hmmm-i-wonder

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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
>it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms that come with them. I don't think its "almost like", I think it "actually is", and th
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Its interesting how doing something is immediately equated with 'removing not far right' free speech. The idea is he promotes the talking points that benefit the right and the Republicans. Both personally and in changing the platf
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
That sounds like satire not imitation to me.
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
I remember during covid and after when we had nearby wildfires. even during a mass shooting event a few years back how useful twitter was for realtime information sharing between public and agencies. There was a few years I'd regularly
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Urban voters represented 20% of voters. Sub-Urban 45%. Rural 35% 63% of Urban voters went Harris, 35% Trump. 63% of Rural voters went Trump, 35% Harris. Suburban went 52% Harris and 47% Trump The 15% more Rural than Urban voters, combined
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
"only on foreign disinformation". Focusing on "internal disinformation" not "American speech" would have been the proper description. As for that laughably partisan report from many of the politicians aligned w
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Seems like he could have ended the ride but didn't, and refused when instructed to knowing he wouldn't get his video to post online. Not sure acting the ignorant consumer makes me trust the supposed dangerous situation you are in
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
>Of course fact check suppresses information! That's the whole point Its not. The fact checkers in this case, and almost all cases we're discussing ADD information that challenges the posted data, not censor or restrict it from
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
>The idea that there is some official governing body Platforms were encouraged to create their own departments, and have. There is no "one" or "governing" body here, so this is more hyperbole in this already flagrantl
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
>Exposure to many viewpoints, including wrong ones, provides a counterbalancing effect. When you actively try and suppress information you create a “forbidden knowledge” effect where people seek out silos where extreme and wrongheaded in
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
>Claims are challenged all the time by other users and there are enough cases where fact checkers were wrong or heavily biased. I've only seen a handful of cases where they were wrong of heavily biased, but I've seen hundreds o
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
I haven't seen a single discussion be worse off due to fact checking, but I've seen tons of discussions where having it would improve things. I have seen people get mad because they can't post BS without it being challenged.
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
You are very likely correct. Then again I'm on the fence on Freeland, as are most of my circle as anecdotal as that is. Our issues with Trudeau don't completely extend to her, and if she differentiates herself well enough along a
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Considering its a safe conservative riding, that engagement is ignored and goes no where. Politicians here are the same as anywhere else, they will focus on where the money and the votes come from and ignore the rest. Which is why voting ne
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Gravity isn't understood, but it exists as a force regardless. We know it does, no one debates it does, but whatever we _call_ it might change, and how we understand it will inevitably change. That was my point. Gravity as a force exis
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Alterate ranked voting somewhat addresses the idea of needing to strategically vote (favorite betrayal) in favour of your ideal candidate, but only to a degree depending on the parties and initial polling support (a runaway party you don&#x
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Its very possible the next candidate inherits the overall sentiment and is indeed a 'sacrificial lamb'. The anti-Trudeau sentiment is high, but if he steps back its an open question if the left wing/ABC crowd and centrists re
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Gravity's existence isn't open for debate, that doesn't mean there isn't more to learn about it. The studied and understood outcomes of FPTP systems in the real world have all shown similar issues trending towards 2 part
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
I am a centrist. There have been a ton of studies on various sides of the spectrum highlighting issues with FPTP as a system. Its not they disagree with _me_, they disagree with the overall state of political science and its years of resear
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
There is no way 2 parties can represent the diversity of opinions and ideas in the country. 2 parties means power tends to jump back and forth due to the recent ruling party doing badly vs the opposition actually providing an alternative an
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Multiple proportional systems don't require lists and provide the best outcome. Comparing FPTP to a worse system and decided FTPT is awesome while ignoring its known and widely discussed flaws surprises me. Its not really open for deba
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
FPTP has many many flaws, one being that it trends towards a defacto 2-party system due to strategic voting, especially if only one spectrum is divided (i.e. liberal/ndp, or alliance/progressive conservatives back a few decades ag
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
A disturbing number of people will agree and ignore your sarcasm.
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Was it failure to introduce ranked voting, or failure to introduce electoral reform? There was multiple systems being suggested. NDP preferred MMP. Personally I wanted STV, but the Liberal party wanted alternate vote, the system that would
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Problem with First Past the Post voting systems, we tend to vote "strategically", and since the Alliance and PC's joined early augh's, the Right has been "unified" while the left is still split between the more
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Its been expected since before the Christmas break. There was a cabinet reshuffle, and its come out he's lost the support of his finance minister Chrystia Freeland, wasn't able to replace her with Marc Carney his top choice as Car
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
which involves everyone being on discord. Of all the social network platforms I've used/use, discord is the most stratified in terms of people/groups just not using it at all and having no interest in it. Facebook initially h
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
Considering the state of offline media today, I doubt there is any going back to the real or imagined pre-internet days of media.
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
> First, that would incentivize posting more low-value crap just to stay on the top of everyone else's feed For 'social influencers' sure, but normal users don't care about that. Removing the engagement hacked platfor
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by hmmm-i-wonder 2y ago
This is the part I don't understand. Individually I don't know anyone paying for LLM's, only companies that are immediately pivoting to find reduced costs/internal options to horizon that expense. Considering the massive

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