trying. But I am not sure to what extent this is. I think it is also the case that the constitutional rights to privacy in the US are sometimes almost insurmountable, and the police are very crippled by entrapment laws. This would definitely affect the situation.

  I thhink the concept of winning against drugs is futile, it’s not as if governments aren’t trying. It’s led to weaker groups getting picked off and more and more violent groups taking their place and consolidating, becoming more rich and powerful.

  You may be right. It is certainly not easy. We may be doomed, because the narcotics culture in the US is crippling.

  The ultimate way to win against harmful drugs is stop people from wanting them, which I think is more achievable than preventing the well-funded, resourceful black market from importing or producing them.

  Maybe this could be done by legalizing a significant amount of soft narcotics and only pursuing the more hardcore ones, but it is also the case that people who do have meth truly are addicted to it because I hear it is one of the most ecstatic and wonderful experiences a person will ever have.

  I also wonder if, in the long run, it will be as good as people say to legalize these things. Sure, if it's no longer criminal to possess large amounts of weed or some such, it may result in smaller amounts of people going to jail. But the more long-term health related issues for people may crop up.

• Comment on Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’ (the Atlantic, Adam Serwer):

  (1) I disagree. I think it's pretty easy to conclude that anyone would rather live in the USA than El Salvador, so it is not hard to place the anger back at the topic. In fact, the Great Replacement stuff helps draw the ire back to the top.

  (2) How is it a fantasy to believe that elites actively want to import more people for cheap labor to replace the rapidly declining white population..? Especially when it is far more costly to educate lots more white people who have much greater demands, and it will take a lot longer to replenish the population.

• Comment on Should all recreational drugs (incl. cannabis, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines) be legalized for personal use?:

  The war on drugs totally succeeded in places like Korea & Japan. Of course, they are constitutionally different and have different levels of access across their borders, both effectively functioning as islands...

  Why not try to actually win the war on drugs?

  Much criminality and nearly limitless human suffering is driven through hardcore narcotics.

• Comment on Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’ (the Atlantic, Adam Serwer):

  I actually think that (1) & (2) is true. (2) maybe not because they consciously desire replacement for replacement's sake, but because they want to keep the economy going and save as much cost as possible.

  This statement is interesting:

  Shapiro and the rest are arguing for the first two positions. That’s 99% of the work – they’re promoting an paranoid conspiracy theory.

  Are you suggesting that the Jews are so powerful that it's now super easy to conclude the elites are basically all Jews...?

• Comment on Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’ (the Atlantic, Adam Serwer):

  Coulter takes her quotes out of context. For instance, I dug up her Patrick Reddy quote (which she did not properly cite, of course), and Reddy did not assume that immigrants inevitably vote for Democrats. Instead, he said that their support for Democrats was a reaction to anti-immigrant actions from Republicans.

  It's basically just turning it around, though... Instead of we directly benefit from importing the Third World, it becomes aren't these Republicans terrible for not wanting to import the Third World..? Of course they don't get the votes, they're rae-rae.

  Keep in mind, though, that the leading GOP figures are guys like

  • Marco Rubio (latino)
  • Jeb Bush (Republican married to mestiza)
  • Ted Cruz (Latino)
  • Ben Shapiro (Jew)
  • Ron DeSantis (Italo-American)
  • Ben Carson (black)
  • Donald Trump (aren't like all of his grandchildren Jews?)

  Etc.

  The GOP has also been doing its best to appeal more & more to the latino vote.

  It's just not racist at all.

• Comment on Google's Chrome Browser Suffers Major Hack:

  Glad to be using brave for quite some time now

• Comment on Pedophilic attraction is more widespread than typically believed:

  If it was done right, and just a group of volunteers not cherry picked, over one fourth is quite bloody high.

  Do you dispute it?

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