Under the new Administration Twitter will assuredly ban anyone who doesn't appropriately mouth the narrative. The bans are already picking up steam, and have been since the election.
Trump: gone. Khamenei? Still tweeting about how America is the devil and the Holocaust wasn't real. Where's the explainer under this tweet [0] telling me that this information is disputed wrongthink?
I've always owned an Android and I've heard about the, what is it, blue bubble prejudice, or something?
I'd just like to say that if anyone has ever avoided putting me in a group chat or becoming my friend because I had an Android instead of an iPhone: GOOD. What a moron that person must be. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I have plenty of people in my life who don't have such stupid or petty requirements, and many of them have iPhones.
If that's serving as a filter for me in the kinds of friends I get, that's a filter I think I actually appreciate.
Matrix states that they are an exception but the standard and the implementation-reference clients are all under the control of New Vector LLC, almost everyone uses the centralized identity server run by New Vector, and by far the largest homeserver is the public one also run by New Vector and so they aren't really any different.
The difference is all marketing. The "Matrix protocol standard" would be more honestly called the Synapse API.
All of the risks that apply to OWS/Signal due to its architecture and corporate ownership structure apply to New Vector/Matrix as well.
I had a bad time with this a little over a year ago and stopped using Signal over it.
If my phone was off and I used Signal Desktop in the meantime, when I turned my phone back on the sync would often take as long as half an hour, with my phone buzzing for each message received during the duration in which I was online.
I contacted support and, well, it's a free product, what do you expect?
I stopped using it after I received a text message from my then-fiance about a medical diagnosis and couldn't call her back until Signal stopped overloading my phone. Awful. Purged from my device and I never recommend them anymore.
It's really not that uncommon of a belief, those who hold it just get shamed a lot by the crowd that parrots the media narrative all the time and keep it amongst ourselves, instead of talking to you about it.
Maybe most people do believe what you do, but majority opinion isn't automatically right opinion. You know what else will kill people? Economic shock.
It's so arrogant to act like an opinion like yours is completely obviously right, and to tell someone to "prepare to feel embarrassed often". You should feel embarrassed.
It's OK, once Google gets a union then you'll lose your 600k TC job and get moved back down to the 250k job because you haven't been at the company long enough and promotions and pay ranges can be based on tenure because that's more equitable.
I'm too young to have used it, but I bet Borland C++ was nice, too. And I bet it was more work to configure Emacs to write C++ in the 90s than it was to just use Borland. But which one is still around?
I wonder if it's more time wasted when you have to change editors every few years because of changes in the funding model of the corporate patron of the product and relearn how to use the entire environment with "sane defaults" versus creating some custom keybindings that you like essentially one time and then using them for 30 years in an editor that has a license and community that makes it unlikely to suddenly cease to exist.
People act like there's all this extra work to using software like Emacs over corporate IDEs, or GNU+Linux over corporate OSes, but I contend that it is merely different and better-documented work. The corporate environments just make more promises, and then everyone is surprised when the promises are broken.
This whole website and its entire commentariat are constantly participating in a neverending exercise of pretension one-upmanship and I implicate and debase myself by even pointing this out
There's a crosswalk and signal at literally every block in NY, which has been the focus of this discussion.
SUVs exist and are so large because emissions standards don't allow for large enough family vehicles in sedan or wagon format. That's why families have SUVs instead of sedans now. If you legislate away every vehicle capable of carrying more than five people you're essentially banning families larger than that, especially in places in the US which don't have public transit, which is most of the country.
THIS is the kind of clueless urban elite childless Coastal DINK perspective that drives regular people raising families in flyover country absolutely bananas with its complete lack of perspective for other lifestyles than the ones in San Francisco and New York! Not all of us want to live in tiny apartments and on crowded trains for our whole lives and the people who do want that life do not have the right to dictate that to the rest of us through limits on what kind of vehicles we're allowed to drive
Congress needs to pass a law so this stops being a political football under control of the Executive. You'll know if all the fuss about Net Neutrality was empty rhetoric if the Democrats don't propose any legislation in the next session. It's my controversial opinion that most of the debate around this issue at the policy level is political theatrics based more on partisanship and personalities than material differences in proposed and enforced law or administrative policy.
Especially later on you really get the idea that Michael isn't as ridiculous as it seems at first and does a lot of "silly" stuff for leadership reasons. There's an episode where Jim tries to combine birthday celebrations as one of his first acts as manager and it blows up in his face. After, Michael imparts real wisdom about why that happened. It becomes clear that while he is a ridiculous and imperfect man, he is a decent leader after all. And some of the jokes and such? They're for morale, even if they don't always hit the mark. Somehow Scranton stays afloat..
This is a common meme but it isn't really true, there are safety nets, though fewer than other countries. A lot of chronic homeless in the US have mental illnesses and don't trust authorities enough to accept the help that is available, and involuntary commitment of these people is considered beyond the Overton Window.
And the places with the biggest safety nets at the state level in the US, like California, Oregon, Illinois, and New York, also have the largest homeless problems. Figure that out.
The mayor of Seattle where they tolerated an occupation for several weeks by an insurgent force, waiting until two children were murdered within the zone to break it up, and now facing a new autonomous zone at Cal Anderson, has frankly not done enough to end the insurgent behavior in Seattle.
I'm fine with tear gas against militants who capture parts of our cities and hold them hostage, destroying businesses, committing mass vandalization, harassment of bystanders, LARPing revolution, and inevitably getting innocent children -- two at CHAZ in separate incidents -- killed, and then preventing police from investigating those murders.
Much of the same can be said for Portland. We don't need to defund police, we need to defund educational programs teaching Critical Race Theory, which argues that the US is illegitimate and the land should be "returned" to indigenous nations, which I guess means removing or killing people of European descent. Look up the claims of the Red House in Portland if you don't believe me. Look up "LAND BACK".
I was a late-life child. High risk for Down's. My mother didn't get the test, which could've introduced more problems. She believed I was already alive, because I was, and I was therefore sacred to her, and the outcome of the test would be irrelevant to her choice. Notice in all of this, I didn't have a choice.
I'm glad she didn't abort me. If I don't want to be alive now, now it's my decision.
I guess you can keep arguing that killing unborn children diagnosed with Down's isn't eugenics but my perspective is pretty heavily informed by the fact that I'm alive thanks to my mother being bothered by the idea that she might kill me in utero if I had a developmental disorder.
I'd like to see you explain the position that a baby diagnosed with Down's should be aborted to someone with Down's, frankly.
Could you please provide a citation for this claim? It's fascinating if true, but I wonder which societies did this and what documentation there is for this practice. My understanding was that prior to the 20th century child mortality -- and mothers dying in childbirth -- were both common enough as to be practically mundane, or at least, as mundane as any death ever is.