A tech company founder has trashed the Facebook concept of the metaverse and said it represents the same type of thinking he heard as a child in the former Soviet Union.

“’Metaverse’ is a squishscammy word. If you include things like video games and, um, the Internet, it’s already a big success. AR has future potential. But I’m calling b——t on a persistent, decentralized, skeuomorphic, interconnected 3D world, experienced primarily through VR,” Phil Libin, founder of the app Evernote and the CEO of the video-conferencing company Mmhmm, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

Libin, 49, also teed off on the metaverse during a podcast released Tuesday, according to Business Insider.

Libin said the same type of a sales pitch expressed by tech companies about the metaverse was a standard part of the pro-communism speeches he heard as a child in Soviet Leningrad, which has since reverted to its former name of St. Petersburg.

“I went to first grade in the Soviet Union,” Libin said. “I was subjected to a lot of Soviet propaganda, and I was told as a little kid repeatedly: ‘Communism doesn’t exist yet. We haven’t built communism yet. We’re building towards communism. But it’s not communism yet. What you see around you, this horrible, horrible place, isn’t communism. We’re building towards it. It’s going to be great when it gets here.'”

Libin said tech leaders talking about the metaverse strike the same chord with him.

“You know, you can smell a bad idea before it’s fully built. So I don’t want to hear, ‘Oh yeah, the metaverse doesn’t exist yet. No, no, no, all this stuff, all this stupid, useless, crappy stuff that exists right now, that’s not the metaverse. The metaverse is coming — it’s coming.'”

https://nationalfile.com/tech-founder-born-ussr-warns-facebooks-metaverse-compares-soviet-style-propaganda/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10409201/Gene-slash-Covid-severity-20-cent-explains-symptoms-hit-harder-others.html

Updated: January 16, 2022 - 9:32pm

A judge in the 46th Circuit Court of Otsego County ruled that the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) restrictions on indoor dining were unconstitutional.

Judge Colin Hunter wrote in a decision Thursday that the emergency "Gathering and Face Masks Order" issued by then-MDHHS Director Robert Gordon in November 2020 was "clearly an unconstitutional delegation of power from the Legislative to the Executive Branch."

Iron Pig Smokehouse never complied with the November 2020 COVID order, and always allowed indoor dining, for which the restaurant was issued a citation and a $5,000 fine on Dec. 1, 2020. The restaurant's owners, Moore Murphy Hospitality, challenged the citation.

The MDHHS has issued and rescinded the "Gatherings and Face Mask Order" several times since.

Judge Hunter wrote that "this Court must invoke its judicial review authority as a co-equal branch of government to undo that improper delegation" of authority from the legislative branch to the executive branch. He concluded that the order "is hereby severed from Michigan's Public Health Code."

The Iron Pig Smokehouse celebrated their win on Facebook. "Sucks to suck. The law was flawed, get over it. Lobby your elected representatives to change it if you don’t like it. Good luck!!" the restaurant posted.

The MDHHS could attempt to appeal the decision to a higher court and the smokehouse even joked about the possibility. "Tyrants will tyrant. They HAVE to appeal. There’s absolutely no way they can’t let the #meanbbqman win. #riskitforbrisket," the Iron Pig wrote.

Under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), Michigan has had some of the most stringent COVID restrictions in the nation throughout the pandemic.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/michigan-judge-rules-against-covid-restrictions-indoor-dining

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