Russia and other authoritarian states realized what a boon for disinformation the internet was and wrecked it starting with the 2016 election.

Both China and South Africa are aligned with Iran and Russia. Who are the baddies again?

I actually think this represents something much more ominous. Everyone on here assumes he’s incompetent because he’s bankrupted companies before. He’s done that with reason, and likely it was because he’s laundered money using the trick. I think in the case of the RNC and his campaign funds it indicates he’s found fraudulent means to pay for everything and he has access to tremendous amounts of dark money via foreign adversaries. The Truth Social IPO is one possible source. I actually doubt that one because he likely sees it as his own money. PACs will close the gap, but I’d be willing to bet there’s some other scheme filling his coffers. Draining alternative sources of money for GOP candidates also enables him to manipulate everyone down ballot since they’ll be aware of the scheme or stuck on his teat. This is a very, very bad sign for politics and we’re at the endgame for a US totalitarian government.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/

Will you shut up, man.

Eshitification is a result of end stage capitalism. People are trying to extract their last bit of value before society goes tits up due to climate change.

I paid for Apollo, and I’m happy to support developers, but in app ads is a big no.

I’m still using wefwef. What am I missing?

I find burggit.moe to have some questionable content.

I beat a Waymo self driving car off the stop sign yesterday instead of respecting its right of way and the passenger in my car with me remarked. I told them it’s because I know and don’t fear AI. It’s going to be protective of itself over taking the intersection, so why not take advantage of that fact. I said something like when Terminator happens and everyone is running around panicking, I’ll be that dude walking around pushing them over because I’m wearing a mask that confuses facial recognition.

This comment ignores that not all vaccines are prophylactic. Often times a vaccine can be administered after infection to cure or suppress symptoms of the disease. Rabies vaccine is exactly this. This comment is unhinged levels of not understanding the importance of this scientific achievement.

As best I can tell it’s a bridge that leads to the Eastern side of Crimea. Presumably it would be used as a supply line via southeast Ukraine to Crimea, especially in the advent that the Kerch bridge is inoperable.

Coughnsacough

Thanks?

I’m actually surprised no one has pointed out the design flaw in the logo. It looks like a close window x button on browsers, especially iOS Safari. I keep wanting to close out of the window by clicking on it instead of the smaller other x.

He’s a narcissist, just like Trump. Feeds off the nonstop attention, and does not care what damage is dealt to people he exhausts. It’ll only get worse the more you feed the troll.

This is true for corporations in general. They’re organized to maximize profits, unless regulated. Even if you’re pro-business, you’ll know that statement as true. Without realizing it, we’re currently in an Oppenheimer-like arms race with various state sponsored interests including tech corporations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

While I agree with your conclusion that we need to modify behavior, I find this metric to be not helpful. You could also pack all the human biomass into a pinhead with enough pressure or gravity. Modifying behavior is easier said than done, reducing population would help too.

Same generation here. I really think boomers and their selfish politics are greatly to blame for lost momentum.