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by toofy 2y ago
i’m not sure which part confuses you—it means what i said. i don’t magically trust them more than i trust any government. if the collective We have decided we don’t trust governments with algorithmic manipulation powers, why on earth are
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by toofy 2y ago
1) this is going to open younger peoples eyes to installing stuff outside of app stores. which i think is a great development. 2) if We believe that social media has the ability to influence to the degree that we’re going to outlaw a compan
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by toofy 2y ago
It’s unforgivable that we treat slow motion murder by certain people as acceptable—deserving of nothing more than a fine.
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by toofy 2y ago
> So is Iran just going to be the default bogeyman…? likely, until theyre crying everything is antifa again. they seem to cycle around through their paranoia targets.
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by toofy 2y ago
why are we ignoring occam’s razor here? clearly this is santa testing new sleigh models.
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by toofy 2y ago
why hasn’t someone got decent pictures to back this up after five nights?
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by toofy 2y ago
it’s amazing how so many people have seen these truck sized drones but they’ve all somehow failed to get pictures. i can go outside right now in the dark with this phone i’m typing on and get a solid picture of stuff but somehow they keep s
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by toofy 2y ago
i think the issue many people have is that people are held responsible for things they say, their reputations take hits, their words can be held against them in a court of law, they can be fired, their peers may never take them seriously ag
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by toofy 2y ago
i think much of the concern we have learned over the past few years is that it isn’t only the scary bogeyman of “states” that is terrifying. the authoritarian power just a few people can have from their riches can be even more terrifying an
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by toofy 2y ago
its quite a bit different. Jack Dorsey wasn’t appointed to a government position, he also wasn’t nearly as vocally extreme as twitters current owner. also, it’s we don’t even have to speculate, the current owner has been very vocal that in
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by toofy 2y ago
it’s likely because twitter’s owner has turned extremely political and that makes them uncomfortable. particularly since he vocally is politically extreme, very vocally. they likely don’t want to put themselves or their work at the mercy o
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by toofy 2y ago
> Also I think that people so willing to defend these people are often affiliated with Langley or ft Meade. please don’t imply another commenter, one who took the time to engage with you in good-faith of being part of some vast conspirac
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by toofy 2y ago
i tend to agree to an extent. we can’t keep chasing the approval of the most paranoid, many of them quite literally will never ever be satisfied. the number of times throughout our day we trust and rely on something done by another human nu
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by toofy 2y ago
First, let me say, I like Bluesky. A lot. However, I also have grown to absolutely love Mastodon and its so many different communities. Whats become clear to me is, I want both, Bluesky and Mastodon. As I've said many many times befor
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by toofy 2y ago
Just to clarify, are you implying that life is better in countries where the population has little or no education? Hopefully i’m misunderstanding because that would be quite something.
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by toofy 2y ago
you did end your comment with: > The doctors rarely tell you to eat your salads. "Here is a pill, thank you for your business" which makes it appear as even with your “self-diagnoses” you’re under the impression that doctors ra
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by toofy 2y ago
You may have accidentally fallen prey to timber baron misinformation. It just isnt true that private owners "actually care for them" in some way that prevents fires. [0][1][2][3] And even if it were true, lets pretend we give all
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by toofy 2y ago
the real horror would be if it were to happen in 20 years or so, if it were to happen in the near future we still have people around who remember how things were done before computers. society would end. some bumpy roads, sure, but we did v
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by toofy 2y ago
it is. and it absolutely won’t be limited to coffee lids. when we don’t hold creators and sellers of products to any kind of real standard, they over and over and over will cut corners. we know this is a fact. when we don’t hold them respon
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by toofy 2y ago
while i whole heartedly agree, science and testing takes funding and being more strict requires teeth. neither of which is a popular idea with some people. being more strict would show results, but like above, showing results isn’t a popula
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by toofy 2y ago
A few years ago, a guy went super viral with a video of himself getting punched outside of a bar. He cried nonstop and went on the typical outrage media tour. Over and over declaring how unfair it all was “These people attacked me because
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by toofy 2y ago
sure, i can see why some might worry about this but like i said in a different comment, for me, most social media, ability to go back and reference years old random conversations just isn’t of any kind of critical “identity”. more important
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by toofy 2y ago
well my comment was specifically pointing out that giving someone agency is the opposite of “a problem.” i was pointing out that having options to spend your freetime how and where you like is the literal opposite of forcing you to “the wi
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by toofy 2y ago
im not the person you responded to, but i think this worry is mostly just overblown. i dont think most people have this concern. i think some do, but not most. if its something you're super worried about, you could always do what ive s
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by toofy 2y ago
> it just creates more entities that will have the same problems (being at will of a server). this isn’t a “problem” that needs to be solved. you’re not “at the will of the server” in a federated environment, its the actual literal oppo
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by toofy 2y ago
the article says when trump was president , he interfered and caused bezos’ business to lose a government contract due to the newspaper’s coverage of trump.
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by toofy 2y ago
there are likely tens of thousands of sites who dream of having 2 million active users. other than a few VC heads, in no world is millions of dailies a bad thing. i’d be shocked if hn had 2 million daily. and thank your god it’s not full o
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by toofy 2y ago
does this mean you trust complete randoms just as much? if i need advice on repairing a weird unique metal piece on a 1959 corvette, im going to trust the advice of an expert in classic corvettes way before i trust the advice of my barber w
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by toofy 2y ago
yeah, it would have been interesting to have seen some deeper digging. for instance, did the fda simply not renew because the company didn’t try? was this just the company being lazy and attempting to deflect blame onto a spoooooky faceless
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by toofy 2y ago
i hope i didn’t come across as if im “debating” something, apologies if it did.

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