I noticed that in some of those situations people forget that they also googled the topic they just discussed. So e.g. two friends were having a conversation about camping and googled specific camping items or locations. Then (seemingly suspiciously) relevant ads show up in places they would not expect. This is indeed happening very often as search/ads companies harvest enormous amounts of data and feed it into targeting almost immediately. And since there are only a few big ads networks, these interest-based ads then show up everywhere.
Readit Newschanging1999 commented on Majority of people believe their devices spy on them to serve up ads newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
changing1999 commented on Bluesky Tech Starter Pack github.com/stevendborrell... · Posted by u/fofoz
People should have the right to control the information flow to themselves in such a platform, for any reason they want. Neither you nor me nor anybody is owed any attention by OP or anyone. Attention is a personal resource and it is not owed to anybody. Having a platform that actually facilitates this level of control is amazing. As much as I am for the freedom of speech and expression in these platforms, I am also for the freedom of deciding whether one wants to be subjected or not to somebody else's expression, and both are irrespective to how I feel about the specific speech or expression or reasons behind any of these.
I am highlighting the problem with relying on lists, rather than making an informed decision individually. Of course, there is convenience in that, and everyone should do whatever they want. However, BS is very quickly becoming an echo-chamber worse than Reddit.
changing1999 commented on Bluesky Tech Starter Pack github.com/stevendborrell... · Posted by u/fofoz
I'm one of those millions of people that joined Bluesky in the past couple of weeks.
It's.. great. At least the feed I have feels very early-2010s internet before all the hate and weirdness. This may go away as others join but it seems bsky really has thought this through too. They not only have starter packs like this but you can use the same thing as "block-lists". Idk if twitter has that but wow it's nice to know I can just ignore like a hundred neo-nazi accounts with the click of a button and literally never have to interact with them.
To be honest though, I haven't even had to. I don't see their content rising to the top of my feed like I know is happening on X.
I have been called a nazi for stating that Ukraine has the right to defend itself. So I am probably on one of your lists.
changing1999 commented on Maybe Bluesky has "won" anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/ma... · Posted by u/GavinAnderegg
When you post on Instagram, there are opt-out features that will 'automatically share to your Threads account too' and you can see Threads notifications in the Instagram app and such .. so I think it's reasonable to assume they are leveraging the Instagram user-base a bit.
Just double checking - there is an opt-out feature that cross-posts all IG posts to Threads?
changing1999 commented on Maybe Bluesky has "won" anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/ma... · Posted by u/GavinAnderegg
That's my guess. By having either of those accounts you automatically got a threads account.
True. But you don't become an active monthly user. Unless there are some shenanigans happening, which is highly likely. I think I visited Threads by accident several times by clicking posts in IG, that were apparently Threads posts embedded directly into IG as a growth hack (my speculation).
changing1999 commented on Clifton Suspension Bridge Leaves X twitter.com/brunelsbridge... · Posted by u/jones58
> threats of death o[r] violence
OK my threshold for that word is sort of lower. Like the other day I watched Rachel Maddow on Youtube commenting on the election, and the comments were full of misogynist, well, 'sneers', let's call them that. No "I will punch you" or worse, but an aggressive, menacing, demeaning, sexist, supremacist tone. To me that already is hate speech, because it is speech that expresses hate and is intended to rile up other people so they chime in and express hate, too.
It's ice cream in the sense that frozen yogurt is ice cream, maybe except for the law.
The problem with codifying hate speech (and, eventually, punishing for it) is that even today the existing definitions are extremely broad and subjective. UN's own definition includes the use of pejorative language, i.e. "disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect" towards something. This is clearly illiberal, anti free-speech, and extremely dangerous (society-ending dangerous).
Before reading the article I thought it would be because of the name, like when it was hard to find the (great) album "The Music" by the band "The Music" in the early 2000s.
Reminds me of the joke from Peep show about naming their band "Various Artists".
It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.
There is a huge number of TV shows (e.g. old British comedy shows) and movies (e.g. big releases from Trier) that are not available to stream on any streaming service in the US. There is no other option than to pirate. An astoundingly ridiculous situation.
> This point is reasonable and data seems to suggest that it is statistically probable.
You found a random datapoint to compare to without accounting for confounding variables. That is an unserious analysis.
> Yes. Can 21K deaths be attributed so slavery? No evidence. This is not splitting hairs, this is a reasonable approach to digging into details when dealing with complex issues.
The issue is not complex. You are just using this air of objectivity as cover for your intellectual incuriosity. You could literally stop arguing with me and go read articles that have been documenting the high mortality rate and human rights abuses, that have been coming out since around the time that the Qatar World Cup was announced, but you wont. People have done the legwork to bring this journalism to you, but you wont bother to go and read it, because you'd rather pull some stats out of your ass and call it a day, and then lecture others about emotionally-driven arguments.
The fundamental problem here is that you are being intellectually incurious, but don't want to admit it, and you are trying to stave off the cognitive dissonance that happens when you read about something bad happening, so you can contextualize it and go about your day without feeling sad. If that's the case, just say "I don't live in Saudi Arabia why the fuck do I care", at least it's honest.
Hope you get well soon!
I like that you ignored my first point where I pointed out that your objective, rational analysis failed to account for basic variables like age and sex.
1. I don't need to prove "all workers" are slaves, that is an arbitrary burden established by you. I can provide links for you to educate yourself about the Kafala[0] system however. Here is an excerpt from the section on Saudi Arabia:
"an employer assumes responsibility for a hired migrant worker and must grant explicit permission before the worker can enter Saudi Arabia, transfer employment, or leave the country. The kafala system gives the employer immense control over the worker."
Sounds like ownership to me. You can dispute that if you want but I don't think it is a meaningful distinction to make, personally.
2. > My guess is that it's some combination of (a) truly awful slave-like conditions, (b) just general "lack of safety culture" conditions (e.g. ~100 people died building the Hoover Dam - I don't think people considered them slaves but they definitely weren't following OSHA rules)
OP is trying to contextualize the deaths in a way that makes them "cleaner" or "more acceptable" instead of just reading the damn articles that actual investigative journalists have written which would prove to them that YES this is slavery and YES these are human beings that are being worked to death.
If all your objective, rational analysis has wrought is a shitty half-assed statistical comparison in an attempt to justify slavery, on an internet forum, what good was it to begin with?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafala_system#:~:text=The%20ka....
> I'd like to see this death rate for the subset of the SA population that matches migrant demographics, ex: age and gender. Then we can see what the comparable death rates are for healthy young men.
I don't disagree with your first point. Yes, I would like to see these breakdowns. However, OP's point was that other factors like natural death can account for some of these numbers. This point is reasonable and data seems to suggest that it is statistically probable.
> educate yourself about the Kafala[0] system
Is this an abusive system? Yes. Does it create opportunities for slavery? Yes. Can 21K deaths be attributed so slavery? No evidence. This is not splitting hairs, this is a reasonable approach to digging into details when dealing with complex issues.