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Post by mikestaub »

blacklight wrote: post #387

I would love Elon Musk to stay. So he can accomplish his mission of destroying Twitter for good, take down BlueSky and all the associated crypto crapware with it, and take down his own other businesses in the process. Two birds with one stone: 1. The whole idea of social media owned by large private companies that make money out of ads and surveillance will get a big hit, and open ActivityPub-based social media can f…

What is the "crypto crapware" specifically you are referring to in the BlueSky project? There is no blockchain or token associated, though they are using DIDs to sign each post as well as standard asymmetric key encryption with the browsers WebCrypto API. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/main/packages...

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Post by bb88 »

trashtester wrote: post #657
bb88 wrote: post #266

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Is it the fact they don't want anyone to question their belief system? Because that's what I see. When they are questioned, they martyrize themselves to spark more outrage. (I'm a victim of the woke left!) And then use that as a crutch to deflect further criticism or questions. If it wasn't Hunter Biden's Laptop, it would be something else, e.g. Pizzagate, Voting Machines, Mail-in Balloting, Fake school shootings, et…

The hard right, and their conspiracy theories about Pizzagate, Voting Machines, Mail-in Balloting and Fake school shootings are crazy and disgraceful, in my opinion. And I lost any respect I might have had for Trump after the aftermath of the 2020 election. But I'm equally disapproving of the left in their handling of the 2016 election and its aftermath, and the way they represented it as "stolen", as well as their n…

> That way, one can hope, it may be possible to separate facts from matters of opinion from outrights falsehoods.

Jan. 6th was a based on a series of falsehoods. Fox News and several Republican politicians claimed it was a antifa "False Flag" operation the night after it happened.

Fox News downplayed much of the Trump scandals in his presidency. So now turnabout is fair play I guess with the coverage of whatever's on Hunter Biden's laptop? The entire narrative is clouded by Giuliani and company apparently tampering with the data that made it to the NY Post.

> .. and quite possibly civil war.

So we need to restore Trump to the presidency, suspend the constitution, or whatever the right wing demands or there will be violence? Why can't it be just as simple Fox News, Alex Jones, OANN, and Newsmax agreeing to no longer manufacture outrage for ratings?

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Post by rnk »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #701
rnk wrote: post #630

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So dems would not have come out to vote if Biden's drug addicted son has naked pics of himself on his laptop? I don't see that changing things.

They did, or they wouldn't have spent so much time hiding it.

Or maybe your view of the impact should be revisited.

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Post by LawTalkingGuy »

rnk wrote: post #713
LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #701

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They did, or they wouldn't have spent so much time hiding it.

Or maybe your view of the impact should be revisited.

The democrats obviously believed the story would be impactful or they wouldn't have spent time blocking it.

This isn't a partisan viewpoint. I'm not in the USA or attached to either party.

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Post by themitigating »

alvah wrote: post #566
xcrunner529 wrote: post #553

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Because they took down dick pics? I assume you’re very mad at Russia too?

Yeah dick pics are definitely all that was happening with the Hunter Biden / NY Post saga. Would you like to buy this bridge I have for sale?

Do you have any evidence or is this like the widespread election fraud lies?

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Post by alvah »

themitigating wrote: post #715
alvah wrote: post #566

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Yeah dick pics are definitely all that was happening with the Hunter Biden / NY Post saga. Would you like to buy this bridge I have for sale?

Do you have any evidence or is this like the widespread election fraud lies?

Do I have any evidence? What, are you a policeman? If you truly believe it was just about dick pics, let’s sort out a price for that bridge.

NFI why you’re on about election fraud, you’ll have to show me where I made any claims about that.

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Post by xcrunner529 »

alvah wrote: post #716
themitigating wrote: post #715

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Do you have any evidence or is this like the widespread election fraud lies?

Do I have any evidence? What, are you a policeman? If you truly believe it was just about dick pics, let’s sort out a price for that bridge. NFI why you’re on about election fraud, you’ll have to show me where I made any claims about that.

I’ve found anyone that uses the “bridge to sell you” line doesn’t have any actual evidence for what they believe except it “feels right”.

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Post by xcrunner529 »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #702
xcrunner529 wrote: post #553

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Because they took down dick pics? I assume you’re very mad at Russia too?

They conspired to hide a leak that they thought would tip the election. Not that the leak was only dick pics, but if dick pics were enough to tip the election wouldn't that still be a valid expression of voter will? > I assume you’re very mad at Russia too? But, but, whatabout the other guys! No, because I don't have a reason to trust Putin or the Russians, and neither do US citizens. But they do have a reason, and a…

The “twitter files” links has the Biden campaign reporting dick pics. We can actually view the links mentioned via the Internet Archive. Oops.

And no they don’t have a right for something illegal (revenge porn, unconcent) and the company certainly has their own right to censor how they want and choose who they listen to.

The Russian thing was about the actual facts about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election and if you were crowing about that influence too.

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Post by roflyear »

bowsamic wrote: post #606
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #541

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Lex‘s subreddit (where he is a mod) is also famous for removing any posts that don’t enthusiastically agree with Lex. A lot of confused Lex fans are surprised to find themselves banned from his subreddit after making the mistake of questioning something he said. Podcast skills aside, this is not a guy with a track record of healthy social media engagement or moderation.

He hasn’t got podcast skills, just famous names. His questions are always extremely basic and naive

It's true. I'm a fan of his podcast and I can admit he's an awful interviewer. Fortunately he somehow gets interesting guests.

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Post by acjohnson55 »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #609
acjohnson55 wrote: post #582

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He could hardly do a better job if he tried. Which kind of makes me wonder, is he trying?

No. Stop 5d-chessing these people.

I operate under the assumption that most people are neither super geniuses nor dumbasses. Rather, if you shared their context, values, and goals, their decisions would be understandable, even if not agreeable. This isn't always the right framing, but I think it's a very useful default model.

The one thing I almost always discount is 5d chess.

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