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It may not seem like it to those of us who know how to do it, but there actually is quite a barrier to entry. You or an organization needs to have the skills to utilize machine learning algorithms, test them thoroughly, package it in an easy-to-use application, then market it and compete against competitors. Just ask your every day Joe what you should do with a learning rate if your error rate suddenly spikes or how to monitor for overfitting. Then ask them how to form an LLC or how to create and audit a liability release waiver for clients.

If that were true, then they would add tags for Christian, Conservative, white, etc. This is obviously just pandering to a certain population for wokeness points.

I saw the same culture policing from advertisers warp the foundation of YouTube too. Why are advertisers like that? Why don't they just go where the people want to go?

Well the cultures of the states differ significantly. It makes sense to me that regional variation would reflect in laws.

I grew up in southern MO. Arkansas was only about a 40 minute drive away, but I can always tell when I'm there compared to at home. The people dress and look a bit different, the houses look different, it's just a different culture. California and New York are like alien worlds to me. The idea that such different people should live under the same framework seems like a good way to amplify regional tensions.

How does it work on the web? Would developers get an opportunity to fix the issues, or would the company randomly get slapped with a massive fine?

It seems like it would be a good way for a company to suppress competitors to a field, they could trigger these kinds of laws in up-and-coming companies.

Im from a rural area too and am in a city. It's the funniest thing to me when I see a lifted truck or jeep with an imaculate white paint job, lol.

All of science is driven by hypothesis, but those hypotheses don't just appear out of nowhere. Suspicion, bias, and bad data can all drive focus on a particular field. In that way, such conjecture is a powerful scientific tool that in my opinion is too often dismissed.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the increased political instability across the US and other countries. A certain subset of the population is prone to conspiratorial thinking. What better way is there to distract those people from political issues?

This is kind of backed up by the fact that the countries that are releasing the most UFO stuff are the ones experiencing the largest spike in instability.

IGN is a video game news website. Not everything needs to focus on the political issues of the time. Video games offer a great way to escape, and seems to be a perfect example of an industry that does best when ignoring such issues.

Just like this site. dang often mentions how certain topics or forms of communication shouldn't be discussed here not because they're unimportant, but because they're not the focus of this site.

Look at Twitter, you see a similar sentiment on the other side.

In the television industry, you've seen a massive segmentation in the news and TV channels over the years. 40 years ago, there were only a few news channels that tried to target the largest demographics possible. Because of that, they largely stayed neutral. However, market competition and other forces have led to a separation between left- and right-leaning news channels. If given the choice, people avoid information that doesn't align with their worldview.

Fast forward to now. Social media companies are anything but unbiased, enforcing a mentality of "tolerance," multiculturalism, and cultural relativism. In such an environment, pushback from people who disagree makes a lot of sense, though it isn't good.

Longevity and lifespan estimation is already well researched within actuarial science. Why couldn't actuarial tables be used for this kind of thing?

Especially if ventilator capacity becomes saturated, this could possibly one day be a scalable alternative.

Transactions between monero accounts can't be tracked, or at least there's no evidence that they can be tracked.

It is. It's a strong oxidizer and damages your lungs. It makes the house smell better because it oxidizes volatile organic compounds in the air, but it's horrible for you.

> How would you define "the old social structures"

They're social and cultural beliefs that used to be accepted by corporations and the media but are now not. For example, unequal outcomes doesn't imply discrimination. Some cultures are better than others. There are widespread physical and psychological differences between men and women. These are common beliefs that are still common, but people are afraid to voice them.

> Do you think they are good/bad/benign.

Any extreme ideology is bad. Requiring strict gender roles or saying whites are superior is extremely harmful. But so is flagrant discrimination against whites or other similar things. What is bad is allowing one extreme while suppressing the other.

> Do you they are still present/fast fading/already gone?

I read some studies somewhere that stated that conservatism and liberalism are inate character traits that never really go away in a population. This means that changes in the visibility of such traits is largely a function of how much power one side or the other can gain. This means that in the 50's, liberalism was just as popular as now but they didn't have the power.

Now its swapped. Liberalism has the power, the corporate support, the narrative. But that doesn't mean that conservatism is any rarer than before. This power asymmetry increases the chances of conflict. See the affect of the Culture Wars on our political system.

I want to emphasize that my personal opinions don't matter much at all here. But if corporations continue asymmetric political pressure, there will be pushback. What will the repercussions of such pushback be?

I really hope this comment gets higher on the page, because I think it explains the situation really well.

I was going to make a comment mentioning how the asymmetry in what is allowed in big companies frustrates me greatly. People who express disdain towards the current social structure and disparage groups like white men get hired left and right while people who vocally express support for older social structures get cancelled. Well your comment explains that asymmetry perfectly with something I had never considered: legal risk.

It is apparent to me that many people in the country still align with the old social structures, but they aren't allowed to thrive in modern corporate America. How will this affect society in the long term? What would it take for things to change?

Not only that, but global warming is slated to destabilize many regions of the planet. The quicker we can move en masse away from oil, the less severe that transition will be.

Here in Missouri, many people with private land plant alfalfa plots and use deer feeders and mineral blocks to help the deer grow big and healthy, with big racks that make for good trophies.

The thing is that even with areas where feeding like this doesn't occur like the Mark Twain National Forest, overpopulation is still an issue, so their claim that feeding causes issues is inaccurate, or at least incomplete and more nuanced. It just improves their quality of life and health until they're hunted. Technically it could increase the carrying capacity of the species, but because the population is managed, it's not really an issue.

Hunting is much more than about population control, I mentioned that in my comment when I said "Hunting is similarly important in some places in Africa, providing them an incentive to maintain their local wildlife population."

In poor regions of the world, incentive alignment is important for species conservation and survival. The people are often barely surviving. If there is no incentive to keep endangered species alive and thriving, then they will be killed for bushmeat. Legal, controlled hunting that brings revenue to an area will help such species survive.

Makes sense. Politics is just the study of power and a political system is just a codified process for transferring and leveraging power, but it's all based on human nature which is universal.

Not just starve. Overpopulation also drastically increases the frequency of disease in a population, they get much sicker. Plus with deer, an increased population increases road deaths from deer crossing.

"as the government set out a suite of animal welfare measures including... banning the import of hunting trophies."

This part is surprising to me. Hunting is actually really important in a lot of areas. Deer hunting is really big where I live. It controls the deer population here, where they would become massively overpopulated without intervention. It brings in tons of revenue for our state's conservation department, providing money that is then used to restore the environment, bring back expatriated animals, and enforce wildlife laws. Hunting is similarly important in some places in Africa, providing them an incentive to maintain their local wildlife population.

Seems like an odd part of the law to pass when considering this.

Something interesting to note - I think if your account gets deranked by the moderators(I don't know the details of how it works), your account gets significantly fewer upvotes yet receives all downvotes, disincentivizing controversial speech. I think it's done on my account, and while it's annoying sometimes, it's been a net positive for me(I'm sensitive to votes).

Law enforcement enforces laws. If they correctly do so, then their actions are not criminal. You may not like the laws theu enforce, but the way to address that is not to abolish LE, but to fix the law.

Shooting a moving target is actually extremely difficult, especially if you are using a rifle instead of a shotgun. You can also see one of the soldiers drawing and aiming a handgun after landing, so they aren't completely without firepower. Chances are good that they could also strap a bullpup rifle or subcompact machine gun on their chest during flight.

Also if significant resistance is expected, there are always torpedoes.

For people who drive, yes. It does to me at least.

I wish there was a centralized repository of interesting Cold War stories, it seems like there would be a lot.

If someone did horrible, unspeakable things to a loved one of mine and the police caught them before I did, I would want them killed. I understand that not everyone thinks that way, but there are plenty of people in my region of the country who do.

You're spending a portion of what you make to stabilize society and prevent poverty-driven riots across the country during a global pandemic. There's nothing out of control about it

> The author has 10 years of experience at Google and could easily find a very well paying job either at another department inside Google, or at another company.

My point is that quitting or getting a different job accomplishes nothing. With a multinational corporation like Google, they will never struggle to fill roles. If you work in these positions, you at least have influence on product growth, and you can use the massive amount of money earned to lobby against harmful behavior. If you quit, you have no internal influence and have less money to take political action with, meaning the only way you could change things is through legislation.