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basically yes. but it's a lot nicer, IMO, than Reddit's interface.

> he can delete it if he wishes

or by Twitter itself if Jack is at some point deemed problematic enough by modern puritans.

it would still be a test of the system though, because it would only be a small subset of the population.

limiting free speech, censoring people and media, is regressive and authoritarian to the core. don't kid yourself.

> when your speech offends someone

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

Stephen Fry

that sounds like what KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov describes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

leave tech because of a gender neutral saying and no ill intent whatsoever?

that's ridiculous, honestly. it's just an example of how people can always find a reason to play the victim. you don't have to play along and reinforce victim mentality.

because one's choices are going to be different with $500/mo temporarily vs $1k/mo for life. the former is a temporary windfall, the latter is UBI.

to actually test UBI, the amount needs to be substantial and with no end.

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

It suffices for an intransigent minority – a certain type of intransigent minorities – to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

> ...after receiving $500 per month for two years

I mean, of course? what else do you expect with $500/mo capped at 2 years?

that's not UBI. the test needs to be at least $1k/mo, indefinitely.

I like the idea of making this stuff easier to digest, but I'm curious in what way are SEC filings and earning reports less accessible for young people vs old people?

all true, but does it even matter anymore? Tesla has a P/E of over 1,000, for example.

increasingly people invest based on the story and the ebb and flow of social media. does the balance sheet play into this? it doesn't appear so...

embarrassing is too light a word.

Rockstar has virtually endless resources and the game has been out for many years. for years, they didn't reduce the extremely long load times? not only embarrassing, but shows deep incompetence and lack of respect for the craft and for end users.

good points. maybe that makes all the difference between Doordash compared to Google/Yelp, where McDonalds is more along the lines of 1 or 2 out of 5.

it means Doordash ratings are useless for discovery, but if you already know the restaurant, it might have utility in terms of delivery.

and Doordash. how is everything >4? are we really to believe that McDonalds has a rating of 4.6 out of 5?

it makes the system completely useless.

nailed it. most people outsource their beliefs and simply echo the positions and words of their tribal leaders.

do you think that D&D is a front for demon worship?

we're in a time of moral panic. this is what it looks like.

familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.

related, is there any way to actually shut it off via Chrome?

I have the password manager disabled (supposedly) and using 1Password, but Chrome's version still pops up on login forms and interferes with 1Password.

many of us were against it when the puritanical right was censoring people/art/media, and we're still against it now that it's a puritanical left censoring people/art/media.

why is that so hard to understand and to be consistent about this? people need to stop getting distracted by naked partisanship and focus on the issue. a principled stance is key!

now we're seeing big tech getting roped in and the tools of censorship are expanding. you may be fine with that now, but the tools will change hands. imagine them in the hands of your enemy.

comedians know how to take heat better than almost anyone. they stand on stage, alone. Seinfeld has done this literally thousands of times. think he's afraid of critical response? not remotely.

and it's not just Seinfeld, many comedians have said the same thing. as Dave Chappelle recently pointed out, the audience is the problem:

https://youtu.be/2MZZ__5F_-A?t=54

also, as Stephen Fry famously said, “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."

I'm not sure that is an excessive description anymore.

Jerry Seinfeld, a mainstream comedian, stopped playing at college campuses years ago already because he was getting picked apart and no longer welcome. at precisely the place that is supposed to be the most transgressive and open to ideas! a place to expand minds, remember? now it fully embraces orthodoxy and censorship.

or take the case of Bret Weinstein. a liberal, progressive professor who was exiled from campus for not bending to the mob. now he's being called a eugenicist, white supremacist and more with little resistance. here's a transcript from Clubhouse just a few days ago:

Brett W: "Let me just say, I am an evolutionary biologist. I'm very interested in how language actually changes..."

Brooklyn: "A eugenicist."

Brett: "Say again?"

Brooklyn: "A eugenicist. That's what you mean as evolution..."

Brett: "No, no, no..."

Brooklyn: "Those are the same thing."

Brett: "No, it's not the same thing."

Brooklyn: "They are the same. They are the same. I've seen the research. They are the same. You will not argue that here, you're not about to wiggle out of that."

you can hear the whole exchange here: https://youtu.be/YyCj5UaG1kI?t=9900

this isn't just a one off thing, it's increasingly prevalent. if we're not already in an intellectual dark age, we're on the fast track to it. the trend line is clear.

moral panics and the resulting witch-hunting/burning is feature of humanity that comes and goes. the mob always thinks it's a good idea in the moment, but history never looks fondly upon it.

it's not an overnight disaster, so it won't work like that.

people are moving to Miami in droves right now and there's a big push to turn it into the next Silicon Valley. that's an aspirational goal and future facing in a geography that's among the most vulnerable to climate change. they know we can solve slow moving disasters.

when private companies screw up, they usually go bankrupt and die. you never hear from them again, if you even did in the first place (mostly not).

unless they are "too big to fail" and effectively part of the government. in that case yes, we all pay for their losses.

it's money laundering in the same way that the art world and car washing businesses are money laundering. meaning, it's mostly not money laundering, but some use it for that.

> Equal opportunities should exist. Equal outcomes won't likely exist, purely because of different abilities, different environments, etc.

Thomas Sowell puts an even finer point on this:

"If there is not equality of outcomes among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected — or assumed — when conditions are not nearly so comparable?"

that's an important observation. the students are secondary, at best, to the culture war being waged by activist adults.

also the victims of teacher unions that are keeping schools closed, despite the lack of scientific evidence supporting that position.

crab bucket mentality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

I'm genuinely curious why you're still pushing the oppressor narrative, given that you see how it's being used as a weapon to enforce equality of outcome? instead of equality of opportunity.