what are you talking about? the real fraud and market manipulation was perpetrated by Robinhood and Shitadel when they shut peoples’ ability to buy the stock while still allowing it to be sold. They know this is illegal but they were betting on the fines being less than the losses. They need to be taught a real lesson. Those responsible for this intentional, flagrant violation of the most basic free market principles should go.to.jail.
this is maybe missing the point but how about the blue/green of iMessage? surely they went to great lengths to find the most displeasing shade of green for iPhone owners to talk to non-iPhone owners.
NYPost is just about the worst “mainstream” publication available and anything they’ve ever done devalues the technologies which transmit it and degrades the minds that consume it. Unfortunate to see them linked & highly ranked on HN.
again you’re trying to make it a problem inherent in the person who speaks up to point out where they see it differently, and then denigrate the person for propping up a world full of men who see it this way. why?
imagine a man’s post suggesting women should just be happy staying home with the kids or making art. you (or your kind) would probably cross-reference their username, find their employer and try to create grounds for the man’s firing a la James Damore.
this female-driven trend of thinking there’s enough shame to go around to change the behavior of all men everywhere (especially when the greatest female believers of this seem to have the least amount of desire to truly understand what motivates a man) will no doubt be on the list of grievances when the civil war begins.
and for the record, i’m a man who’s doing pretty damn alright in the overall pecking order. i’m in a happy relationship. but yet i see women like you in society everyday with these attitudes — chipping away at men showing an inch of vulnerability or giving an ounce of opportunity, like piranhas in the Amazon.
i think you’re missing the point. If a relatively higher portion of women vs. men have college degrees and thus greater opportunities for stable, salaried positions; and a larger swath of the men are in (increasingly inconsistent, hourly and low-paid) physical labor markets, while a smaller proportion of men also have stable, salaried jobs (and it’s often still going to be the case that of the highest-compensated employees, a larger portion of them are male): most women aren’t going to want to hitch themselves long-term to someone with unstable prospects. This is where the matching problem comes in, and no, it’s not unreasonable to realize (and it doesn’t necessarily imply a flawed personality in the person who recognizes it enough to write it) that you’re going to have a lot of men with no ability to build a life (ie a wife and a family). And with the increasingly connected-world/social media, they’ll be keenly aware of how a handful of other men have it better/easier. Not crazy to think that will lead to larger societal problems.
So the options are a) Facebook sells tactical equipment to one side, and body armor to the other, or b) They ban these product categories altogether.
In context with the fact that Facebook also served up the precise content day after day, year after year, which put people (the whole population) into this inconsistent-with-reality, individually tailored emotional state which is nothing if not a constant reflection and validation of their worst tendencies and pre-dispositions.
Think of an honestly shitty person whose problems are of their own creation in every way (for the purpose of this thought experiment, you can even pretend it’s not you). Do you think Facebook ever gave them a series of posts that reflects that? Or would they log on to see all the ways other people are the problem? And that’s everyone.
We all have flaws, but this is a profit-driven platform. And if you’re trying to sell someone something, making them feel like the true piece of shit they really are isn’t exactly in the ABCs of how to make a sale, much less at their machine-driven scale.
Facebook is basically the automated version of the guy rubbing a boxer’s shoulders in the corner of the ring, whispering in their ear a never-ending slew of made-up things the other guy said so that when the fight starts, he’s angry as can be.