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Can someone ELI Not American?
Hah, yeah, OK. Garbage.
That’s hilarious. I’m guessing it would end up about as structurally sound as this
Mm… Depends. What was the rest of the text? If it was democrat campaigning, then yeah, fuck off. If it was using whatever voice they have to say something useful, then maybe good?
11·1 month agoThanks. More memes could do with references around here.
He’s definitely cooked
6·1 month agoIt’s not even car design
7·2 months agoI guess I do one or two a day on average, say 500 a year. At 5 seconds each, thats about 42 mins a year. I’m a fairly heavy user too. Recaptcha has been round for what, 15-20 years? So that’s like 15 hours total at a rough guess…
Really? 100 hours on average for each person on the globe, including babies, the elderly, and those in extreme poverty? That seems like a lot
Personally I’d like some way to be able to access information from people who know more about various things that I do. If it’s delivered to me and doesn’t require me going and visiting them each individually, that would be a nice bonus.
… seem to largely understand that we’re at the theoretical limit of “line goes up”.
I’m skeptical of this. I think they are disconnected from a few fairly fundamental realities. Do you have any links that might convince me otherwise?
The rest of it I agree with, but I don’t know if that’s relevant for their interpretation of market crashes, because I think they see them as internally driven… I might be wrong here though.
I don’t think that that’s the only reasonable intpretation you can draw from anthropology and archaeology.
If you want a good example of an alternative interpretation, I’d recommend reading Wengrow and Graeber’s boom The Dawn Of Everything.
Sure. Also many other cultures who have been contacted and haven’t been completely destroyed.
But the point is not that we should copy some tiny tribe’s way of life, the point is that western dominionism is not the only way that humans are capable of organising their societies. There are likely many other ways that have never been tried yet that are much better than what we have now.
Because market crashes are not good for anyone in the sector… Hence I think the regulations brought in via the FSB in response to the GFC were broadly accepted (though probably with varying degrees of willingness).
Probably not by millions of mostly young people who use it… The Dems pushing that through in an election year probably didn’t help their chances…
Let’s just ban corporate-controlled social media.
The intent on e.g. YouTube is to optimise views. Radicalisation is an emergent outcome, as a result of more combatitive, controversial, and flashy content being more captivating in the medium term. This is documented to some extent in Johann Hari’s book Stolen Focus, where he interviews a couple of insiders.
So no, the stated intent is not the bias (at least initially). The bias is an pathological outcome of optimising for ads.
But looking at some of Meta’s intentional actions more recently, it seems like maybe it can become an intentional outcome after the fact?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
For anyone wondering