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Comment Re:No one more fragile (Score 1) 282

No social media censors any point of view and I doubt you will find even one case. What they refuse to carry is professionally-produced misinformation campaigns.

And who decides which is which? Almost everything derided as "misinformation" for the past decade has turned out true, and an equally staggering amount of narratives promoted as gospel truth turned out to be misinformation. The mainstream media has gotten almost every major controversy in the last two administrations wrong, and always in the same partisan direction.

It's easy to claim nobody ever censors a "point of view" when you're the one declaring everything you censor is "misinformation", including the proof that you're wrong.

Comment Re:Education on a curve (Score 1) 266

You have it completely backwards. If you set a quota administrators will game the system by ensuring their favored and disfavored students are always in the top or bottom bin, and on top of this you'll teach students that there's no point in trying because you'll be punished for no reason at all.

For example what are you going to do when you have too many students with the same exact grades? How do you decide who to arbitrarily punish for no reason at all other than your need for a minimum quantity of students to suffer? Do you make a random number generator? Go by height? Skin color? Gender?

Comment Re:Introspection is unlikely to occur. (Score 1, Informative) 122

Your post is a fantastic example... just in the opposite direction you intend. The entirety of western media have been nothing but Hamas stenographers this entire conflict. From the very first day when they aired interviews insisting no civilians had been killed, the denial of rapes and torture, the denial of UN personnel being participants, the blood libels over Hamas and PIJ shootings and missiles, war criminals dressed as journalists and doctors using civilian infrastructure to store munitions and stage attacks... none of which is surprising when you remember that the west's "journalists" in Gaza took selfies holding grenades and participating in the massacre.

Years ago when a terrorist massacred civilians at a bus stop and western media outlets reported "Israeli police kill man in east jerusalem" that was the end of it.
Today they can see the author's tweets praising Hitler and calling for a second holocaust.
They can see commonwealth reporters blaming Israel for murdering a civilian family, then turn around and see live footage of the rocket being launched from Gaza and falling on their home days before Israel did anything.
They can see headlines claiming Israel brutally slaughtered hundreds of civilians in an unprovoked attack on a hospital and then turn around and look at live footage of a pristine hospital with a few cars scorched in the middle of the parking lot.
They can see claims of assassinations against UN personnel, doctors, and journalists, and then see live footage of those people firing missiles at civilians, live footage of civilian hostages held in their hospitals, and live testimony from the hostages they helped imprison and torture.
They can see pictures of children supposedly massacred by Israel on the front page of the New York Times and then see those were stock photos taken off google from other countries like Syria.

Most of all they can see that these aren't accidents, they're a consistent and deliberate pattern of malicious disinformation intended to excuse the genocide of the indigenous Jewish population for a hundred years.

They can see that Jerusalem had a majority Jewish population since the 1800s, that all of those indigenous Jews were slaughtered in 1947, and that now people like you call it "Occupied East Jerusalem".
They can see that you keep saying "will be free" in english, but the Arabic translates as "from the water to the water Palestine will be arab".
They can google what the Khaybar genocide is and why mobs keep shouting "Khaybar Ya Yahud".
They can see the Parliament of the United Kingdom literally cowed into submission by sheer terror, afraid the "peaceful protestors" who've already assassinated MPs will come for them next.

And then they can see people like you gaslighting them about all of it.

Comment Re:Step 1 (Score 4, Informative) 206

Intel isn't struggling against AMD or Nvidia, they're still sitting at 70% market share. Facebook, Google, and Twitter were a collusive oligopoly. Google bought youtube, Facebook bought Instagram, TikTok is a freaking state actor.

You're trying to argue that casinos are fair by pointing at the people who temporarily beat the house.

Comment Re:Step 1 (Score 1) 206

Amazon didn't RKO anything. Sears committed suicide by refusing to get into e-commerce and deliberately sabotaging their own company from the inside with policies so idiotic and self-destructive you wouldn't believe they were real. Amazon walked into a complete vacuum and then jumped straight into monopolistic practices.

Comment Re: Step 1 (Score 4, Interesting) 206

I'm going to continue our trend of uncomfortably agreeing with each other, but pivot a bit and say the Democratic/Republican "fight" over this is a sham. Neither party wants to give up having a handful of ultra-powerful oligarchs who control access to information and conversations for literally half the human race, they just want to be sure they're getting enough of that pie.

So Democrats and Republicans take turns whipping up a frenzy about the other side... but it's always in order to move towards greater centralization. There's a reason nobody's broken up the AWS monopoly, or the payment processor duopoly, or the Google/Facebook duopoly, but a less-rigged twitter has now suddenly magically become public enemy number 1.

It's the same reason every time someone starts a genuine competitor to one of those it's either bought out, crushed legislatively, or demonized to the point they can simply be locked out of society.

Comment Re: A damn shame (Score 1) 61

Yeah we don't talk about that one.

The thing I never understood, and none of my friends with one could explain either, is why CPAP masks all seem to be built backwards to conventional wisdom about "sprung" vs "unsprung". You'd think the better design would be to have the straps and stuff as close to the contact point as possible and then allow the rest of the mask to move much more freely.

Comment Re:What does this even mean? (Score 1) 130

The US already has some of the highest per-pupil spending in the developed world. What private schools did differently was they spent less time burying kids in busywork, treated them more like human beings, fed them better, and let them actually spend more time being kids.

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