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by swed420 4mo ago
It's a vector for advertising.
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by swed420 4mo ago
> I thought this was supposed to happen 5 years ago. Did they just chicken out on the prospect of actually shutting down telcos sending spam volume? It would certainly hurt a consumption-based economy, for starters.
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by swed420 4mo ago
'The Century of the Self' really drives this point. https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self Then corporate social media took things to the next level.
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by swed420 4mo ago
> The people on this site are, overwhelmingly, the people who already "came together" to build businesses like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and so on. Only a subset. HN is not a monolith.
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by swed420 4mo ago
> We should be able to do something around this problem. I don't know myself, but I know there's a lot of smart people on this site and if we all came together to work on something, surely there could be something we can do for
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by swed420 4mo ago
If the system is shown to be corrupt, the point becomes irrelevant.
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by swed420 4mo ago
> Do they have more percentage in voting? Considering they basically own and operate the uniparty and its media apparatus, they have enormous influence over the entire electoral process and peoples' thoughts to a degree that makes a
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by swed420 4mo ago
> why doesnt hackernews count as social media? It doesn't intentionally insert dark patterns into the platform. It's not without flaws, of course, but it's 1+ orders of magnitude better than anything else.
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by swed420 4mo ago
A misreading of Marx (intentional or otherwise) is precisely what I'd expect from Alexander.
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by swed420 5mo ago
You clearly didn't read the article or miscomprehended its implications, which cites external sources. /r/ZeroCovidCommunity continues to be growing community for good reason.
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by swed420 5mo ago
> What do you mean by "manufactured consent for each other the whole time"? > I also struggle to see how it can be that different Presidents with often directly contradictory policies could both be serving the same ruling cl
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by swed420 5mo ago
> One big difference is that the US has been led by four different people since 2000 instead of one. But those four puppets served the same ruling class interests, and they manufactured consent for each other the whole time.
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by swed420 5mo ago
Maybe it's time we adopt/design an economic system that isn't so easily co-opted by counterproductive prisoner's dilemmas.
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by swed420 5mo ago
It should have been trivial to find a candidate that could beat Trump the second time around. Instead, they forced a weak pick, screwed everyone out of a proper primary, and acted confused when the vote was close. "Must have been the r
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by swed420 5mo ago
> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch? Straight from the source: https://ladybird.org/posts/why-ladybird/
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by swed420 5mo ago
> crying "conspiracy" You guys only have one line, don't you. That, and "buttery emails." Not that Bernie winning would have fixed the underlying systemic problems, of course. The grand spectacle created by syste
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by swed420 5mo ago
Firefox is controlled opposition practically owned by Google. Follow the money. Ladybird seems to be the only hope, once available.
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by swed420 5mo ago
That's why the "late stage" distinction is important. A case could be made for people who didn't know better decades ago. Hell, even Marx acknowledged it as a necessary bootstrapping phase of human societal development.
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by swed420 5mo ago
Are you a DNC bot? You sure are hitting all of the classics.
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by swed420 5mo ago
Tired Reddit-tier take. This is why we are where we are now.
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by swed420 5mo ago
Are you kidding? Hillary was hated by so many demographics. Forcing her (in a blatantly unfair fashion, to anybody paying attention) twice was so absurd that it qualifies as a prime example of manufacturing consent for capital interests.
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by swed420 5mo ago
As a former Sanders supporter, it became clear that even though Bernie was likely acting in good faith, the establishment used all of their levers politically and in capital-controlled media to limit him to the role of controlled opposition
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by swed420 5mo ago
No it isn't. It's safe to assume you've either drunk the kool-aid or have something to gain monetarily (even if falsely assumed) by allowing the illusion to persist. Either way, you're literally part of the problem, as i
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by swed420 5mo ago
Nobody said same. In fact, on a surface level, they're easy to view as polar opposites. One must critically examine beneath the surface to see how they're both on the same team (capital).
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by swed420 5mo ago
> Who cares at this point. Nothing has ever managed to unite Europeans as effectively as the orange man’s unrelenting torrent of temper tantrums over the past year and a half. > Americans, we know some of you aren’t crazy. Can’t wait
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by swed420 5mo ago
According to OP: > Why this test? Because pelicans are hard to draw, bicycles are hard to draw, pelicans can’t ride bicycles... and there’s zero chance any AI lab would train a model for such a ridiculous task. At this juncture I'm
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by swed420 5mo ago
Yes, but to your previous point, the propaganda system is well tuned enough to pit the blue half of that populist contempt against the red half, even though you and I both know it's orchestrated by the uniparty. The only thing that com
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by swed420 5mo ago
False dichotomy. Why not both, depending on the individual and their circumstances?
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by swed420 5mo ago
Drones and robot killer dogs a la Back Mirror will keep everybody in check until they die an early preventable death from being lied to about COVID, etc. History might rhyme, until it doesn't, due to paradigm shifts like these.
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by swed420 5mo ago
> People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki. Also Zettlr

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