Yeah exactly. Ultimately they became money machines, and they only exist to make more money now… Some will have willfully amoral motivations (Cambridge analytica, palantir) and others will just persue more money, regardless of the outcome of his they do it, I.E implicily amoral.

I don’t think the websites all started thinking “I’ll harvest data for the inevitable surveillance state”

Google actually started with great intentions and hoped to translate the data into revenue via “normal” ads

But… Dogy ass holes paid better than ads, and, like most companies, whenever they get successful/big enough, everything goes out the window in favour of profits

This is one of the best YouTube essays there are imo.

Hbommerguy is the goat

Yeah, I came to the same understanding when I used to counter conspiracy nuts denying climate change and evolution etc.

You’ll never convince them they’re wrong or hypocrites… But people who stumble upon the thread that are not super critical thinkers will see the discussion and you can help them realise the person is actually full of shit.

Sometimes they can lie believably enough that people fall for it, and some of those people will snap out of it when they see the contradiction and logical fallacies.

Be the change you want to see

The nra, constantly talking about the need for everyone to have guns to prevent tyranny.

Now government agents are doing illegal shit (kidnapping, assaulting, deporting legals, and outright murder) and all the of a sudden “citizens need to stop antagonising” is their reply? Because it’s their thugs.

The bright side of all this horrific bullshit is that, assuming it’s even possible to have fair elections in the future, you can immediately dismiss anyone on the right when they try to play the “moral superior” card as a justification for their bullshit

“but freedom of speech”, “2nd amendment”, “protect kids from pedofiles”. Nah fuck of mate. You completely disregarded all of that when it was “once of you”. You don’t get to play that card anymore.

Being epsteins best friend, saying how much they have in common because “he likes them young like me”, being the president that promised to release the files, now having that power to do that and refusing to do so…

The same people that wanted to shoot up a pizza place and kids reading sessions in public libraries because of completely. imaginary links to pedophilia are totally fine with trump though.

He’s an extremely out of shape demented pedofile attempting to look human

I’m not saying they’re correct in not calling it that, or that the system necessarily works that way, but they’ll have lawyers to look over everything in these sorts of scenarios and they’ll, usually, ask to play it safe.

Also, re point 2, it’s different to say “autopsy says it’s homicide” vs the paper/journalist saying that they were murdered. Unless it’s legally ruled as such (judge/court case), the news agency could be liable if they said it themselves. The headline is essentially just quoting someone else.

It’s unfortunate but usually wording like that is intentional and necessary, I.E if you say “mother fuckers murdered him” you’ll get sued.

The “best” part is that none of these end up taking into account the fact we’ll cook ourselves/the planet from excess heat waste long before climate change can finish the job

And this was before ai started to speed up the job

I had the same thought… Jade is closeish to state but… Wtf is Jate

I don’t think anyone calls this dating? It’s the filter to figure out if you want to date

It’s that… Is that the windows xp background?

Edit - my bad, it’s been a minute, forgot it didn’t have trees

Yeah, this is the before photo.

I wouldn’t say Europe are overreacting. This particular post, “worse than nazi Germany”, yes, but atm they are being a bit too complicit in things like the US bombing and kidnapping the head of a foreign nation…

However the US isn’t literally building camps with the explicit purpose of mass murder and genocide. Don’t get me wrong, they’re still doing a lot of nazi and atrocious shit, but distinguishing the nuance is important.

Thank you, I’m saving this

Good thing they voted to give the nazi a trillion dollars

This is where lables start to get unhelpful imo. Clearly he’s on the gay to straight spectrum somewhere in the middle, but isn’t comfortable identifying with the non traditional end.

I think a looot more people are some kind of bi, but either don’t consider themselves that way, or don’t want to admit it.

I wonder if a lot more people would be less closeted and resistant tuotheir true feelings if there was no lable for sexualities. Just ‘hey, he’s kind of hot, I want to fuck him’, then do it. Not have people ask if that means your x or y or z etc.

I’m pretty sure this is a correlation !== causation situation.

I suspect the reason men are more likely to be killed by strangers than women is because men are more likely to get violent with strangers that women…