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Propaganda by definition can be basically anything, and isn't inherently bad, it just means someone is spreading a message on purpose. What makes it bad is when it is in support of evil. People often think the solution should be to give control to some central authority which identifies the bad propaganda and filters it out, but that's a problem because such authorities are subject to powerful perverse incentives and are easily corrupted. Obviously the current US government is going to promote harmful propaganda and suppress necessary propaganda, and even if we can boot them out, the underlying corruption risk will remain.

I think the only actually robust solutions possible will have to involve individuals being able to take on more responsibility for social networks and information sharing, and not leaving it up to a company to decide what everyone sees. The basic premise of TikTok as an endless stream of personally appealing content that a hidden algorithm curates for everyone is inherently dangerous. People should move to some sort of model of sharing information that has more of a community trust dynamic and involves way more people in the work of filtering out bad info, and doesn't put all the trust in a single party.

Yeah, not everyone would be this considerate

In this case I feel like it is extra nefarious, since the point of using chromebooks in schools is also to surveil students and not give them control over devices that are managed by school admins who would like a company to ensure that they do not get revealed as incompetent by child hackers. That shit is getting normalized and students are also not getting experience working with computers that aren't just edu-kiosks that only allow superficial interaction. Major contributing factor to tech illiteracy.

Should be pretty simple to make a client display things like that without voting UI stuff

A substantial portion of the posts I was seeing on this website were about said event, and it seems unlikely that it wasn't a factor in this comic being posted. Presumably the point of this community is to have more degree of separation from that stuff.

Why and how is it that people in countries with unstable currency are somehow providing profit to you?

Afaik most of the revenue for stablecoin issuers comes from investing the dollars backing the stablecoins mostly in things like treasuries ("cash-equivalent assets") and pocketing the interest. They don't provide all of those dollars to begin with, rather people give it to them in exchange for stablecoins, and they accumulate a lot. Actual users of stablecoins don't pay fees to the issuers. Not sure if issuing stablecoins is the actual business this person is involved in though, that statement is vague and it could be something else.

An interesting fact is that even if stablecoin issuers wanted to give some of that interest back to users instead of keeping it all themselves, the US government has been recently taking steps to make that illegal.

Imagine being the person who paid 7.9 Bitcoin for stolen Runescape gold that now gets deleted

Too topical to the political events of the day

What's a better way to word it? I can't think of another way to say it that's as concise and clearly communicates the idea. It seems like it would be harder in general to describe machines meant to emulate human thought without anthropomorphic analogies.

I thought this talk page comment was pretty cool:

Get off your highly partisan POV-pushing labeling of him as a "domestic terrorist". You will need reliable sources to verify any claims that Pretti fired a shot, obstructed operations, resisted arrest, or any of the other drivel that you have mentioned here. That's enough, and you are violating WP:BLP by even mentioning any of this unsourced nonsense here.

I think maybe we're getting to the non-boring type of dystopia

If you were invited to such a party you're probably already ahead of the curve