ericjmorey

Taxes used to offset the costs of undesirable activity are the most effective and efficient taxes, but you want less of that?

If you offered an app, do you think new customers would choose the app over a browser interface?

Do you think most existing users would switch?

Do you think there are many people who don't use your service because there's no app?

If you intend to have a broad userbase, you must prioritize mobile apps. The general public prefers them. I don't like it, but that's the current landscape.

Local LLM people aren't getting banned on those platforms unless they're being hostile to other users. Even then, it's unlikely.

People saying that "The MechaHitler App" is a cesspool are the out of touch ones?

The vast majority of users rely on the algorithm that suppressed posts that Musk doesn't like and promotes insane white supremacist propaganda.

You say that you can avoid that, and I agree. You can use other apps. There are other ways to get the information you're interested in, there are other ways to disseminate information. You don't need to participate in that insanity while pretending not to.

How is that not a better position than the current situation?

I read the full article and have the same reaction. He's worried that civil rights will be in a better position and that we'll have to continue to defend them from that better position.

He traded Italian organized crime for Russian organized crime.

Huh? What person fixated on lab leak claims would have changed their voting behavior?

"current trend in journalism is to be as factual as possible, without adding in one's own biases"

The facts chosen to include in a report are chosen with bias. There's no neutral subset of facts about any event.

The coal mine is already inhospitable

I've been watching satellites at all hours of the night for decades. You might want to double check with reality on that sunrise/sunset claim.

I'm not confident after all government investigations and lawsuits against Elon and his companies were dropped when Elon illegally accessed government systems, illegally took government data, illegally terminated government employees, and illegally eliminated government departments and programs while creating billions in expenses while pretending his intention was to help anyone but himself.

But sure, the FCC might take it seriously.

That's such low effort nonsense.