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Because the Google drive desktop app crashes as well :)
That is odd I can't remember it ever crashing on me.
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> The average person cannot realistically exist in a digital vacuum This alone is enough to see that regulation is what is needed. It's completely crooked that the average person is forced to maintain good standing with a single particular NASDAQ corporation to participate in society. Those here who might think "it's very possible to do so without Google" are not the average person, living in an average place in an a…
At some point we're going to see the real solution is to burn all this to the ground. I know, I know, hyperbole, etc. We cannot continue to allow the worst among us -- those who by definition want more than everyone else and can seemingly never be satified -- to run the entire world. A lack of morality is what gets you to the top. We must end this for the good of us all.
There's a medical word for things like that. Schmancer?
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> you’re turning toward personal insults based on top of your own incorrect theorizing. I think it's pretty clear that I tried to phrase it as kindly as I possibly could. Not intended as an insult in the slightest, merely a purely subjective observation. You're welcome to disagree, even if you do seem very resistant to extending anyone else the same courtesy? > All of your comments here trying to rebut it have been m…
Fwiw, you might want to look into "non violent communication" (which is unfortunately named, because people always think they know what it's about, while not actually understanding it whatsoever) As an uninvolved reader in this thread, your phrasing was definitely done in a way that caused this response from him. Not at all trying to be mean, and I'm fully aware that this comment I'm writing is also (knowingly) using…
Sometimes people respond negatively because of tone and phrasing, but sometimes their response really is about the underlying substantive content of what is being said, no matter how gently. Conversely, at other times, their primary concern may be one of 'face', and the importance of being perceived as 'winning' an exchange, the substance of they may not actually care about at all. I agree with you that thoughtful phrasing is a potent tool, but its power is not unlimited and it cannot fully bridge every gap.
I would venture to suggest that I phrased things about as kindly as I could, in the broader context of an interlocutor who was already treating the discussion as a zero-sum contest. (Note their read of the exchange as my "desperately" wanting to "discredit" them, when I was merely disagreeing.)
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Fwiw, you might want to look into "non violent communication" (which is unfortunately named, because people always think they know what it's about, while not actually understanding it whatsoever) As an uninvolved reader in this thread, your phrasing was definitely done in a way that caused this response from him. Not at all trying to be mean, and I'm fully aware that this comment I'm writing is also (knowingly) using…
The problem with this approach is that it implies that I am responsible for how my interlocutor reacts, something I do not and cannot control. (Nor do I feel any need to.) It also presumes the interlocutor is acting entirely in good faith and is interested in reaching consensus, which is not always the case. Sometimes people respond negatively because of tone and phrasing, but sometimes their response really is about…
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I thankfully learned that lesson about twenty years go. Google had a product that allowed you to park domains with them for ad insertion to generate some revenue. Owning over 400 domains at the time I though, why not? The process through which you parked the domains with Google entailed loading a file with the list of domains, after which each one would, in turn, be approved or denied. All 400+ domains were approved.…
> I would never do business with Google. All I use from them is search. That's it. Nothing else. Given that's their main business and they are likely to graveyard whatever domain penny business you've got burnt by anyway, you're still doing a lot of business with them
That's a gross misinterpretation of what "doing business with" means.
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Why? You're going to reference them from Google Drive. Google has 400 trillion gazillion servers with copies of it. There's no way you can lose it! You wouldn't do anything weird, so there's absolutely no reason to think you'd lose your account. And honestly, we're all humans here - surely you can reach out to a company as large as Google and speak to a human if there's an issue this significant. Another consideratio…
Yes, they should be regulated. Or more likely outright shut down. Nonetheless, at the moment, it's a real risk, and plenty of people do in fact think ahead and not make themselves dependent on those services. > kids do not have the ability to think ahead and consider future consequences. It's one of the last functions of the brain to develop, and it doesn't fully complete until, often, you've already finished college…
Simply denying things doesn't make them untrue. Please don't do this. It burns.
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The mods of that subreddit appear to have come to the same conclusion. If you go into Reddit believing all of the posts by default and forgiving inconsistencies you’re going to be duped by a lot of fake stories. I think it’s interesting that someone posted a “my account just got busted for accidental CSAM” and nobody is concerned about the impending law enforcement consequences? Only about email access? If this reall…
> If this really happened then it would be referred to law enforcement because companies don’t handle CSAM as internal matters that go through their appeals process There's just an awful lot of armchair theorising in your posts, and a lot of it doesn't sound like it's backed by much actual experience. If I'm being honest, you sound very young to me. Which I do not intend as a slight at all, youth is great, but it doe…
> The latter is very easy to spot
Well, you know, that's some premium grade irony sitting right there.
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Congrats for them but that's also f** up - no recourse, but essentially being coerced into sex work to having a problem (often caused by the company) to be fixed.
> coerced into sex work That doesn't sound like what happened lol. I'm sure there were many other avenues she could have tried, she probably chose the one she preferred.