* Posts by snow20191102

11 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2020

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

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Anyone heard of Islam?

I am more than sure they are anti-semitic, and are around in big numbers.

EU tells Twitter 'you can run but you can't hide' from disinformation policy

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Re: Erm

The understanding here is that the research was prohibited by ethics committees in the States, so it was subcontracted to China.

The innards of the virus show man-made attributes which do not and can not exist anywhere else.

The FBI/CIA/Homeland Security is now slowly owing up.

FBI boss says COVID-19 'most likely' escaped from lab

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Re: The dangers of certainty

The understanding here is that the research was prohibited by ethics committees in the States, so it was subcontracted to China.

The innards of the virus show man-made attributes which do not and can not exist anywhere else.

The FBI is now slowly owing up.

PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea

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Depends on your belief system

If you find, as I did, that the vaccine killed a dear friend within a week (VAXXED on Friday, dead the following Wednesday) then you may have grounds for thinking that these vaxxines are not 'Totally Safe' (government 'belief'/sales pitch).

Consultant plays Metaverse MythBuster. Here's why they're wrong

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Consulting giant McKinsey & Company has been

paid to produce what the client wants to hear.

And 1,000 people across the whole age spectrum sounds like they interviewed people in the company.

"Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts".

Trojan Horses to you.

Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline

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American Nukes

Why is there a profound silence over the installation of US nuclear missiles in Latvia and Poland which started this thing off in the first place?

Russia is only trying to defend itself against the american military who want to try out their new toys.

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

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SCC

Surely:-

"The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation"

...Who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes...

And from a copy of the NYT from the future:-

...they were the first against the wall when the revolution came...

Thank you Douglas Adams.

More than half of companies rethinking back-to-office plans amid variant uncertainty and vaccine mandates – survey

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How do I get my lathe to the upstairs bedroom please?

Focus on the camera, mobile devs: 48MP shooters about to become the sweet spot

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Re: the more pixels you have the more potential you have for

"peddle"

Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book

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Shurely, Shirly, we all know that the privacy statement means "we will collect as much data on you as we like and do whatever we like with it".

Tedious to avoid, but:-

No smartphone.

No Facebook, twitter et al, unless with a false identity and location.

A VPN.

uBlock origin - I haven't seen adverts for years.

Cookie Autodelete - just keeps the few (four companies) and automatically deletes the rest,

And of course, Linux Mint, no Microsoft, Apple or Google (and coming chinese ones) operating systems.

And Duckduckgo.

I said it was tedious.

John.

xx