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Probably because most of what you posted is, in your words, "less factual versions of reality"

Seems like section 230 has been completely forgotten and has no power anymore.

I agree with you on the point that free speech (and free societies in general I think) require a culture of good faith participation. You only get nice things when everyone is more or less civil.

The problem is making the tough choices of what to do about uncivil discourse or bad faith actors who are not interested in upholding civility for the sake of the society. Unfortunately there are no easy answers which leave us with a lot of bad or difficult options to choose from.

"All the hallmarks of Russian disinformation" - signed by like 50 ex-intel guys. Oops, they were all wrong in the same direction!

> If we can prevent it from being created or launched, or if we can prevent it from reaching its audience, then, and only then, information can win.

Agreed, we must shut down the dastardly Internet immediately! And burn all the books!

Ah yes, therefore we should treat everyone like children who need our protection. Wait, we're going to need some extra power so we can properly protect them. Yeah, we'll probably need a big budget too.

And we know what's right and wrong so we need to take swift and bold action against these cretins - I mean citizens - who are espousing the wrong views.

What a lovely free and liberal society we have. And it just so happens our kids are learning less and less in school [0]... darn, I guess we'll have to crackdown even harder and triple the budget....

[0] https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/state-test-r...

> A site that is moderated having people...

FTFY

Workers and resources: Soviet Republic is a super fun economic and transportation logistics sim that shines in "Realistic mode". Highly recommended for fans of the genre. Tiny bit like a hardcore version of City Skylines.

I bought it after seeing that post at the time, great game of you're a fan of games like Factorio. Very well designed and tons of fun!

I can't help but wonder if these are contributing to the growing gender confusion in kids.

Brilliant plan. I was getting tired of all the local restaurants anyway, not enough copycat chains IMO. Glad we prioritized old people who no longer contribute much to the economy.

Hippy/libertarian -> oppose war on principle

Culture war / identity politics -> oppose/support war because that's the current thing

> At the tiniest scales, Kubernetes stops making sense because it's too complex to manage.

Managing k8s at the smallest scales is actually easier IMO. If you're using a managed k8s (you should be) then there's not much to actually manage. I've been using single-node clusters to great benefit for my business for years. Let's me focus all my time on billable hours and product updates. Huge force multiplier for me as a solopreneur.

As a solopreneur using tiny k8s clusters, I agree wholeheartedly with #3 and #4 of your list. I don't think #2 is necessary and #1 is probably a good choice if you haven't already jumped onto the k8s bandwagon.

Idk what the author is referring to specifically but I can speak to my experience. I've been running a few single-node k8s clusters for a few years now. On GCP, the control plane fee is waived if you're running in a single region (no $70/mo fee). So basically you only pay for the VM itself.

As a solopreneur, I've saved so much time and money letting k8s run my workloads while I rack up billable hours and build products.

Perhaps in the sense that now you're misinformed together, rather than being uninformed.

I used mailgun previously and was pretty happy with it. I'm using postmark now, forget exactly why I switched but I think it was because I can have one account with silo'd API keys for each app.

Does that qualify as a startup? I'd call that a side project but to each their own.

As a fellow solopreneur who builds a few apps a year, sorry but I'm not at all interested in something like this. Good luck though!

P.S. love your site designs and layouts. Taking notes!

100% agreed. Chesterton's fence[0] is a foreign concept to them. After all, how could those archaic morons in the past without our advanced technology have possibly landed on a better solution than the one some friends and I came up with but haven't yet put into practice?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...

> It is necessary to a functioning society, it reduces corruption, and it helps the outsider. Also, the community benefits from having new blood - it will wither and corrupt itself without it.

Citation badly needed

> It's written declaratively, but that is no indication that it's true or right.

You don't say...

I use NewPipe for all of those use cases. No ads, playback while screen is off, queue up and download videos, watch live streams, etc.

Sorry, was that supposed to be a gotcha?

Whew, you've obviously been drinking from the social media firehose. Perfect example of what GP post is referencing.

Great observation!

1. What parent would approve of their kid getting bullied? What are you talking about?

2. If the parents care enough to homeschool, why would they not care about bullying?

3. Socially subservient to the bully's parents? This feels like a hopelessly contrived and niche edge case that is effectively meaningless because it would be so rare

4. I'm not convinced personal problems fester moreso in a closed group (see: armed forces), and further I'm not convinced homeschooling groups are closed in the first place

All this to say I don't think your argument has any merit and is based on convenient and unlikely hypotheticals.

> Were you home schooled?

Funny, as a public-school attendee, I would expect the opposite given how many of my peers sailed through on cruise-control with crappy teachers who were sometimes dumber than the kids.

Enjoy the tiny hole in your wallet? Weird flex. I enjoy the same benefits using uBlock origin and yt-dl. And it didn't take any tinfoil :)

Headline a little click-baity but good article so far

Either:

1) devolve into a quivering mass of nerves and anxiety, consumed by the inevitable slow descent into the depths of hell

2) carry on as usual

idc about businesses using Twitter for comms but I have a huge problem with official govt agencies using it as their exclusive means of comms with citizens. I'm cool with Twitter being run into the ground if it helps us recognize the need/ develop a solution for a proper govt->citizen alerting system that doesn't involve proprietary and scummy businesses.