> inherently violent Sorry, data collection cannot actually be "violent", by definition. Please stop trying to abuse the English language and actually start making reasonable arguments. > Instead how about a…
> we waste all out vitality and youth making other people rich If you meant "we waste all our vitality and youth" - that's wrong. A US working week is 40 hours, which is less than one fourth of the 168 real hours in a…
> We're collectively asked to give up our lives to these companies. "Give up our lives"? Ridiculous. The vast majority of paid jobs in the US are either on a 40-hour workweek (which is a fraction of the 168 hours in a…
Fact-check: false. The Florida law only applies to rioters, not protestors. "Riot" is defined as: "three or more people acting with common intent resulting in injury to others, damage to property, or the imminent danger…
> The most obvious explanation I beg to differ. The most obvious explanation is that we literally just don't know what these things are. The second most obvious is that these are foreign advanced drone technology.…
Jordan Peterson has been saying "never apologize to a mob" for years now. Your observations (and mine), as well as the reasons that you gave, seem to support that idea.
Let's just call "cancelling" what it is - mob justice - and its executors what they are - mobs and mob justice apologists. Perhaps a browser extension that replaces "cancel culture" with "mob justice tolerance" would be…
> I really don’t like the idea of the government dictating what a company does with it’s software Part of what most people (including me) expect a government to do is to help protect consumers from malicious actions by…
What "Sandy Hook stuff" are you talking about?
> because that's where people are relying not only on noise but on outright disinformation most right now along the political spectrum "Since this is an engineering forum", I hope you'll forgive me if I ask for an…
This article that I found by the New York Times[1] says that American troops reported finding almost 5k "chemical munitions" (unclear as to exactly what this means, but I would guess shells) - and that they interviewed…
Given the borderline compliance with JPMorgan Chase that the DoJ engaged in[1], I'm not hopeful that this is going to go anywhere. [1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...
>>>Personally I don't want to subsidize these quote unquote elite universities but if people choose to use their money to go there that's great. > That's an incredibly individualistic approach that I don't agree with.…
> There is a strong undercurrent that education is bad - a counterculture of ignorance. My experience has been with people who don't think that education is bad, but modern universities. I know many people who are…
> I'm not following what you mean by this, even after reading your example. It's not a coherent thought - it's socialist ideal that ignores the fact that power leads to corruption, and socialism and planned economies…
No, money is a necessary evil that leads to somewhat distributed power that is the only reasonable alternative to massive centralization of power that inevitably leads to tyranny. You're seeing the bad parts of an…
Simultaneous straw-manning and logic-less emotional guilt-tripping. Not cool. I never made the claim that you're insinuating I made, nor is it implied by anything I said. > What right do you have to reclaim something…
Given your claims of "white supremacist and other hate speech is welcomed [...] extremely bigoted shit" being both completely inconsistent with my experience, and the specific things that you are claiming are present,…
> I’ve noticed a pattern of what I get downvoted for and it doesn’t reflect well on this community. Please don't use moral grandstanding to try to emotionally manipulate others into changing their voting practices.
Huh, this seems possibly relevant to politics in America right now...
> can civilly and safely debate whether intelligence is statistically correlated to race and gender Why would you not want to debate that? If it's not true, or there's no evidence for it, then you have an actual…
Citation needed - and not anecdata, but actual data showing that no posts were moderated, or that the experience was worse for the majority of users (and not just the experience of a few random, vocal people).
> parler specifically didn't moderate their violent or seditious rhetoric Citation needed - this is an extreme claim.
> or anyone friendly with them This is disgusting - it implies that you should pick and choose your friends based on political affiliation, which not only is extremely (and intentionally) divisive, but also provides no…
More like anyone who's willing to condemn one extreme but not the other is almost certainly supporting the latter.
> inherently violent Sorry, data collection cannot actually be "violent", by definition. Please stop trying to abuse the English language and actually start making reasonable arguments. > Instead how about a…
> we waste all out vitality and youth making other people rich If you meant "we waste all our vitality and youth" - that's wrong. A US working week is 40 hours, which is less than one fourth of the 168 real hours in a…
> We're collectively asked to give up our lives to these companies. "Give up our lives"? Ridiculous. The vast majority of paid jobs in the US are either on a 40-hour workweek (which is a fraction of the 168 hours in a…
Fact-check: false. The Florida law only applies to rioters, not protestors. "Riot" is defined as: "three or more people acting with common intent resulting in injury to others, damage to property, or the imminent danger…
> The most obvious explanation I beg to differ. The most obvious explanation is that we literally just don't know what these things are. The second most obvious is that these are foreign advanced drone technology.…
Jordan Peterson has been saying "never apologize to a mob" for years now. Your observations (and mine), as well as the reasons that you gave, seem to support that idea.
Let's just call "cancelling" what it is - mob justice - and its executors what they are - mobs and mob justice apologists. Perhaps a browser extension that replaces "cancel culture" with "mob justice tolerance" would be…
> I really don’t like the idea of the government dictating what a company does with it’s software Part of what most people (including me) expect a government to do is to help protect consumers from malicious actions by…
What "Sandy Hook stuff" are you talking about?
> because that's where people are relying not only on noise but on outright disinformation most right now along the political spectrum "Since this is an engineering forum", I hope you'll forgive me if I ask for an…
This article that I found by the New York Times[1] says that American troops reported finding almost 5k "chemical munitions" (unclear as to exactly what this means, but I would guess shells) - and that they interviewed…
Given the borderline compliance with JPMorgan Chase that the DoJ engaged in[1], I'm not hopeful that this is going to go anywhere. [1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...
>>>Personally I don't want to subsidize these quote unquote elite universities but if people choose to use their money to go there that's great. > That's an incredibly individualistic approach that I don't agree with.…
> There is a strong undercurrent that education is bad - a counterculture of ignorance. My experience has been with people who don't think that education is bad, but modern universities. I know many people who are…
> I'm not following what you mean by this, even after reading your example. It's not a coherent thought - it's socialist ideal that ignores the fact that power leads to corruption, and socialism and planned economies…
No, money is a necessary evil that leads to somewhat distributed power that is the only reasonable alternative to massive centralization of power that inevitably leads to tyranny. You're seeing the bad parts of an…
Simultaneous straw-manning and logic-less emotional guilt-tripping. Not cool. I never made the claim that you're insinuating I made, nor is it implied by anything I said. > What right do you have to reclaim something…
Given your claims of "white supremacist and other hate speech is welcomed [...] extremely bigoted shit" being both completely inconsistent with my experience, and the specific things that you are claiming are present,…
> I’ve noticed a pattern of what I get downvoted for and it doesn’t reflect well on this community. Please don't use moral grandstanding to try to emotionally manipulate others into changing their voting practices.
Huh, this seems possibly relevant to politics in America right now...
> can civilly and safely debate whether intelligence is statistically correlated to race and gender Why would you not want to debate that? If it's not true, or there's no evidence for it, then you have an actual…
Citation needed - and not anecdata, but actual data showing that no posts were moderated, or that the experience was worse for the majority of users (and not just the experience of a few random, vocal people).
> parler specifically didn't moderate their violent or seditious rhetoric Citation needed - this is an extreme claim.
> or anyone friendly with them This is disgusting - it implies that you should pick and choose your friends based on political affiliation, which not only is extremely (and intentionally) divisive, but also provides no…
More like anyone who's willing to condemn one extreme but not the other is almost certainly supporting the latter.