hesusingthespiritbomb @ hesusingthespiritbomb @lemmy.world

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If the tests don't give any insight into the functionality it is testing, they are probably not the best tests.

The point is that you don't know the first thing about American politics, and are wholly unqualified to make any comments about it.

My Instagram reels are the most tame shit ever. You gotta redo your filters.

The fact that meta is also banned makes me think a huge part of this is just getting people onto Bluesky.

I get Zuckerberg is an asshole, but Instagram is the least toxic platform for me. That's because Instagram has keyword and subject filtering.

If you honestly think a military junta would be more representative of the American people than Trump, then I don't know what to tell you.

Also our president is not elected via majority (or plurality) vote. This has been one of the major complaints about the American political system since 2000, so I gotta wonder how much you're paying attention.

You're basically describing the Riechstag fire decree.

Your first question is pretty philosophical. All I can say, is that most representative governments place a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.

A military takeover based on the desires of a minority of citizens would violate that principal. I don't think any reasonable person can call it saving democracy.

Just to be clear, your solution to saving democracy would be for the military to usurp a president who received the majority of the vote less than six months ago?

To be fair that 1950s boomer is putting that pedal to the floor, seatbelts off, zero concern for anyone's lives including their own.

I do wonder if there's something up with Michelle Obama. The inaugural stuff is one thing, but I find it odd that she skipped Jimmy Carter's inauguration.

I mean for all we know they might and just choose not to federate.

Wasn't Yuzu selling access to a discord channel with pirated ROMs as a patreon tier?

DEI was just blockchain but for HR.

The article seems to argue that Neil was able to pull the wool over a lot of people's eyes, and it's perfectly reasonable for a lot of people close to him to be in the dark about all of this.

As far as I'm concerned Palmer is an active participant. There's absolutely no way she didn't know what was going on, and her public feminist stance provided extra credibility to Gaimen.

This is an extremely fucked up article. I don't think anyone could read it and not be disturbed.

I agree. Ironically he also went on a bit of a rant about how the traditional media outlets whittle down interviews to the most salacious bits, and that's part of the reason the American public is slowly losing trust in them.

While the reason for him saying this is to discredit his previous perception as robotic, he's also not wrong. All the articles I read "highlighting" the interview hyper focused on a few lines, and in doing so left and incomplete or dishonest impression.

So I watched the entire three hour interview.

Technically speaking, Zuckerberg emphasizes the need for balance. He on multiple times either emphasizes that both men and women should feel comfortable in corporate environments, and explicitly says something like "there has to be a balance" on at least two occasions.

The issue is that other parts of the interview don't really match that idea of balance. Zuckerberg and Rogan spent like a third of the entire interview talking about bro culture stuff. I'm not even talking about "bro culture in the context of corporate America". Rogan spends like a full ten minutes lecturing Zuckerberg on the proper way to bow hunt.

Overall I think the media is focusing outrage bait while ignoring the serious implications of the interview. Zuckerberg is clearly lobbying the Trump administration to prevent meta and other US tech companies from being subject to EU regulatory security. It has serious implications both as a consumer and in terms of geopolitics.

You're on a website where people come out of the woodwork to defend "ethical polyamory" and the biggest cuck you can think of is a CEO trying to curry political favor with the current US president?

I suppose there is some level of poverty I would consider becoming a sex worker for, but it would be an absolute last resort.

Hate to break it to you but reddit isn't dead.

I still go on reddit. In a lot of ways it's a lot worse than it used to be. It's way more corporate. Huge portions of the site seem sanitized, often in obvious and eyeroll inducing ways. There's also a lot less content in general. The content that does exist is lower effort, and way more repetitive.

However in some ways it's genuinely better. The discourse is a lot less toxic than it used to be. A lot of genuine cruelty wrapped in virtue signaling that defined the site from 2018 to 2022 is either gone or greatly diminished. It's also slightly less of an echo chamber.

I think what happened is that after the mobile apocalypse, a lot of the power users left the platform. While these people contributed a lot to the site, they were also extremely toxic people with an even more warped worldview.

The mods are a reflection of this. They are more corporate, which leads to a lot of censorship like this. However it also means that scrolling is quite a bit more pleasant.

Overall I spend more time on Reddit than Lemmy. There's very little content here once you filter out all the outrage bait.