Doesn’t Coca-Cola manufacture in the places where they operate? Also, facebook and google don’t manufacture anything.

“Historically the world is at its most peaceful when trade is the most free.”

This is a bad idea, but also laughable that the EU is harping on others about protectionism given that the EU’s entire purpose was to create a protectionist Europe (in addition to a single European state).

In my experience, high schools sports, both on the field and in the stands are some of the most acrimonious scenarios you can attend that aren’t soccer games with large hooligan contingents (or the parking lot of Dodgers Stadium).

“That woman behind the camera is possessed by the spirit of Chaos”

1. A sophistical and unfalsifiable form of argument that attempts to overcome an opponent by inducing a sense of guilt and using the opponent’s denial of guilt as further evidence of guilt.

So Michael is saying that journalists are disingenuous assholes who will rip the context from a statement to specifically defame someone? Because in context of Michael’s media landscape argument, he is basically agreeing that the media landscape is such that they can’t be trusted to report on reality.

Agreed. This isn’t very hard when you realize that pretty much every person views themselves as good and fair-minded. It would be bizarre for someone to not trust themselves (although quite right for us to not trust them).

It makes perfect sense to him, because he thinks he is a good powerful person. We shouldn’t trust him, but it would be really weird for him to not trust himself. There are very few people who don’t think that they are fair-minded.

What are you referring to when you say oversight? Because I am talking about making sure the contractor is meeting their contractual agreements and hitting project milestones. Also, making sure a system does what it is purported to do.

Uh, accountability and oversight are usually not the problem around cost and speed. It is scoping the project accurately at the start. The issue with acquisition re cost and speed comes from change of scope that blindside the projects. We also suck at accountability and oversight, but that leads to more cost, not…

I think WWI would be a great example of how developing battlefield technologies on the go leaves you fairly fucked the first few times you try to use them (see half of the tanks shitting out on the battlefield in their first run). Also, the fact that we are relatively safe in the US even with a lack of tanks that…

Kinja works horribly, nobody will see the follow up.

And people say there is no moral hazard with a welfare state...

https://deadspin.com/advil-1826351627

+ 1 shot in the bollocks

So we are back to not taking CTE seriously?

Ironically, the SexCult Media Service he referenced actually does a good job at this already. Whether or not the sex cult part is accurate, I feel like they do a pretty good job of analyzing media. Interestingly, they covered this exact story.

He moved away before Apartheid ended. He went to college at 17 in Canada and didn’t come back. He is born in 71. Apartheid ended in 94. If he was truly enjoying the privilege of being white in South Africa during Apartheid, he likely would have stayed instead of moving to Canada at 17. Your dumb narrative doesn’t make…

His general beef is that he thinks Tesla gets targeted when something goes wrong quite a bit more than all the other car companies who purchase ads from these various publications, something that Tesla doesn’t do. He likely isn’t wrong.