chillwaves

you are arguing that signing up for twitter (or the equivalent) is some kind of significant barrier to entry?

Apples to oranges. The fanboyism is not helpful.

OK then let's see him do it. Maybe he will have innovations like the 141 character tweet.

The real question is if private owners have rights over their property to police behavior.

The second consideration is what recourse private owners have to disallowed speech. It's not jail or execution. Typically just dismissal.

I do not understand the argument that a platform is not allowed to police itself.

The tone of this comment is disturbing. Can you keep that kind of FDS/incel ideology off this forum, please?

How is this comment necessary? Many things are studied without the ability to "bounce between dimensions".

If nothing else, you demonstrate how conversing with people on the internet is exhausting.

It's an important lesson.

You don't get banned for having that opinion. Being downvoted means your opinion is unpopular, not that you are being oppressed.

You seem to be mistaking correlation with causation.

More likely is that the uptick in bot/propaganda activity coincided with Trump becoming president, requiring an uptick in moderation.

I drink coffee on the weekends.

Can't you just make a new local admin account and delete all traces of the other account, including in the registry?

Why the fuck would they disappear? Will that bring back the thousands of dead?

Russian has committed the crime and they deserve to pay, and so do their defenders.

What's the fucking difference when thousands of civilians are dead and millions displaced?

Who are the liberal owners of CNN? I thought they were all just trying to make money.

Rupert Murdoch, on the other hand, has a history of running news at a loss to push his angle.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/11/rupert-murdoch...

Like the war on Christmas?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/style/starbucks-gay-agend...

None of this is censorship.

After the coming resource\migration wars, some of this will sort itself out. Don't worry.

Enforce our laws would be a good start.

I appreciate your detailed rundown. This kind of stuff is not intuitive to me.

I liked the idea and always wanted to use it more. I actually only used it once because I was dealing with a potential subscription hassle and that card actually got stolen! A bad charge was reported from privacy.com (and of course did not go through).

Pretty cool service.

There is also a problem of comfortable humidity levels. If you just have open windows, it seems like you will have very dry air.

There are modern solutions for air exchanges that do retain some of the heat and moisture while allowing for fresh air to ventilate the indoor space.

https://www.explainthatstuff.com/heat-recovery-ventilation.h...

As someone else mentioned, hire a trainer. There is only so much you can learn from reading vs doing. Having someone guide you will increase the effectiveness of your effort by 10x.

I just realized I can keep my phone on DND 24/7 and it's wonderful (rings for contacts only).

The bonus of it only ringing for your contacts is that when your phone does ring, you know it's something relatively important.

Completely changed my relationship with my phone.

I have grown very close to a woman I met online. She is extremely intelligent, but I could tell she had issues. I did not know how severe until we finally met, at my insistence.

I knew she had depression and anxiety. ADHD. That she had trouble getting things done, trouble making decisions, overall trouble functioning but on top of this, she cannot take care of herself hygienically, has a severe problem with hoarding and basically spends much of her waking moments crying or feeling scared/panicked.

She also is clearly autistic though she insists she is not.

At the same time, she is extremely sweet and has a strong sense of justice. She is truly a good person, I have never met anyone so honest. It's sad that we cannot make space for people like this in our society. She asks for so little to survive.

I know I will take care of her for the rest of my life, but of course I know there are other people like her -- if she exists, there have to be others.

She cannot work. She can barely function to take care of herself, and in some ways she cannot even meet that standard. She also lives in another country, so what I can do is limited and sending money helps but it doesn't help enough.

I think she cannot be fixed but I would like to hope there is still a chance. She (and I) are relatively young, in our 30s.

I would rather spend the resources to help that person than enable another sociopathic billionaire, who would be far more dangerous to society.

Actually, I did have trouble at Safeway with this recently but the cashier kindly gave me a card that scans -- very nice because it has none of my information associated with it.

Related, but when I am forced to read the number instead of just typing it in, I consciously say "Eight Six Seven Five Three Zero Nine" instead of "Oh"!

> We're also getting there at other places because some establishments/jurisdictions are requiring proof of vaccination (ie. signed QR code).

This is an entirely different situation from a legal and social point of view.

On a related? note, local area code + 867-5309 seems to work for most store discount cards.

Imo, name and shame.

Isn't that the whole appeal of our economic system? To root out these inefficiencies?

If it is not economically feasible to run a coal plant if they do not externalize the pollution cost, how is that my problem? And if the demand justifies it, the cost for coal-generated electricity will go up.

It's a matter of priorities and resource allocation.

Why do we allow coal operators to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else?