squashkin
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- Comment on TikTok confirms that its own employees can decide what goes viral 10 months ago:
I don't know what tiktok's deal is, I have been mildly bullish about them because they allowed a lot of voices that other leftwing platforms seemed to censor, and sometime last year really the floodgates seemed to open and even a lot of stuff like we might post about on these kinds of forums seemed to be circulating to lots of people
I mean basically they do still suppress and censor and are leftwing but a lot gets through their filters
- Comment on Wordpress alternative for blogging 10 months ago:
oh yeah I wanted to spin up a blog on here, knkw of any blog addresses on this to see as examples?
- Comment on ChatGPT is cancelling people? 10 months ago:
this is a problem, but we have some open source AI projects as well: https://www.eleuther.ai/
- Comment on ChatGPT Exposes Weaknesses in Our School System 10 months ago:
I honestly hate these schools and hope ChatGPT causes them plenty of problrms
if kids can "write" using ChatGPT I'd say go ahead and let them, if equivalent tech exists and is not going away then it is a tool people can use to reduce their amount of manual work, just like driving instead of walking or any number of tech inventions that reduce a more manual input
the graver implications are possibly that a lot of these jobs won't necessarily need the trained specialists since people can ask AI for specialized help
in short I hope this disrupts plenty of these grifter jobs that require expensive compulsory degrees and licenses
- Comment on Capitalism as whipping boy for all of history 10 months ago:
It's a mixed economy I think they call it, moving away from capitalism in some ways
pure capitalism would be "anarcho-capitalism"
- Comment on Capitalism as whipping boy for all of history 10 months ago:
great thesis that leftists are blaming "capitalism" when that is something recent, and I might add something often not fully realized
- Comment on Please read my important, year-end message 11 months ago:
gotta be careful what services ya use
they have broken trus consistently
- Comment on A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? 11 months ago:
this story has gone viral so hopefully a lot more people are aware of some of these weird tech things
- Comment on Hivemapper - can it dethrone Google Maps 11 months ago:
how is it different than: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
both sound like good projects
- Comment on Donald Trump Digital Trading Card collection 11 months ago:
in a way this makes trump seem more legit to me
but whatever the criticism the site suggests they are already sold out, which sounds believeable
- Comment on Some people think government debt has always grown. 11 months ago:
yeah the interest is a whole other problem too
plus the debasing of currency
surprisingly a lot of people have no idea how these things even work
- Comment on Some people think government debt has always grown. 11 months ago:
National debt's not really a Christian concept in my view, based on:
"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another." Romans 13:8
The lenders have successfully convinced the public that a national debt is good or necessary or whatever, and the love of money leads many into delusions that this is a good thing.
- Comment on Small tips for the proper use of e-mail 11 months ago:
privacytools.io has recommended riseup which is leftist, idk how good they are
- Comment on Anybody tried Skiff for email? 11 months ago:
random but the bluedwarf.top forum has an email service
- Comment on LBRY says it ‘will likely be dead’ following SEC loss 11 months ago:
looks like a setback but probably won't take ddown lbry entirely. just the inc. biz. then they can create a new one to operate under?
- Comment on Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS is is pretty sweet 1 year ago:
"plot twist kapow is mob"
- Comment on Blame Your Fellow Cowed Americans For Censorship 1 year ago:
I think we need to draft a kind of social constitution on what values explicitly people are for or against, it seems to vary dramatically sometimes
like for example growing up my understanding was that it was acceptable for underage women to marry older adult men since I knew of some cases personally, but any mention of anything like this has now magically become "abusive" today. meanwhile we have an epidemic of unmarrieds who will probably go to the grave single. so people are too young to marry then too old. no one really has this thought out they just keep experimenting with more and more radically divergent ideas. I can accept 18+ for marrying, but then you get unironic leftists arguing for 25+ because allegedly your brain doesn't fully develop until then. This to me is an example of a seemingly impossible social norm to please and contributes to the unmarrieds problem, among other factors, and anyone who would argue for minors being able to date or msrry adults is immediately branded as abusive - can there be censorship free discussions on such a topic?
in short I don't know many people who are actually against censorship, a lot of people habe a lot of unspoken rules they want enforced
- Comment on Insiders Stunned After Twitter Eliminates 4,400 of its 5,500 Contractors with No Notice 1 year ago:
me: debloating apps
elon: debloating app development
- Comment on Two top cardiologists implicate COVID vax in all unexplained heart attacks since 2021 1 year ago:
it's ok it's just a caveat emptor (buyer beware) world where the experts' opinion means jack squat sometimes and you have to seek out the experts you trust and encourage others to do so
- Comment on PayPal is Reportedly Bribing Users $15 in a Desperate Move to Stop Them from Closing their Accounts 1 year ago:
too little too late
- Comment on Instead of a white noise generator, this is a cat purring generator. Doesn't help me, but if you like had a cat before maybe it'll work for you. 1 year ago:
thought my stomach was gurgling at first
- Comment on THIS is how to close a PayPal personal or business account [2022] 1 year ago:
bye felicia
- Comment on Beware - Paypal owns Venmo 1 year ago:
nice catch
recommended alternatives?
is liberapay any good?
- Comment on This is pure evil - Amazon.apparently selling suicide kits to kids and CBS helping to cover it up. Read it, it will break your heart 1 year ago:
I mean I could see restricting access to 18+
kids are still capable of choosing evil, the Christian idea of the "age of reason" was that kids could start choosing to sin at about age 7
I guess I mean to say I wouldn't want to think that simply removing access to this will fix the problem, although it may reduce incidents (but it could simply have them try to take some other route towards the destination they're trying to go to)
media access and socialization are probably more important factors here
- Comment on 86 percent of women negatively judge dates who have a cracked phone screen. So bring your backup phone from 2012 without a cracked screen for interviews 1 year ago:
in the idea of a social hierarchy, alphas are at the top, betas below them, sometimes people have names for those below those
sigmas try to be outside of the hierarchy, in a league of their own for better or worse
some of the memes take like motivational advice and flip it backwards so that it might be humourously destructive
there was a millionaire or sigma grindset subreddit that got banned, very disappointed to see
- Comment on 86 percent of women negatively judge dates who have a cracked phone screen. So bring your backup phone from 2012 without a cracked screen for interviews 1 year ago:
sigma rule #488834 bring your cracked phone screen to an interview or on dates to filter people who care about these things
- Comment on ‘Psychologically Abusive’: Some Back-To-School Programs Dividing Students By ‘Gender, Culture And Identity’ 1 year ago:
> make up exclusive gender identity
> people of said identity can't associate with you unless they arr of samd identity
it has potential
- Comment on New Jersey Teachers Union Calls Parents 'Extremists' In New Ad 1 year ago:
unsurprising common NJ L
- Comment on Berkeley Co-op Bans Whites From Common Areas 1 year ago:
repeal the Civil Rights Act, it seems unConstitutional anyway
then they can legally do wacky stuff like this and see how the market reacts
we would get segregated areas and a lot of businesses that would want to cater to a little of everyone for greater profits
- Comment on The media has a new scam to obfuscate potential vaxx deaths: blame lockdowns. 1 year ago:
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