Please wait...
Because reality itself has a liberal bias, don’t you know.
uhoh, somebody's been reading Krugman. There goes the neighborhood.
From my perspective, the only solution is a fight-to-the-death between
Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, with the winner getting the death
penalty.
I would TOTALLY pay to watch that.
Thu Sep 05 2019 21:41:33 EDT from ldoWed Sep 04 2019 21:51:20 EDT from ParanoidDelusionsTwitter is completely biased with a left wing bubble.Because reality itself has a liberal bias, don’t you know.
Well, that is just the 80/20 rule at play.
The smartest and most productive people are always going to be in the minority. ;)
Fri Sep 06 2019 12:38:55 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarThis is my observation as well. Admittedly it is not an observation from a neutral point of view, but I have a feeling it's a fairly objective truth.
Is it "built in" to the platform?
One explanation could be that, simply, this is an effect of an obtusely large percentage of left-wingers operating the platform.
The other explanation could be that the left is far more likely to have mobs of people filing Butthurt Reports on posts they don't like, so it's far more likely that a provocative conservative post will be taken down than a provocative liberal post. As LoanShark correctly pointed out, left cancel culture focuses on takedown, while right cancel culture focuses on retaliation.
From my perspective, the only solution is a fight-to-the-death between Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, with the winner getting the death penalty.
DIGG was a fairly neutral platform - until DIGG 2.0 and Ole Oleson created this false controversy about the DIGG Bury brigade - which was supposed to be a group of conservatives who all mobilized to bury left leaning posts and upvote Right leaning ones. This wasn't really the truth - but DIGG went to great lengths to disrupt the conservative voices on that site.
And it went from being "The Front Page Of the Internet," to being a landing page for newsfeeds for AOL.COM.
I used to spend tons of time on Digg prior to Digg 2.0. I watched Diggnation as well. After 2.0 the site was less usable, the news wasn't really news or at least interesting any more.
I am very out of the loop, because I don't know what Digg is or was.
Anyway, it looks like sites start dropping badly in quality once they become a mainstream massified thing.
Anyway, it looks like sites start dropping badly in quality once they become a mainstream massified thing.
And it went from being "The Front Page Of the Internet," to being a
landing page for newsfeeds for AOL.COM.
...which, in turn, became useless after it became Arianna OnLine, a landing page for the Huffington Post.
Digg 1 was marginally useful for a couple of years. It had a neat mix of news, funny stuff, etc. As a nerd I remember trying it out for a while after Slashdot became unreadable. I seem to recall abandoning it because there was just too much volume.
Well, I've noticed the left always feels the moderates are too far to the right, and the right always feels the moderates are too far to the left.
Which makes a sort of sense, really. Because, from their perspectives, that's how they feel.
So I wonder if it's difficult to recognize when someone is being moderate, or truly too far to the left or right, if you aren't a moderate yourself.
And then, to what degree can you know if you're moderate?
I feel like I'm moderate, mostly because I think both positions seem too extreme.
A lot of you here have embraced the right's position, with maybe one or two on the left (maybe... the lefties here seem more moderate, as far as I can tell). I kinda feel you're a little extreme if you call for the death of someone for disagreeing with your position, but that's just my opinion, man.
2019-09-16 05:44 from fleeb
Well, I've noticed the left always feels the moderates are too far to
the right, and the right always feels the moderates are too far to the
left.
And the one in the middle... was a Methodist
...which is all sorts of funny, or maybe prescient, if you know about the
kind of sociopolitical crap that is currently tearing up the United Methodist
Church.
Today I Learned about retroshare.
Actually, I already knew of it, but I have not been using it until recently. Very nice friend-to-friend networking idea, with i2p support for hidden networks of friends. Also Tor and Clearnet support.
Sharing files was never such a complex endevour, not even in the modem days :)
Actually, I already knew of it, but I have not been using it until recently. Very nice friend-to-friend networking idea, with i2p support for hidden networks of friends. Also Tor and Clearnet support.
Sharing files was never such a complex endevour, not even in the modem days :)