Located 1594 results from search term 'opinion'
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Commented in If interest in meatless burgers is waning, how can plant-based eating be sustained? | CBC Radio
Plot twist: it can't.
It costs more than meat and in my opinion, doesn.t taste quite "right". Maybe it's all the processing they have to to to make into a "burger".
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Commented in Amsterdam bans cruise ships to limit visitors and curb pollution
Amsterdam's becoming more and more the playgrounds for the rich. Pretty much every property in the main tourist district is owned by not too many rich people and investors. Banning tourists from coffeeshops (and reducing the number of coffeeshops), trying to get rid of the red light district, using all the buildings there pretty much solely as investment (not for living themselves in). It's even that bad, that the people who work for those rich people, can't afford to live close to their respective jobs. Social housing, which was in its' haydays a worldwide example of how you go about housing for everyone, has been privatised to oblivion and even partially sold out to those investors. Amsterdam has changed over the last twenty-odd years into a rich ass hell-hole where fausses puritines dominate the rule-making. No public opinion involved there.
I understand the banning framed in the environmental view, but the visitor limiting is kind of cutting off the, historically, bread and butter of the city. All for a few rich cunts and their streetview (and curb appeal, ofcourse). Then you can't have some rowdy people in, sometimes, way too loud shirts. Or the smell of some herbs down the block. Or during a nightwalk through the neighborhood having to look at people who suck their rich ass for less than their partners & employees do. Taking away big city character for some offworld idea of aesthetics and money-grabbing.
As you can imagine, it has been a while since I've been there.
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Commented in Bing vs. Google: the new AI-driven search wars are on
I use Qwant, Yandex and DuckDuckGo. I have no need for AI in assisting me with searching the web and certainly not in forming an idea or opinion.
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Commented in Vitamin D deficiency leads to dementia
Really? In general, vitamins are very important, but concerning this study, in my opinion, should be more evidence Moreover, some vitamins could be dangerous if taken in greater dose
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Commented in 600 Topeka, Kansas Frito-Lay workers strike after rejecting union-negotiated deal
Astonishingly callous.
Cheri Renfro, a union trustee, asserted in an opinion piece in the Topeka Capital-Journal that when a worker collapsed and died on the line, management had workers simply move the body and put in another coworker to keep the line going.
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Commented in Valve Illegally Monopolizes the PC Gaming Market, Harming Gamers and Developers, Class Action Alleges
Valve's so called monopoly has saved me money with the regular holiday sales, time by not needing to find a disk or hunt down a no-cd patch, and it was great not needing 50 different stores. These days I now have Bethesda, Gog, Ubisoft, EA Play, Xbox/Microsoft, Blizzard, Paradox, Social Club, Epic, and Steam stores or launchers. It's absurd and intrusive how things are now, my opinion.
I think steam was more like Netflix than a monopoly, it was just the best most convenient place to get things when there happened to be no competition. Today this lawsuit almost has to fail because of all the other stores that are out.
I hated Steam when it came out, I still have a slight hatred for it, but I will never like this new system of a launcher/store for every game. I miss the days of installing a game with serial codes.
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Commented in A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
Just a "small" issue that I am sure FB will get to when it starts cutting into their bottom line or public opinion swells to a level that requires action.
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Commented in Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
First of all: melodramatic much? “Doomsday device”
A corporation run by a manchild on short leash from investors? Come off it
this tool is as nothing more than the guttennburg press equivalent for the 21st century and nothing more
it could have been a way to torpedo the rich and powerful but that ship has sailed since we sold it out to them (virtually from day one might I add)
this article is so off that mark that it hardly qualifies as an opinion
more like eternal September first ever essay “hai government regulators are like violence - if they are not working it’s because we are not using enough, i can haz into forum post?”
There’s a notion that the social web was once useful, or at least that it could have been good, if only we had pulled a few levers: some moderation and fact-checkingy here, a bit of regulation there, perhaps a federal antitrust lawsuit. But that’s far too sunny and shortsighted a view
Please
that is the sunny outlook? Oh my...
Let me burst that bubble for ya champ: the notion that social web once was good is BS
geeks have been explaining this one from day one of the advent of so-called social media platforms
it’s always been a fallacy and is now standard fair - the dogma that The Problem is the wild, wild west of the worldwide web
nothing could be further from the truth
on the contrary - any system with a single database under the control of a single legal entity is the very antithesis of an open net; it is the subversion of the idea of a free association network where everyone has the right and means to publish uncensored information
that’s fundamental and first and foremost - if your post doesn’t get that right the rest is either self aggrandising drivel or paid-for promo
the fact that people are now trying to regulate this very same database under the watchful eye of oversight committees (under the thinly veiled guise of “public outcry”) is mere endgame political posturing of a long term strategy - over three decades in the making - to reign in free exchange of information that the Pandora’s box of World Wide Web opened up; in spite of every effort by APRANET’s paymasters to design monitoring into the very fabric of the TCP/IP infrastructure
and every advent into the network design to make it more distributed has been downplayed and shot down ever since
just as every advent which makes it more restrictive and corruptible has been promoted and hailed as good
illegal exchange of ideas notwithstanding (drug trafficking; illegal pornographers et al) - all information exchange on a free network would be monitored by law enforcement in any case
this was never in doubt
a single database approach only makes it easier to identify and keep watch over the neutral players which constitute the bulk of the masses and data traffic on the internet; exchanges of garden variety, regular run of the mill information like food recipes and service complaints (interestingly enough about big business and government)
in other words - Facebook-like facilitation of Internet-based communications does nothing to deter or prevent people exchanging harmful information and gives only the power to big player agents to intervene and monitor and/or incite outrage of mass populous when it suits them and for a price
which makes it both profitable and exclusive to those that can afford it
this final nail in the coffin only serves to outlaw all other possible channels which hav...
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Commented in Robotic dogs to start patrolling Florida military base
I imagine their analysis shows this is a smart choice. These robotic dogs are kind of creepy in my opinion...maybe that is part of the appeal?
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Commented in Almost 70% Rise in Disney Plus Downloads Post Mulan Release
I am excited to watch this, I have been hearing fan reviews rip it apart. But I want to gather my own opinion on it.
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Commented in The Moral Question of Ad-Blocking
I have an ad-blocker, plus my browser is well trained in not accepting trackers and other nefarious ways to obtain my personal data, including my browsing data. With those two things (ad-blocker, well trained browser) my internet is way faster than with all the sales, pop-ups-and-unders, unrequested scripts, which is, all and all, one of my biggest things with a network in 2020: speed.
My browser, a lean and mean Firefox, uses after four hours of internetbrowsing somewhat 1.5 GB of RAM. When I was still using Facebook (which is, in essence, one big advertisement) that went up to about 2.3 GB after a few hours. I actually do not know exactly how much it is with my ad-blocker turned off, but eventhough I use Linux, some scripts are just bad motherfuckers to have on your machine in some cache-folder. So, there's another good moral stance: the placement of unwanted software on my, normally very safe, machine. Which is, to my opinion, a criminal offence, comparable with sabotage or an attempt thereof.
Businesses that need to be intrusive to sell their products, are not the ones I want to do business with in the first place. That kind of desperation stinks of bad quality products. Ads are okay in a way, but when someone doesn't need them, so be it.
I understand websites need to make money, or at least the people running them do. But just check The Guardian for once: no ads, no trackers and other acts of criminal behaviour and still a well earning newspaper. Just ask politely at the end of every article if the reader is interested in sponsoring or taking a membership. That's it. And if the chance is there that this method doesn't work on your site, well, I don't want to break it to you, but there are billions of people on the web and they all have bright ideas, just like you. Even with annoying ads: nobody cares. So there's a hint: make a better product or try another job.
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Commented in Opinion | I’m Going to Die. I May as Well Be Cheerful About It.
that was a little navelgazy
"Opinion | Overdosing on morphine sounds like a painless way to die"
you think? not so sure. maybe we need one of them expensive studies to confirm this
"we have scanned brain activity of over 1,500 dying people, and those injected with morphine prior to having their breathing apparatus unplugged, had areas of the brain associated with euphoria lit up like Tokyo on New Years' Eve"
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Commented in Cheap Billionaire Jeff Bezos Donates Five Minutes of Income to Devastating Australian Bushfires Recovery
Is it his responsibility to donate to every devastating thing that happens around the world, regardless how wealthy he is? Just my opinion but what he does with his money is his business.
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Commented in Amazon and Apple will be our doctors in the future, says tech guru Peter Diamandis
This is a well-written article that showcases both sides of the argument. I personally don't agree with the opinion of tech guru Peter Diamandis, but I did like seeing good journalism that gave a balanced report on healthcare in relationship to big tech.
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Commented in The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
An interesting read! One thing I'm not sure about though, is the author's opinion (toward the end of the article) that Gen Z will be even worse off than millenials. I don't think that this necessarily is the case, and the author does not offer any evidence or even any reason for that opinion.
By contrast I think there is a lot of hope for Gen Z being better off than millenials, for the simple reason that millenials were hampered by entering the job market during a bad recession. The lost earnings during that time have a sort of compounding effect because it gets them off to a worse start for retirement savings. I'd like to point out that Gen Z are mostly still kids at the moment, and (while we shouldn't necessarily assume they'll be coming into their jobs during a boom time), there is no compelling evidence to suggest that they'll enter the workforce during a recession.
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Commented in Don't let vegetarian environmentalists shame you for eating meat. Science is on your side.
I'm not ashamed of eating meat but this is a fluff opinion piece, ranting about a peer reviewed study.
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Commented in Pope Francis decried as heretic by conservatives
He does seem less cartoonishly evil than other current popes. Then again, he may just be fortunate in his enemies.
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Commented in The Rise of VICTIMHOOD Culture on Campus - Seeing People as GOOD or EVIL - Jonathan Haidt
Here's the valid point underneath all of the foolishness. There is a valid point there, color it in any way one wants to. Life sucks and then you die. It's called survival in any circumstance for as long as you can...and we don't have much of a choice as to who or what we are born into. Our learning institutions are fucked up. I happen to agree with the gist of what he says. I sense you do as well. If there is someone you think worth listening to, please share. Any balanced opinion is always welcomed.
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Commented in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal would reshape US energy in 10 years. A lot could go wrong
I know a guy that still figures for sure the moon landings were faked, filmed on a soundstage. He claims Capricorn One got it from him. It can be awkward. Not long ago, we were out at breakfast when apropos of nothing he casually mentioned how he was really mad when the Challenger disaster happened because people were so caught up in it that they were suckered into forgetting it was all fake. Meaning the space program. I was, visibly I expect, kind of stunned. Of course I can admire radicals like that, individualists that play by their own rules? Not everybody's sold on science. Some folks radically object to dogma. You're sure to get those that mistrust how awestruck people are by any coordinated collaborative effort. Misanthropes, too. Whatevs.
Still, the only thing I could think of after he said it was how investigation showed the crew were aware and alert after the explosion on their descent before dying in free fall. It was that existential horror which none of us can properly imagine that I couldn't get past, in the moment, so's I could ignore the joke. I know one's gotta ask one's self if something needs being said, whether it needs being said now, or whether it needs being said by you. Every so often it does. I don't think he had that information. His ears weren't too sensitive to hear it. He may not be making the exact joke in exactly the same way another time. One would hope no harm no foul. Fair play?
I know you're rather skeptical of anthropogenic global warming, or at least of the seriousness of the implications. Maybe it doesn't translate unless you're hip to the gravity of what science is telling us about our now-inevitable near future. Cats like Trump and his cronies will long be remembered as among the greatest villains, because not only are they simply doing nothing, they're doing as much damage as they can as fast as they can and how would you put it? Crooked as a ram’s horn? If we're supposed to be so cynical now that we're pretending a random Bronx tenement dweller is as much on the grift as our snake oil Amway dealer-in-chief, it may take me a while yet to get there. I'm still searching for the wisdom in it.
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Commented in Did Finland's free money experiment work?
I think it is a good idea, but that amount of money doesn't bring you far. I have had just one worry about UBI, namely, it gives government a lot of control over you. It should be in the law that government just cannot stop it on a whim, for instance, when you have a certain opinion or when you're not a native and they start to dislike those facts.
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Commented in Cannabis Smoking Associated With Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds
"In my opinion, this should be avoided at all costs in any couples trying to start a family."
Said with no scientific basis at all.
Yet for years it has been the opposite story.
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Commented in Russian TV airs doc claiming Nazi-loving Ukrainians are running Canada's government
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Commented in How to win public support for a global carbon tax
And adding another tax just makes you poorer for the apocalypse. My humble opinion, is that it should be looked at as a national security issue....create a race to the moon mentality. That event alone drove thousands of practical inventions. Taxing existing infrastructure will not work, its not bold, its not even giving people an option....and the energy companies will pass it on....because you cant go anywhere else.
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Commented in I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
Usually, that saying is about things like how one isn’t able to make a favorite dish the way one’s folks did, down some fractal dimension of differences all the way to how one oven doesn’t heat much like another. Or how one’s old neighborhood will’ve become unrecognizable by the time one gets back to visit someday.
Even after the coming Venezuelan War, even after the diaspora comes back to roost, it’ll be new. Something different. Stars willing, better. If nothing else, yours.
Best of luck when you get there!
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Commented in Cultural appropriation turns Halloween into a nightmare
Poor George, I think he expected to make a bigger splash than he did. Meanwhile, Friedersdorf runs the table.