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2016 in the mountains of North Carolina a girl was taken out of my high school because some of the kids were bullying her so bad for being a “n****r-lover” cause she dated one of the few black guys in the area

They had to learn that from somewhere and enough of the school was doing it that she and her mom felt she was unsafe there

Overt racism is still alive and real in more places in America than people want to admit

Hey, give credit where it’s due.

Some people work quite hard to make sure their jargon laden flim flam has no ultimate literal meaning nor legal liability.

Tom wouldn’t be caught dead in the same hemisphere as either of these fucks

crickets

I don’t think there’s any practical way for that to happen and I expect you’d want to put tires over top of these anyway. Which will themselves be very expensive because they won’t be able to mount regular tires on them.

On the other hand every time you need to replace a wheel (one of the most easily damaged parts of your car) you’re probably shelling out a quarter of a car in cost.

Am I an influencer now?

You aren’t making any money from it, so, no.

Like it or not, people make a living doing this.

Between a choice of “you will never be arrested for anything, ever, no matter how heinous” vs “You can be arrested at any time for any reason or no reason, at the whim of your government” I cannot say with confidence which of those is worse.

That is the Fediverse. “Threadiverse” was a buzzword made up by Meta when they tried to force attach Threads to us.

Someone must still be responsible for monitoring all this, pulling the trigger on platforms that fit the criteria, and then actually enforcing that trigger pull, though. They will be, by definition, one step behind the public at all times, following them from platform to platform to tell them “you can’t be here anymore”.

People want X (variable, not ex-twitter), the government doesn’t want people to have X, so the government bans X. The people still have X. This fits into the same nutshell that the War on Drugs does and the drugs are winning that one pretty resoundingly, and you have to actually go out in public and buy those. I don’t see a reason why the War on Social Media is going to go differently especially when anyone can set up a VPN from the comfort and privacy of their living room.

This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.

I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.

This has turned no tables whatsoever, Facebook/Meta was founded under the intention of abusing their users.

The only way to get everyone to get along is to create a new, even lower underclass of citizen for the humans to all feel smug about. This is that.

This started as a joke but the more I think about it the more afraid I am that I’m right.

It means that folks are still expecting logic and consistency out of US lawmakers.

there is a clear economical value in what they produce

There is clear economic value in chains of bullshit that may or may not ever have a correct answer?

Gladiator was a movie because historically we’ve had heaps of gladiators and they were popular public entertainment.

The popularity of the book/movie incorporating a classic concept of cyberpunk, yes.

We’ve been dreaming of a Metaverse just about since we’ve had internet. Only, nobody’s made one that’s worth a damn in the real world yet.

The massive popularity of Ready Player One, which was a mostly bland and bad story besides having a Metaverse in it, might imply otherwise.

ChatGPT also doesn’t give true answers, it gives an approximation of what you want to hear without any regard for truth or accuracy. This is how every LLM functions. It does not know facts. It does not care to tell you facts because it does not know what they are.

Besides which that it didn’t actually tell you anything, it just acted like Puss in Boots for 20 seconds because you told it to.

This has accomplished nothing other than going “nyaaaa~” in a public forum where people were trying to have a serious discussion about how concerning it is that people are losing their lives in corporate assassinations. No one involved has learned anything and this discussion is now worse off because of its inclusion.

I hope the 2.9 watt-hours and 8 ounces of water you just wasted were worth it.

How about “less real than your current 4k TV because projectors look like roasted ass outside a movie theater”?

Seriously. Projectors are cool. Do you own windows in your home? Don’t buy a projector. Watching stuff on it outside of perfect darkness sucks way more than just having a regular TV.