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It is very simple, most regular people don't read random blogs, however they do watch Superbowl. This is to be studied by geeks, how to approach non-technical audiences.
Here we have a problem: Hollywood tropes. Shows like The Big Bang Theory aka "Blackface for Nerds" make it nearly impossible to even talk to normals without sounding like Sheldon F. Cooper.
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Reddit is filled with very vocal terminally online people. Their views and actions are not representative of normal human beings.
Its top 100 or so subreddits are moderated by the same ~10 or so individuals who impose their ideological views on the subs and delete posts or ban anyone who dares challenge them. A great example of how community moderation inevitably slides a platform to one side or the other of the political spectrum. I honestly don't think mods on reddit should be allowed to moderate more than 1 or 2 of these top sub-reddits, thi…
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Is this really political? While the right “Backs the Blue” (and ICE), they are just as concerned about the surveillance state as the left. Their threat model is just different as far as why. The right never trusted federal law enforcement.
It was interesting to watch liberal progressives learn in real time that federal agents are allowed to just murder people. Right wing conspiracy theorists have known this since Ruby Ridge.
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I'd agree on /r/FlockSurveillance/ specifically, but if Reddit itself does not qualify as "mainstream", then what does? Just FANG?
Reddit is filled with very vocal terminally online people. Their views and actions are not representative of normal human beings.
Reddit went mainstream many years ago, hence the marketing dollars spent there on astroturfing, and brands acquiring pet moderators. The posters/commenters/readers follow power-laws like any online/offline community.
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> No. In Poland it's legal to record everything, only when you publish the recordings you need the recorded people to agree. Interesting. Thanks for this perspective. But for the sake of this debate it's still more or less the same situation. > The core issue is that "nothing to hide nothing to fear" argument is correct as long as the government is trustworthy. The government and everyone else who might have access t…
> (this is equivalent to speed cameras when the induction loop in the ground says that a car passed faster than the speed limit) This isn't how many speed cameras work in Europe. They work by having a speed camera at location Y on the highway that snaps a photo of your car/license plate read, and then another one 5km down the road that also snaps such a photo and plate read. If you average more than the speed limit i…
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Is this really political? While the right “Backs the Blue” (and ICE), they are just as concerned about the surveillance state as the left. Their threat model is just different as far as why. The right never trusted federal law enforcement.
It was interesting to watch liberal progressives learn in real time that federal agents are allowed to just murder people. Right wing conspiracy theorists have known this since Ruby Ridge.
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Could you analyse AB InBev's stock performance in that period? Because it doesn't look bad to me. [1] It looks like it was $65 before the boycott in April 2023, falling to $55 a couple of months later. But it was back up to $65 by the end of the year. It sits at $80 today. If I hadn't told you the date of the boycott, would you have been able to spot it on this chart? [1] - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock…
On the contrary. It appears that Bud Light sales continued to fall. https://sherwood.news/business/beer-bud-light-market-share-b... Budweiser stock did recover, but they haven't (afaik) repeated the behavior that got them boycotted in the first place. It appears that this boycott achieved exactly what was sought. I'd agree that this is a rare exception, and that boycotts are almost never successful. But this really i…
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I understand what you mean, but he’s still saying it and he never stopped.
Lots of people are saying some of those things now, but Stallman was saying them decades ago. It's not differentiating or meaningful to say "A is right" if B-E are saying the same thing at the same time.
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>The power of a few seconds of video is why TikTok had to be brought under control Didn't USA's current regime take over TikTok in order to use it for propaganda? Twitter-X was used so successfully that they're expanding their psyops.
Well we took it from a communist, anti-American regime executing their psyop and made it our own. Either way just stop using it and nobody gets to psyop you. It’s very straightforward.
China didn't seem to be doing much with it, as far as the West goes. Not sure if they were using it against their citizens though? Much safer to have it Chinese controlled for me, it seems.
You suggesting that China was "anti American" sounds crazy to me. They were surely your biggest trading partner? Like, I hate all those guys so much that we're going to make everything they want at whatever price they want to pay ...? In the past it might have been possible to argue they were anti-American in their politics; like opposing democracy, or rounding up nationals, ... but USA does as badly (worse?) on those things.
What it looks like is China was 'winning' the trade balance and USA's billionaires decided to take a break from raping teenagers to throw all the citizens on the fire to try and leverage their position to bring in fascism as a means to enriching themselves even further. Go USA, eh.
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I'd agree on /r/FlockSurveillance/ specifically, but if Reddit itself does not qualify as "mainstream", then what does? Just FANG?
Reddit is filled with very vocal terminally online people. Their views and actions are not representative of normal human beings.