tonguez

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by tonguez 4y ago
Are you capable of talking without regurgitating propaganda buzzwords like megaphone?
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by tonguez 4y ago
“Musk will make a mockery of twitter” how do you make a mockery of something whose only purpose is to manufacture consent for war profiteering?
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by tonguez 4y ago
"Who does this benefit besides the board?" the people who run the US/world who depend on censorship to maintain their power
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by tonguez 4y ago
"Mental health is hard to study." is it? what is mental health? "I'm also very skeptical of people who think widespread use of psychedelics can make society better. Lots of people used LSD in the 60s and 70s and as far a
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by tonguez 4y ago
there's nothing progressive about corporate censorship; twitter is just a tool to manufacture consent for war profiteering
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by tonguez 4y ago
"When moderation goes away, platforms become rife with racism, spam, scams and less than desirable actors." so... Twitter
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by tonguez 4y ago
"They probably own them for a lot of reasons" "I doubt Elon is going to be personally moderating every Tweet" why even post this?
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by tonguez 4y ago
">Gen Z is also more diverse and broadly anti-American (or “anti-imperialist”) An irony, considering that Russian imperialism is the one that actually performs land grabs and ethnic cleansing without even trying to cover it up.&quot
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by tonguez 4y ago
“ See: the sad story of Moot, who ran one of the most popular social websites in the world and ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it.” when you say absolutely nothing you mean money. but millions of people have fond memories of wh
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by tonguez 4y ago
That’s because they only hire staff who have the opinions that the people who own the organization want them to have. There’s nothing left-leaning about corporate censorship, which Twitter embodies. It’s all neoconservative war propaganda.
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by tonguez 4y ago
“Compression is a component of general intelligence.” if you say so “A few years ago I was very sceptical of machine learning ever leading to general intelligence. I've since changed my mind.” thanks for sharing “…both [human brains an
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by tonguez 4y ago
“ Weird, why would mass of people try to escape reality instead of watching more documentaries and getting inspired to change the world for better? This truly is a conundrum.” it’s more that this shit gets shoved down people’s throats inten
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by tonguez 4y ago
“Can you really reach a larger audience by getting on a background jazz playlist than taking home the most coveted Grammy? I hate to share the bad news, my friends, but the world has changed.” wow what an amazing insight. some dead awards s
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by tonguez 4y ago
“I've totally lost track of the iPhone product line. If you asked me what the difference between the iPhone 11/12/13 is I wouldn't be able to tell you.” thanks for sharing!
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by tonguez 4y ago
no one who is struggling to survive gives a shit. maybe if wealth were distributed more evenly you could get more people on board to care about this.
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by tonguez 4y ago
sounds like something a rich person would say
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by tonguez 5y ago
he died of vomiting blood from alcoholism, just like alan watts
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by tonguez 5y ago
“It's either this or one of its competitors rises to take them on at some point and we get a bifurcated society where specific companies cater to specific politics. That may be unavoidable anyways.” one can dream. as of now all corpora
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by tonguez 5y ago
“It’s just a rebranding of the portion of our lives that are contained within the digital realm.” none of my life is “contained” within shitbook
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by tonguez 5y ago
help build an alternative that isn’t designed solely around accomplishing neoconservative objectives like the dissemination and amplification war propaganda, and general subversion of democracy by inciting racial division, removal of democr
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by tonguez 5y ago
thanks for sharing
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by tonguez 5y ago
"I have heard people say "Men push women out of engineering" but in my experience it's been the opposite--it's been men trying to get women interested in engineering." Of course it's not true. If you major
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by tonguez 5y ago
"Perhaps society shouldn’t make women choose between a career and a family" Perhaps society shouldn't make men choose between a career and jerking off all day
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by tonguez 5y ago
“Now let's take a step back. I had effectively turned $6k into $400k as a 23 year-old. That is absolutely, positively, ridiculous.” self-congratulatory and boring
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by tonguez 5y ago
“There is merit to the idea of the 'paradox of intolerance.'” no there isn’t
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by tonguez 5y ago
“I don’t think you should be able to tweet racist messages for example.” we live in a world where saying “all lives matter” makes you adolf hitler 2.0. crime statistics are banned on twitter. if you say “its ok to be white” you will be call
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by tonguez 5y ago
“ > people always show that it has never really been about freedom (emphasis mine) Which people? They always act this way? It was never about freedom, for anyone? Who could possibly say this authoritatively?” thanks for asking the tough
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by tonguez 5y ago
dems had control of all 3 branches of gov and didn’t do shit
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by tonguez 5y ago
absolutely shocking and mindblowing that inhaling smoke is bad
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by tonguez 5y ago
“As Zeno said, books are a way to have conversations with the dead. You can learn from people who came before you. They can also inspire and reassure you.” wtf am i reading?

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