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5y ago
It is Non-Desktop Web Browser interfaces that are the problem. Mobile Site, Mobile Apps, Alexa, etc make it very hard to see who the vendor it, I do not have this problem on the Traditional Full Size Browser Amazon.com site
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>>It’s not about permission in the idealistic sense Then you proceed to give an idealistic reason to oppose it... A person choosing to end their life to preserve a family inheritance IMO would / should be a valid reason, your o
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5y ago
Ironically, Windows is moving more and more to that, except the tiling manager with WinGet, and other things moving to windows, I likely would be recommending windows users do 1, 2 and to a lesser deg 4. Windows users should be learning
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5y ago
>>You have to look at it from the company’s point of view. No we actually do not, and should not. They are offering the product to the market, it is incumbent on them to fix the problem not just toss their hands up and say "Well
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5y ago
If that is the case then I would actually encouraged by it, Twitter social activist employee's are a problem for the platform. sadly though I dont believe this will be the case,
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5y ago
For the vast majority of the population you will not get much support for the Principle of Self-Ownership which is what you are talking about when you say >The question then, is at what point do a bunch of people become a government? Wha
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5y ago
When this started it was "2 Week to flatten the curve", and that 2 Weeks was not masking, it was stay at home, do not travel, do not interact, and DO NOT wear a mask. We were told to NOT wear masks, so much so the government was
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5y ago
You clearly then do not suffer from poor eye-sight that requires you to where a mechanical device on your face (i.e glasses) to correct for this How every abelist of you. My experience with masks, and glasses is very poor, specifically the
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5y ago
The CDC disagree with you as they now say everyone should wear a mask regardless of vaccination status because we now know that even vaccinated people spread the virus you just do not get as sick >infuriating when anti-maskers are also a
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5y ago
>>I mean, zero moderation is some kind of internet libertarian ideal, but there's plenty of examples out there what that looks like - 4chan, 'old' reddit, parler & co (which ironically censor a lot of stuff), all of
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5y ago
The Base Cost of a .com is $8 then there a $4,000 annual ICANN fee for the Accredited Register such costs are spread over how ever many domains under their management of course name cheap has over 10 million domains under management so that
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5y ago
it was not solved by those that advocate for land value tax because it is not seen as a problem, just like many do not see domain "squatting" as a problem
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5y ago
>>Science Twitter Well if science is being conducted over twitter that goes along way to explain the terrible state of modern science...
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5y ago
I think they are linked but I would define the cultural shift as something separate, canceling of people is a symptom / result of this cultural shift so they are linked. However there are other aspects of this shift that fall outside
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5y ago
I am not sure how any of your comment disproved cancel culture Cancel Culture is a form of targeted harassment, generally originating online but not exclusive to that domain, where a group of individuals take offense to comments, opinions,
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5y ago
Except here the options are not as simple as "stopping smoking" which in this context would be "stop emitting co2" doing so would cause extreme economic harm, lower living standards SUBSTANTIALLY, and be very regressive
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5y ago
>>twitter is used as a key communication channel for politicians, public officials, business executives, journalists, academics etc. all over the world I think this is over stated, Twitter is used to amplify, or bring attention to so
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5y ago
>>everybody moving at roughly the same time is probably an insurmountable coordination problem. If this were true we would not have a long long list of defunct once popular platforms where people used to be, but moved away from in mas
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5y ago
Yes they are pretty vague when you take them out of context and do not look at the over all statement, if however you read the entire thing it is pretty clear what I am talking about. If you have followed that news event then you would al
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There are many facets of this comment I would like to address. First lets make the assumption that I agree false information should be (or even can be) curbed on social media, things like Flat Earth... The problem here as we saw with COVI
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>>I’ve certainly seen many calls for the glorification of violence to be limited Guns was probably a bad choice for Twitter, would have been better for YT as YT has recently cracked down hard on firearms content. However even on twit
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5y ago
Speech is easy if all you post is kitten video's The most interesting conversation by necessity have to be "hot button" or "divisive" that is how we grow as a culture, a society. If we always avoid anything that is
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Youtube for one has banned a lot of discussions around guns, and gun channels. There is a very limited number of things they allow and gun channels are walking on egg shells. The Rittenhouse trial cause alot of banns, strikes, and etc as
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5y ago
The problem here is that "toxic" is subjective, what I find toxic and disagreeable may not be the same thing you find toxic and disagreeable. Take for example hot button issue of Gun ownership, I believe it an essential right a
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5y ago
Well given the ever increasing crime, taxes, costs and lowering of living standards hopefully we will start either seeing companies leave SV, or SV ceasing having any competitive advantage as companies realize their talent pool is not infac
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>>puppet of activist investors? Seems more likely that Jack has been the puppet of activist employee's not investors. Hopefully Twitter will hire someone to have a back bone in the face of the activist employee's that want
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5y ago
Is that they do not want to pay or is it that the big 3 carriers have bought up wide swaths of spectrum in the "auctions" from the FCC and are just holding them, not using them. This is the big problem, the FCC is far to lax with
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>Oxford/AZ vaccine was funded by the university endowment According to Wikipedia, that vaccine was developed with Venture Capital money from Oxford Sciences Innovation, Google Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, among others. However e
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The problem with these studies is the mild symptom cases may never even be reported as cases, I know alot of people that had covid symptoms but never got tested, and would never get tested unless it got to the point where they needed medic
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Ahh yes, lets blame capitalism for all things. You do realize that capitalism created the vaccine in the first place? That with out capitalism you would have no vaccine to complain about people refusing to take? I really am tried to seei
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