notherthrowaway

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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==“[A] private company enforcing their TOS" is a disingenuous characterization of the issue. A de-facto public communication platform -- the "consumer product" in your 'technicalities' world view -- is obstructing d
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==People gleefully discuss Sweden and almost openly hope that their lockdown-free plan fails.== What I see is the opposite, lots of people who want to copy Sweden’s plan regardless of the toll it took on human life. Others want to put mask
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
I know! I never thought I’d see unmarked government agents roaming American cities disappearing people [1]. Maybe the uproar over a private company enforcing their TOS is actually meant to distract from the true authoritarian threat? [1] h
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
Take a look at the national defense budget or each city’s police budget if you think collective safety is below individual freedoms. We clearly put more resources towards collective safety than individual freedoms.
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
I’m not sure I follow. Can you provide examples of policy decisions that are individual and not collective? Also, what “culture” are you referring to?
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
Because nobody should be above the rules they agree to before using. You are arguing for political immunity based on holding a job that is neither elected nor approved by elected officials. That is authoritarian, whether or not you find it
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
Twitter has a terms of service that you must agree to before using. These aren’t the same thing.
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==The WH Press Secretary is a very, very loud voice that should be listened to whether you like it or not.== This sounds pretty authoritarian. I can think of plenty of times this wouldn’t be true. What if she directly invited violence or kn
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
I figured the rules applied to everyone when they sign the TOS.
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
Should the press secretary’s Twitter account get special treatment?
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==And before you say it, "muh private platform" is not an acceptable argument. This is dangerous to our society.== More than one thing can be dangerous to our society, like if these platforms were used to spread falsehoods and mis
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
We have made murder illegal and there is a “murder for hire” black market. How does that refute my point?
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
== People just tend to behave better when they're dealing with a real human being that they've met instead of a screen name in Slack that they argue with every day.== I’ve seen this work with unruly customers, too.
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
You could use the $90 million to diversify your real estate assets or pay down your debt.
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
Lobbying as “too big to fail” is an interesting argument, although your “black market” argument could be made for pretty much any law. On the other hand, we know that legislation and court decisions have a large impact because we’ve witness
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==That means that earnings were coming from somewhere, and if not from core consumer products, then presumably from other things that the stock-market-wealthy were buying from each other, at presumably inflating prices, or at least quantiti
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
It's also possible that after the pandemic, when it's an option again, the youngest employees will prefer to work in offices. Won't the talent drive their choice ultimately?
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
==This general shift in attitude will make it far more realistic to work where you actually in your heart of hearts want to live.== Will young people suddenly not want to live in close proximity to other young people? Will that become anoth
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by notherthrowaway 6y ago
I think people are asking the wrong questions. We know that people moving back in with their parents is up about 3 million due to COVID [1]. It would follow that studio apartments are the mostly likely to be rented by those same young peopl