All good points.

That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.

Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why this narrative even needs to be played out.

I don’t know what angle there is by making Musk a scapegoat beyond, maybe, Ukraine trying to strengthen its supporting relationship with the US population, but it already has most of the US support anyway.

Musk has his issues, there’s no doubt about that, but not wanting to be involved is an ethical stance to take on his part.

Ahh, yes. The golden era of usenet flaming.

Be patient. It takes time to “get going”.

If you know how to program, you’re in a good spot. If you don’t know how to program, start with fundamentals.

SICP is good. It’s Lisp. You’ll probably never write a line of Lisp professionally, but it will help shape how you reason about solving problems.

Develop some solid fundamentals.

Image of average Redditor that feels the inclination to write “fuck Spez” every 5 minutes on the Internet

I wonder why you have that stance. Can you please explain?

I’ve already gone into this elsewhere. You’ll find it if you scroll through my comment history, which isn’t very long.

You can also read about the “enshittification” word that’s been trending, or how this dynamic is nothing new and how the outcome is predictable given events that happened a decade ago with Google and XMPP.

At some point, history just repeats itself. Meta is a fucking terrible company that offers no real benefit to humanity, and will only serve to make things worse.

People like Elon Musk, at the very least, provide narratives that are realistic about what we’re up against.

What people (apparently?) don’t realize is that Meta is aware of the political landscape, and they’re using that to their advantage.

They know that the left is so invested in their hatred of Musk that they’ll be welcomed by them, but what they don’t realize is that Meta is a Trojan horse.

My opinion is that billionaires shouldn’t exist - it should be a crime to have that much wealth.

That said, they obviously do exist, and if you’re not retarded you’ll recognize the world obviously works a certain way and you must accept that if you want to improve things in any real capacity.

People see some billionares die in a sub accident. Yes, it was their fault. Yes, it was incredibly fucking stupid. Yes, the father was a bastard for being so ludicrously careless that he killed himself and his own son.

But they die and we laugh about it and make fun of them because it makes us feel better about ourselves.

And that’s a weakness. It’s low - undignified and an aspect of the Internet and its humanity that should only be treated with scorn.

no cap

I look at threads as a net positive

It isn’t positive at all.

If you aren’t willing to understand why, I don’t know what else to say.

No no no, those are valid, sure, but they wouldn’t be possible without that initial comparison.

The comparison isn’t between the two of them and the two Nazis, the comparison is between the two of them.

There’s the implication that they’re both “evil” or “bad figures”, which is the entire point. The analogy itself wouldn’t be that great otherwise

A pox on all of your houses.

I simp for neither - try again

Based and “I’m not a moron” pilled

The usage of the analogy by definition implies a comparison of some kind.

Otherwise, wny use it?

You gotta realize criminals and street life is the same as the mainstream. Please trust me.

lmfao

Your “opinion” is just the regurgitation of a programmable monkey, playing back rage bait written by journalists on repeat.

Elon is fine in comparison; he’s far less of a problem than Meta is.

The platform at this point may as well already be doomed because of people like you.

Really - it’s like I’m reading the posts of Reddit manchildren who will forever retain their virginity because they’re incapable of understanding how things actually get done.

I guess you can’t expect much these days.

What’s going to happen next? Meta dominates the platform, you and the rest of your kind “protest”, then you fuck off somewhere else and pretend you “won”, while sucking each other off only for a repeat to happen sometime later?

Are you going to wear your fedoras?

It was always about hating humans

Or, to keep it simple: making money off of humans by exploiting their empathy?

I used to agree with the second paragraph, but watching videos of pigs/cows/chickens being slaughtered changed my mind. Imo their prior treatment doesn’t really negate what happens there- and even if it did, I couldn’t use ideal farm conditions as a defense when the vast majority of meat I’ve been eating is raised under less ideal conditions.

Methods of slaughtering them are terrible and absolutely criminal.

One good thing PETA has done is raise awareness about how the meat industry treats its animals - I’ll give them that, definitely.

PETA itself is an organization I place in the same category as a cult, though. Their own practices make the sincerity of their intentions almost blatantly questionable.

Jesus, this. If we could just move on, that would be nice.

so they drink tequila and move on

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