There is a tremendous reluctance among the American people to let go of the notion that we sent men to the Moon. There are a couple of reasons for that, one of them being that there is a romanticized notion that those were great years – years when one was proud to be an American. And in this day and age, people need that kind of romanticized nostalgia to cling to.
But that is not the main reason that people cling so tenaciously, often even angrily, to what is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say about the control of the information we receive? What does that say about the media, and the scientific community, and the educational community, and all the other institutions we depend on to tell us the truth? What does that say about the very nature of the world we live in?
That is what scares the hell out of people and prevents them from even considering the possibility that they could have been so thoroughly duped. It’s not being lied to about the Moon landings that people have a problem with, it is the realization that comes with that revelation: if they could lie about that, they could lie about anything.
David McGowan
Very interesting how we personally witnessed tremendous mass media power and corruption of science during COVID.
Apple has punished an iPhone factory in India that stopped paying wages to workers. Of course, as usual, Apple punished workers, not factory management. The company has suspended orders going to Taiwanese assembler Wistron, which owns a factory in the Indian state of Karnataka. Such way all workers who started riot could be silently fired and APple will silently resume assembly on all other plants within next 20 days.
The decision came after nearly 1,000 workers ransacked Wistron's factory and offices last week for non-payment of wages.
It is noted that when hiring workers were promised a salary of 21 thousand rupees (286 dollars per month), then the pay dropped to 16 thousand rupees per month (217 dollars), and after - to 12 thousand rupees (163 dollars) and finally stopped at $0 per month. The total damage was about $7 million. The state police arrested 128 people, another 300 were detained for questioning.
Rumors are that we have Tim Cook directly standing behind salary cuts, as his top management team kept pressing Wistron each week for better terms and blackmailed to otherwise cancel all new orders. Cook is known for total respect to money and investors and zero respect to real people, workers and engineers.
In Kazan, classmates beat off the kidneys of a child whose mother complained to the prosecutor's office about extortions at school.
It is alleged that the incident took place at the multidisciplinary lyceum No. 187. Allegedly, the first grader returned home and said that he was beaten. By evening, the child had a stomach ache and he was taken to the hospital, where doctors found out that his kidneys had been broken off.
The first grader had been persecuted since September of this year, when his mother complained about extortions - they allegedly collected 10 thousand rubles from their parents before the line. The woman, who lost her job due to the pandemic, wrote a complaint to the prosecutor's office.
At school, the conflict related to collecting money was ignored, and the police only advised her to change the educational institution.
Everything is perfect here. Looser have no place in proper institution for successful people. Successful people just do not want to learn history on how all this ends for them.
Members of the United States Space Force will officially be called “Guardians”, according to an announcement Vice President Mike Pence made at an event celebrating the military branch’s one year anniversary.
We can see big rise in 2007 and in 2008.
Same is true in sudden 2019 spike and 2020 still high number.
1992 and 93 are also important as US finally lost hope into establishing "democratic " ruling in China.
Taiwan economic role and position is unique, as China badly needs to at least destroy all its economic potential, but preferably make coup with instant invasion. For US it is huge chance as they use Taiwan as lure, they try to force China to make unprepared move while being swill underpowered. Something they successfully made with Japan using oil and Pearl Harbor as staged lure.
This also mostly proves that US stand behind COVID story.
Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the largest video game launch of the decade, with hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and development costs behind it.
Rumors are that CD Project sponsors paid at least to 1000 reviewers to warranty proper content before launch (total reviews expanses are rumored to be more than 10 million USD).
They also had largest ever bots army in reviews and comments - up to 50k unique computer bots with at least half year history, and up to 10k paid human bots.
Problem is not severe bugs and total lack of real useful content. Problem is content they have - utter shite and gloom.
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