The people making decisions at these companies, the business idiots, are too far removed from real life and real users.

They’re stupid. They’re bad at their job. They don’t deserve their money and life of comfort.

Fuck Microsoft. Don’t give them any money.

Interesting. Not a great experience on the phone, but I could see spending more time on it on a proper computer.

I also think it’s both.

The ones who were already stupid are more likely to use AI, because that’s a stupid decision.

But some students were probably fine, but using the AI atrophied their thinking skills.

Once again the US is an embarrassment

A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.

I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.

I did not intend to claim my college dinner conversation was a flawless political system, heh.

It may have come from the idea that in firing squads, some of the executioners have blanks.

But you’re probably right, its probably simpler and fine not to have fake voters. Though it would be funny to have some honey pots…

I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)

Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”

I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.

Haha get fucked, bad drivers.

That is, of course, if you have properly trained drivers and enforced rules.

We don’t and will not in our life time. So for practical purposes, they do not work.

I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend’s friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you’re less trusted.

Delete your Facebook accounts. (Probably preaching to the choir here, but still)

Break up Facebook

Leadership are stupid assholes.

We should break google up and bury the current leadership in a deep hole somewhere.

People that park in bike lanes should lose their license and car. Selfish and hazardous behavior.

Most people don’t give a shit about anything abstract or remote. There’s tons of users still on Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Well, yes, “why don’t you care about things?” is a timeless problem. People don’t like to see beyond the immediate. Probably because in pre-history, the creatures that focused on right now did better than the ones who went “but if we keep cutting down the trees, eventually it’s going to cause problems.”

Well, now we have many problems, and our brains have not advanced.

It’s one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that’s where they found out about businesses doing stuff.

Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.

I don’t use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I’m on a couple “things happening in the city” email newsletters. It doesn’t demand my attention.

I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.

But people aren’t up to the challenge.

Break up Google, Facebook, and the other big platforms that let disinformation run rampant.

Hold decision makers at those organizations personally accountable.