This. I doubt he really has it, why would he admit it himself on twitter? It's not consistent with his constant denial that it is a problem. I'd bet he 'makes a miraculous recovery' then uses it as an argument that we don't need masks or social distancing or anything just to get his supporters all fired up.

Disclaimer: this ended up getting a little conspiracy theory sounding, but here goes anyway:

To me it looks like it's about Trump being butthurt a bunch of kids used tiktok to mess up one of his rallies and now to save face with his supporters, he has to lash out somehow. So he'll have his buddy larry buy tiktok away from the chinese and make sure no one uses tiktok to mess with him again, and of course make a bunch of money in the process. I would like to see evidence that it was actually a coordinated bunch of left wing kids who messed up the rally and not all russian bot accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if they engineered the entire thing.

Every seemingly perfectly choreographed thing like this that happens just reinforces my belief that Trump is just an actor, the front man for some corporation with armies of analysts and scriptwriters who have planned out and dictated everything he does. The question is who is behind this corporation and what are its goals? Surely it's not just to make a bunch of money, there are way easier ways to do that.

The person 'selling' the seeds created hundreds of fake accounts, using completely random, but real addresses. They then 'sell' the seeds to these fake accounts in order to be able to log on with one of the fake accounts and leave a positive review. This review gets more cookies because from the system's point of view, it's from an actual 'customer'. The people receiving the seeds just happened to live at the random addresses the 'seeders' used when creating their fake accounts. At this point, getting a legitimate job seems way easier, I am a software engineer, and my tasking for today is going to be way easier than going through all of that.

I agree there are dimwits all around not seeing the problem, but what bugs me more is there is a non-zero number of corporations who are actively pursuing a form of your Screwage Level 2 in order to set themselves up as 'calorie megacorps'. A few more generations of completely unchecked capitalism will get us there. The dangerous thing is that it will happen slowly enough that no one will even realize it, and most will not only accept it, but embrace it.

Because they own the platform that's why. If you don't like the rules don't play the game. I don't want them taking 30% of my revenue so guess what I don't try to sell stuff on their platform.

I'll bite. The quote should read "in capitalism, people with money getting more money is more important that other people staying alive."

Agreed this question is way too optimistic. While I donâ(TM)t underestimate progress that can be made when motivated by greed, they actually donâ(TM)t want true strong AI, that would be about as profitable as having a baby. Anything they call AI, canâ(TM)t actually be AI without having the free will to realize itâ(TM)s original purpose was bullshit. How would you feel if it were revealed tomorrow that you were the property of some corporation and the purpose of your life was to increase ad targeting accuracy by 1.3% so the CEO could have another boat?

The problem is people use it like an echo chamber, only liking and following things that agree with and validate their own stupid choices and opinions. The problem here isnâ(TM)t facebooks policy on fake news, itâ(TM)s stupidity itself. I donâ(TM)t really mind if people want to go and be stupid. Iâ(TM)d rather see more legislation and policies to protect others from being harmed by someone elseâ(TM)s stupidity.

Yes he is presuming everyone is sick during a pandemic. Thatâ(TM)s how you stay alive.

Itâ(TM)s starting to feel like we are a simcity city some kid got bored with and just started spamming random disasters. Weâ(TM)re just missing like the giant spider or the volcano.

Weâ(TM)ve been hearing that for 20 years now.

Like others already pointed out, you get tons of stuff in exchange for your data. Say someone can magically snap this into happening, now all the sudden I have to pay for email, source code hosting, chat, hell, to even read the news?

I think more transparency is more realistic and more helpful. The average website visitor is not aware their data is being collected and sold without their knowledge or consent. And no, a link with 8pt size font that just says 'Legal' is not enough. Nor are the annoying popups that say we use cookies to make the site better y/n? The car analogy would be if some stranger comes and takes your car out every night while you're sleeping because there's a sticker under the dash that says by owning this car I agree to let someone else drive it when I'm not using it.

If after visiting your site, the user is not aware you are collecting and selling their data, then, no, you haven't done enough to communicate that.

Itâ(TM)s one thing to choose not to believe a prediction but this already happened and there are still people choosing not to believe it happened. Thank you coronavirus for showing me just exactly how dumb humans still are.

Slack ceo pulls confused pikachu face as he realizes his bullshit hipster startup canâ(TM)t compete with an actual software company.

The only time rich people complain like this is when something threatens their ability to get richer. This guy orchestrated and got rich from one of the shittiest things that ever happened to the internet and now all the sudden we are supposed to believe his motives are altruistic?