Merkel is letting her mask slip, revealing herself as a traditional East German. Letting people have actual cars (as opposed to glorified golfcarts) is verboten unless one is a member of the nomenklatura.
This kind of stuff belongs to the GDR era, not the modern day.
Unless you're a far-removed economist, trying to justify it against the technically capable subset of the workforce (much smaller than even the 170m) is a stretch.
A good start would be to clean out the Abuse/Truth & Safety departments and close them down. Fire them with prejudice to ensure that they cannot return.
Then make sure that anyone ever brought in for an Abuse Department role cannot use it for an ideological purpose. If they do, send them packing.
As an additional measure, purge blocklists and then remove API support for blocking. Then remove the blocking feature entirely.
If any complaints are received or threats are made for such actions, do nothing that results in appeasement (while doing everything to speed up implementation).
Every time that someone has appeased these social justice warriors, they lost money or profits. On the other hand, ignoring them (and selling the product) has been more profitable.
Consider these people to be the kind of customers that Amazon does not want and should gladly let go.
Instead of bothering with UFO's, why not deal with things like: * What was being discussed between Clinton and Goldman Sachs? * What role did her husband have with supporting a known rapist on a certain Caribbean island? * What is the truth in the matters of oddly convenient "suicides" like Vince Foster? * What is the truth in the matters of Benghazi, given that they wanted the Ambassador dead?
If moderators misuse their privileges, that will be problematic.
They already do misuse it, and ask for more when there's some edge case where the user has some advantage.
But they could already do this by banning people normally, so it's really no different.
The trouble is that it can be stacked with modmail mutes. It creates a wall between users and powermods.
[hurr durr, private site excuse]
That doesn't affect the validity of my statements thus far, and is generally a weak cop-out. Besides, Reddit was known for being the user-driven alternative to an authoritarian Digg; we now see them acting like the very Digg that drove people to Reddit.
Reddit would do well if someone bought it up, purged the powermods, SOCJUS, narrative control tools, and other components that have negatively affected the site.
Unless it helps us and actively seeks out the productive redeployment of the displaced, just kill it.
Since AI is being used against humans (due to its job destruction speed being faster than any same-level human creation speed), there is no place for it in this day and age.
Reddit has gone above and beyond the dreams of Digg's efforts. Not only does Reddit get to do the purges, they didn't have to remove the comments.
If anything, Digg's only mistake was that they launched too early. Had they still existed in their pre-4.0 form, they'd have faithfully followed Nick Denton's "Kassie Washington" request for vengeance - just like about every major forum (Reddit, Fark, various gaming forums) did in 2012-2014+.
First of all, given their pandering to the SJW-cause-du-jour, they seem to be going downhill. Instead of trying to dig a deeper hole by alienating everyone not SOCJUS, how about they purge the SJW's?
Second, what says they will extend it to the lower-tier individuals known as contractors? That's how you end up giving a lesser set of benefits while being able to make these claims. Besides, when have they been given similarly generous benefits, much less
Between their licensing violations, classification abuse of contract workers, and their screwiness with pricing, it would be quite good to see the courts turn Uber to (a litigious equivalent of) a smoking crater.
Get rid of those three issues, and you would have a company that isn't sued for its Shkreli-like existence.
Slashdot Mirror
Put regular gas in it and see what happens to those graphs. Then put the same fuel in the non-turbo V6. Notice the difference.
(Hint: Ford can't abstract away all the problems of a turbocharger)
Just get the I4+Turbo and you'll get a fake V6 sound. Not perfect, but that's what's here today.
Merkel is letting her mask slip, revealing herself as a traditional East German. Letting people have actual cars (as opposed to glorified golfcarts) is verboten unless one is a member of the nomenklatura.
This kind of stuff belongs to the GDR era, not the modern day.
Your blind faith will not serve you well.
Such a path would only serve to destroy the developed world.
Only if they're able to afford what is available
Unless you're a far-removed economist, trying to justify it against the technically capable subset of the workforce (much smaller than even the 170m) is a stretch.
Trying to sneak it through in smaller bites doesn't help.
Unlike The Guardian, Slashdot doesn't answer to political grievance groups (and has only removed one thing for Scientology).
I'm not sure that this is debate as much as it is a justification.
A good start would be to clean out the Abuse/Truth & Safety departments and close them down. Fire them with prejudice to ensure that they cannot return.
Then make sure that anyone ever brought in for an Abuse Department role cannot use it for an ideological purpose. If they do, send them packing.
As an additional measure, purge blocklists and then remove API support for blocking. Then remove the blocking feature entirely.
If any complaints are received or threats are made for such actions, do nothing that results in appeasement (while doing everything to speed up implementation).
Every time that someone has appeased these social justice warriors, they lost money or profits. On the other hand, ignoring them (and selling the product) has been more profitable.
Consider these people to be the kind of customers that Amazon does not want and should gladly let go.
In saner states, that would be doable. The firearm-disarming legislature all but precludes that from (legally) happening there.
Doesn't seem to stop criminals though.
John Podesta, who was also a chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and CEO of an organization implicated by the Panama Papers.
UFO's are just a distraction compared to recent events.
Instead of bothering with UFO's, why not deal with things like:
* What was being discussed between Clinton and Goldman Sachs?
* What role did her husband have with supporting a known rapist on a certain Caribbean island?
* What is the truth in the matters of oddly convenient "suicides" like Vince Foster?
* What is the truth in the matters of Benghazi, given that they wanted the Ambassador dead?
If moderators misuse their privileges, that will be problematic.
They already do misuse it, and ask for more when there's some edge case where the user has some advantage.
But they could already do this by banning people normally, so it's really no different.
The trouble is that it can be stacked with modmail mutes. It creates a wall between users and powermods.
[hurr durr, private site excuse]
That doesn't affect the validity of my statements thus far, and is generally a weak cop-out. Besides, Reddit was known for being the user-driven alternative to an authoritarian Digg; we now see them acting like the very Digg that drove people to Reddit.
Reddit would do well if someone bought it up, purged the powermods, SOCJUS, narrative control tools, and other components that have negatively affected the site.
Unless it helps us and actively seeks out the productive redeployment of the displaced, just kill it.
Since AI is being used against humans (due to its job destruction speed being faster than any same-level human creation speed), there is no place for it in this day and age.
Reddit has gone above and beyond the dreams of Digg's efforts. Not only does Reddit get to do the purges, they didn't have to remove the comments.
If anything, Digg's only mistake was that they launched too early. Had they still existed in their pre-4.0 form, they'd have faithfully followed Nick Denton's "Kassie Washington" request for vengeance - just like about every major forum (Reddit, Fark, various gaming forums) did in 2012-2014+.
It's not about the users, it's about the appeasing the leftists in the name of "civility". Modbombing doesn't change that a bit =)
Let the alt-creation begin!
Time to move it to somewhere Blizzard can't sue.
It incentivizes people to only hear what they want to hear, from sources approved to hear.
Never mind that it will be used by powermods to silence users.
It's not about the users, it's about appeasing the leftists that want "safe spaces" in the name of "civility".
Let the alt-creation begin!
If they can't see what's to be killed, then it will be a lot easier to have it advance.
First of all, given their pandering to the SJW-cause-du-jour, they seem to be going downhill. Instead of trying to dig a deeper hole by alienating everyone not SOCJUS, how about they purge the SJW's?
Second, what says they will extend it to the lower-tier individuals known as contractors? That's how you end up giving a lesser set of benefits while being able to make these claims. Besides, when have they been given similarly generous benefits, much less
They're just another money-grab promoted under the name of "decency" and "fairness".
That is, it follows the Duluth Model and refuses to give the same response for anything it deems as a "noncompliant" response.
Between their licensing violations, classification abuse of contract workers, and their screwiness with pricing, it would be quite good to see the courts turn Uber to (a litigious equivalent of) a smoking crater.
Get rid of those three issues, and you would have a company that isn't sued for its Shkreli-like existence.
Remember how they told us that there would be no IT jobs left in the US because everything can be done so much cheaper in India?
Yet the entry to that line of work has been negatively impacted by (fraud-based) offshoring. They're right, you're wrong.
For the case of burger flipping, that means the entry to *any* kind of work is negatively impacted by HR-demanded robotics.