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Comment · 1 year ago
I will do it. The Covid vaccine propaganda.

Could not be a better example of how it leaned one way.

Comment · 1 year ago
The converse is how helpful cars are. It allows people to have the ability commute from areas they live at to where they work. It brings down the cost of living by expanding the commute availability circle, instead of driving up land values for the desirable areas.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agreed. Huge help for anxiety. The other side is to make sure no one reads it.

Or, to just state facts and not actually bring in emotional states.

Comment · 2 years ago
It was not just Google. All of the search engines have an initial period of being good then when they get to a state of market domination or market penetration, the SEO and large companies with money show up. The SEO people game the system, while the people in companies with money, simply pay to be at the top of the chart or surreptitiously give money to be at the top of the chart. The surgeons are fine when they start getting market traction that the issue starts to pop up.
Comment · 2 years ago
The internet died in 2016, when Google announced they would do more to influence elections.

After that, the powers that are in charge have engaged in social manipulation to try and steer the internet to provide only the ”approved” concepts.

Gemini’s results on blacks proliferating in the confederate army is an example of how far it has gone.

Wikipedia is not trustworthy on articles on notable people (watch when an election kicks off and how manipulated they are) and Google tries to openly manipulate search results because of the SEO decisions made years ago.

Our only hope is Web3 and an ability to host stuff on there.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you are saying a better state would allow them on social media, something that has been shown to be detrimental to children under eighteen, how can it be a better state?
Comment · 2 years ago
Google had a long running joke on their website where if you searched for idiot in the White House under the Bush 2 regime, the first response was Bush. People thought it was funny, others complained and nothing was done.

When the Obama regime came in, it was fixed within days.

That was the start of the google not being apolitical internally. Since then, it has been going downhill because they constantly break their algorithm for whatever they are into this week.

Comment · 2 years ago
It is a knock on effect. As decency decays and criminals figure out what the new rules are it gets amplified.
Comment · 2 years ago
The cause is distracted driving with cell phones and pedestrians becoming more emboldened in complete street designed areas.
Comment · 2 years ago
Could you give some more insight on this?
Comment · 3 years ago
They were right. All of the institutions where the ratings come back to the professors / staff have had a detrimental effect on academic rigor: need to earn the grade is out the door, easy programs / lessons, get the good assessments, move on.
Comment · 3 years ago
Most schools have one day a week with early release. That is not a feature of charter schools.

Additionally, kid’s are only as good as their parents can enable. Some parents see the schools as a babysitting service. Others see it as a reprieve from having their kids in the house.

If you have never been to a school to volunteer, go do it. You will see quite quickly that there are students who disrupt the classroom beyond teaching. The teacher must devolve the class to the lowest common denominator and thus the group suffers

Comment · 3 years ago
Good. The faster we can force HR departments to do their job properly instead of just short handing it by saying: needs college degree x and ten year experience in swift, the better.

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