You can't have social media without a system to decide what's going into the feed.

Kias and Hyundais are already extremely pricey to insure due to all of the thefts. Doesn't seem to stop people from buying them since people rarely look at the insurance cost until after they buy the cars, thinking car price is the big factor in insurance cost.

Actually, they don't need to show anything. Just force everyone back into the office or don't, based on whatever beliefs you have on the topic, and then have your employees figure out if it's worth it for them to keep working for you, and let your customers decide whether the thing you're trying to sell them is worth a damn. A CEO holding up a graph isn't going to swing my opinion on it.

I'm not worried about Amazon getting too powerful because they're providing desired products to more people than any other supplier in the world at a price people want to pay in a fashion more convenient than the competitors. I'm more worried about Amazon getting more powerful because the government has locked us in our homes, forcing us to use the one company that is capable of supplying us at home because we're not allowed to shop anywhere else by government mandate. Corporations using the enforcement power imbued to the government to gain power is the bigger issue than Amazon just becoming successful and hiring a bunch of people because they're doing a good job.

I thought social media's whole purpose was to give a voice to the voiceless, allow everyone to share their opinions that they didn't have a platform to do so before, find their online communities with like-minded people where they couldn't find in the real world. Why is it quickly converging into yet another link aggregator for traditional media with a heavily moderated comment section?

It's difficult finding one when your head is so far down in the sand.

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Considering this is paid for by "a pro-basic-income lobbying group called Mein Grundeinkommen" what are the chances that the results are going to be unbiased and accurate? If it's a huge success, we'll be sure to hear about it. If it's a huge failure, we'll be sure to see various cherry picked graphs and manipulated statistics to show what a great success it was.

I'm not worried that Xi will come to my home and arrest me for calling him Winnie the Pooh, and I'm not worried that Trump will come to my home and arrest me for calling him an orange, baby-handed cheeto man. What I am worried about is a foreign power having a ton of influence and control over what can be said here in the US because of how much of the media they control, which means they have a ton of control and influence over all of our public discourse. This isn't an irrational fear - it's happening daily.

Maybe we're being mentally carpet-bombed with anti-China "propaganda" because China consistently does the wrong thing? From their response to the HK protests, to their response to COVID and the corresponding disinformation campaign through the WHO, the constant censorship of anything critical of China in every platform semi-owned by them such as Reddit, and so on and so forth. They also pay hundreds of thousands of people to shill for them online and spread pro-Chinese propaganda, so posts such as yours come off as either a paid shill or even worse - an unpaid shill who has bought in to their propaganda. Which one are you?

Yes, it's a card that's called Invoke Prejudice and the imagery is obviously attempting to call attention to the KKK. It works because the KKK is a defacto prejudiced institution. The card isn't attempting to recruit people into the KKK or claim the KKK is a great and moral organization, it's playing to the stereotype of them as the bad guys. This is akin to banning a WW2 movie because it depicts Nazis. Yes, times have changed - and the biggest change is that people are so used to having their thoughts fed to them in bite-size tweets and headlines that they have forgotten how to look for or understand nuance in lieu of just reacting to immediate emotion.

When is all else equal, and what is equal? In a regular track race all things aren't equal. Every runner hasn't had the same amount of practice, they haven't eaten exactly the same foods, they don't have the same weights, heights, physiology, they have all made different choices in life to get to the start of that race and come into it at different levels of preparedness. So should we declare everyone a winner because of that? No, because the only thing that matters is the first one over the finish line.

If he was gonna bear the brunt of all the criticism on how it was handled poorly, then he should also be able to get the acclaim from positive results

Citation needed. I'd really like to have a source for this.

-- MQR

So basically they're going to resurrect Google Wave?