I guess there's going to have to be a law, since the perpetrators just can't control themselves.

A bill.

So, anyone remember who has to sign a bill for it to become law? Anyone at school the day they taught that? Maybe there was a cute cartoon and a song on TV explaining this.

all of the U.S. is now a flyover state.

The audacity of using the word "engineer" is galling enough.

If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won't go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there's your phrase for the day)

those folks are just over 100 days in to a new administration and you're expecting... something different? Something more? What you are seeing IS the difference.

When was the last time you saw town hall meetings being held 100 days in with protesters being dragged out? These folks are letting their displeasure known. This is what a movement looks like in its early stages. Don't even be insinuating that it's not enough, or that progress isn't being made.

I saw this one in the store over by the 9" nails

gee, how difficult would it be to get the same AI to start creating posts that seem like us, but with slightly different political views?
How difficult would it be for FB to lock a bunch of loudmouths out of their accounts and generate posts on their behalf, steadily shifting to the right over time?

of course, "they would NEVER do that".
Right.
Because all of the things that people said they would never do, they already have done, and continue to do.

He was definitely well spoken and definitely had a good message. It's not at all surprising that we haven't heard of him.

I felt like this in January when this was first published and I still feel like it today. I'm not really sure what it will take for things to change but I get the feeling that powerful and wealthy people do not want things to change.

I guess "think of the children" only applies when it erodes consumer privacy

yeah it's "Nice country you got here... shame if some annexin' happened to it." Very Mobster, but without any of the panache associated with it.

next time, tell your boss that Claude should replace him, not you.

Discussion of Lemmy doesn't seem to be actively stifled, if that's what you mean. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ exists

I mean it's already 1/4 demolished as it is

Little fellow will be disappointed by every other field trip he goes on for the rest of his days.

instead of saying "it's been nice knowing you" it seems more like "it would have been nice to know you"

to them it's isn't so much "doing nothing and getting paid is a crime"

it's "being nobody and getting paid is a crime."

The redactions are not intended to protect the victims. Every redaction protects him.

Those websites didn't create the emojis.