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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my first thought as well. As he’s touching into these sort of topics, where he has to defend himself against companies with the greatest capital in the world, he won’t stand a chance to survive on these traditional platforms. He definitely needs to launch a PeerTube instance.

  But the thing is, with this size of a channel, it would cost a lot of money to maintain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s clickbait at all. He’s in real danger of being silenced. With this latest project he reached into a massive wasp nest for sure, but I admire his efforts to speak up in cases like this.

  And I haven’t found any bias in his content in general. He’s pretty transparent about his methodologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Authenticity"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know in which country it works like that.

  I only have an insight in Hungary’s elections. There, from time to time there is a genuinely good candidate, while most of them are garbage. E.g. during the last election, the main opposition figure was one who never had any scandal on his tab before, and he was actually coming from the labor market - he actually did have an insight into reality, unlike the rest of our politicians who have never done any real work before, they were just politicians all their lives.

  Guess whom the country voted for. They voted for this far-right mafia regime, and the outcome was the greatest majority that they have ever achieved.

  And the reason for this has two components:

  1. Education. Education in that shithole country was never great - far from it. But when this mafia regime was elected in 2010, they deliberately started to dismantle it. And at the same time they have been pushing their stupid propaganda on full blast through all the channels they have plus what they acquired. And people are crazy stupid. They believe the propaganda. They lack the ability to think even just one step ahead. They fail to detect the bullshit in the propaganda, and that’s really a very low bar.
  2. Being a moron. Throughout these many years, the regime has acquired a considerable number of companies - and masses of employees with it. From there it’s simple: any one of them, who doesn’t vote for these shitheads, loses their job. And for these fools, their shitty job is worth more than the long term improvement of their and everyone else’s lives.

  Because of these two factors, the sole candidate in so many years, the one who finally showed a pure track record while having a very reasonable agenda, collected the least amount of votes.

  This had nothing to do with authenticity or cynicism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can’t reset it when in motion.

  That’s very interesting. I’ve heard a lot about IRS/INS, but I didn’t know what it was doing during initialization.

  It must be an extremely sensitive instrument if it can measure the rotation of the Earth. I’m wondering, does anyone in the cockpit have to sit still when it boots up? Because I can imagine walking around in the plane alone, or even just a powerful sneeze would already introduce some movement, not to talk about the ground handlers loading the cargo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody uses the white emojis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use them, because that’s my color. It’s just a touch of personalisation. I won’t paint myself yellow in my profile pictures either.

  Normally I’d ask why this is such a big deal, but I’m afraid I know. And no, I’m not fascist, not racist, and not taking any pride in skin color in any way (if anything, I’d be rather ashamed because of those white people who think they’re superior in any way). In an ideal world everyone should be able to show themselves as who they are, and I’m holding myself to that, regardless of how sick the world is.

  You should be able to use any color, whether it’s your true identity or you pick it for privacy reasons. If someone harasses you just because of skin color, that piece of shit garbage motherfucker must be banned from the internet, possibly from public spaces too.

  Damn this triggered me so bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have never met a woman named after her own mother⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who has the same name as her mother, and her grandmother. They all lived in the same household. Imagine, you call her name and all three of them listen.

  I never understood this practice in general, regardless of gender. There are so many possibilities, sure it takes some creativity, but it’s not that hard, come on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible, but better not make it. When an algorithm has to promote something, there’s bias behind it, whether it’s a good intent or not. Even if it’s all good content, some other, also good content might be missed, because the algorithm or the authority behind the algorithm misses it.

  In my opinion, Mastodon is perfect as it is. You see what you’re following. Or on the home page you see everything.

  People should really really really learn to seek for quality content and develop a sense for quality and also to exercise critical thinking while trying to separate quality content from garbage. Pick what you wanna see and don’t let yourself be influenced by a stupid algorithm.

  Just consuming whatever an app pushes into your face makes you a brainless zombie in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the joke right away, I don’t think there’s any problem with it.

  The thing is, no matter how obvious a contradiction is, far-right folks won’t understand any of it, because they’re so dumb. You cannot give them even the most basic, easily digestible facts and explanations, because even that requires a brain, which they don’t have.

  So I think, these kind of jokes are perfectly fine for our entertainment, and no amount of facts and information will ever convince the dumbest of the people.