There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.
Are they as popular, or the default use. How many “alternatives” are actually just piping through chatgpt.
Controlling information means getting control of the defaults, the ones people are used to using.
Which I agree with… IE I like the system of “your camera catches a hit and run”, you can go knock on their door, ask them to share the footage with you… and you give it to your lawyer, cops or insurance adjusters as you see fit.
What people like me don’t like is the idea that the cops decide to search your permission, use your footage to prosecute a crime you wouldn’t want to. Imagine the same scenerio… except instead of a hit and run… lets say it was say someone delivering pot… or a hispanic person just going home for the day, and ICE was looking for someone to bother, etc…
Point is we’re all happy to be witnesses to crimes that hurt people. but we also know you give cops too much power… and you’ll find horrible things happening
and sadly, the amount of people who use chatgpt to try and get factual information, is quite high… which makes this even more terrifying. It’s about systematically gaining control of communication and information.
Conservatives talk so much about wanting limited government… but so quick to try to throw out literally what is taught in elementary school about… keeping the government in check.
What somewhat baffles me the most… is it’s not like they are really even worried about being stopped… only slowed down.
We know damn well that trump owns the supreme court… and half the federal courts. So the point is at the end of the day his orders are going through anyway, as the supreme court will continue to pick up these and overrule all precedent, constitutionality and general law.
Was a long article comparing it… and yeah long and short without going through stretches… big things to note is the biblical antichrist will fool most of the faithful, lie constantly, boast like crazy, the 7 heads could be in line with the 7 trump towers etc…
one more interesting thing that after those articles came out (was durring his first term), that to me jumps out is there’s something regularly interpreted as a death/resurection of the antichrist. Basically it’s described as a wound to his head, that vanished as if it was never there.
Which could be interpreted for trump in multiple ways. (IE the bullet to the ear, or even the lost 2020 election that most considered him defeated in politics and done for).
Unpopular opinion maybe, but I’m ok with this. It’s less clutter if all you want is to see public holidays, and it’s easy enough to install calendars that show other events.
Well it’s not unpopular so to speak… had they never included them that would be one thing… Hell had they removed them 2 years ago that would have been a fine decision. On the other hand removing them right now… it’s quite blatently obvious the motivation isn’t decluttering. It’s about making sure the racists in power don’t have to look at anything that might make them unhappy.
I mean, it’s also the penny… I do believe Lincoln had a tiny worker rights legislation that trump wishes never got passed.
That’s exactly me as well. Tried it, looked at random people’s cats and dogs. Not for me.
I think that’s kind of the challange we’ve got with regards to making social media from a nerds perspective. We’re a bunch of nerds that don’t understand the appeal of the things we want to make alternatives to, and wouldn’t be interested in using them even if they weren’t run by horrible evil tech corporations.
Long and short… Pretty much all the big tech heads sat in the front at trumps innaugeration, including Zuck. Shortly afterwards there were a bunch of coincidental “bugs” of things like, all results being hidden when searching for democrats and LGBT, and people being set to follow trump.
Yeah… well the question then is going to be how long before they extend it out so that more false positives are shipped out anyway.
Geeze… so step 1. turn twitter into a racist cespit that only racists can stomac it. Step 2… use it as the platform for direct democracy…
Gotta admit, that would be the most hilarious assasination of all time.
“umm… yeah so we gave him a gift of a technology that america doesn’t even use… of which the only way most people in america even remember they exist, is because we turned a bunch of them into bombs… But it’s gold plated and tacky looking which trump can’t resist, so we know he’ll wear it openly on his next press conference”.
I mean yes fuck them…, also it’s sad that things are far enough in the lunacy that… they are aware how fucked the rest of the path is. It’s kind of like when the headlines for Isis were basically “Al Queda is warning that ISIS is too extreme”.
It’s insane on too many fronts… I mean off the bat it’s an insanely weird gift, half illegal… and I guess it’s also a reference to a warcrime?
I guess the question is if that’s maybe better marketing. IE on this person yeah probably (though that also can be lowered if you own both the hospital and the insurance. But the side factor of perhaps the joker or penguin villain leaders, knowing that they need to have a good health insurance plan purchased for all of their minions
Problem here that comes first and foremost… we’re threatening to block trumps appointments? Sorry none of his appointments should have deserved a single democratic vote. If you could block them… why the hell are we confirming the DUI initiative in charge of the military, and a medicine denying Health agent.
I can’t name a single trump pic that’s even close to qualified… and all of them should be fought every step of the way on their own merits… regardless of what musk is doing.
I’m for one solid in things… but yeah friends, family, I can do without all that.
Job, House, and of course citizen status… not so easily for me. especially in my case as I’m not legally married to my GF, and have an 18 year old non biological son that’s also not legally connected to me or my wife in any way.
Which fricking is insane… because while a pain in the ass, social media is optional to begin with, and if you organize your friends together, you can all go join a mastadon instance or any number of other options. If I knew an easy way to leave the US, I’d have considered the option a long time ago.
and almost instantly followed up with nintendo’s anouncement of their own version.
I mean… beyond the utmost stupidity of the US renaming everything internally. We’re basically setting up for everything to work like our measurements system.
There’s the solution. we won’t actually anex any other countries… but internally in america we’ll just call them all “eagleton” and “America’s Hat” and “Dirty land where everyones trying to get into america from”.