"broadly"chetak wrote:jack on crack has left his employees holding the bag
Elon Musk@elonmusk·7 Feb
Going forward, Twitter will be broadly accepting of different values, rather than trying to impose its own specific values on the world
well jiski laathi uski bhains..Rep. Elise Stefanik@RepStefanik·10 Feb
The FBI paid Twitter over $3.4 million of taxpayer dollars to censor stories – including the Hunter Biden laptop story.
53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.
This is unconstitutional election meddling.
This is all fluff. Not sure what these reporters will "cover" other than waste hours of TV time. Let's wait for the root cause identification.Cyrano wrote:For all it's green eco friendly talk, Biden admin is the most callous and deceitful. Idem wrt freedom of press etc. Reporters from local media trying to cover the train wreck and controlled burning of vinyl spewing black clouds for days - were arrested ! Vids on yt etc
As with many prior chemical disasters, companies cutting corners and employing lobbyists could very well be the root cause here. Not sure till the CSB completes investigation. The CSB is an excellent agency which, like EPA, faced serious cuts under Trump. At least Bhaidanwa has recovered these two agencies.The train was not equipped with electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, which a former Federal Railroad Administration official claimed would have mitigated the severity of the accident.[5] In 2017, Norfolk Southern successfully lobbied the Trump administration to repeal the regulations requiring the use of such brakes on trains carrying hazardous materials.[5]
That is what the CSB and the EPA will assess comprehensively. Before that, we will get mostly fragmented reports.Cyrano wrote:It's not about what caused the accident saar, US love for rail is well known. It's about how the incident was managed. Why was so much vinyl chloride ityadi allowed to slow burn? What steps were taken and communicated to protect humans, flora, fauna, soil, water systems from the hazard? Why reporters are being arrested?
How would these same people have reacted if this happened during Trump era?
Mythinformed MKE @MythinformedMKE
“The speed with which they can shuffle somebody into the Hitler of the month club.”
Joe Rogan and @mtaibbi discuss how left wing media created a Elon Musk “bad now” narrative based on nothing.
Well, you see. He shot himself by the river side. Threw the weapon into the water and then walked upto his home/forest to hang himself from a rope. Yes, that's how the cops see it.sanjaykumar wrote:Yeah suicide by murder. Just a second order type of suicide.
the us is a commercial republic, it is the basis of their charter and constitution, they do not have a mercenary army in the classical form, what i mean is that the composition of people serving in the armed forces is now heavily leaning towards peoples who do not have a common origin with this civilisational philosophy; also, carthage had a strong navy and indifferent army, which was the opposite for romeAristotle (384–322) discusses Carthage in his work, Politica; he begins: "The Carthaginians are also considered to have an excellent form of government." He briefly describes the city as a "mixed constitution", a political arrangement with cohabiting elements of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, i.e., a king (Gk: basileus), a council of elders (Gk: gerusia), and the people (Gk: demos).[132] Later Polybius of Megalopolis (c. 204–122, Greek) in his Histories would describe the Roman Republic in more detail as a mixed constitution in which the Consuls were the monarchy, the Senate the aristocracy, and the Assemblies the democracy. [ /quote]
so a common theme in the makeup of state apparatus in atleast 2 med powers
so very unlike rome, but very much true for the usAristotle remarked also:
Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remain loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
In Carthage the people seemed politically satisfied and submissive, according to the historian Warmington. They in their assemblies only rarely exercised the few opportunities given them to assent to state decisions. Popular influence over government appears not to have been an issue at Carthage.
Being a commercial republic fielding a mercenary army, the people were not conscripted for military service, an experience which can foster the feel for popular political action. But perhaps this misunderstands the society; perhaps the people, whose values were based on small-group loyalty, felt themselves sufficiently connected to their city's leadership by the very integrity of the person-to-person linkage within their social fabric. Carthage was very stable; there were few openings for tyrants.
One of the lead researchers of GPT-3 has a Muslim name. He made a series of tweets about GPT-3 has become is islamophobic due to the training set it has been fed with. I heard similar on avimal wrote:Even ChatGPT is openly creating racist jokes about Indians while it refuses to do so about any other religion or ethnicity.
Unveiled government abuses[edit]/
She found series of "multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, [which] caused international news on multiple occasions".[5] Most notably, these included:
Honduras, 2018:[8] President Juan Orlando Hernández - From June to July 2018, 78% of Hernández’s Facebook posts received likes that were not from real people, artificially boosting his apparent popular support by a factor of five.[5] The social manager of Hernández's official Facebook pages, for both Hernández and his late sister who had served as communications minister, was directly controlling several hundreds of fake entities.[5] This campaign used Facebook's Organization Pages, configured with human names and photographs, to add support and to lure unaware readers.[5]
Azerbaijan, 2019:[9] Zhang found the ruling party to be using thousands of Organization Pages to harass opposition parties.[2] The network of pages was still active as of June, 2021.[1]
India,[10] USA,[11] Dominican Republic,[12] Mexico,[11] Honduras,[11] El Salvador,[12] Ecuador,[11] Bolivia,[11] Paraguay,[11] Argentina,[11] Italy,[11] Poland,[11] Ukraine,[11] Albania,[11] Bulgaria,[11] Turkey,[11] Iraq,[11] Tunisia,[11] Afghanistan,[12] Mongolia,[11] India,[11] Myanmar, Indonesia,[11] Philippines,[11] South Korea[11] and more.
Departure from Facebook[edit]
Zhang was fired from Facebook in September 2020. She declined a $64,000 severance package attached to a non-disparagement agreement restricting her ability to speak publicly about Facebook issues.[12] On her departure day, she posted a 7,800-word departure message to Facebook's internal message board outlining Facebook’s failure to combat political manipulation campaigns similar to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[5] Anticipating Facebook's deletion of the post, she created a personal, password-protected website with a copy of the post, then distributed its web address and password to Facebook co-workers.[5]
Facebook suppressed the message on the internal board, then contacted Zhang's web hosting service and domain registrar to request and force her private website offline.[5]
WASHINGTON: Describing India as a "great power" and a country that prides itself in moral values, powerful American Senator Mark Warner, a long-time advocate of a strong India-US relationship, on Thursday said New Delhi has to choose a side in the Ukrainian war at some point.
Commending India for standing up to the Chinese aggression and its challenge, Senator Warner, the Chairman of the powerful Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told PTI in an interview that the steps being taken by India vis-a-vis the Ukraine conflict so far are not enough and New Delhi can do more.
"I commend Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi for making that comment in front of (Russian President) Mr. (Vladimir) Putin in Uzbekistan. But one statement in a war that's now over a year old, I think there's more that can be done," Warner said, referring to the PM' this is "not an era of war" assertion.
India has maintained that it stands on the side of peace on the Ukrainian and has expressed willingness to contribute to any peace initiative between Russia dn Ukraine.
He said India is clearly dependent on outside forces for its military weapon supplies and oil needs. "One of the reasons why I think India's transformation to a greener and different energy source is so important. I also think that some of my conversations with ministers and government officials below Prime Minister Modi and (EAM S) Jaishankar, who is also an extraordinarily talented individual, they were a little more candid," said Warner.
He recently returned from India as part of a Congressional delegation that met among others Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Responding to a question, Warner said that years ago there was even “an unwillingness to choose a side” vis-a-vis China.
"India, because of its own self-interest, and because the Chinese aggression has chosen a side and recognizes that no one wants conflict,…. India's looking for allies that will stand against Chinese aggression, whether it's economic aggression, whether it's military aggression, whether it's how you deal with the Indian Ocean on the Navy side, there has been greater cooperation," he said.
He said India shares historic ties with Russia. "I understand if India were to make the break in terms of continuing to cut down the, the weapons from Russia, they have gotta make sure there was a reliable partner, whether it's the United States or others that would be there if there ever was a conflict, to make sure the Indian military forces could be resupplied,” he said.
"So I understand that tension. And I do believe, a truly great power that India is, and an optimistic power that India is, (standing) on the sidelines when there is such a clear moral choice; no one can watch what's happened in Ukraine, no one can watch the kind of brutal murders that took place in in Ukraine and say that both sides are wrong," he said.
"This is a clear moral challenge in terms of Russian aggression and India prides itself as a country based upon clear moral values," Warner said. "(India), I think can't escape from the fact that at some point is gonna have to choose a side.”
These issues came up during the meetings of the Congressional delegation led by Senator Chuck Schumer with Indian leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Warner said the US delegation's message was heard by the Indian leadership but they "did not indicate any kind of changes in position".
He was travelling India for the first time after COVID-19 with the nine-member Congressional delegation.
"There was enormous confidence. I felt that from the governmental leaders I met with. We had (meetings) both in New Delhi and Mumbai, and many meetings with serious business leaders," he said.
Warner's first trip to India was in 2005 as the Governor of Virginia.
"At that point there was this promise of what India could become. Now, I feel India is realizing that opportunity. So it was great from some of my Senate colleagues who had never been to India before to see it for the first time through their eyes, but also to kind of appreciate how far India has come and whether it's cooperation on military affairs or in terms of cooperation on economic affairs, in terms of how many people have moved up the economic ladder," he said.
Warner said in the past, India was on the path to becoming a great power. “But I feel that that past on the verge of being a great power has transformed to where now India is a great power,” he told PTI.
He said the US can learn from India how to get money delivered to the rural communities without leak.
The Senator from Virginia said that in the delegation's meetings with the prime minister and the external affairs minister the Chinese challenge came up wherein they raised the understandable concerns about China, including border dispute.
Warner praised India for being ahead of most of the rest of the world in recognizing the possible vulnerabilities around Chinese technology.
"The fact that you're excluded Huawei, the fact that you do not allow TikTok in India, those are things that we are moving to in the United States. But India's already taken those steps. I think there was a real understanding that the United States and India need to collaborate not against China, but to recognize that China has expansionist plans throughout South Asia, or China has expansionist plans in Southeast Asia and there needs to be a counterbalance of two democracies that will stand firm not only on defense cooperation, but on values cooperation,” Warner said.
These guys have lot of takleef understanding that India has picked a side - it's ownhgupta wrote:Someone needs to tell Warner to shut the ****** up and pay more respect to Modi. Modi is the PM of a nation of 1.3 billion people while Warner is only a leader from a state that has a population of 8.5 million.
