Empathy [he/him]

Anything that involves deception, which unfortunately seems to be most of marketing.

I don’t mind when people just try to get their product out there, just let it be known that it exists and does X thing differently or better. I hate when they mean to deceive. Something that is intended to deceive but isn’t technically a lie is not really better than a lie, to me.

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I’m pretty damn left leaning and I’ve never been called a tankie. I rarely even see anyone being called a tankie, except people who are defending authoritarians. The scope of the word “tankie” seemed generally pretty clear to me.

I thought that the line was that one supports owning the means of production and the other supports authoritarian governments, am I confused?

Which is the one with the snake logo?

Two days ago, I wouldn’t have felt particularly strongly about this sentiment, but my last few comments yesterday had some interesting interpretations…

I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it’s not.

I’m not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I’m not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don’t believe, which is a bit upsetting.

If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.

I’m particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:

• They are not a democratic country.
• They do not have freedom of speech like most countries
• As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.

I might have a different perspective though. I’m a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.

Edit: I’d like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I’m just trying to understand people’s overall perspective and whether mine is different, I’m not trying to argue and I’m not upset at you nor any of the commenters I’ve seen on similar posts.

I’m a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.

I’m getting the impression that, either:

1. People don’t believe there’s (significant) Chinese propaganda on TikTok.
2. People believe there would be (significant) US propaganda on TikTok following an acquisition.
3. Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.

Am I correct? Is there a nuance I’m missing?

I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.

That’s what I do all the time, and not on purpose. I don’t know what’s wrong with me

Ironically, the best way I found to combat this is to use search engines that summarize result pages with AI (e.g., Bing Copilot or Perplexity).

It still sucks even with those options, but it at-least reduces the need to go through several pages of results before finding the first relevant one. Still, the LLMs of those engines hallucinate regularly and give very naive answers, so they’re mostly useful for finding relevant sources IMO.

Disclaimer: I pay for Perplexity. I use Perplexity every day but I haven’t tried Bing Copilot that much. I haven’t used ChatGPT much, I find it way too unreliable, I can’t trust its answers. I’m not an investor nor employee of either.

I’ve been wondering for a long time whether I’d ever meet somebody else who doesn’t use their phone in the bathroom.

I don’t really judge the people who do, might as well be entertained rather than doing nothing, but I personally feel like my hands are dirty while I’m on the toilet even if I don’t do anything (probably just a mental thing). Also, even on the bus, I had a tendency to just get lost in my head.

Also $83/mo HOA, oof.

Thanks for looking it up!

If somebody asked you to bring hot dogs and tacos to a party, the host would probably not be just as fine with you bringing only tacos or only hot dogs.

Feels like this could’ve ended a lot worse than that 😬

Unfortunately, it’s the best calculator I could find so far (for my own needs). I paid to remove the ads though, ads bother me way too much to use something infested with them.