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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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About using Amazon Prime: I've read about folks using Amazon to search for a product, but then ordering it direct from the retailer's website, with no reference to Amazon. Does this defund Amazon, or do they somehow still get revenue from this procedure? ____________________ | |||
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Yes, search on Amazon, find the best price, note who the seller is which is always displayed. Then go to their web page and order. The only downside is your CC number is going to be on 100's of ecommerce sites vs stored at Amazon. Then again some day someone will hack Amazons ecommerce data and steal CC numbers, its inevitable and too enticing... probably be Thomas Gabriel, you know he hacked into the US defense system and shutdown NORAD with a laptop... | |||
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If you order it direct from the retailer, there's no association with Amazon, so Amazon gets nothing. Before we signed up for Amazon Prime, indeed before we used Amazon a lot, I'd often use Amazon for a price check, then go elsewhere to buy. That is what I'm back to doing. Amazon has now become my Retailer Of Last Resort. Once we have enough reward points on one of our cards I'll acquire another Apple TV and decommission the second-to-the-last Fire TV we have. I'll keep the Fire TV Stick for when we travel--and that primarily so we can access our home OTA TV system, Netflix, and whatever other streaming services while away. That's it. (If we end up not using it the next time we vacation, that will be decommissioned and sold or given away, too.) "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Except for Rumble, these alternative apps rarely work. | |||
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After they smoothed out some rough edges, MeWe app seems to work well. My favorite day on MeWe is Tuesday. ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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MeWe seems to have been working fine. Gab seems to be working well now. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Speaking of MeWe, look what I just found there:
Ref: Facebook and Google have been accused of striking a secret, illegal advertising deal As if their anti-American, anti-free speech behavior wasn't enough. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Facebook bans ads for gun accessories in run-up to inauguration I'm still seeing posts for guns (Tanner's Sports Center and others), and holsters, but those are posts and not sponsored ads. Good thing I'm not in marketing. | |||
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Same here. Got tired of all the crap from FB. Had family members spending all their time there, posting such vital info as recipes for all kinds of stuff, pictures of roast beef, etc. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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From the article:
Note emphasis added. Why in God's name any freedom-loving American would still have anything to do with Facebook is totally beyond me. Sorry. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Not only do most of them barely work, they are quickly becoming conservatives ghettos which is EXACTLY WHAT THE LEFT HAD IN MIND. We are now all these islands and not connected like the Facebooks and Twitters are. | |||
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It's still a bit rough around the edges, but here's a smart phone that doesn't run iOS or Android (not even one of the "de-Googled" versions): https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ I don't know if there's a Linux version of your keyring software, though. Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. | |||
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Both Gab and MeWe are working fine for me now.
As opposed to the leftist ghettos Facebook and Twitter have become, you mean?
What would you suggest? That we continue to support Facebook and Twitter? "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I'd rather be on an island where everyone is allowed to be heard, than support sites that are actively trying to suppress my voice. The water in Washington won't clear up until we get the pigs out of the creek~Senator John Kennedy | |||
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MeWe Goes Big Tech Authoritarian, Opts for Political Censorship This is no different than a Big Tech platform. Supposed Big Tech alternative MeWe is opting for the path of political censorship and repression, caving to demands of media leftists to censor right-leaning political content. MeWe’s administrators confirmed they would close so-called ‘Stop the Steal’ groups and purge their content from its platform earlier this month. Trending: Democrats Move to Ban Trump Supporters From Joining the Military and Holding Federal Jobs MeWe styles itself as somewhat of a Facebook alternative, advertising user privacy and independence from a data surveillance business model. MeWe’s administrators have taken to signalling against real free speech social media platforms such as Parler and Gab, a thumb in the face of their largely anti-establishment user base, many of whom joined the service to begin with in pursuit of a Facebook alternative that doesn’t censor. MeWe is NOT an "anything goes" site like Parler or Gab. MeWe's TOS is strict & clear (https://t.co/oJP1JvrxiZ)- haters, lawbreakers, violence inciters etc. are not welcome. We have an outstanding Trust & Safety team that works hard every day to investigate & remove TOS-violators — MeWe (@mewe) January 10, 2021 An overwhelming majority of Americans who attended ‘Stop the Steal’ protests are peaceful and non-violent, with only a handful getting out of control during the January 6th raucous US Capitol riot. MeWe’s decision to implement political censorship en masse makes it no different than the worst Big Tech authoritarians, except for the deceptive marketing of a free speech social media platform. In any event, a social media platform that bans arbitrarily defined “haters” is almost assured to have draconian anti-free speech policies. MeWe has opted for the path of a minuscule Big Tech clone in a betrayal of its own user base. Gab offers a wide range of social services without the politically correct censorship, and MeWe’s users should embrace it as the real home of free speech online. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/...olitical-censorship/ The water in Washington won't clear up until we get the pigs out of the creek~Senator John Kennedy | |||
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Sen. Hawley: It’s time to stand up against the muzzling of America By Josh Hawley January 24, 2021 Have you checked your social credit score lately? You might want to. Mine seems to have taken a nosedive this month. You might want to see how yours is doing. Everyone knows what a credit score is. But social credit scores are new. They’re the latest corporate import from Communist China, where government and big business monitor every citizen’s social views and statements. And they’re the latest form of cancel culture in this country, as corporate monopolies and the left team up to shut down speech they don’t like and force their political agenda on America. For those who still believe in free speech and the First Amendment, this is the time to take a stand. Like the old-fashioned kind of credit score, your social credit requires a lot of maintenance. You’ll need to get good grades in school and stay out of trouble with the law. But that’s just the start — you have to earn your right to live in polite society these days. So if you want to get a good job, stay at hotels and be served at restaurants, you will need to do a few other things. You will need to voice the right opinions. You will need to endorse the right ideas. You will need to conform. That’s what the corporate chieftains tell us, anyway. They tried to reprimand me this month because I didn’t. On behalf of the voters of my state, I raised a challenge to the presidential electors from Pennsylvania after that state conducted the election in violation of the state constitution. Maybe you agree with me. Maybe you don’t. But whatever your view, corporate America’s rush to cancel those it dislikes should trouble you. In my case, it started with leftist politicians demanding I resign from office for representing the views of my constituents and leading a democratic debate on the floor of the Senate. Taking that cue, a corporate publishing house then canceled a book it had asked me to write. Ironically enough, the book is about political censorship by the most powerful corporations in America. (And will be published by an independent publishing house.) Now corporate America is canceling my political events, because two parties are apparently one too many for their taste. It will get worse. The tech titans have already booted dozens of conservatives off social media, and if they have their way, half the House Republican conference will be expelled from Congress. The corporate titans seem to believe that the only way to get a democracy to their liking is to eliminate all threats to the Democratic Party’s unified control of government. The alliance of leftists and woke capitalists hopes to regulate the innermost thoughts of every American, from school age to retirement. And they’ve trained enforcers of the woke orthodoxy to monitor dissent or misbehavior. A “Karen” who cuts the wrong person off in traffic gets followed home on a livestream and shamed into crying for mercy as her license plate is broadcast to an online horde eager to hound her out of a job. Everyone knows it can happen to them, so everyone shuts down. The circle of trust narrows. Conversations — too easily recorded — shift to encrypted messaging apps. For now. Until those get banned too for interfering in efficient social credit markets. For some time, conservatives, recognizing that we’re now the counterculture, indulged in the delusion that we could opt out of all this. We’d send our kids to schools that don’t teach all the woke stuff. We’d make our friends at church, not at work, and take comfort that trust and openness were still possible in communities of shared purpose. We’d vote our conscience, because the ballot box was something no election could take from us. New York Post cover And if ever our political organizing were impeded by censorship — say, by the big tech giants — we could build our own platforms. But the left and the corporations are challenging all of this now. Your “conservative” social platform isn’t worth much when Amazon can shut it down. Your vote may still be yours, but if your party is denied the means to effectively organize by corporate monopolies, it’s not going to win. Your church, well, you can still attend for now, but go to the wrong church and you may not have a job in a few years. Here’s the good news. The cancel culture agenda will only succeed if we let it. We need live in fear only if we choose to say nothing. In this time of testing, conservatives must not shrink back. We need to stand up for the right of every American to be heard. We need to stand up for the basic principles that join all Americans together — the right to speak freely, to debate openly, and to address our differences graciously without fear of being silenced or punished for dissenting views. I for one am not going to back down. My book will be published, and I will continue to represent the people of my state without fear or favor, whatever the left or the corporations say. The powerful see in the present moment an opportunity to consolidate their control over society and to squelch dissent. That means those who believe in the First Amendment and the fundamental principles of American liberty must now take a stand, while we still can. Sen. Josh Hawley is a Republican representing Missouri. https://nypost.com/2021/01/24/...muzzling-of-america/This message has been edited. Last edited by: chellim1, "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Slapping-down clear, blatant, hate speech, speech that clearly promotes violence, etc. is one thing, but  is not acceptable. I've just cancelled my MeWe Premium subscription. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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It just opens up the opportunity for Trump to make a competitor...... | |||
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Gab has been running much better the past few days and they are not going to start censoring like MeWe. They have their own infrastructure so they can't be booted off the Amazon servers like Parler was. | |||
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