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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

What is your baseline? Did you really live thirty two years never talking to a woman before? More information would be good.

And what are your goals? You're hinting at something romantic or sexual but didn't say anything clear on that subject.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

To be clear, a lot of that is the Web, not the internet overall.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The post title is BS, but the content is worthwhile, lol. Singling out just one person? Come on now, don't be a doofus.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 hours ago

Your logic is the first step in what we call "blaming the victim". In reality minors often end up in bad situations, but you don't get to blame them for older people's actions. Be careful here.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

IMO platforms that filter such words are in need of replacement. Easier said than done, but best acknowledged as soon as possible.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 22 hours ago

You claim that no one sees how bad this is but actually millions of people see how bad it is. Perhaps more. Perhaps tens or hundreds of millions. The educators, the authors, the small website people, Wikipedia, the list goes on and on. And that's not even mentioning the environmentalists.

One of your other claims is peculiar. You said that some of the AI promoters think it's good. But maybe that's deceptive. They probably think making money is good, and they would tell you that AI is inevitable, but it's unclear if they actually believe any of the bullshit that they spout. Probably some of them do, but they would deceive themselves in order to justify their own income stream, right? Insert that classic Upton Sinclair quote.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 20 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

If only someone could invent a distributed open source social media platform, wouldn't that be great. Then he could spend his time and energy doing something more productive.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

They already do that. Now they will do it less.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Right, except now reality is proving you wrong. This is perhaps the one single issue where the conspiracy theorist crowd won't just go along with what Mr. Orange says. And we know that because they haven't, because they aren't.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My friend, you could have called us "idealists" back then, but now you're just fooling yourself. Hillary and Harris lost. They lost, your agenda lost, your agenda failed. But somehow you have the gall to accuse us of being "idealists" when your own ideals keep losing in the polls.

Why don't we try something good, something that would actually benefit the people? Maybe that would actually work.

What would have happened if the finance industry had to regulate? Ask the history books. It has been done in the distant past, successfully, several times. And of course in other countries more recently, also successfully. It turns out that we can stop ultra rich from getting richer, but only if we have the courage to try. Maybe someday you will find it.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

You seriously don't remember when Obama went the pro-corporate road at the expense of the American people, or even the globe itself? Really?

The Affordable Care Act. The bailout. The housing bubble collapse. The drone strikes. Letting the courts get stacked. The continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... My god, that's like every major issue, isn't it?

Of course he wasn't alone. I'm not blaming him as the only person responsible. But he was responsible, he was a lackluster president at best, and he spent eight years pushing the country towards where it is right now. Millions of us were saying that at the time, and we still are today. If you weren't listening, that's your own fault. If you didn't believe us, that's your own fault.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 51 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Mr. Obama, you caved on all of the major issues. You were a great candidate, an amazing speech giver, and a mediocre president. And that's OK -- we would be happy with mediocre today -- but you don't get to tell us what's good for the party when you are the perfect example of its biggest problem.

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