Twitter is often not used as a simple social media platform, it's a publishing platform that enforces odd behaviour in terms of limited tweet sizes, threads of tweets, and so on.
Pretty much this. Twitter is a publishing platform for already famous people to stroke their egos by posting short quips of drivel, and every response is either circle-jerking over it or yelling into a void.
I don't think anyone doubts it has real applications, but there's a difference between that and it being a mass market everyone-must-have-it type thing.
It will never be a mass market thing, because the mass market is perfectly content to play inane freemium tap-and-wait games on their phones.
They are private companies and can do whatever they want. The question is whether that is the right thing to do, and whether it is good for our society to have more and more segregation of people with opposing viewpoints.
It really comes down to the sponsors not wanting their ads next to some neanderthal spouting off about how he hates $minority_group. YouTube used to have "almost anything goes, so long as it's not illegal" attitude right up until sponsors started freaking out.
As a liberal, you need to realize that you are LOSING the ideological debate. The right has been winning elections, and dominating nearly every branch of government. Much of this is because they try to convince their political opponents, while progressives try to silence theirs.
You don't even need to wait for an election to vote in the free market. Don't support the companies you disagree with, and if there isn't a competitor - start one. Surely there are enough like-minded individuals to support your venture. Unless what you're implying is the right is good at winning elections, but lousy at voting with their wallets.
Your image is shit. That isn't free speech, that's speech controlled by a person/people who's sensibilities are offended.
You don't like the situation created by the free market and want the government to step in and level the playing field? If this was over healthcare rather than a perceived injustice against freedom of speech, this would magically become a "leftist" agenda.
It's snowflakes on both sides, and snowflakes all the way down...
Leftists have little use for free speech and will happily silence those with whom they disagree. As is happening here.
Wrong. Gab hasn't been silenced, they can still happily Gab away at whatever "thinly-veiled-racism masquerading as a nationalist agendas" trips their trigger. They may have to find another web host or plug their own server hardware into the internet, and accept cryptocurrency instead of PayPal.
When you start telling business they can't choose to act on their own morals, you might end up telling Christian bakers they've gotta bake that gay wedding cake, too. I've always said it must take a lot of cognitive dissonance to be an alt-righter.
Then forums got banned, and they moved to different social media platforms.
Banned for breaking the rules, not for having a conservative political ideology. Mainstream social media platforms don't want people spewing hate speech on the company's dime. I've said it numerous times before, if bakers don't have to bake a gay wedding cake when it conflicts with their values, then Facebook/Twitter/etc. doesn't have to bake your KKK cake, either.
Instead of a growth in human enlightenment through a well-informed citizenry, we have echo chambers, manipulations, and centralized corporate platforms that are largely sewers collecting the worst humanity has to offer- but now distributed globally for free.
For as long as I can recall, Disney correctly predicted this outcome in their carousel of progress. Technology makes society better in some ways, and worse in others. Every once in awhile, you get a burned turkey...
The only difference between the greed of the "elites" you espouse so much hatred for and your own greed is that the elites put forth the effort to acquire more wealth, power, security, and so forth for their own benefit while you expect other people to put forth the same efforts for your personal benefit.
It's not hard to become disenchanted with capitalism when you're struggling to make ends meet in a dead-end job, and you see rich people making bank because they can afford to buy shitloads of ads to promote their trivial "inventions" on Kickstarter. Yeah, spending money to convince people to invest in your scam sure must be hard work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating throwing the baby out with the bathwater and switching to some other *-ism. Just pointing out that not everyone works equally hard for their wealth.
From my comment history, it should've been obvious I'm no fan of Trump. That doesn't mean I can't call out California when they do something stupid like classify coffee as a carcinogen, or want to secede from the union because waiting 4 years for the next presidential election is just too long, man.
One could argue that a warming and drier climate encouraged the development and spread of wildfires over a sustained period, but it's pretty odd to not even mention them as a major contributing factor for this season's bad air.
More likely, California has just been so busy spazzing out over Trump that they forgot to restock on these.
I bet they know everything about you, even your condom size.
Major retailers will probably find a way to do this even for the cash-carrying luddites, using facial recognition (utilizing the many security cameras already present). The privacy ship has sailed, may as well make the best of it.
Can anyone recommend an Android phone with a 4” (or thereabouts) screen?
Android phone manufacturers abandoned smaller phones with decent hardware specs ages ago. Apple just recently did it. I'm personally not a fan of gargantuan screens, either. My recommendation would be get an iPhone 8 and drive it until the wheels fall off. Hopefully by then, "small" might come back into style.
Oh, the old "I'm saving money using a dumbphone" argument. I assume you must never buy anything retail or dine out, right? My phone has likely paid for itself several times over in terms of looking up deals (slickdeals/retailmenot), comparison shopping/price matching while in a store, finding the cheapest gasoline (yeah, there's an app for that), and promotional freebies (I've gotten Amazon gift cards from Coke, free food from Chick-Fil-A, etc.)
Any person that pays $1000 for a phone, Apple or not, is bat shit crazy, or bat shit rich.
This meme (yes, millennials, I'm using the word correctly) goes around every time Apple releases a new phone. $1,000 is roughly about a year's worth of cable TV, or a pack-every-other-day cigarette habit, or a $4.25 Starbucks latte every weekday. In the grand scheme of things people spend money on, a new smartphone that you'll use for at least a year, is not really that expensive.
...is because they bought a headphone company (Beats) and want to sell wireless headphones. That's it.
The music Apple sells hasn't had DRM for years, and nobody bothers "ripping" ("dubbing" would be the proper term) anything via analog, except for vinyl records. Back in ye olden days when iTunes music did have DRM, people removed the DRM using their computer (remember those things?) - not their phone.
That being said, Apple is no saint when it comes to DRM. I've had paid apps disappear from my purchase history because Apple pulled 'em, paid apps that died in the 32-bit purge, and I've read of people who've lost movies they'd purchased (I only buy Blu-Rays, so I haven't experienced that one).
Trump knows that the last thing China wants economically is for significant amounts of US manufacturing to leave China.
And China knows we have term limits on the presidency. In the end, it's the US consumers who will get screwed. As Yoda might say: Elections, consequences they have.
I thought we were all for consumption taxes instead of income taxes?
I thought we were all for understanding basic mathematics.
Lunch at a fast food joint costs $10. I have $30 in my wallet, while you have $15. In this example, the meal costs 66.6% of your money, while it only costs me 33.3% of my money. If the restaurant has to raise prices by $2 to recoup losses due to increased costs, you're now paying 80% of your money, an increase of 13.4%. I'm paying 40%, which only requires 6.7% more of my cash on-hand.
This is specifically why sales/consumption taxes are inherently unfair - because the amount of tax you pay, expressed as percentage of your income, is inversely proportional to the amount of your income.
Except when "Made in the USA" means "assembling Chinese parts into a completed product". Example: Bob is a licensed solar installer. He employed American workers to install Chinese-made photovoltaic panels on American homes. Bob now has to raise prices or look for other areas (possibly laying off workers) to make up the increased costs of Trump's tariff. If Bob voted for Trump, Bob is an idiot.
If only Silicon Valley hadn't proved this by rampant political bias, censorship, and heavily penalizing conservative websites in search results
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware domain registrars weren't allowing right-leaning website to register their domains. Or, perhaps you're implying backbone providers are throttling/not delivering packets from right-leaning sites?
Oh right, this is the gay wedding cake argument, except now it's flipped around on conservatives who are mad that Google/Facebook/Twitter/Whatever won't always bake their cake. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Mostly they just want to spend money other people earned
The idea behind making the rich pay their fair share in taxes, is that money does more economic good when it is spread around. Otherwise G.W.B.'s stimulus act would've just involved giving one lucky American a surprise $152 billion and calling it a day.
The companies just pass the cost along to consumers who are the ones paying this.
That's the point missed by most of the red-hat-wearing, "Build the wall! / Lock her up!" shouting crowd. Tariffs might not create/save any jobs, but it is with absolute certainty that tariffs will reduce the buying power of every dollar in your wallet.
I suppose they just don't teach this shit in schools anymore.
McSkillet actually did have the rug of success yanked out from under him. Statistically speaking, he wasn't likely to ever make that kind of money again. Losing the income you've grown accustomed to is well known to send some people over the edge, quite literally (see the great depression). It's not exactly the same thing as flipping out and shooting up the place because you lost a video game.
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Twitter is often not used as a simple social media platform, it's a publishing platform that enforces odd behaviour in terms of limited tweet sizes, threads of tweets, and so on.
Pretty much this. Twitter is a publishing platform for already famous people to stroke their egos by posting short quips of drivel, and every response is either circle-jerking over it or yelling into a void.
I don't think anyone doubts it has real applications, but there's a difference between that and it being a mass market everyone-must-have-it type thing.
It will never be a mass market thing, because the mass market is perfectly content to play inane freemium tap-and-wait games on their phones.
They are private companies and can do whatever they want. The question is whether that is the right thing to do, and whether it is good for our society to have more and more segregation of people with opposing viewpoints.
It really comes down to the sponsors not wanting their ads next to some neanderthal spouting off about how he hates $minority_group. YouTube used to have "almost anything goes, so long as it's not illegal" attitude right up until sponsors started freaking out.
As a liberal, you need to realize that you are LOSING the ideological debate. The right has been winning elections, and dominating nearly every branch of government. Much of this is because they try to convince their political opponents, while progressives try to silence theirs.
You don't even need to wait for an election to vote in the free market. Don't support the companies you disagree with, and if there isn't a competitor - start one. Surely there are enough like-minded individuals to support your venture. Unless what you're implying is the right is good at winning elections, but lousy at voting with their wallets.
In a corporatist system of healthcare... corporate denial is state denial.
And *poof*, just like that, your argument becomes leftist...
Your image is shit. That isn't free speech, that's speech controlled by a person/people who's sensibilities are offended.
You don't like the situation created by the free market and want the government to step in and level the playing field? If this was over healthcare rather than a perceived injustice against freedom of speech, this would magically become a "leftist" agenda.
It's snowflakes on both sides, and snowflakes all the way down...
Leftists have little use for free speech and will happily silence those with whom they disagree. As is happening here.
Wrong. Gab hasn't been silenced, they can still happily Gab away at whatever "thinly-veiled-racism masquerading as a nationalist agendas" trips their trigger. They may have to find another web host or plug their own server hardware into the internet, and accept cryptocurrency instead of PayPal.
When you start telling business they can't choose to act on their own morals, you might end up telling Christian bakers they've gotta bake that gay wedding cake, too. I've always said it must take a lot of cognitive dissonance to be an alt-righter.
If Paypal had any competitors, they could be used.
Gee, wouldn't it be great if someone had invented a decentralized means for transferring money online?
Then forums got banned, and they moved to different social media platforms.
Banned for breaking the rules, not for having a conservative political ideology. Mainstream social media platforms don't want people spewing hate speech on the company's dime. I've said it numerous times before, if bakers don't have to bake a gay wedding cake when it conflicts with their values, then Facebook/Twitter/etc. doesn't have to bake your KKK cake, either.
Instead of a growth in human enlightenment through a well-informed citizenry, we have echo chambers, manipulations, and centralized corporate platforms that are largely sewers collecting the worst humanity has to offer- but now distributed globally for free.
For as long as I can recall, Disney correctly predicted this outcome in their carousel of progress. Technology makes society better in some ways, and worse in others. Every once in awhile, you get a burned turkey...
The only difference between the greed of the "elites" you espouse so much hatred for and your own greed is that the elites put forth the effort to acquire more wealth, power, security, and so forth for their own benefit while you expect other people to put forth the same efforts for your personal benefit.
It's not hard to become disenchanted with capitalism when you're struggling to make ends meet in a dead-end job, and you see rich people making bank because they can afford to buy shitloads of ads to promote their trivial "inventions" on Kickstarter. Yeah, spending money to convince people to invest in your scam sure must be hard work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating throwing the baby out with the bathwater and switching to some other *-ism. Just pointing out that not everyone works equally hard for their wealth.
Face it, our biology did not develop over tens of thousands of years for sitting around most of the time.
You'd think this would be something they could fix with genetic engineering by looking at feline DNA. Cats are lazy as fuck and seem no worse for it.
Yeah, that makes total sense -- for a Trumper.
From my comment history, it should've been obvious I'm no fan of Trump. That doesn't mean I can't call out California when they do something stupid like classify coffee as a carcinogen, or want to secede from the union because waiting 4 years for the next presidential election is just too long, man.
One could argue that a warming and drier climate encouraged the development and spread of wildfires over a sustained period, but it's pretty odd to not even mention them as a major contributing factor for this season's bad air.
More likely, California has just been so busy spazzing out over Trump that they forgot to restock on these.
I bet they know everything about you, even your condom size.
Major retailers will probably find a way to do this even for the cash-carrying luddites, using facial recognition (utilizing the many security cameras already present). The privacy ship has sailed, may as well make the best of it.
Can anyone recommend an Android phone with a 4” (or thereabouts) screen?
Android phone manufacturers abandoned smaller phones with decent hardware specs ages ago. Apple just recently did it. I'm personally not a fan of gargantuan screens, either. My recommendation would be get an iPhone 8 and drive it until the wheels fall off. Hopefully by then, "small" might come back into style.
Smartphones are devices for consumers.
Oh, the old "I'm saving money using a dumbphone" argument. I assume you must never buy anything retail or dine out, right? My phone has likely paid for itself several times over in terms of looking up deals (slickdeals/retailmenot), comparison shopping/price matching while in a store, finding the cheapest gasoline (yeah, there's an app for that), and promotional freebies (I've gotten Amazon gift cards from Coke, free food from Chick-Fil-A, etc.)
Any person that pays $1000 for a phone, Apple or not, is bat shit crazy, or bat shit rich.
This meme (yes, millennials, I'm using the word correctly) goes around every time Apple releases a new phone. $1,000 is roughly about a year's worth of cable TV, or a pack-every-other-day cigarette habit, or a $4.25 Starbucks latte every weekday. In the grand scheme of things people spend money on, a new smartphone that you'll use for at least a year, is not really that expensive.
Apple's removal of the 1/8" headphone jack
...is because they bought a headphone company (Beats) and want to sell wireless headphones. That's it.
The music Apple sells hasn't had DRM for years, and nobody bothers "ripping" ("dubbing" would be the proper term) anything via analog, except for vinyl records. Back in ye olden days when iTunes music did have DRM, people removed the DRM using their computer (remember those things?) - not their phone.
That being said, Apple is no saint when it comes to DRM. I've had paid apps disappear from my purchase history because Apple pulled 'em, paid apps that died in the 32-bit purge, and I've read of people who've lost movies they'd purchased (I only buy Blu-Rays, so I haven't experienced that one).
Trump knows that the last thing China wants economically is for significant amounts of US manufacturing to leave China.
And China knows we have term limits on the presidency. In the end, it's the US consumers who will get screwed. As Yoda might say: Elections, consequences they have.
I thought we were all for consumption taxes instead of income taxes?
I thought we were all for understanding basic mathematics.
Lunch at a fast food joint costs $10. I have $30 in my wallet, while you have $15. In this example, the meal costs 66.6% of your money, while it only costs me 33.3% of my money. If the restaurant has to raise prices by $2 to recoup losses due to increased costs, you're now paying 80% of your money, an increase of 13.4%. I'm paying 40%, which only requires 6.7% more of my cash on-hand.
This is specifically why sales/consumption taxes are inherently unfair - because the amount of tax you pay, expressed as percentage of your income, is inversely proportional to the amount of your income.
Tariffs make our own domestic industries viable.
Except when "Made in the USA" means "assembling Chinese parts into a completed product". Example: Bob is a licensed solar installer. He employed American workers to install Chinese-made photovoltaic panels on American homes. Bob now has to raise prices or look for other areas (possibly laying off workers) to make up the increased costs of Trump's tariff. If Bob voted for Trump, Bob is an idiot.
If only Silicon Valley hadn't proved this by rampant political bias, censorship, and heavily penalizing conservative websites in search results
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware domain registrars weren't allowing right-leaning website to register their domains. Or, perhaps you're implying backbone providers are throttling/not delivering packets from right-leaning sites?
Oh right, this is the gay wedding cake argument, except now it's flipped around on conservatives who are mad that Google/Facebook/Twitter/Whatever won't always bake their cake. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Mostly they just want to spend money other people earned
The idea behind making the rich pay their fair share in taxes, is that money does more economic good when it is spread around. Otherwise G.W.B.'s stimulus act would've just involved giving one lucky American a surprise $152 billion and calling it a day.
The companies just pass the cost along to consumers who are the ones paying this.
That's the point missed by most of the red-hat-wearing, "Build the wall! / Lock her up!" shouting crowd. Tariffs might not create/save any jobs, but it is with absolute certainty that tariffs will reduce the buying power of every dollar in your wallet.
I suppose they just don't teach this shit in schools anymore.
Good call Mr AC - just like McSkillet.
McSkillet actually did have the rug of success yanked out from under him. Statistically speaking, he wasn't likely to ever make that kind of money again. Losing the income you've grown accustomed to is well known to send some people over the edge, quite literally (see the great depression). It's not exactly the same thing as flipping out and shooting up the place because you lost a video game.