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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Apr 6, 2020 6:55:16 GMT -8
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Post by reuben on Apr 6, 2020 7:02:33 GMT -8
"Several cell towers in the U.K. have been set on fire and engineers harassed amid the spread of online conspiracy theories that link 5G technology with the coronavirus pandemic. I don't even know what to say, other than people are both scared and stupid.
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Post by texasbb on Apr 6, 2020 7:27:26 GMT -8
Frankly, I think a lot of good people would understandably take umbrage at being called stupid and insensitive. Has anyone ever been called that for saying: Lyme Disease West Nile virus German Measles Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Ross River Fever Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever Spanish Flu Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Zika Fever Norovirus I doubt it. Even the Chinese press and CNN et al were calling this one the Wuhan Virus until one DJT spoke. I personally see as much race baiting as racism on this topic. Regardless, I would suggest the above name-calling is unnecessarily inflammatory.
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Post by reuben on Apr 6, 2020 7:42:58 GMT -8
Frankly, I think a lot of good people would understandably take umbrage at being called stupid and insensitive. If that's pointed at me, you make a valid point. Perhaps I'M the insensitive one.
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Post by zeke on Apr 6, 2020 7:49:57 GMT -8
So, Trump is stupid and insensitive for continuing to call it by the wrong name. That act encourages others to resist calling it by the correct name, and has been responsible for several people to be victims of harassment based on their racial make-up. Those people who are following their leader's idiocy are, in some cases, being willfully stupid and insensitive.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Apr 6, 2020 8:20:17 GMT -8
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Post by autumnmist on Apr 6, 2020 11:20:27 GMT -8
Let me remind you that if you keep calling it "Chinese Virus" than you are setting it up for Asians like myself to be targeted with racist hate crimes. Just my opinion, but some classes of people don't need much to engage in race-baiting or name calling, not that that's an excuse. And that arises from deficits in their own characters. I claim no psychological insights, but I think people of little achievement or goals enhance their own low self esteem by mocking, and putting others "down" through name calling. I wasn't alive during this time but apparently discrimination was alive and thriving when Chinese workers performed backbreaking work on railroad extensions. Native Americans have been subject to it as well. Jewish, Armenian, and classes of people even in the same race have been targeted. Not that any of it's excusable. zeke, "willfully stupid and insensitive" provides a lot of insight into namecalling.
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Post by autumnmist on Apr 6, 2020 12:07:14 GMT -8
The problem is Facebook and other social media is a hotbed of Internet trolls and are looking for people they can emotionally hurt with a larger audience. Has anyone watched a PBS presentation of "Networld"? I'm having trouble copying URLs (always happens with this series), but the gist of it is the evolving networks which can and do control various segments of populations, how they've differed over history and how they now control information, as opposed, say, to religion, utilities, railroads, or autos. The third section is the most interesting, as it addresses the immense control amassed and leveraged by FB, Amazon and Google. This goes way beyond the issue of data gathering and selling it; it addresses control in the sense of that exerted by past leaders who conquered lands and controlled them, exerting and controlling lives well beyond everyday use, and being literally untouchable. Manipulation, use of Russia's 900 person hacking force, false information and more are addressed. Just as an example, according to the series, a refugee was falsely accused of rape of a child in a midwestern state, harrassed, threatened, and more. But the story was false; how it was inserted into public media and by whom is not a fact I remember, or whether or not the source was ever identified. I was saddened at the time that someone (not the alleged rape victim) would create such a story to apparently deliberately incite hostility and public outrage toward a refugee, although in these days I suppose that's not so unusual. This kind of false data makes some of the current political accusations look like bedtime stories. Networld was aired a few weeks ago and scheduled for a repeat the following week, but shortly after the end of the last performance, the schedule was changed and Networld hasn't been rescheduled, at least in my area. (I'm having trouble posting the URLs but will keep trying.)
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Post by balzaccom on Apr 6, 2020 13:18:13 GMT -8
Hmmm. You are having trouble posting something on the internet about how the largest companies on the internet are controlling our lives...hmmm. hmmmm.
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Post by tigger on Apr 6, 2020 13:35:44 GMT -8
Two words - Home schooling
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Post by reuben on Apr 6, 2020 14:54:26 GMT -8
I learned something today.
I went to a grocery store at which I rarely shop. Consequently, I wandered up and down the aisles looking for various things.
I discovered that ice cream is as precious as toilet paper. There was nary a container, jug, bowl, or sandwich to be found.
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Post by texasbb on Apr 6, 2020 15:10:08 GMT -8
I discovered that ice cream is as precious as toilet paper. There was nary a container, jug, bowl, or sandwich to be found. Cripes! Maybe this virus thing is a big deal after all.
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Post by driftwoody on Apr 6, 2020 15:47:04 GMT -8
Which is more risky during this pandemic?
A) Grocery shopping with a controlled 25 people in the store, and social distancing.
B) Driving to a trailhead in a national forest for a couple days backpacking in a remote area. Only stopping for gas, using a disposable paper towel for touching the handle.
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Post by JRinGeorgia on Apr 6, 2020 16:25:27 GMT -8
I can't believe this thread has re-railed itself so firmly back on topic. Just as it was becoming such a lovely political cesspool.
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Post by hikerjer on Apr 6, 2020 16:59:35 GMT -8
Speaking of politics, JR, what's up with your governor. I know Georgia has lots of caves but I didn't know the governor lived in one.
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