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An active incentive for them to piss off, rather than them going underground in their activism.

I mean, I agree with you, but it's still not work appropriate discussion.

Very different than campaigning for BLM or MAGA at work.

(No insider information, but) I suspect Drive, Photos, Assistant are all 1B+. Most of the new stuff from Google is features on existing products (which cover such broad markets that it's almost pointless launching major stuff as often).

> They only want popular, cool stuff - and catering to the disabled and less fortunate isn't popular or cool.

While the former is certainly true, the latter is definitely not. It's literally in the mission statement.

Honestly, if Zuck pushed out the SJW types, I'd love to work there for half my current salary. He's showing solid leadership right now and just needs to go slightly further.

> our moral duty

Yes, but NOT by censorship, but with counterfactuals! And certainly not by a gigantic megacorporation like Facebook.

They are not the arbiters of speech and quite frankly it's too much to ask of them. And imo, anyone who is happy to be an arbiter of speech is somebody you should be very, very afraid of.

oh, for sure! Humans just aren't designed to communicate in a one-to-millions paradigm, and it shows strongly in the political divide we all face.

> Not necessarily at the same price though. The US healthcare system is crazy expensive because US salaries for high-skill individuals are crazy high (because tuition is crazy high?....). To fund an expansion might be more expensive.

Cut new grad salaries in return for halfing their student loan, otherwise the outrageous cost of education is being subsidised by the sick and elderly.

> There is such a thing as objective reality and the history of the past forty years of conservative politics is a history of conservatives abandoning objective reality in favor of delusions they find comforting.

Again, "the other side" has the exact same concerns about your tribe.

> I get that my whole world view is a conglomeration of what I was taught, when I grew up, what I've read etc. but if I didn't think I was at least partially right why would I believe it.

Everyone believes this. It becomes dangerous when we start assuming these are the correct beliefs.

> I don't know how to bridge the conceptual gap between the ideological poles here.

Just talk to conservatives, in my experience they're willing to listen.

There's been too many instances of people with edgy opinions banned for being fake, so this could make things worse.

Area 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.

Ads are only the way of making money, or are you saying it only matters what the end result is? It's possible to sell ads and also do good with the work.

Language aside, I do agree. People should be happy that companies are contributing to standards rather than forcing them down people's throats by virtue of having a giant user base.

They don't like the leaks but are quite tolerant of them. The exception seems to be the HL2 Beta leak from decades ago.

Discord screenshare :)

> Countries do it all the time and there are conflicts because it all the time everywhere. UK is slightly different because EU is much stronger than UK, withdrawal agreement is important to keep food, medicine and skills flowing between borders.

[Citation needed.]

Plus, the government's argument (today at least) is that the EU broke the agreement first, so it's nil and invalid.

The minute the government comes to censor you, I sense opinions will change. Do not give up that right.

Both political parties have taken "misinformation" to mean "information they don't like", which complicates things.

There are very different levels of misinfo:

- Democrats think Trump is a Nazi/Russian collaborator

- People who think Earth is flat

- People who think Covid-19 is a globalist conspiracy from Bill Gates - so he can inject us with microchip vaccines

- People who think Brexit is an amazing/terrible idea

- People who think QAnon is a real issue

- etc...

It's simply too broad a brush to call it "disinfo", and those who claim to combat disinfo should be looked at with heavy skepticism for this reason. It will get abused for political ends.

$75 should cover the basics, including a sub to Facebook/Google if you want it. It's far too much to pay for only the internet pipes.

Other than the US regulating the shit out of overseas companies like China does, they can't.

Not everyone can be an engineer (IQ aside, there literally isn't enough jobs like that), but everyone needs a house. How do you square that circle?

I want to agree with you, but The Donald was banned. Bing doesn't mention this and Google does. Why link to a dead site?

What about when people are bidding on CPA and not CPC? Surely that gives a representative number.

People fleeing the climate alone could collapse the global food chain. I personally thing we're a little too interconnected in the name of efficiency.

Kind of. But realise when this starts happening at-scale, every news anchor, celebrity and politician will be talking about the dangers of deepfakes. The layperson won't be ignorant for long. Already I see non-techie friends talking about deepfakes.

While this is abhorrent, the likely end result is people will stop trusting video they see online. That combined with sites like thispersondoesnotexist.com might actually increase the personal privacy of people online. We might end up in a state where employers stop researching candidates from their apparent Facebook profiles.

Eh... the old neocons aren't the same breed of conservative that is the Trump supporters. They seem very much in favour of pardoning Snowden.

"I ate a chocolate bar and regretted it, so I won't pay the shop".

Buyer's remorse doesn't make this more ethical.