atlantas

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by atlantas 4y ago
RIP Canada. Over 50% of mortgages since 2021 are variable rate! https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-banks-mortgage-rates-...
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by atlantas 5y ago
> The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time. Thankful for this, cooler heads prevailed. Despite relentle
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by atlantas 5y ago
You are pushing the moral panic in question, and it will age even more poorly than the previous panic since it's targeting and smearing a woman instead of a story.
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by atlantas 5y ago
What is it about Harry Potter and moral panics? Then "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The story is evil and will corrupt your kids!" Today "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The author is evil and will corrupt your kids
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by atlantas 5y ago
"master branch" and "grandfathered code" and "sanity check" are just a few of the terms suddenly deemed unacceptable. Joe Rogan says dangerous things and must be silenced. Who is a Bernie supporter smeared as a
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by atlantas 5y ago
Same, center left here too. It feels like a cult trying to purify itself. We're impure and must be cast out. I believe, however, that it's a very loud minority that is scaring the rest of us into silence. So it appears larger than
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by atlantas 5y ago
Free speech. Strangely that has somehow inverted in recent years. It wasn't long ago that censorship was the domain of the right who were in a panic about what's acceptable speech and actively trying to police it.
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by atlantas 5y ago
Yikes. Imagine thinking Breaking Points is right-wing.
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by atlantas 5y ago
Thanks for doing this! What would be your advice to new platforms that want to take a free speech approach, while attracting users across the entire political spectrum? (to avoid the fate of Parlor and Rumble)
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by atlantas 5y ago
If it involves money and it's something you don't like, you call it a pyramid scheme. Twitter discourse 101!
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by atlantas 5y ago
"I used to be fairly optimistic that we could get through a period of consistently higher tensions with China without provoking a huge racist freakout against Asian Americans but the current reaction against all things Russian is causi
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by atlantas 5y ago
That's when the rubber meets the road. It's easy for Apple to virtue signal in this case, but I have a feeling they'll think different with China.
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by atlantas 5y ago
I replaced mainstream media with Breaking Points ( https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints ). I've found them to be far more reliable.
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by atlantas 5y ago
And to top it off, now you have a toothache and have to visit the dentist in the year 536.
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by atlantas 5y ago
Brilliantly stated. This is literally their one job.
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by atlantas 5y ago
> I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling As you should! It's actually exactly what authoritarian governments like Russia do. They silence and control
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by atlantas 5y ago
Serious question: Do you think pyramid schemes, get rich quick schemes, no value added services and predatory investments are new?
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by atlantas 5y ago
In the current system when an artist creates something and sells it, they typically get paid once, often lowballed. The buyer may turn around and sell it for 100x. The buyer made far more than the artist, who gets nothing in this scenario.
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by atlantas 5y ago
It's unfortunate, but what would be a good alternative?
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by atlantas 5y ago
I find the sheer volume of anger and hatred surrounding this and other related announcements completely unhinged. Why are so many people threatened by services that give their users options?
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by atlantas 5y ago
You've got to be kidding me! Neutrality is just as important as privacy for a search engine. DuckDuckGo was doing a good job building trust for years and just threw all of that away. This was their edge and now they are simply a worse
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by atlantas 5y ago
Oh I do blame that too. Housing regulation by NIMBYs have long been pushing up their own home values by making it onerous to increase supply.
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by atlantas 5y ago
Probably, but what I'm getting at is that Blackrock can afford it. What I don't understand is how so many individuals and families have been affording (or at least committing to) these prices.
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by atlantas 5y ago
Ditto housing. I just can't believe that people are able to afford the prices of the past 1-2 years and many must be paying beyond their means? I know Blackrock and other parasites are scooping up housing too, but that's not the m
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by atlantas 5y ago
Look up power laws.
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by atlantas 5y ago
It's almost trolling to suggest another centralized vendor that can lock out people from their money at any time. Paypal is arguably the worst offender in this regard.
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by atlantas 5y ago
This is where the rubber meets the road. Let's register some predictions: If China invades Taiwan, will Apple and Disney exit China as they did with Russia?
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by atlantas 5y ago
This. Dissidents would be cast as pro-Evil and purged from social media for misinformation.
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by atlantas 5y ago
> The disheartening thing is that even if you never supported Putin, other countries treat you as enemy. This is precisely what leads to atrocities like Japanese internment camps. We are repeating dark history in real time and it's
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by atlantas 5y ago
That's interesting. If they're not trying to persuade (and it doesn't appear so), then is the point of that to flex their power or what?

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