make sure to replicate the results too

No. I’m saying the US had the technological capability to stop missiles from flying at all, the financial power to make life difficult for the Bibi regime, the political power to back the ICJ, and is in no way compelled to reprint IDF propaganda to sway the American electorate towards their pro-settler policies, but they failed on all counts. The US made Iranian nuclear refineries shake themselves apart, but US tech companies now build AI tools to aid the IDF in their campaign of total destruction.

Maybe the ceasefire wouldn’t have been total, but the polls clearly showed that the lack of effort would (and did) cost them the election.

classic neoliberal compassion

quietly?

are you?

I’m pretty sure the anti-genocide people were the ones violently confronting Nazis four years ago while the Democratic mainstream said that wasnt the right way to do things.

Probably lots of overlap with the people who blockaded and flooded airports and courts to stop the Muslim ban.

Probably closely related to the people who put their bodies on the line and blockaded ICE detention facilities.

I’d bet they were involved in organizing the BLM protests too.

Yes, but they don’t have their own satellite constellation or nanometer chip forges and many of of their fancy weapons systems would be rendered useless by an Alibaba gps jammer.

Granted, this wouldn’t do a whole lot for the IMU guided systems, but the US has literally been shooting down missiles in transit for a year when they fly towards Israel. you telling me that shit only works in one direction?

They can’t bomb Gaza without american bombs or defend Tell Aviv without American GPS or or or or.

eh. kinda missing the point. they didn’t even try and the polling was clear-- this policy would lose the Dems the election.

Also, South African dock workers have managed to organize and block the transfer of Israeli military goods through their ports. You telling me that South African port workers are more capable of following international law than the Us government? well, fuck it, how do I vote for them then?

Mac address absolutely falls under PII in my jurisdiction. I can’t even use Google docs to take notes at work without violating a dozen laws. Granted this isn’t the US, but it seems like the defaults have been moving towards the EU standards, especially after California vowed to write their own version of GDPR.

yeah. I misread your comment. You’re very right about that and Google has “wifi hotspots” to track users around NYC. https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/linknyc-free-wifi-kiosks/

however, modern android iOS also have Mac address randomization on by default, so google has that data but I highly doubt random retailers do. Unless you install an app or connect to the network wherein they do the other fingerprinting I mentioned.

While that’s true, modern versions of android/ios require you to enable location permissions for the app in question, so it’s probably not true in general.

This is why you get weird prompts from apps needing to know your location when that’s not really a functionality of the app. If the app can see the network name or Bluetooth hardware address, then it’s considered personally identifiable location information and would be covered under something like GDPR, which is why they eventually implemented these features globally.

The Dems could have forced a ceasefire. The Muslim contingent warned them months ago and polling very clear showed that a ceasefire would have likely changed the result in several critical swing states.

Totally understandable. My job is being an AI critic and it’s exceptionally small world.

So, if your phone has ever connected to the work wifi or your laptop to tour home wifi, IP address can be used to de anonymize you. Additionally, stuff like typing characteristics, browser add-ons, and your search history can be used to correlate two “unconnected” accounts. From the point of view of the advertisers, they don’t really need to know that you’re the same person-- that’s totally irrelevant. They just need to know that the person receiving the ad is more likely to buy a product than a random person, so these correlation models are sufficient and they don’t even need to know those two devices belong to one person.

I would also guess that you saw dozens if not hundreds of other ads that did not provoke the same response. So, the eerie feeling of this being too specific is just a statistical bias that ignores the many uninteresting ads you didn’t engage with.

Also, depending on how you took the screenshot, they know that too. Even if you didn’t use the browser, they can probably see that you spent more time than average looking at it, hovering your cursor over it, etc. Now they have more evidence that you have been “engaged” by this content. And, again, they don’t care or need to know that you have two devices, just that the user of either device might buy some Hyde stuff.

Furthermore, most people search for things after hearing about them IRL. It’s totally possible that someone you know googled something similar and Bing knows that you’re associated with that other person. This social graph data can come from any number of social Media Sites or by tracking location or by tracking IP address or when Facebook was pre installed on Android devices a decade ago and mined your contacts without consent or or or…

It’s really not magic, but, yeah, it’s horrifying how predictable people are.

Electric vehicles are peak neoliberalism though. It just outsources the energy production and moves the environmental costs to mines in the congo. The solution is mass transit, not giving tac incentives to people rich enough to own a Tesla.

In that same way, the chips act is there to shield Intel from foreign competitors and allow the USS yombuild up a military supply chain independent of TSMC. It’s super naive to think the Dems passed those to benefit the working poor.

Also, public support for funding Ukraine has been falling and I’m old enough ti remember when the left was categorically against wars. My ass was getting beat by the department of Homeland security while Secretary of State Clinton handed out donuts to Maidan square Nazis.

This comment is not meant to absolve Putin or to say Ukraine’s self defense is immoral–just that the media depictions of good vs evil are far more subtle and nuanced in real life and that Raytheon and Boeing benefit from this conflict more than the Ukrainian civilians who are dying daily. here’s a really good interview with an actual leftist who participated in the 2014 Maidan square actions and discusses the inciting problems of ethno nationalism and neoliberalism in 2014.

I’ve always found the best people at foodnotbombs, which has local chapters in most cities. Start there.

link

Homey, she’s vice president today. If she gave a fuck, we wouldn’t be where we are.

I mean, I get the point, but it’s not like rewriting the 1917-1945 history is uncommon in Europe.

The anti Soviet museum in Lithuania doesn’t talk about the Holocaust of Jewish people at all, for example.

There was a well organized campaign to promote revisionist history on the Croatian Wikipedia.

And Poland codified denialism into law.

The Jewish population of the region that used to be the Western Russian Empire remembers the violence as starting in 1917, not in 1939 when the Germans showed up. This had been a recurring thing, but nobody seems to remember that.

a variety of independent news sources.

Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.