I haven’t heard the word before in that context, but what makes more sense? The idea that wild beasts are smuggling children into the country, or the idea that the word coyote has another definition I may not know?
Even if I was gonna spout off about it online I’d probably look it up to make sure that I knew there wasn’t a definition I didn’t know. I’d have found the definition and wouldn’t have posted and made a fool of myself.
I admittedly don’t know anything about power but isn’t nuclear energy some of the cleanest energy we’ve got? I don’t understand why people would be so against it. Are they scared of another Chernobyl or do they think it’ll be managed like it is in the Simpsons or something?
Yup. Quit months ago. I go back sometimes for specific reasons but I don’t feel like I have a burning desire to check it anymore. I have so much more time the day and don’t feel the slow, crushing numbness that endless Facebook scrolling induces.
Meanwhile there was that article from earlier today about the former Twitter CEO advocating violence in a tweet, clear as day, and it’s still up.
Big Tech is up there with the CCP and radical left lawmakers in terms of stuff that keeps me up at night. When you get in trouble with our government, it’s designed in a way that they can’t just arrest you without a law being broken, and those laws are specific. You get due process and they must prove your guilt. You get the chance to appeal the decision. You get a public trial by jury. It’s the best system anyone’s come up with and I’m so proud to be an American who has those rights.
Get in trouble with Big Tech though and they don’t need to tell you what you did wrong. They might, but usually it’s some BS about violating “Community Standards”. These are loosely defined, selectively enforced, and can change at any time. You might get the ability to appeal or you might not. The community doesn’t review your appeals, just the same judge and jury that decided it the first time, or some AI algorithm.
The punishments can be much more severe relative to jurisdiction too. Commit a minor crime and you probably won’t go to prison for the rest of your life or be put to death by our government, but commit a minor infraction against Big Tech and you may receive a lifetime ban or get your entire account deleted. Or nothing might happen. Or you might get a warning. Or anything in between; it’s all arbitrary!
Consider this hypothetical situation:
“Whatever, I don’t want to be on Site X anyway” you might claim after getting banned from it. But it’s parent company just merged with Network Y of whose sites you visit every day. And Network Y merged account systems with Site X and you’re banned there; tough you just lost access to more sites.
But it’s limited to the web, right? Now you go out and buy Device Z but it requires a Site X account. You don’t have one anymore; your device is useless.
Site X now merges with a popular retail store chain and gets rid of all payment methods at this store except their own X-Pay system. Which requires an account which you don’t have. Can’t go there anymore.
I could go on and on but my point was made paragraphs ago. TLDR Big Tech is scary.
I joined Reddit around the time that it was cool to be economically conservative. I joined Meetup at the time that the TEA Party was heavily involved in making it popular. It was fun to blog about the news of the day and read respectful debates and learn about the views of both sides. Now days .win is the only place I can express my opinion on politics and whenever acquaintances bring up politics I fear we’re gonna get into an argument. Outside of special interest groups, Reddit is a cesspool and Meetup’s corporate overlords push astroturfed “resist” groups while maintaining that everyone is welcome (doesn’t sound very tolerant and inclusive to me).
Yeah I’m there with you. I swipe through and find a lot of incompatible people. It’s not very much fun. Whenever a date casually mentions Russian collusion or how “far-right idiots” on Facebook are making them mad or something I know we won’t get along. I try to meet people on common ground and don’t blast them with my opinion (unless I know we agree) but civil discourse isn’t in vogue these days. I’d rather be single than with someone I could never talk to openly.
We need strong leaders who put their foot down and say no to violent temper tantrums when people don’t get their way. This is a similar situation to the forest mismanagement in California; 100 years of allowing dry grass and not doing controlled burns and now we’ve got out of control wildfires. Years of giving “peaceful protesters” “space to destroy” and now whenever the Democrats are mad we expect chaos. It’s crazy!
No matter how much NYT, BLM, etc. delete content, they haven’t had some change of heart of mind. They’re pulling back but they’re just turtling for now and will either bring this same stuff out again or will rebrand it under some new name or narrative without the negative connotations. Stay aware! Archive what they said originally so it doesn’t get lost or forgotten.
On one hand I get it; there are rules and consequences. But on the other hand can you imagine if the kids asked permission to run BLM flags? I don’t feel like the reverse situation (where a BLM flag was denied by the school and they were suspended) would happen now days. When students are given permission from the administration in many schools to walk out in protest of climate change, when they were allowed to defer the due date for essays because they’re so shaken up by President Trump’s victory in 2016, when so many schools are so woke and promote left-wing causes despite how the rules would typically be enforced, I feel like this is selective enforcement. I could be wrong but I side with the kids after all of the selective non-enforcement of rules for woke causes I’ve heard out of schools in the past.
Anyone else floored by what a clear and concise speaker he is? Every time President Trump speaks to the press he says what he thinks in a way that anyone can understand. I don’t know of any other politicians that can match his speaking ability.
This is the problem when phrases are co-opted; they lose their original meaning and you can’t tell what anyone is saying anymore. Years ago if someone told me they were against bigotry, hate speech and racism I’d have agreed without question; of course racism is bad. While I still agree with that, if someone says it to me now days I think “oh no; are they talking about actual racism, or right-wing / conservative / libertarian / anything right of Marxism viewpoints which are now labeled racism despite having nothing to do with the definition of racism?”
“Disinformation” now includes anything people want it to include.
Agreed! You never know when the contents of a link will get taken down or edited. I used to believe that “if it’s on the Internet an archive of it exists somewhere” but there’s a lot of content that’s never saved unless you do it yourself.
Reminds me of the time that people found out about California’s secret DMV for lawmakers. Rules for thee, not for me!
With all the news I take in from this site every day I sometimes forget that others are getting wildly different descriptions of what’s happening in the MSM. With the facts I get here I wonder “how could anyone disagree with us?” But that’s what the people I talk to who watch CNN all day think too. Scary how polarizing the slant of the media can be.
I don’t know how libertarians wouldn’t support Trump. I don’t align to any particular party entirely but I’m super into individual freedom and limited government spending. I’m also a believer in a strong national defense and strong (and well trained) police forces that can help protect our freedom and I believe “big tech” shouldn’t be able to go unchecked. I really don’t know what party I’m closest to identifying with, but I love this country and I love my freedom and President Trump is doing everything he can to let Americans keep their freedom. Freedom from China, freedom from mob rule.
ActBlue by a different name.