HigherPlain

Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans you know!

More difficult is to acknowledge the huge middle-class that has been created as a result of globalisation over the last decades.

That's a slightly "luddite" interpretation. The bus conductor job-class was outmoded by technology. More jobs are created at a higher technology level. This is how society has progressed for all history.

A fantastic Mitchell and Webb comedy sketch on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

Seconded. Don't waste life wrangling raw PDF.

Privacy concerns are for everyone, not just rich people. Please don't bring culture wars into this.

This is absurdly wrong. The average working person's pension is heavily invested in stocks.

I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capitalism. In socialism/communism the price is controlled by authoritarianism, which is why those regimes are marked by mass shortages and starvation.

I'm with you, I try and use a different word whilst keeping it plausibly common, it's part of the cerebral challenge. Using an algorithmic approach is efficient but not "fun". Target is always 3.

It's not about being offended, it's about having control. The power to change words, and what that represents.

It's Bing.

DDG is Bing, they use its API to get the search results. They augment it with other sources to provide the "value added" part, but that's a tiny part. DDG doesn't want you to know that it is Bing, but Bing is what it is.

Business Insider is not a credible news source, although the paywalled Times (UK) seems to be reporting it too.

In particular the posts from /r/politics which hit the front page are often Q-anon tier; absurd misinformation and extremist rhetoric. But yes the smaller sub-reddits can be good.

I think people here are underestimating how difficult it is to implement is_deleted in a production system. Literally EVERY query has to be rewritten to reflect the new database schema. If it's not been implemented from the start then you have a considerable re-write, and usually this type of project will not be revenue generating.

"Republicans have repeatedly claimed for over a decade now that the Democrats run an international child sex trafficking network"

You're referring to Qanon type people? They are fringe extremists. Why would you group all republicans in with them?

Compare to r/politics section of Reddit, which is a much more mainstream group of people. On that website there are regularly top-voted comments with thousands of "likes" saying all republicans are pedophiles/fascists/racists etc.

The article correctly identifies such rhetoric as poison for the societal good. But both the left and the right have to acknowledge that it exists everywhere in the online discourse.

To clarify, if there is a fixed div at top or bottom of page, then pressing space scrolls too far, missing a paragraph of text.

Most americans are happy with their employee health plan. Why would they go on strike?

A great article which is ruined by politicising it as a "rightwing problem".

Everything the author identifies applies equally to rhetoric from the left, as anyone who has spent time on the r/politics section of Reddit or Twitter will recognize.