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- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
I’m a lot more ok with many people having non internet connected dashcams than one corporation having continuous access to a giant network of cameras
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this greentext mocking Linux users?
Yes
Am I not understanding and the author’s perspective is actually that they like Linux but feel ostracized?
Probably, how else would they accurately identify specific limitations with it that someone who doesn’t use it would probably gloss over? It’s some combination of self loathing and playing on the insecurities of the reader to bait a response.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
The joke is that Anon is a very irresistibly punchable sort of person and so of course they would be a victim of violence. A common theme in greentexts is projected anxiety about peer rejection for not conforming.
- Comment on United Nations or something idk 2 weeks ago:
Make this person president
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 2 weeks ago:
I feel like reading statutes is unreliable because a lot of how the law works is how courts interpret the law, which can be very different from the commonsense interpretation of the letter of the law. Lacking broader context, I can’t know from just this exactly what the consequences might be. Here’s some parts that are possibly concerning though:
The Commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by carriers subject to this chapter, including the accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic
Not sure if this increases the ability of the government to spy on people through their ISPs or if that remains the same.
(a) Requirement to restrict access (1) Prohibited conduct Whoever knowingly and with knowledge of the character of the material, in interstate or foreign commerce by means of the World Wide Web, makes any communication for commercial purposes that is available to any minor and that includes any material that is harmful to minors shall be fined not more than $50,000, imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.
Some states have been experimenting with broad bans on online porn sites and requiring those sites and also social media sites to demand id from all users, maybe this provision could give a future FCC the power to apply this sort of thing to the internet nationally? Although this section already explicitly mentions the internet which is confusing if this whole thing is only recently being made relevant to the internet.
There are provisions about the FCC being able to come up with rules for the prevention of robocalls, maybe this could be generalized to prohibit some forms of automated network traffic?
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
It’s worth mentioning that obscenity laws apply whether Net Neutrality is a thing or not
Couldn’t this reclassification affect that sort of thing in a jurisdiction sense though? Again, I like net neutrality, mostly because the idea of something like the standard internet option being Facebook only is terrifying, but it sounds like a big part of this is reclassifying ISPs to be subject to rules made by the FCC. I’d really rather it be a law passed by congress, and I worry about how federal agencies might abuse their powers over the internet when those powers are expanded in general. I’m not really sure how much it generally expands their authority over the internet, but it seems like it might.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
I think net neutrality is a good thing, but could this reclassification mean that the FCC will have increased authority to police content online? There has been a lot of worrying activity around that lately in general, and the FCC has a history of imposing censorship on traditional media.
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
That should depend on how the chemicals accumulate though. If all the plastic ends up in your blood and never gets naturally filtered out, it could make sense. Maybe it builds up in your fat/muscles instead though, or gets filtered over time and the amount in your system is the same as the amount in what you have recently eaten, idk
- Comment on Dr 4Chan's Medical Advice 1 month ago:
Why would you use a leech instead of a needle or something? What are they for
- Comment on Anon goes bouldering 1 month ago:
How do you forget to wear socks and not realize? Putting shoes on without socks feels dramatically different.
- Comment on Opinion | Why Has Obamacare Worked? 1 month ago:
Obamacare passed right as I was becoming an adult and living on my own, and if not for that I think I basically just wouldn’t have had health insurance, and would have had to be making life decisions very differently, so I’m grateful for it even if some kind of universal healthcare system would be much better.
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
Don’t worry about it, on an unrelated note here is a gift of a bulky alarm clock counting down to zero with many wires
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
I would play No One Has Heard Of Bombs, sounds like an interesting game
- Comment on This is at Jorvik Viking Center. 1 month ago:
I need more context regarding the poop viking’s illness
- Comment on Does this mean my premiums will go up? 1 month ago:
I think this is an “attention check” question
- Comment on What would happen if all of humanity don't need to work any more ? 1 month ago:
Let’s be realistic, if humans continue to exist we’re going to be raised and educated in AI powered pods
- Comment on The return of Gamergate is smaller and sadder 1 month ago:
Think about it this way - those 248k people who respond to seeing an article accusing a group of racism with “sign me up”, are not the same people being accused to begin with.
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 1 month ago:
I get what she’s saying but I also think that a conversational format is in a lot of ways superior for communicating information. When something isn’t explained initially, someone asks about it and then an answer to that question is provided, something about that is often just easier to read and absorb than having a longer and more comprehensive initial explanation IMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
would see a rise in rent as the market of people looking to buy nicer places increases quickly
I think it would rise some, but not enough to absorb the whole UBI, because not everyone is looking to throw all of their money at living in the most fancy place they can, most people I think would prefer to do something else with most of their money. To me at least ‘niceness’ doesn’t matter that much if the living space is functional.
but actually increasing the housing stock in desirable areas takes some time
Also takes political will to overcome protectionist policies preventing new construction and preventing denser housing. My ideal combination of policies would be UBI plus reforms and subsidies to increase the housing supply and intentionally crash the housing market by doing so. As for direct price controls, I don’t think the economy works in a way that it could ever be effective beyond the very short term and a majority of economists tend to agree.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, because having money is power. The more money you have, the more leverage you have, in general. This argument comes up a lot and I think it’s mostly coming from a widespread attitude of learned helplessness about money. Especially a UBI that is funded by some form of redistribution would mean a lasting shift in wealth inequality that could not be undone just because some businesses would like it to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“In the absence of knowledge about competitors’ pricing strategies, property managers can only make their best educated guesses and set their prices at optimal positions, usually a bit lower than what offered by competitors—to attract renters in the market,” the lawsuit argues.
The complaint quotes Yardi marketing materials that say landlords who use the service “beat the market by a minimum of 2%” and “gain on average more than 6% net rental income.”
This is a problem, but the claim made in the lawsuit is pretty far from saying that the market might as well not exist and this company is able to arbitrarily choose prices, they’re talking about a slight edge gained by shared information.
- Comment on Public trust 2 months ago:
that initial “don’t use surgical masks” statement was because hospitals were already facing shortages, and a rush on the supply would have caused massive widespread longstanding shortages. Basically, the hospitals needed disposable masks, so the CDC told people not to use disposable masks.
That makes it worse that they said/implied masks won’t protect you, not better. If CDC public health statements are driven by an intention to manipulate public behavior rather than the best available info about what is true, that means that those statements are unreliable and can’t be trusted, regardless of the good they are hoping to do by trading their long term credibility for temporarily adjusting people’s behavior.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 2 months ago:
That frozen broccoli is pretty good and useful, great choice
- Comment on Local secondhand site won’t load if you use a VPN 2 months ago:
setting up a trusted, cheap VPS or something as your VPN exit point
I think this would likely have the same problem since they are probably checking whether the traffic is coming from a datacenter vs a residential connection
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
I feel like it might be better to think about whether your specific words and actions are manipulative than whether you’re a psychopath or what your identity is in general. Is that person justified in feeling gaslit? Are you in fact manipulating people or not? That’s a question that can be looked at more objectively.
- Comment on elephants 3 months ago:
Especially that one which looks like it’s in Musth
- Comment on Anon learns to love the bath bomb 3 months ago:
Well apparently that assumption is wrong
- Comment on Anon learns to love the bath bomb 3 months ago:
Maybe idk. It reminds me of the whole recent defederation drama partly caused by a false assumption that pronoun tags would be visible to everyone. If you don’t know what other people are seeing, that’s a big source of misunderstandings.
- Comment on Anon learns to love the bath bomb 3 months ago:
Word filters are fun but if everyone has a different filter that seems like it would get ridiculous real fast
- Comment on How does a SO feel different from a very good friend? 3 months ago:
Why are those things necessarily unhealthy? I phrased it in a negative way to emphasize that love can be unhealthy, but having a shared life/identity, being devoted to a person beyond rationality, if these things aren’t present I’m not sure how it would qualify as love at all.