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"Too big to fail..by law"

Have we learned...nothing?

People that did or did not go to war, went without then obtained health care coverage I think would disagree with you.

Perhaps you were never in danger of any of those things, thus to you, there was/is no difference.

It was at least a reliable signal that the person is who they say they are. They are shifting away from actual verification towards attempting to sell status, which rarely works.

Are you implying there was no fundamental difference between the Obama and Trump governments? Clinton and Bush?

You can exploit anything, what's your point? There is still a fundamental difference at play.

Your industry exists only by taking in more in premiums than you give out in care, correct?

> Youtube took down every channel that didn't agree with the US government/Uncle Joe on Russia/Nato/Ukraine, at least.

No they didn't, they stopped actively promoting them. Not the same thing.

Are you online demanding VK and other Russian social media give equal reach to MSNBC and CNN? If you're not, you should.

It's called a physics textbook and you can buy one anywhere.

It's always so simple when you take the time to break it down..

Trump admin was caught scrubbing embarrassing statements from official transcripts, but it's not common

> It's an embarrassingly shallow model of how how humans behave.

It's a trade off. Viewing rates give back feedback 100% of the time. Asking users for a thumbs up or down gives feedback almost none of the time, and still might not be accurate.

It is the safest time in human history. Not for your laptop sitting in a car perhaps, but the greater context is important.

> They could push educational content to children but that doesn't mean children would take it.

Isn't that a different point to the one being made? I thought you were arguing that pushing positive content to kids was an overblown story for some reason. That it wasn't really happening.

Then, according to the algorithm, you do want to see them.

If you are going to say something like this:

> Main thing I notice is the fear I sense in people whenever cops are nearby, and definitely the sense of this security state hovering over everyone

You should know what that feels like, when it actually occurs. Similarly when someone rushes to declare their country has become "Nazi Germany", they ought to read a history book or two.

> (i.e. That the ruling entity needs to have the support of the majority of demos)

There is nothing undemocratic about federalist republics. Or parliamentary democracies that require coalitions to rule. They are simply different kinds of democracy.

I still don't follow. You accept that content on Douyin is controlled, but not to the degree that's being reported? And that censorship is absolute, but the engineering of all content flows based on age doesn't exist ?

Douyin is still heavily censored like all other Chinese platforms, right? If so, why are the above content restrictions so unbelievable?

China can get data from TikTok whenever it wants, that's not quite the same as success campaigns for selective censorship.

> emphasises that not restricting certain generated content would hurt users.

Being nice to person B threatening person A is not being nice to person A.

> In these places there are much more distinct mono-cultures relating to race than there are in the US.

So, ghettos. I'm not saying there's not a "little Italy" in most American cities, but a Turkish person living in Germany their whole life is still Turkish. American in Japan, same. These places don't even allow the possibility of assimilation.

Or as my English friend put it, "there's a difference between tolerance and acceptance."

It's called perspective. If you don't have it, fine. But I wouldn't loudly brag about how small your world is.

> I don't think America accepts immigrants; in most places there's a pleasant apathy toward them. You're not really considered "American" by most born here

Not been my experience in NYC and other places. Quite the opposite. Also have you seen European integration of foreigners up close? Middle East? Asia?

My guess is no, because these places make it far more difficult to assimilate (if not impossible)

If you are going to shorthand entire countries as "shitholes" you should do so up front, so I don't waste my time responding to you.

Oh no, it gets worse: https://hongkongfp.com/2022/09/26/father-of-chinese-ink-girl...

People work hard to justify their decisions after they made them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias

The "I dont like this tweet" function is completely broken. I don't like blocking or muting, but I have to tell Twitter over and over I don't want to see certain people (including King Joffrey) but it never works.

Does your anecdote include the immigrant experience? You are perhaps describing the experience of a Lebanese in Lebanon, or a German in Germany. What about everyone else?

> A big part of American fear is knowing that nearly every single person you interact with that isn't a friend of yours doesn't really consider you their "people".

The other side of this coin: America actually accepts people from other places. Most of the world will always see you as foreign if you come from abroad, even if you have lived there your whole life.

The spilt between "we want to go back to the office" and "we want to stay remote" on my team was perfectly decided based on if the individual had kids or not.