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One of the few times I don't check comments first, and yep can confirm I should have. The moment AI showed up in this article I closed it. Sigh.

PREFACE: I am politically neutral. You can all fight it out for yourselves, it's fun to watch.

> I think TikTok is filling a void for Democrat messaging that Republicans/Conservatives have ie: Fox, conservative youtubers, breitbart, etc. The left is doesn't have this

Fox/Breitbart -> The left has plenty of media outlets that pitch their side, like CNN.

Conservative Youtubers -> There's not a single liberal/democrat Youtuber? weird...

Not to mention that, up until it started imploding, Twitter (and Facebook to an extent) were both considered heavily left-leaning if not outright liberal. Saying that "the left doesn't have a way to get their message out" just feels outright dishonest to say.

*EDIT:* I had a long conversation with a good friend of mine about the distinctions between "liberal" and "left" here. I acknowledge that I was make an incorrect (and commonly dangerous) equivalence between the two of them, which makes the claim of "left" not having as much media outlet more true (though I would still argue that it's certainly not to the extreme extent suggested by the parent).

why pile more suffering on top of their current amount?

I fully agree with this advice as to a way to communicate your actual feelings in a sentence. Emojis don't work here, but the difference between

"I have no idea what I'm doing... :D"

and

"I have no idea what I'm doing... :("

is a large one, and having that to communicate it is quite handy.

THAT SAID, to @ccakes -- while I agree with your statement, it unfortunately doesn't help the OP. They specifically said that they have a problem with INTERPRETING comments in the worst possible light. The solution for that will not be to use more emojis themselves -- they would need their coworkers to do so.

I know this type of comment (and my own) is more common to reddit and commonly frowned upon in HN threads, but by god this made my morning thank you.

I mean this as a genuine question (not an indictment), and as a complete blockchain/crypto noob who has just been a spectator:

Why is this the case? Isn't this like one of the best use cases of the blockchain in crypto? Why would they not utilize the technology to prevent this exact thing from happening? Are there tradeoffs I'm not aware of?

> this is why Elon told Twitter engineers to print their code - he's a boomer programmer who grew up in this era when that really was how you read and reviewed code

Just to clear up a misconception: Elon Musk isn't and never was a programmer. He never went to school for it, never had a job in it, and his wikipedia mentions nothing about even having the ability to code. He at one point needed some of his devs' help running a Python program. His reasons for having them print out the code at Twitter are almost certainly not due to "that's how it used to be".

TO BE CLEAR: This comment isn't a dig at Elon. I personally dislike him, but this fact about him doesn't make him a worse person. Just clearing up an obvious misconception that @yodon has about him.

That format refers to 4chan boards. That one is “pol(itics)”

Shit outta luck

Also very interested in this - I have a mini 2 as well and if I can get it to follow me that would be AWESOME.

I was going to post my own reply to this topic, but @stoeckley said literally all the things I was going to.

My ONLY regret about getting an M1 Air was not being able to hold out for the M2 to get that sweet, sweet magsafe charger. Outside of that, I +100 everything @stoeckley said.

The problem here I think is that you miss the original point of the top-level parent. They weren't claiming that EVs emit more CO2 from driving, but from _manufacturing_.

Whether or not this claim is true I can't say for sure, because nobody on either side of this discussion in this thread has provided links/proof to back up/refute these claims, so it's just a bunch of people throwing numbers at each other with no context.