Denial of free expression is prima facie intolerance of human expression of opinions; when speech is suppressed, resentment brews, and when speech is outlawed, extremism is kindled and violence follows not far behind.
Whatever noble goal or intent of non-offensive public behavior you think you further by supressing freedom of expression (of others), you are not freed from this causal fact, or the fact that *you* are supporting what leads to worsening societal discord and ultimately violence.
You know, I was an Apple customer and fan before it was/made you popular to use the fruity tech products. From before iPhone, before iPod, before even the iMac.
iPod was a great advance in portable, digital music in the early aughts. Apple’s engineers deserves praise for that. The iPhone in 2007 broke new ground with intuitive, useable, beautiful-UI touchscreen phones. Apples designers deserves praise for that.
After that, it was a slow slide into high-efficiency streamlining of everything, including of deception of the customer base.
I was once an Apple fan. I am not anymore, and havent been for over a decade.
I was once an Apple customer, having thrown tens of thousands of DKK after Apple products and the products of their associated peripheral makers. Haven’t done so for a decade.
Apple products are by and large the best they have ever been when you sum up everything, and yet Apple is now the worst they have ever been, if you factor in ethics considerations.
Apple didn’t lose the platform wars; the users lost – much money and your freedom, as you get herded deeper into Apple’s walled garden by Tim Cook & his association of Crooks.
What Apple does best is international, legal money laundering. Screw em. Use Linux.
…might be one summary of the current phenomenon we know as “social media” these years. Before even going to the concept of misinformation (or rather, disinformation), we ought to be able to agree that social media is replete with falsehoods and outright lies.
How will you put the brakes on the wanton spread of harmful falsehoods online? If we value truth – or approaching the subject from a different angle – acknowledge that viral falsehoods has a potential to harm individuals, groups or even society as a whole, then we must also realize that we cannot slow the online (dys-)culture of lying, if lies told do not come at a cost; that is, if people are willfully able to tell lies with no inhibition, pause or remorse whatsoever.
Havde han stadig været i live ville Kaj Ebbe Perlsø (født Kaj Ebbe Jørgensen) i dag være fyldt 100 år. Ebbe blev født på Østerbro den 6. August 1923, og boede sammen med familien i Vanløse i sine unge år. Efter Besættelsen af Danmark under 2. Verdenskrig blev han aktiv i Modstandsbevægelsen i København og måtte derfor flygte over Øresund til Sverige i Januar 1945 hvor han tiltrådte den Danske Brigade. Han vendte efter Nazitysklands kapitulation tilbage til landet, og færdiggjorde sin af krigen afbrudte ingeniøruddannelse via. “Hermods Korrespondance Institut” og fik titlen Civilingeniør i 1950. Han giftede sig med Tove Christensen og blev efterfølgende ansat ved Philips både i Nederlandene og her i Danmark, og var før sin pensionering ansat ved elektroniklaboratoriet i Scandinavian Air System (SAS) i Kastrup. Kaj Ebbe Perlsø sov stille ind i Oktober 2012.
Ebbe Perlsø besad et intenst og et udi de tekniske discipliner højt kyndigt intellekt, og har igennem sit liv været en inspiration for mange, overleves og er savnet af sin familie.
Both Biden and Trump should be summarily dismissed from office on age infirmity grounds.
Retirement age ought to apply as much to politicians as to workingmen, moreso in fact; as soon as you turn 70 years of age, you should automatically be barred from office, except lesser advisory positions.
Political office today is an extremely demanding post, which you need to be a nearly supremely capable, energetic and mentally focused individual to hold in a way that respects the needs and interests of an electorate that puts its trust in you.
90 years ago on this day, by banning reconstitution of other political paries of the Reichstag, Germany became a one-party state – Nazi Germany – sealing its fate onto a path of totalitarian rule, eventual ruin and historical infamy.
…take a peek into your C:\WINDOWS folder, especially the SxS folder.
Have fun browsing through 90.000 subdirectories. >.<
In the coming year I intend to make a series of posts where I dissect the major “Social Media” outlets and dive into the effects they have on us as humans and society as a whole.
Come back to this space regularly.
…or a fanatic, is when they express this:
“What I’m opposed to is the Evil of the Earth.”
“What I support I Good in All Ways!”
Those people (of whatever kind or place you may run into them) are not selling you a product or a solution to anything, they’re handing out seating tickets on the cult bus.
Do not get on that bus.
Plenty of people in the media and on Twitter are bemoating that the SCOTUS is busy striking down current Administration acts, apparently ignorant that they are doing so for good reason.
There are ways where you get stuff done in a society, without passing legislation:
It’s called either “dictatorship” or “lawlessness”, and unless you like pain, suffering and things falling apart in various ways, neither thing is something you want for yourself or others.
The administration’s activities are struck down because they are unlawful, they know it full well, but they are trying to sell them to you still, because they want your vote. (Nancy Pelosi has said as much on her own accord. Biden also said so himself while on the campaign trail in 2019).