Preaching to the choir. I predicted Harris’s loss in September 2024. They’ll never listen.

We’re a country that punishes whistleblowers and leakers harder than we punish war criminals, so I’m not exactly optimistic about us ever having a progressive foreign policy. Hell, in 2024, the supposed progressives told us to just ignore Joe Biden’s enthusiastic participation in a genocide that not only targeted kids, but resulted in a state-engineered famine. Just the most ghoulish, disgusting stuff.

I think that’s a very easy thing to say, but for the younger generations, using social media isn’t too dissimilar from breathing. It’s just something you do.

It’s certainly a possibility, no doubt.

I just read the article and couldn’t get past my first thought being ‘Florida Man’, because I have no good reason to think some dumbass Floridian wouldn’t do this.

Just make that dinosaur minipig-sized and you have a deal.

It’s really demonstrative of how insidious social media and algorithmically-elevated content have become that this is even a question.

The boomers and wine moms we’re all trying to get to see reason are literally having a separate reality constructed for them by the content and corporate social media that they consume.

You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

I could get behind this.

Respectfully, I’ve heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.

What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

This is good info, and you’re right. Engagement is driven by provocative and radicalizing content.

Performative masculinity reminds me of that scene where Joffrey can’t shut up about how he’s the king, and then gets verbally bitch slapped by Tywin about the stupidity of having to whine about being the king.

The successive layers of cruelty and reckless disregard - the woman calling the police for an apparent lost handicapped person, the charges, local LE calling BP, the guilty plea, BP taking custody for a “courtesy ride” that no one was told about that left him to die - are just incredible.

Incredible isn’t the word I’d use, personally, but the route to his death was certainly more circuitous than normal.

The only way my views have changed over time is that, more and more, I’m convinced that nothing I do affects much of anything beyond my own neighborhood. I have no illusions about significant national change, but I can keep my own block clean and take good care of people here.

I’d love to see any solution centered around the individual and a lengthy lockdown of the account associated with their IP.

Oh yeah, especially now that suicide rates are spiking, at least here in the US.

Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We’d need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM’s and automods.

Yeah, in any other country I’m not sure this would even be a news story.

I think more than a few people asked a similar question about Al Capone, but Elliott Ness and friends were forced to operate within the realistic parameters they were stuck with, so they got him on tax evasion instead of murder and racketeering.

Do any of us think Meta will moderate content in any meaningful way? Even for this supposed parental supervision program?

Sounds like a take straight from one’s dumbass social media algorithm. Imagine not having a car and also being anti-public transportation.

You must have endless patience, Madz.