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I just feel like the attacks on free speech are the single most disgusting feature of modern technology and modern society. And the fact that Twitter and Facebook censor so often and so freely... If I could wish anyone out of existence, I would wish the trust & safety teams and their jobs out of existence. I think censorship has no place on these platforms. We are absolutely capable of taking care of ourselves. - Naval Ravikant

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-apple-executive-leaving-making-185638195.html

Top Apple Executive Is Leaving After Making Crude Remarks in TikTok Video

Apple fired its vice president of procurement Tony Blevins over a joke he made in a TikTok video that went viral.

Earlier this month, Blevins was interviewed by creator Daniel Mac, who asks people in expensive and luxurious cars what they do for a living. Blevins said: “I race cars and play golf and fondle big-breasted women. But I take weekends and major holidays off.”

His line is a play on the 1981 film “Arthur,” in which Dudley Moore plays a wealthy playboy. When asked what he does for a living, Arthur replies, “I race cars, I play tennis, I fondle women, but I have weekends off and I am my own boss.”

In the video, Blevins did not say he works at Apple, nor did he say his name.

Actually, I like this guy!

His only crime seems to be being heterosexual.

Patrick says

His only crime seems to be being heterosexual.

Ultra-Hetero.

Let’s answer some very simple questions for ourselves. I now want to return to what I said, I want to address all the citizens of the country – not only to those colleagues who are in the hall – to all the citizens of Russia: do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, parent number one, number two, number three instead of mom and dad – have they gone mad out there? Do we really want perversions that lead to degradation and extinction to be imposed on children in our schools from the primary grades? To be drummed into them that there are various supposed genders besides women and men, and to be offered a sex change operation? Do we want all this for our country and our children? For us, all this is unacceptable, we have a different future, our own future - Putin, October 1, 2022

WhatsApp is owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Its likely the most popular app on a global scale.

Weinstein standard operating procedure.

gabbar says

WhatsApp is owned by Mark Zuckerberg. Its likely the most popular app on a global scale.

What he said is true about Whatsapp.

But it's also true of Telegram. How does Telegram make their money? There's no advertisements on it and the application is free...

Telegram basically replaces your phone, and allows group communication, but there's no way for them to make money from this, unless they are a surveillance tool, which is precisely what they are.

richwicks says

there's no way for them to make money from this, unless they are a surveillance tool, which is precisely what they are.

This is also true for most Google products, especially the "free" google apis, fonts, recapcha etc that are on easily more than half of all the sites on the internet.

They are "free" to the site owners, saving them development money by betraying user privacy to Google.

patrick.net has absolutely none of that shit, btw.

Gee, I guess we know who the Globalist knee jerk Satanist parrot in the room is.
cisTits says

How does a jewish pedophile lure kids to his van?

"Hey kid, wanna buy some candy?"

OK, that's pretty funny actually.

cisTits says

Koch Brothers.

And they removed Murray Rothbard as soon as they installed him, he wouldn't toe the line.

Booger says

How does a jewish pedophile lure kids to his van?

"Hey kid, wanna buy some candy?"

How can 0.2 % of world population are jewish yet has about 30 -40 % of billionairs, and tons of millionairs. Hold mostly all of media. Yes education is important but there are tons of pHDs , make good money but can only get up to millionaire.

@"KgK one" do you want a serious answer? I think this is it:

The Jewish religion is very well adapted to creating an exclusive merchant class. Summary of Judaism is something like "Follow these 613 rules and God will give you wealth and children." One of the biggest rules is against marrying outsiders.

So over about 1000 years in Eastern Europe, say 800 to 1800, by following the 613 rules, a feedback loop arose in which rich merchants would marry their daughters to Talmudic scholars, since prestige among Jews was from wealth and learning. This worked to make Jews genetically smarter on average than their neighbors. Smart Jews could support lots of children, and dumb Jews could support few or none.

For the farming class majority, it just didn't matter that much how smart you were. But for Jews, it mattered a lot. Smart merchants make money, and smart scholars marry the daughters of rich merchants.

Jews also have a strong sense of unity driven by their close genetic relations with other Jews and the sense of being persecuted and needing to rely on each other. The more they are persecuted, the more unified they are - and the more they dislike the majority. I think persecution is a kind of "vitamin" which actually strengthens Judaism if it's not too extreme: https://patrick.net/post/1346373/2022-06-26-optimal-antisemitism

So after all those centuries, you get a smart class of people who help each other rise as much as possible, because of that feeling of relatedness and feeling unity through persecution.

Similar things happened with Armenians, Parsis, and various other mercantile ethnic groups. It's interesting that the Jews never really got control over commerce in Turkey, because that niche was already occupied by the Armenians, who had their own kind of feedback loop going and are also well represented among the wealthy and well-educated. And were also persecuted.

The Parsis are really interesting to me as the endpoint of this kind of evolution. Jews are about 1.8% of the US and I think they get about 1/3 of the seats in Ivy League schools and own about 1/3 of US wealth.

But Parsis are only 0.01% (1% of 1%) of India, and yet they somehow own about 1/3 of the wealth of India. They are even more exclusive than Jews, in that you can never convert, while Jews allow conversion. And the child of a mixed marriage is never considered a Parsi, while the children of female Jews are automatically Jewish regardless of who the father is. You can go into a synagogue to visit, no problem, but you can never go into a Parsi fire temple unless you are a Parsi.

Parsis are also reputed to be very smart. The thing I can't figure out is why they never get persecuted, or how they stick together so well without persecution.

Patrick says

The Parsis are really interesting to me as the endpoint of this kind of evolution. Jews are about 1.8% of the US and I think they get about 1/3 of the seats in Ivy League schools and own about 1/3 of US wealth.

But Parsis are only 0.01% (1% of 1%) of India, and yet they somehow own about 1/3 of the wealth of India. They are even more exclusive than Jews, in that you can never convert, while Jews allow conversion. And the child of a mixed marriage is never considered a Parsi, while the children of female Jews are automatically Jewish regardless of who the father is. You can go into a synagogue to visit, no problem, but you can never go into a Parsi fire temple unless you are a Parsi.

Parsis are also reputed to be very smart. The thing I can't figure out is why they never get persecuted, or how they stick together so well without persecution.

Why would Parsis get persecuted in India? There is no reason to persecute them. They live and let live. In fact, Indians hold them in high esteem. Same with the Jewish community in Mumbai.

gabbar says

Why would Parsis get persecuted in India?

Just because it's part of the pattern with all other endogamous mercantile ethnic groups.

I'm not saying the Parsis have done anything to deserve it (unless you count being very rich in a poor country). Just saying it doesn't fit the pattern with other such groups: Jews, Armenians, all the Christian minorities of the Middle East, Chinese in Malaysia, Lebanese in West Africa, Indians in Uganda...

One could argue that the Parsis were persecuted by the Muslims of Persia, which is why they left to begin with, but that was about 1000 years ago. Maybe the memory of that serves to keep them together, along with having a distinct religion.

Maybe India is just a more tolerant place in general, aside from the friction between Muslims and all others.

Lol!

Booger says

sounds about right…

Patrick says

Maybe India is just a more tolerant place in general, aside from the friction between Muslims and all others.

I hear you. I doubt that there is there is a more tolerant country than India on this planet. Who likes Muslims except some nutty liberals and there are some in every country including India. Trump temporarily banning visitors from Muslims countries was one of the most patriotic acts undertaken by a US President. China set a fantastic example for other countries through the methods they used to squash Uighur Muslim shenanigans. You won't hear any other country make any squeaking protests about it.

gabbar says

the methods they used to squash Uighur Muslim shenanigans

Somehow people in the West totally forgot that the Uighurs were stabbing random Han Chinese:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26402367

An attack by knife-wielding men at a railway station in Kunming in south-west China has left at least 29 dead, the state news agency Xinhua says.

Another 130 people were wounded in what authorities said was a "premeditated, violent terrorist attack".

Patrick says

gabbar says

the methods they used to squash Uighur Muslim shenanigans

Somehow people in the West totally forgot that the Uighurs were stabbing random Han Chinese

Prosecute criminals, not groups that the criminals are members of.

If 1% of whatever your FAVORITE group is that you're a part of committed crimes, and you didn't participate and objected to it, would you think it's reasonable to persecute you for what they did?

This is why black criminals like George Floyd are lauded, to indict an entire ethnic group, although they had nothing to do with it. Most people have no idea that Chauvin was innocent, but the majority of people that do know it, are white. The whole fiasco was to increase racial tension.

Patrick says

omehow people in the West totally forgot that the Uighurs were stabbing random Han Chinese:

richwicks says

If 1% of whatever your FAVORITE group is that you're a part of committed crimes, and you didn't participate and objected to it, would you think it's reasonable to persecute you for what they did?

But if most Muslims believe in living like the fifth column in non-muslim countries, then its reasonable to persecute them in those non-muslim majority countries to protect the integrity of those non-muslim countries.

richwicks says

The whole fiasco was to increase racial tension.

Racial tension provides clarity to voters. Its manufactured by political parties and spread through traditional and social media. Now the goal is digital currency and centralized government. The next several years will reveal what their playbook contains. I expect several pain and social tension beginning in 2023 and picking up speed in 2024. If DeSantis wins, all hell will break loose.

gabbar says

But if most Muslims believe in living like the fifth column in non-muslim countries, then its reasonable to persecute them in those non-muslim majority countries to protect the integrity of those non-muslim countries.

This is a common problem when dealing with real terrorism, like the mass stabbings that were perpetrated by Uighurs.

Obviously not all Uighurs did it, and the ones that didn't have anything to do with it are innocent. How many Uighurs are in those camps and why are they there?

Similar things happened to the Irish. A lot of Irish in Northern Ireland suffered for things they never did and would never do. Yet there was a significant fraction of the population that supported bombings, for example.

What's the best answer when the supporters and helpers are hidden among a population? I don't know. Maybe address the root cause. Pretty hard if the root cause is Islam itself, but in the case of ireland, the root cause is systematic oppression. And some of that oppression was because of terrorism, making the whole thing kind of recursive.

Patrick says

Somehow people in the West totally forgot that the Uighurs were stabbing random Han Chinese:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-26402367

"Severely punish in accordance with the law the violent terrorists and resolutely crack down on those who have been swollen with arrogance," Xinhua quoted the President Xi as saying.

Image a western politician saying something like this?

Patrick says

the root cause is systematic oppression

How did this systematic oppression occur? I want to learn about it.

@gabbar It's a long story, but basically the English invaded Ireland over a long period and expropriated most of the land, handing it over to English nobility. The native Irish nobility fled to the continent, and the rest of the Irish were impoverished by lack of land and had no way to escape their poverty. They were systematically excluded from all positions of power, higher education, and all of the professional occupations because they were Catholic and spoke Irish instead of English.

They were forced to be tenant farmers for the English and had only small plots of land to grow food for themselves. Then the potato blight came in the 1840's, about a million Irish starved to death while Ireland continued to export large quantities of food, particularly beef, to England. Another million emigrated to America, among them my paternal ancestors.

Even after the independence of the Republic of Ireland, the Irish in Northern Ireland were still excluded from jobs and education, and I believe to this day it is forbidden for them to speak Irish in court. You can get a translator in a Northern Irish court for, say, Spanish, but not for Irish.

I found several official records of people with my own last name, maybe ancestors of mine, who had their land taken from them in 1641. The land was given to English nobility.

Patrick says

@gabbar It's a long story, but basically the English invaded Ireland over a long period and expropriated most of the land, handing it over to English nobility. The native Irish nobility fled to the continent, and the rest of the Irish were impoverished by lack of land and had no way to escape their poverty. They were systematically excluded from all positions of power, higher education, and all of the professional occupations because they were Catholic and spoke Irish instead of English.

They were forced to be tenant farmers for the English and had only small plots of land to grow food for themselves. Then the potato blight came in the 1840's, about a million Irish starved to death while Ireland continued to export large quantities of food, particularly beef, to England. Another million emigrated to America, among them my paternal ancestors.

Even after the independence of the Republic of Ireland, the Irish in Northern Ireland were still excluded from jobs and...

Sorry to hear this, I had no knowledge of this.