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by swed420 9mo ago
The wrongthink issue was always secondary, and generally easy to avoid by not mixing certain topics with your account (don't comment on political threads with your furry porn gooner account, etc). At a certain point, the person calling
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by swed420 9mo ago
> Bots have ruined reddit but that is what the owners wanted. Adding the option to hide profile comments/posts was also a terrible move for several reasons.
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It's probably multiple factors at play. Look up the pied piper "strategy" that Dems used to intentionally elevate Trump, exposed by wikileaks.
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by swed420 9mo ago
Relevant for those who missed it https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
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by swed420 10mo ago
At least Rogan interviewed Bernie a couple times when MSM would only briefly cover Bernie's presidential runs enough to misrepresent his message, else radio silence.
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by swed420 10mo ago
> I find it weird to jump to this from the scarce information we have. If you look at how I worded my comment, you'll see I didn't jump to any conclusion. Only you have, apparently. (edit: Also unsurprising to see your account
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by swed420 10mo ago
And "social justice" is often a weapon of capital interests in disguise.
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Wouldn't be the first time CoC was used as a lame attempt to harm open source. Thanks for speaking up.
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by swed420 10mo ago
> Reddit's DAU numbers have only gone up since the protest. And so has the bot activity.
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by swed420 10mo ago
> EDIT: what do you know? This post has disappeared from the front page. Currently in the 57th spot on page 2. And yes, "Eat Real Food" remains exactly where it was. > If you didn't already know about HN's moves to
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> Is it permanent, it gets worse or better? That makes a big difference and it may also justify further studies and actions. Some symptoms of long COVID do lessen over time. The problem is that anybody who doesn't take adequate prev
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Yep. Anybody who wears a well-fitting N95 wherever they go is in a rather safe place. Breakthrough infections are still technically possible, but quite unlikely.
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I bet the temporarily embarrassed millionaires/billionaires subset of HN would agree.
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In that case, we'd better stop saying "Stallman was right"
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> Eschew flamebait. Arguably the OP borders on flamebait if that's the standard. > Avoid generic tangents. OP encapsulates an example of my comment, and is not a generic tangent. > Omit internet tropes. meme != trope > Plea
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by swed420 10mo ago
> And ~90% of google searches now gives you 10 videos as answers to any query rather than just the web pages that have been turned into videos because youtube makes them more money than regular ads. Assholes. Which also reinforces alread
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by swed420 11mo ago
Depends on what the main goals are. First time users might appreciate seeing the USB drive method since that's probably what they'd attempt next time at home.
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by swed420 11mo ago
> Constantly changing the topic to something more important produces conversations that get broader, with higher partisan lean I'm basing the prior comment on the commonly observed tendency for partisan politics to get people bicker
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by swed420 11mo ago
> This is a form of lazy thinking, because it assumes everyone is equally affected. This is not what we see in reality, and several sections of the population are more prone to being converted by manipulation efforts. Making matters wors
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by swed420 11mo ago
Both Repubs & Dems have lots of blood on their hands for their intentional mishandling of COVID (continued to this day, since the pandemic is not over) in service to our archaic consumption-first economy: https://www.thegaunt
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by swed420 11mo ago
> For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible. "It's a Wonderful Chest" from Chappelle's Show was ahead of the curve(s) on this.
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by swed420 11mo ago
Trump was elevated from meme tier gameshow host to serious candidate thanks to the Dem pied piper "strategy." Dems put more effort into defeating Bernie than they did Trump.
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by swed420 11mo ago
If you think only one of the two parties of capital are to blame for this timeline, I have a bridge to sell you. Democrats manufactured consent for Trump's rise in a 1000 ways over decades. Neoliberalism delivered us Trump, who is mere
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by swed420 11mo ago
> I'd just be happy with one constraint and that is to forbid the crony capitalism that is rampant today. But "regulated" capitalism inevitably leads to crony capitalism. What we've arrived at can barely even be calle
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by swed420 11mo ago
> It's absolutely bonkers to me that we've all collectively figured out how to stream a Hollywood movie to a pocket device over radio with a quality exceeding that of a typical cinema theatre, but these multi-trillion market ca
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by swed420 11mo ago
Experts are talking about it. The news is not. I know who I'm siding with. It comes to no surprise that media owned by capital interests is falling in line with said capital interests. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p&#x2
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by swed420 11mo ago
> B. If it's becoming more common, what are the reasons? Among other mentioned factors like AI and layoffs: mass brain damage caused by never-ending COVID re-infections. Since vaccines don't prevent transmission, and each re-in
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by swed420 11mo ago
Exactly. The effects can include both "brain fog" as well as impaired judgement, since the brain areas affected have to do with executive function. We can even see (measure) it in driving behavior patterns. Another data point is h
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No, and it's easy to find ample research backing it up.
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> Some of the other commenters here have posited a "vibe code theory". As the amount of vibe code in production increases, so does the number of bugs and, therefore, the number of outages. Likely this coupled with the mass brai

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