Defending it reminds me so much of conversations you’d hear in random discord servers…

Oh yeah I posted a swashtika… but really my intended meaning was the symbol of peace that was used around the world for thousands of years prior to the 1930s, and is still viewed as peaceful in countries that weren’t effected by WW2. (Umm… no you made it knowing exactly what’s popping into the minds of 95% of people you are using it).

Also would find when they’d put character names as say some random athlete or singer or something from a small country that has an N word in the name. Again dude, we know you specifically chose that name with the exact knowledge of what people think of when they see the name. Not because you think that this group is full of people who pay attention to random b list celebrities from countries that don’t have a lot of english speakers.

Sounds like the typical democratic stupid plans… It’s going to take some real ego or stupidity for trump not to turn this into a public opinion win.

I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

I thought that was kind of the point… people started using red note because it was openly what the government fears Tictoc could be as a form of protest.

What’s next a news story that says people printing out their browser history and dropping it off at the chinese embassies, might be giving their private data to china?

I mean it’s pretty simple common sense there… in a shooting… shits happening fast. In an emergency the order of process is, get yourself somewhere safe ASAP, Then consider calling.

Teachers have much harder responsibility… because they need to get their students in as safe of a position as possible, then themselves… Then try to contact help. So teachers aren’t likely to be in a position of relative safety to call, until after the whole classroom has already been in such a position.

On top of that just numbers… obviously there’s 30x more students than teachers… so just on a numbers basis in a free for all, when someone is in a position to make the emergency call, it’s just statistically more likely to be a student.

I mean both… obviously if you want to get on trumps good side you combine bribing with censoring content he doesn’t like, and making sure not to censor or even fact check his lies.

Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.

Gig apps prices are never the real price. Just like doordash, or uber or anything else.

$60 per night… plus $60 cleanup fee, plus $18 airbnb fee. Before taxes of course. (and of course, this isn’t a hotel, they do expect you to clean up when you are done, in spite of the fee).

IMO maybe the $140 price tag for a single night.

I’m roughly trying to skim to understand… of course both sides are over my head in development. But it sounds like the first thing they had was just lack of confidence they could do… well exactly what OP wants (IE specifically keeping posts private and only shared with who he wants). That combined with technical difficulty with limited development resources to rewrite the protocol itself.

If I remember right, diaspora was kind of poised to be the fediverse facebook a very long time ago, one of it’s major features was aspects, which indeed was set where you added people to categories, and could make posts only visible to certain categories (basically if you remember google plus, that’s what they were copying). Though from what I’ve seen it took a huge PR hit very early on, but still is kind of alive last I checked.

https://diasporafoundation.org/

The cost… wouldn’t be that absurd if it wasn’t so bad at what it claimed it’s specialty was.

I specialize in humanlike conversation and emotional intelligence (head looks down at the floor, hands flailing off to the sides). Never once attempting to look at interviewer in the eye. Lips just flap randomly when talking.

It kind of baffles me what it’s trying to sell, because the technology isn’t exactly super out there. We have chat bots, and we have basic robot puppets that can fairly accurately mimic what their source is saying to do. It does not seem far fetched or even impressive to have a robot that makes eye contact and believable hand gestures… yet it can’t do that. I’ve seen more believable emotional range from chuck e cheese animatronics.

Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.

Obviously the point is selective enforcement… IE Musk can ban anyone “impersonating” himself or any of the white supremicists he likes… while he can chose not to enforce the rules on people that may be trying to damage his opponents.

Much like the “no negativity” rule.

What do they do for you, scavenger hunts? Literary mysteries? Maybe the old it’s burried at the bottom of a lake challenge?

Nah it’s practical… it’s for convenience… you know when you ask a girl for her number and she answers it with

(123×4567×8910)−(423×5)+(9876×54321)−6789

So in the event of that situation once you solve it, you want to call it right away!

I mean, it ages better than the obvious intentional paordy of James Bond that it is. at least in the sense that it’s intentionally campy and made to emphasize it’s ridiculousness rather than make it seem realistic.

While I like the concept… isn’t that a bit of what killed the initial steam machines. IE they basically encouraged everyone and their grandmother to release one… and the end result was the name was dilluted down so badly that no one knew what a steam machine was.

I mean that’s a problem… but it sounds like the problem gets worse.

Realistically fact checking always lies in the problem of how do we know the fact checkers aren’t corrupted. Unfortunately popular vote seems just as dangerous way of trying to back it.

I’m always torn on this topic because, yeah there’s hundreds of biases that can be attributed to this phenominon.

IE something becomes a popular topic in your area. Meaning more people in the area start searching the topic in that area, thus advertisers start pushing it to that location.

Obviously ads are also tracking you in 100 ways on what you’ve searched for, looked at etc… which means it could have a good guess of what you are going to talk about, before you do.

But at the same time, I think everyone can think of a lot of stories of things that just seemed to perfect, to out of the blue. For me the big one was 10 years ago when I walked into an attic, said “man it’s fucking dark up here”, opened my phone, and a big ad for a flashlight app popped up.