441–450 of 484 posts
I am done. No more Instagram for me. I am hoping someone will bootstrap a replacement that basically replicates Instagram from two years ago.
The key point here is that TikTok is now beating all the US social networks. This may be the beginning of the end for what Silicon Valley calls "tech", but is just ads with social content. Peak Facebook was in Q2 2021.[1] Instagram is losing to TikTok. (If you think the "metaverse" is going to be important in the social space, check out what's happening in China in that area. While the US has been distracted by the N…
> Instagram is losing to TikTok. Is KitchenAid losing to Tesla? Is BNSF losing to PepsiCo? These statements are only valid if you think the two things should be comparable. The backlash is because people want them to be separate, and to serve separate purposes. The people at Facebook controlling Instagram are making this comparison, but to me (and probably many other people), this is more akin to KitchenAid building…
I don't understand why Facebook just cannot accept that different apps have different use cases for different people. They're already one of the biggest tech companies in the whole world. Why is that not enough? Is it greed?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I haven’t met an European who consider the US an ally, What hyperbole. There are plenty, myself included. Don't confuse criticism of the US with us not being an ally. > the energy crisis we’re going through thanks to US ??? The finger is clearly pointed at Putin and Germany's naivity over the past 10 years for this mess we are in. I'd be curious to read a European publication that even suggests this is due to the U…
currently in the US, Fox is blaming Biden. That might be enough for some, esp any Russian apologists.
I miss Trump so much, like he was a issue for US , but the rest of the world just could have a laugh and live in peace
It was Obama that started poking Putin saying that he was at the end of a medium power, and it is Biden that is giving all the weapons asked to Ukraine without even asking for a way to de-escalate and find a compromise, it is Biden that is letting Ukrainian lose territory and life just for weakening Russia for US interests
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>most of modern wesern democracies is a pathetic and transparent sham that is trampled at the earliest encounter with any real established power I agree with this on a knee-jerk, but it still seems to me 'the west' is different from China, Russia, etc. Why do I feel that, what's the source?
Very concisely: The Media. Every election in a western nation is a huge circus, every referendum a secular holy day. Every elected official speaks of "the people", that mythical monolith who has a True Will that votes supposedly represent. It's a massive dose of ego-stroking deference, it can be hard to see all this and not think you're in some kind of control, after all, you're a voter, and those people speak very r…
But... Do not forget about positive aspects of personal freedoms, individual rights, etc.
Btw, what is a perfect system for you?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
currently in the US, Fox is blaming Biden. That might be enough for some, esp any Russian apologists.
For the whole of Trump administration, he was really good at making peace when things where going south, he never said that he would protect for example Taiwan directly in case of attack of China. I miss Trump so much, like he was a issue for US , but the rest of the world just could have a laugh and live in peace It was Obama that started poking Putin saying that he was at the end of a medium power, and it is Biden…
As a personal example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was obvious back in 2014 (read accidental superpower). As is the eventual annexation of Taiwan. Both are not the kinds of actions I like to see in the world and support efforts to reduce the occurance of those actions. European nations are aiding Ukraine as well, this not a unilateral US action.
I also don't support prolonged invasion of Afghanistan by the US, just in case you're wondering.
Instagram's biggest failing in trying to copy Tiktok is their feed algorithm. Tiktok has nailed the delightful "stumble upon" effect of getting users of all ages to keep going to the next and the next video. I don't mind how each new piece of content is paged because the content is better for the format and it doesn't feel clunky when I do want to skip to the next one. Instagram couldn't switch their algorithm becaus…
> Tiktok has nailed the delightful "stumble upon" effect Am I the only one who hates this usage of the word "delightful"? I think of delightful as nearly a synonym to the word "serendipitous", in that there's a rare joy to it -- difference between those two words that serendipitous is unexpected while delightful could be expected. I associate this with events like running into close friends or family, or just having…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the whole of Trump administration, he was really good at making peace when things where going south, he never said that he would protect for example Taiwan directly in case of attack of China. I miss Trump so much, like he was a issue for US , but the rest of the world just could have a laugh and live in peace It was Obama that started poking Putin saying that he was at the end of a medium power, and it is Biden…
Threatening withdrawal from NATO, withholding Ukrainian defense aid, and not promising to defend Taiwan are not positive features for many in the USA. As a personal example, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was obvious back in 2014 (read accidental superpower). As is the eventual annexation of Taiwan. Both are not the kinds of actions I like to see in the world and support efforts to reduce the occurance of those acti…
Correct, in the USA, It it NONE of the world problem, like in EU we have done business with Russia for decades without issues, we got gas, companies got energy and everyone was happy, except US, of course Europeans are also supporting it (politicians) but they are doing it without going through people, they didn't campaign for it, and if everything goes well, they will see the effect of their loyalty to US interest at next elections
I just wanted to say that USA interest are likely to match the interest of EU, but it is not always, EU interests were more likely to keep making business with Russia in peace
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Reddit also kind of replaced it. Back then, Reddit was more of a social bookmarking site like del.ic.ious but with expanded community features. You would go to the front page, and see a pretty similar selection of links to what you would get smashing the Stumble button that day, only it's been curated and sorted by the community through the karma system. Each link also came with a very well designed comment s…
reddit was never social bookmarking.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not a failure of culture, it's Capitalism.
> not a failure of culture, it's Capitalism Plenty of capitalists are happy running businesses at steady state. Some, even to wind down. (We tend to have nasty names for the latter.) Growth at all costs is not a problem with our commercial culture at large nor with capitalism. It’s a convenient bogeyman for when we want to punt on a problem.
There are plenty of business owners who are happy to run at steady state---sole proprietors and family businesses, for example. These kinds of businesses can exist without capital per se, they can be financed with debt. But for businesses with investors, which is to say businesses backed by capital with the expectation that there will be a substantial return on the investment, growth is imperative.
So no, I don't believe there are plenty of capitalists happy to run a business at steady state, because one of the requirements of a capital investment is that the value of the investment grows, and the more rapidly, the better. A business owner may philosophically believe in capitalism, but that does not make them a capitalist in the active sense.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that bad as Chinese investments in European universities. Shaping education by foreigners that not accept democratic principles is far more dangerous. Sure, we can speak about political correctness from West in campuses, but that has no future by definition. However... Both trends has similar goal to steal freedom from citizens.
>Sure, we can speak about political correctness from West in campuses, but that has no future by definition. Why ? political correctness in progressive-dominated spcaces like western uni campuses goes back to the 70s/80s. I was browsing Ted Kaczynski's (better known as the UnaBomber) Industrial Society and Its Future[1], and he spoke about political correctness as an established thing. A 40-year phenomenon seems like…
Because ideology is wrong.
>..because most of modern wesern democracies is a pathetic and transparent sham...
I wouldn't argue with that, but advantage of free society is that you, as individual, can do something about it. In totalitarian state your attempts to change something that is against state ideology would be suppressed. If we, in democratic states, let others people do nasty things, than it is only because we let them to do it. Is it laziness? Is it lack of responsibility? Or maybe that image that media told us every day... "Don't stick your nose here and there, you wouldn't be able to change anything anyway. Stay scared."