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by zpeti 3y ago
I didn’t say fringe. I said puritanical. In the US puritanism is mainstream. Next you’re in europe check out our attitude to nipples. Or people saying offensive things (non UK). I’ll grant you one thing, Europeans also hate billionaires. I
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Yeah mostly for Americans who have a puritan belief that everyone should be perfect in every way. Meanwhile most people know a lot of successful celebs, artists, entrepreneurs are pretty insane, but that’s why they got where they are. You d
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What you are talking about is a political decision, therefore there is no rational way to discuss it. In most western government leadership now supporting smart people is basically elitism which is evil. Despite the fact that practically it
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Don’t heed warnings of Day After Tomorrow ocean collapse, says Met Office(telegraph.co.uk)
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Maybe you should ask the Native American tribes who died of smallpox what “scientific” basis there is for being afraid of foreigners? I know you are going to say that’s not the case in the modern world, but you need to at least understand t
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If someone has good ideas, as you say good culture, shouldn’t they have the right to exclude people with bad ideas? Do you as, for example an LGBTQ culture person not have the right to exclude a Nazi? By your definitions they don’t because
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Yes, that’s basically what the religion of the left believes. No one should value their own culture and history, every culture should be open to being destroyed. Except Islam for some reason. They get to keep their culture, otherwise you ar
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Funny how you are getting downvoted, people really misunderstand WHAT economic growth is... I like the coca cola aluminium can example - if coca cola can reduce the aluminium used in it's cans, that means less natural resources used. B
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Said everyone about spacex and Tesla too. That doesn’t mean this twitter thing is going to succeed, but your always “dumb move” comment is not very well founded based on musks history. The entire tone of voice of this thread is exactly what
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Edit button, separating for you and following, blue checks, 140+ character tweets, unlimited video, algorithm adjustments, live video streaming on the way. At least be intellectually honest. Please. I know you hate Elon, but at least consid
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by zpeti 3y ago
> Nobody is asking for a "Wechat" in the west. It's not something I've ever seen anyone craving for. I mean, I agree this is Elon's dream. But so is SpaceX and Tesla which he did quite well on. Also - you're
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There might be some outages, but still, Twitter as an entity is operating just fine, if Elon's claims are correct time spent on twitter is at record highs, and similarweb doesn't show any real decrease in visitors: https:/&#
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Wow, can’t believe you’re getting downvoted. This is exactly the point of my original post.
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Replying to my own post: Funny how everyone is pointing out all these inventions were by immigrants in the US. And that’s the point. The US takes the best of the world and reaps the rewards of their work. And also makes those people wealthy
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by zpeti 3y ago
> despite it leading nowhere worth visiting Really? Every major technological (and cultural) advance since the steam engine has been from the US. Atomic bomb, Hollywood, internet, social media, AI, (wokeness?). Granted, just like on an i
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Free AI models mean more free content, which is exactly what drives facebooks moat.
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Spoken like a true liberal elite.
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Everything you list here every president and government has done since the dotcom crash 23 years ago. Every executive has pushed for low interest rates since then and Greenspan, bernanke and everyone else complied. This is not a trump issue
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There are plenty of houses being put on the market, just not in super trendy blue metropolitan areas.
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by zpeti 3y ago
I’m sorry when did this inflation thing start again? I’m not a trump fan, and he spent like crazy too, but Biden was next level. Stimulus after stimulus and actual helicopter money. And it was under his time that the fed decided inflation w
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by zpeti 3y ago
That takes years to play out. Also, except for Miami every major city has had price decreases, so your personal anecdote is not what the stats show. And in fact, at 10% inflation, if prices don’t rise, that means they are getting 10% cheape
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by zpeti 3y ago
Sort of. Shareholders can also sue you if it's obvious you're the one who really screwed up, especially if you are taking massive salaries. So there is quite a large risk in your "business does poorly" version.
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by zpeti 3y ago
I think there is a place for two text based networks, and Zuck has correctly identified the missing one: 1. There's plenty of people (or just moodswings of the same person) who don't want to see political content at a certain time
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I think you’ll find, that except for hardcore trumpists not many on the right support trump doin this.
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Oh no... bids for impressions will decrease in canada by: $0.00001. This is just silly, this is the least of facebook's worries.
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> Typically people seem to largely get far more engagement with a far smaller number of followers on Mastodon Are we talking about mastodon or threads? Do you think Threads won't have an algorithmic feed? It obviously will, so this
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by zpeti 3y ago
I think this is a different situation to Tiktok. What Reels did was slow the growth of tiktok, by creating the same product that 18 year olds loved, but for the more mature 25-30+ demographic of instagram. But twitter isn't growing. Th
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by zpeti 3y ago
Here's why this is an uphill battle, which no-one seems to understand. Everyone who actively participates in twitter, and even has a modest following, is tied to twitter. You cannot move a 100k followers from twitter to thread. All the
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What is the motivation of anyone to make a website at this point? I don't see it. I've not seen very much discussion about the issues these LLMs are going to cause, this article is sort of talking about it - twitter and wikipedia
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Because divide and rule works way better in America based on race and not class… It’s intentional. These political footballs are half real, half tactics.

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