Trigger warnings aren’t effective for everyone and can sometimes make things worse is what you mean

This is your brain on breitbart*

This is your brain on Breitbart.

Don’t be an asshole

Idk an admin said it mattered

Truth

• I am pro deplatforming.

• I need to look into the finances more before drawing a conclusion. Not a good look at face value though.

• let’s see the suit play out, but also concerning

• don’t know enough about anonym but acquiring an ad-focused company is hardly an indictment

• they reversed course on the Russia issue so that’s not an issue and should make you feel better. Their reasoning was also legitimate, even so good on them for realizing it was the wrong - if well intentioned - decision.

• everyone is exploring AI who gives a shit. They’ve hardly forced it down our throats like everyone else.

With all of this in mind i’m down to be critical but this is not enough to warrant the hate.

They can’t reach the artist for permission sadly

Is this the new technique because all these companies already completed enshitification? Briefly remove the things people hate in the hopes that it will draw them back, only to rug pull them again?

I do not understand how folks like you get so shitty about Firefox taking Google money for making it a default search engine when that is the very clear, very limited extent of their relationship. This is the definition of “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Because Firefox is pretty damn near perfect. I feel like I have to be missing something here.

What is the issue here? What compromises have they made that make them so irredeemable? If it’s the search default for google that’s just not sufficient IMO.

Google pays Firefox a lot of money to make it the default search engine. It also takes like three clicks to swap it to DDG or something you prefer. If I were Mozilla/Firefox, I would take the money too lol

Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.

You are aware that 6-10 year olds spend time around adults and other kids older than they are right? Did you never pick up anything from an older sibling or kid at your school?

My 4 year old has all sorts of isms and habits he learned from me and my wife, aka his parents. There are tons of explanations beyond “all slang is the result of parents too lazy to raise kids so they drop them in front of an iPad.”

We live in a society (seriously). We have communities. People spread language and customs every day between each other.

Watching millennials/gen x pick on Gen Z for the same behaviors we all had gets old doesn’t it?

I do not see the connection between kids using slang and illiteracy. I’m guessing you never use(d) any yourself?

Also good luck prohibiting kids from the internet lol clearly someone doesn’t have kids!

Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol

So you’re not going to vote? Just want to be clear here.

Honestly I find moderation is often too prescriptive and thus leaves openings for bad actors to be disruptive while going “I didn’t explicitly break any named-rule” as they find ways to constantly skirt them deliberately. I am all for moderators going “you’re just disruptive or otherwise bad for this community so I don’t want you around.”

And I think that’s a great way to handle it! But people just preemptively commenting about their concern for tankies is almost like bait lol

Ignore and deplatform. By far the most effective way to deal with unwanted groups online