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by slg 2y ago
>I'm not sure how you arrived at that interpretation of my comment but it does seem to be the one you were trying to goad out of me with your responses so you could reply with this. What a weird comment. I goaded an interpretation
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by slg 2y ago
It really feels like you are repeatedly trying to imply something nefarious without actually making any accusations of nefarious behavior. All you have really said here is that some of the people who use the platform don't have the ri
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by slg 2y ago
So what are you actually claiming here? Do you think these comments are coming from fake accounts?
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by slg 2y ago
i.e. peer pressure that exists absolutely everywhere and is in no way exclusive to TikTok.
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by slg 2y ago
I just find this line of argument incredibly ironic because it is fundamentally an anti-free speech argument in defense of both the US and Musk while making the defense of the Chinese app with strong censorship a pro-free speech position.
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by slg 2y ago
> American companies have been doing the job for them. This right here is the answer. People just don’t care about this type of privacy because they assume some American company already has their data. Combine that with us being two ge
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by slg 2y ago
> That seems so bizarre. We got a real pot, meet kettle situation here. It is absolutely wild to suggest that doing something standard like arranging for an obituary in the local newspaper would be viewed as a sign of mental illness.
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by slg 2y ago
>if you mattered, you would've gotten a direct message or call from them. That ignores the asymmetry of a lot of life events. For example, if a parent died, I'm not going to call everyone in my life to tell them, I would have
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by slg 2y ago
Sure, if you view this as an isolated incident. But I think of it more as the latest example of the larger trend of how the industry has gone mad actively making their products worse with half-baked AI features. That is a more interesting
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by slg 2y ago
I don't really follow what point you are trying to make. The stuff that Meta has reversed in the last few days is literally decades of slow cultural change. It isn't all DEI and trans folks. They are now allowing the use of &quo
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by slg 2y ago
You must have a short memory if you actually believe that. Diversity programs didn’t all coincidentally spring up in January 2021 the way they are coincidentally disappearing in January 2025. I won’t argue if you call them performative, bu
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by slg 2y ago
> in part because of the "political landscape," People really should be more explicit about this. The "political landscape" here is the desire to pay fealty to an incoming administration in hopes of currying favor.
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by slg 2y ago
Truly one of the most prophetic movies in recent memory. It started out innocently enough with people just stealing the gestures and UIs from the film. But we have now progressed to also taking the highly targeted and personalized adverti
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by slg 2y ago
One thing that is rarely discussed in relation to this urban myth is that it is widely believe and yet it doesn't actually effect the behavior of most believers. That is one of the major reasons why most companies and many governments
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by slg 2y ago
I don’t know why you are letting that one reply define the bounds of this conversation. My comment was directly relevant to the first comment in this thread and the comment I was replying to.
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by slg 2y ago
A reply downthread is not an endorsement of everything said upthread. I'm happy to discuss the points I made, but I’m not going to be made to defend something I didn’t say.
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by slg 2y ago
>these descriptions seem perfectly fine in that they're accurate and meaningful The description of Wicked doesn't mention either The Wizard of Oz or the Broadway musical. So yes, the descriptions don't contain obscene m
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by slg 2y ago
I'm not Alupis. I can't and am not trying to speak on their behalf. I'm therefore not moving the goalposts they established. I'm making my own related point. That point is that the information provided above about the
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by slg 2y ago
>[The Campaign] received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, it holds a 65% approval rating from critics, based on 191 reviews, with an audience score of 60%. The first thing I fact-checked, the Rotten
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by slg 2y ago
Those descriptions are less detailed than the information you will see on basically any streaming interface and yet it still manages to not being very good. For example, no person who had actually seen Anora would describe it as "a co
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by slg 2y ago
I just read that as "management has no idea how to evaluate the quality of work of their employees". Either the company should be able to evaluate an employee's performance and therefore can show proof of poor performance or
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by slg 2y ago
>If you gave them some benchmark they would need to hit (e.g. close tickets, be on call, etc), they would be able to do so. Isn't this just a sign of bad management? If employees are capable of doing the work when their job is on t
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by slg 2y ago
> Do you think bias is a one-dimensional tug of war that cancels each other out when combined? Ironically, the NYT's apparent belief in this exact thing is the main reason I'm no longer a subscriber.
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by slg 2y ago
I'm happy to share it, but I'll admit I didn't include the name in my original comment because the source will get some people riled up. I was referring to the guide from LA's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of Amer
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by slg 2y ago
>Lots of organizations are shy about making an endorsement so guides can often be pretty barebones. Then that's a bad voter guide. A voter guide should be about offering context and not just a binary cheat sheet of endorse/not
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by slg 2y ago
>from the point of view of the producers of those things. Fundamentally that's the question. Do we want a society from the perspective of "the producers" or the greater population? Not trying to put words in OP's mou
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by slg 2y ago
Beyond anything else, intentionally designing a political system around disenfranchising a class of people seems like a bad idea from a human rights standpoint. You're creating a system in which the wealthier citizens can systematical
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by slg 2y ago
It reminds me of Reddit cracking down on 3rd party apps or Twitter changing that policy and a whole lot more once Musk took over. The problem isn't necessarily the actions or policies in a vacuum. There are legitimate benefits to the
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by slg 2y ago
> This seemed more like a running "who was bombed today" news feed. Those events are important and meaningful, I beleive staying informed about world events and geopolitics is important, but some of these stories don't eve
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by slg 2y ago
No, the one I saw ducked the question multiple times so that video is more informative even if "assisted by a human" is still somewhat vague. I guess they just left what to disclose up to the individual operator making the level

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