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by toofy 2y ago
> …It is a debate evasion. > It is usually more honest to say 'I don't want you to convince me or the audiance otherwise' i’m not trying to be mean but this is just wild. i’ve walked away from “debates” with people many
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by toofy 2y ago
with the ftc finally going after companies lately i really hope they go after these companies who make up entirely new meanings for words. for example, it’s crazy to me that we allowed companies to redefine “unlimited” to mean “limited”. wh
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by toofy 2y ago
before regulation, we had multiple actual rivers that caught on fire from all the stuff they would dump in it. multiple different times. it’s wild to me how people argue with sincerity that we don’t need to stop them sometimes.
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by toofy 2y ago
> You also have vscode. What you don’t have is the various proprietary extensions msft makes… i’m not trying to be confrontational i promise, but i mean, yeah, youre just repeating what we’re discussing… microsoft bangs its drums chantin
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by toofy 2y ago
wow, thanks for posting this. in a few tiny comments it demonstrates precisely the problem the larger ecosystem is facing and will almost certainly get much much worse sooner than we think.
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by toofy 2y ago
> …at least putin wouldn’t win. you might be kind of close, but it’s probably more like… “if i can’t forcibly take over any country i want for my own, ill nuke you.” …is not a rational policy for the future of world geopolitics and certa
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by toofy 2y ago
absolutely anecdotal, but from my experience, people who are normally excited for iPhones really don’t care about AI at all. i think Apple hyping AI so much was a mistake, doesn’t have nearly the same impact to them as hyping up a new camer
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by toofy 2y ago
i agree, however, because ive seen people unironically argue otherwise, i’d expand it a little: work with people who are intelligent enough to give constructive criticism. i have more than enough experience building teams to know with co
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by toofy 2y ago
this a point which im glad to see someone else bring up. i’m not sure when it happened, but somewhere along the line the same group of sil val investors started trying to convince us that everyone should want to be in the same place at th
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by toofy 2y ago
> What about the actual packer? Why do we not hold them responsible here too? exactly. i find it incredibly troubling how often people are willing to blame it on only one party—the reality is, it’s both. both. we need to hold these gree
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by toofy 2y ago
a wannabe king is more than welcome to fork this project as it sits, right now, today. and they can be as non-democratic as they want with their own little fifedom.
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by toofy 2y ago
here we go again. another election cycle where some of the loudest voices with some of the largest platforms ever in history will be declaring they’re not being allowed to speak. the reality is, they’re loud, they have easier and larger acc
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by toofy 2y ago
because on their front page in giant font they call themselves private and secure and outright say “heavily encrypted”. it’s their own fault. a better question might be: why do they keep over and over crying when people call them out for e
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by toofy 2y ago
because telegram and it’s users heavily insinuate it’s comparable to Signal rather than Tiktok. right on their front page in giant font they declare “private” and “secure” when they’re neither. it’s telegram’s own fault they receive this c
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by toofy 2y ago
> there is no way to verify the degree of "good faith genuinity", so we cant use that parameter in aspect of legal actions. of course there is… one of the reasons people justifiably bring up spam in these “my free speech” cases
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by toofy 2y ago
if the administration took zero good faith demonstrable attempts to address it, then they should at least be removed from the position, yes. if they refuse to take steps whatsoever, yes, that’s a problem. why does it feel like you both u
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by toofy 2y ago
it’s still a bit muddy why he was arrested, but it seems like it’s due to his constant dismissal of any responsibility. i’m not sure of the specifics of what you mean by 100% of officials must be thrown out” but if im understanding what you
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by toofy 2y ago
lately when i see arguments like yours one thing keeps popping into my head. i’m not sure how i feel about the following yet but it’s been on my mind a bit for the past couple of years: if someone is incapable of making good faith genuine
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by toofy 2y ago
im absolutely cynical these days, so take that into account, but i’m skeptical if some billionaires are influenced at all by the us government let alone “controlled” either way, if social media in its current form is that dangerous, and it
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by toofy 2y ago
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: no one will ever convince me that any of the owners of megasocial companies are benevolent while state backed are somehow different. none of these people should have the kind of power they have—wh
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by toofy 2y ago
This thread is a perfect example of why we need to reign in marketing and its insistence on misleading people. Because and only because i’ve been lingering in the off-roading community for a few years i personally understand why the NPS e
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by toofy 2y ago
> and they're the ones to blame, because they're responsible for protecting consumers from bad companies. in your example they’re both bad—both the original aggressor and the one refusing to enforce against that aggressor. we
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by toofy 2y ago
i’ll echo this. that dj friend or like i said in a different comment, your local record store employees. college radio stations. and just other people. it really is that simple.
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by toofy 2y ago
local record store. talk to the people who work there, tell them the 5 albums you’ve been hooked on lately. at the end of the day no matter how many times we beat our heads into the same wall, we’re not even close to an accurate discovery
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by toofy 2y ago
> …this breeds a learned helplessness… while i agree that we might be moving too fast with our “progress” regarding tech, my guess is we’ll get it smoother before we fully move on. however, don’t confuse helplessness with having bette
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by toofy 2y ago
i’m not really a regular user of most of the tools but the few times i have used them it’s because their search gets worse and worse by the day. at least a dozen times in the past couple of months i’ve searched for videos i’ve previously se
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by toofy 2y ago
i was being hyperbolic and sarcastic for the sake of illustrating a directional trend we seem to be barreling towards. my apologies if i didn’t go far enough to make it more obvious. my fault.
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by toofy 2y ago
surveillance pricing is such a bleak future. pull up to a fuel pump, price boxes above the individual fuel hoses say “To learn pricing, for your convenience, please scan your phone’s NFC chip so we can determine your personal income and eco
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by toofy 2y ago
it really is one of the great problems of today. this combined with what my grandpa called “blowhards”.
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by toofy 2y ago
kids will choose many different kinds of activities at any given time.a lot of kids really don’t like games, some do, some don’t. i’m not trying to be pedantic, but anytime someone implies a human, particularly a kid will be at all predicta

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