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Post by Juliate »

abernard1 wrote: post #410
Juliate wrote: post #186

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If you take USAID « revelations » by Musk at face value, you are… rather misled. The very behavior of DOGE looks like kids unleashed in a factory they don’t understand, willing not to recognize their capacities are adequate to understand it in so little time. There were knowledgeable people, they’ve been fired. You wouldn’t accept it for a flying plane pilot or a surgeon in the surgery room, why would you accept it f…

I was asked to join USDS by the head of the agency in 2018. I am fully aware of the widespread fraud they were encountering, as well as the technical difficulties of fixing it. I am also aware of the less-than-neutral culture that pervaded that organization at that time. I also have experience as a defense contractor and have personally met and interacted with many people in the administrative bureaucracy, including…

And that’s a good point of view.

And yet you believe that fixing this requires pulling the plug on most if not all, by people totally remote to how it works?

That’s a peculiar way of fixing this. Especially in administrative matters (where the side effects are as deadly as putting an untrained random person in charge of a civil airplane).

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Post by ilikecakeandpie »

alt227 wrote: post #465
ilikecakeandpie wrote: post #448

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> If someone threatened to kill me theres no way I would be trying to invoke law to protect me. Why would I when they have done nothing wrong? In practice, the law not taking this seriously is how a lot of women in abusive relationships die

> In practice, the law not taking this seriously is how a lot of women in abusive relationships die Yes agreed, and its also the reason we have an innocent until proven guilty justice system. Things can be said in anger, and not really meant. In fact I would wager out of all the death threats made in the entire world, the vast majority are said in anger and not meant to be followed through on. This is why we dont loc…

> Things can be said in anger, and not really meant. In fact I would wager out of all the death threats made in the entire world, the vast majority are said in anger and not meant to be followed through on. This is why we dont lock people up for just saying things. There needs to be other motives and evidence behind it to show intent.

You are incorrect, at least in California

https://www.cronisraelsandstark.com/criminal-threats-califor...

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Post by jzackpete »

newdee wrote: post #688
stainablesteel wrote: post #515

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i voted for that, i voted for the destruction of the federal government because it's bankrupting us by stealing our money

I’m reminded of this line from Stewart Lee, when talking about the disillusioned British working class voting for radical political parties/causes: “A protest vote for UKIP is like shitting your hotel bed as a protest against bad service, then realising you now have to sleep in a shitted bed.”

more like kicking out the staff after they convinced everyone that your house is a hotel that they own and operate

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Post by error_logic »

martin-t wrote: post #485
berkes wrote: post #48

I'm not defending Twitter or their policy in any way (disclaimer: I left Twitter the moment Elmo took over. I despise his hypocrisy and his fascist ideas) But this could be a "legitimate f-up". Normally, most of these unsafe-url protection and detection is automated in something with the scale of Twitter. Just like URL-shorteners often are (were?) "seemingly randomly" banned, because a portion of the shared urls are…

As you point out, "honest mistake" can be used by sophisticated intentional aggressors to get away with their attacks. For a long time, the advice was "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." but aggressors evolve to fit their surroundings. When the population largely follows this rule, it becomes a competitive advantage to fake incompetence. Perhaps both malice and incompetence sh…

This ties in with something that took me far too long to recognize: Trust has two pillars.

One pillar is alignment of values, and therefore intent. The other pillar is competence.

These are the same issues faced by AI development, as well as representative government, or anything regulating a dynamic with competing elements or agents.

Yet our plurality voting system would be insufficient even to keep a car on the road and driving within the speed requirements. If only the founding fathers had recognized the need to have more information included in ballots so that negative campaigning wasn't as effective if not more effective than positive.

If we voted with {+1, +0.5, -0.5, 0, 0, 0...} weights, without duplication of non-zero values, the smartest, most constructive candidates would have a better chance. Each district would have its own blend of 3-4 viable parties, and the nation would be all the healthier for it. (Side note: Yes, this is still one person one vote--you could imagine voting with a single checkbox for a single permutation of all possible assignments of the scores, as an intermediate form.)

Back to your point, though: Yes, incompetence and malice can have the same effect in the short term. The long term is what determines the difference, both in effect and our responses to it.

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Post by bhouston »

psychoslave wrote: post #607
bhouston wrote: post #506

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> But when it comes to leftist activists specifically, it's war for Musk. His son transitioning didn't exactly endear him to the ideology. It isn't just a left issue. Liberatarians also don't really care about LGBT people expressing themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_perspectives_on_LG... So Musk isn't libertarian nor left on social issues. He is conservative right. Although his exact philosophy is…

Which flavor of "traditional family" do you prefer over all those that humanity tried so far? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8090810/ https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/the-way-we-never... https://pixiedane.wescreates.wesleyan.edu/research/tradition... https://www.humanities.org/spark/the-myth-of-the-traditional...

Huh? I am referring to the nuclear family that is considered traditional in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_in_the_United_States

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Post by iteratethis »

scarab92 wrote: post #656
rullopat wrote: post #545

And few days ago JD Vance went to Munich to say to EU leaders that they "there is a problem of freedom of speech in Europe"...

There obviously are problems with freedom of speech in Europe. Everyone knows it.

The US ranks #55 in press freedom, all positions in the top 10 are EU countries.

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Post by sltkr »

ruune wrote: post #670
scarab92 wrote: post #656

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There obviously are problems with freedom of speech in Europe. Everyone knows it.

Tell me more. I live here and have never encountered a situation where I was not allowed to express my opinions in a systematic way. So I don't know but would be delighted to

It might simply mean your opinions fall in the narrow band of views that are permitted to be expressed. It proves nothing about freedom of speech in general.

Even in North Korea, people are allowed to freely express their love for their Dear Leader. Those who express a different view are swiftly disposed of. If you love Dear Leader you could live your entire life believing that you and everyone else has free speech, simply because you have never encountered evidence to the contrary.

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Post by 93po »

philipdavis wrote: post #374

Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?

its the only social media platform that isn't image and video heavy, can consistently have non-bot and non-fake and non-clickbait material of substance (if you curate who you you follow well), provides awesome filtering options out of the box for stuff like keywords (i literally had to make a browser extension to filter reddit crap out better), and has a lot of interesting people posting entertaining non-image stuff

caveat: i completely stay off anything political, i filter the absolute hell out of anything political, i block people constantly

i don't care that elon owns it because i don't buy into the outrageous hyperbole of him literally being the next hitler. i think elon is a deeply problematic person not especially more so than a million other business leaders and billionaires, his bullshit is just a lot more visible, and he accomplishes a lot of cool shit despite the bullshit.

not interested in debating people wanting to scream about elon and wont respond to comments about him, im just offering my unfiltered opinion about why I use X

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Post by kortilla »

timacles wrote: post #635
kortilla wrote: post #572

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> Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? Are you seriously asking that question? If so, I suggest looking at the nov election results. The votes for Trump were for this (his relationship to Elon and intention of “having him make the government efficient” were well known in advance of the election).

quite frankly, your argument is dishonest, whether intentionally or not. I do not trust anyone repeating online, and no one else should. Especially since its repeated verbatim every time it comes up, its clear that this is "the play" and propaganda. > I suggest looking at the nov election results. What should we be looking at exactly? How the curiously 100% flipped swing states voted? I agree, theres much to look at…

> No one knew Musk would be running amok dismantling government institutions like a rabid dog

Trump approval ratings are at a high. His supporters are clearly happy with what’s going on.

The question was quite simple, it was about why anyone would use X.

There are at least 60 million people that are happy with what is going on and like to be on X, which is an echo chamber of what they like.

Nothing about what I said is dishonest. This is exactly the type of outcome Trump supporters were looking for. Approval ratings don’t lie.

I don’t like what’s going on either, but this constant hand-wringing of “nobody supports this, I don’t understand, crisis crisis crisis” is unproductive and ignorant of the reality of the political landscape in the US right now.

If you want to interact with the right wing people or read what they are thinking, that’s effectively what X is for right now.

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