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Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by 47282847 »

tourmalinetaco wrote: post #152
CptFribble wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. adding on to this, typically it takes 1-3 years for the effects of an administration to really bear fruit in the economy, either good or ill. So a common tactic from the R side the last several presidential cycles is to claim ownership of the economy handed to them by the outgoing D president, th…

If it takes 2-3 years, then that means that the economic growth we experienced in ~2021 is Trump’s 2017/19 policies, and the economic downturn we’re receiving in 2024 is due to Biden’s 2021/23 policies. Also, Dems do literally the exact same things.

I highly doubt any but the most crude policy changes would demonstrate within 5 years how they were to play out in the longer term. The idea of that seems almost as insane as US politics.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by astrange »

Teever wrote: post #155
astrange wrote: post #89

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I think your life is better off if you don't know what that means, so feel free not to look it up.

I'm pretty sure that they're aware of the concept but not the term CSAM. CSAM is just the latest iteration of the term we use for the concept due to the euphemism treadmill. https://youtu.be/hSp8IyaKCs0?si=l5BbV39-rxC4UY8t

I mean, if you expand the acronym it isn't euphemistic at all!

I think it's actually a little too specific. It's trying to exclude "innocent" things like selfies or "simulated" things like drawings, but those are just as illegal in some or all countries.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by akurtzhs »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #123
squigz wrote: post #115

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And at the price of anonymity, and making the platform inaccessible to those who can't afford the signup fee (which will certainly stay 1 USD per year forever, right?) (inb4 someone tells me how everyone can afford $1) Not to mention that this won't solve the spam that actually matters. What's dropping a few thousand dollars to a dedicated attacker?

no, $1, one time. Despite the owner, this was one thing SomethingAwful seemed to do right over 20 years ago. The goal isn't to make money, but discourage botting. any paywall works and $1 is about as low as you can go in a digital transaction without credit card brokers making it difficult for you. And yes, it really shouldn't go up. SomethingAwful was 10bux back in 2005, and is still 10bux in 2025 (they monetized ot…

Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

astrange wrote: post #134
tourmalinetaco wrote: post #132

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The reason people want change is not because they are “irrational” or “fearful”, it is because the people in power have demonstrated their inability to lead in every capacity. In Germany the government has literally collapsed due to the former coalition’s ineptitude. Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. In England innocents are being murdered and the governm…

> Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. No, it's about the same as 2019: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010 In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019. One thing you can say that may be…

> No, it's about the same as 2019:

Thank you for for the source, this helps my point perfectly. If household income is only just reaching 2019 levels, but food has gone between 100-200% up in price[0], then that means the effective buying power has been cut in half if not more (depending on the good).

> Inflation is over and done with.

No, it’s not. It returned to a more normal level, but the effects don’t just magically disappear.

> We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019

Fixed is pulling a lot of weight there. The lowest 10% of earners had wages that returned to pre-pandemic levels faster than those who make more, a lot of which were solely HS grads, and have increased proportionally higher. This does not in any way mean income equality is “fixed”, it’s still obviously there. Additionally, this coincides with your first link that wages for 90% of the population aren’t what they used to be, and those within the 10th percentile are hit the hardest by food prices anyway. Also “economic indicators” don’t matter until either food prices go down or wages meet inflation. As they say, everyone anxiously hopes for bread and circuses.

> One thing you can say that may be true is that voters are upset because they remember inflation from 2021-22 and are still reacting to it. Or that they don't like high interest rates. And housing prices are bad in blue states and that is the local governments' fault.

They’re going to react to it as long as it’s still affecting them, obviously. No one likes high interest rates. And that’s part of a handful of reasons there’s been more movement out of blue states.

> But one thing we see from US voters is that R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. So I think you should consider those people are lying.

This is just hypocritical. So the people you disagree with are liars because they disagree with you? While you’re claiming the economy is great under a Dem, and downplaying one of the most significant bouts of inflation in living memory?

[0] - https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by Teever »

astrange wrote: post #162
Teever wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure that they're aware of the concept but not the term CSAM. CSAM is just the latest iteration of the term we use for the concept due to the euphemism treadmill. https://youtu.be/hSp8IyaKCs0?si=l5BbV39-rxC4UY8t

I mean, if you expand the acronym it isn't euphemistic at all! I think it's actually a little too specific. It's trying to exclude "innocent" things like selfies or "simulated" things like drawings, but those are just as illegal in some or all countries.

Shellshock is to PTSD as kiddy porn is to CSAM.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by johnnyanmac »

squigz wrote: post #127
johnnyanmac wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no, $1, one time. Despite the owner, this was one thing SomethingAwful seemed to do right over 20 years ago. The goal isn't to make money, but discourage botting. any paywall works and $1 is about as low as you can go in a digital transaction without credit card brokers making it difficult for you. And yes, it really shouldn't go up. SomethingAwful was 10bux back in 2005, and is still 10bux in 2025 (they monetized ot…

I like how nobody on HN seems to understand how poverty works.

I'm open to hearing others' viewpoints with it.

I had to slash a bunch of my expenses this year, but any issues with social media costs would be more of a time issue for me, not a cost issue.

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by 9x39 »

astrange wrote: post #134
tourmalinetaco wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reason people want change is not because they are “irrational” or “fearful”, it is because the people in power have demonstrated their inability to lead in every capacity. In Germany the government has literally collapsed due to the former coalition’s ineptitude. Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. In England innocents are being murdered and the governm…

> Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. No, it's about the same as 2019: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010 In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019. One thing you can say that may be…

>Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019:

Have prices sharply reduced since 2019?

Re: We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour

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Post by astrange »

9x39 wrote: post #169
astrange wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Prices in America have skyrocketed in the past 4 years, and pay hasn’t even started to catch up. No, it's about the same as 2019: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019: https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010 In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019. One thing you can say that may be…

>Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019: Have prices sharply reduced since 2019?

Inflation ending means stable prices. A general reduction in the price level (aka deflation) comes with horrific unemployment for some people and income loss for everyone else. If you think you want that, you don't.
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