All roads lead to China Main St.

Be the change you wish you see in the world. :)

What you say is true, but also ignores the alt-right pipelining that YouTube and others are seemingly complicit in, or at the very least is the result of perverse incentives.

And I’ll say the exact same thing about TikTok. It’s serving as primary sources for many problems around the world, it’s giving more broad and informed, collegiate level discussions of the world, and it’s full of brainrotting limbic hijacking. All true and I don’t think any generation is fully equipped to deal it.

We can also see historically that banning a “vice” has never effectively removed the vice from society.

You have to admit, he really destroyed that strawman version of you though.

Thanks for the tip, I’m trying to be google-free, so I’m testing it out. A little too late for election season, oh well

Odd coming from someone who is fucking retired.

I’d suspect he sacrificed work-life balance his whole career (yes, CEOs are known for golfing and vacations, but I bet they still think of work 24/7). So just like people complaining about student loan forgiveness, some people get so angry if they perceive someone might have an easier experience than they did.

The answer is there, keep wondering 🙂

I was on a trip just yesterday and saw one for the first time on a picnic table, thanks for sharing!

“Snitches get <wounds that will require> stitches” Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

That’s a delightful response to my snarky comment, thank you.

I agree, the incentive structure is such that it undermines the goals of journalism. Compounded with a firehose of misinformation, even full-time journalists must be overwhelmed.

I’m unwilling to give them a pass, however. Their job is to report accurately, they understand the risk of reporting things that are not fully vetted, and choose to anyway. As you say, they’re complicit.

Surely you’re not accusing the media of any malfeasance!

(adult users of TikTok? This sounds so weird and foreign to me; I must be too old)

https://backlinko.com/tiktok-users

TikTok has 1.25 billion monthly active users, nearly half of Americans are on TikTok. The majority of people on TikTok are adults.

They don’t have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it’s just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won’t change.

The number of people who believe in homeopathy after it’s explained to them is TOO DAMN HIGH.

So what if he is?

Kotaku excited to write a story about Ubisoft being excited to let you know Prince of Persia Remake is Still Years Away

The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

My Nest just forgets about timers about 20% of the time. This is me, daily.

• “Set a 10 minute timer”
• “OK, 10 minute timer starting now”
• “How much time is left?”
• “It doesn’t look like you have any timers”

To paraphrase GW “Fascism me once, shame on you. Fascism me twice? … Can’t get fascism-ed again!”

“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.