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    28 days ago

    If you’ve ever wondered why porn sites use pictures of cars, buses, stop signs, traffic lights, bicycles and sidewalks in their captchas, it’s because they’re using the data to train car-driving AIs to recognize those patterns.

    This is not what an imminent breakthrough in cancer research looks like.






  • Congress has been shirking their responsibility to declare wars since the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. They gave Presidents the power to carry out military actions abroad without a formal declaration. By passing the responsibility on to the president, Congress gets to avoid the blame for unpopular wars.

    Even the Vietnam “War” which lasted 10 years, was never declared by Congress.




  • Also keep in mind that the astronauts communicated with Earth by radio. Anyone with even 1920s radio technology would have figured out that the astronauts weren’t broadcasting from the Moon.

    We were in the middle of a cold war with the soviets back in the 1960s. Proving the moon landing was fake would have been the propaganda coup of the century for them. What possible reason would they have to stay quiet about that?





  • Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN’T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can’t control it (yet) so it’s a threat to their version of reality.

    This is also why our “liberal news media” does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullshit. It’s not necessary to report “both sides of an argument” if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshiterry. What they’re doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is “just another point of view” It’s not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.