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I'm willing to buy into this interpretation, your explanation seems plausible at a minimum.

The most shocking part in all of this was finding out that Arkansas had a university. I'm sure they do the best science.

That's a great call, thanks

I think we would all prefer if the US would stop pretending the 6th amendment didn't exist and if trials could be carried out without endless delays.

they keep bringing unreasonable charges and the jury doesn't buy it.

There's a term for that, and the term is "jury nullification".

People been getting snatched up by masked men for that long, the memo has nothing to do with it.

*diapier

Defying Trump would be staying in office and fighting against his priorities while educating her district on how she and her constituents were misled from the beginning.

She isn't defying anything, she's running away like a scared little bitch.

It feels like they really dialed in the extraction shooter gameplay with ARC. It combines gambling mechanics (looting = rng, they even play a little tone when you get an epic item to really drive it home) with a solid third person shooter and makes pvp optional. It's less intense than tarkov and more serious than duckov, and lots of people seem to enjoy it.

To be totally clear, the UK has been a fucked up place for centuries, I don't think Meta fundamentally changed the culture.

Having said that, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc are tools that enable political influence over the population at levels that were previously unimaginable. Look into Cambridge Analytica a bit or borrow Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie from your local library for details.

Starting as early as 2012 we have evidence that Facebook was pivotal in stoking racial tensions in Myanmar, leading to a genocide.

There's evidence that Meta was a major factor in Brexit, which more specifically relates to my claim with respect to influence in the UK.

The US election in 2016 was clearly influenced by Meta platforms, including taking Russian money to stoke racial tensions in line with the Russian Manifesto, The Foundations of Geopolitics.

I'm currently reading through Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which is a memoir about how these systems were conceptualized and built at Facebook, and so far I'd recommend it.

Obviously Meta isn't the only problem, Tiktok is clearly a problem of similar size and scope, and other social apps have their own challenges (X being owned by the richest man alive and actively influencing the algorithm, for example), but in many ways Meta is the OG, and blazed the trail for others.

Meta happened. UK, US, all over the world there is a correlation between the adoption of Meta's products and the corrosion of basic human rights.

You should try asking people about the last EULA they read the next time you're at a party. You're gonna be blown away.