Hey OP post this in Buy Canadian.

We supported them, even paid for subscriptions out of principle.

I think it’s time we did our thing.

TBF the owners of said major platforms are siding with the bigots and selectively enforcing their own TOS with extreme prejudice.

“Do you support gender diversity?” “Well, our government says if I don’t, it’s potentially a hate crime/hate speech – sorta like calling out the genocide in Israel gets termed as such, or questioning the narrative around first nations – so, uh, yes, I support it, sure whatever, so long as there’s no financial commitment involved or followup questions. Let me get back to my life”.

As the commenter below demonstrated, there is a growing number of Canadians falling for misinformation.

Bill C-9 was about stopping hateful people from using religion to justify the crimes they had already committed. But the propogandists told them it classified the bible as hate speech.

Clearly they are misappropriating Pro-Palestine censorship in the UK to validate their entitlement to baselessly espouse residential denialism.

Most of my community is Christian/conservative and while I see more people espousing anti-trans views, it’s all chronically online people who I know personally stopped forming their own opinions in 2016.

The context behind poll numbers like this is that MAGA is scraping the bottom the barrel. Same total support, but more MAGAs signing up to answer surveys.

old. user here. You might notice that some features are only on the regular interface. For instance reporting and some settings.

"we are sick and tired of bots freely scraping our content without paying us

Given the whole API debacle you’re almost certainly right.

Its a great example of why we don’t want to abandon calculated social services for the whims of billionaire philanthropists.

Even the best billionaire backed project is still taking their part of the pie, even if it’s just adhering to their vision.

EoD society generates value and we have right to collectively invest that value in bettering our own circumstance. Billionaires syphon that value from society and give it back to us pennies on the dollar.

As soon as I hear an “AI-blip” the facade is ruined and I figuratively hear nails on the chalkboard from then on. Partly because than I can hear everything else uncanny. But also because now I’m mentally quadruple checking everything they’re saying because I have reasonable expectation that there will be mistakes.

Like it’s especially disappointing because a lot of ai-gen content is on less covered topics. But that means you doubly can’t trust what you’re watching because you have way less sources to compare it to (and for it to steal from).

Couldn’t you just lick it and find out?

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Acolyte isn’t star wars. It’s a fan fic with a budget.

Didn’t enjoy cyberpunk either. Just not my genre.

I don’t get sucked into video game characters or stories like in movies.

Last of Us was about Splinter Celling zombies afaic

Never got into Deus Ex. Fallout on the other hand.

Rhetorical Triangle

Make sure you’re appealing to your audience correctly. Typically people lean too far into one (Ethos, Pathos, Logos)

Easiest example is not overloading what you’re saying with the (logos) subject matter / details when your audience is not detail oriented.

Another is the classic “trust me bro” when the audience doesn’t know or trust the speaker. Invert that you have cult leaders whose audience trusts them absolutely.

Third example is someone who overloads emotional appeals to the point that the actual message is lost, misunderstood, or disregarded entirely.

Quigon was one of the few “prophecy” enthusiasts. The closest to his disposition was arguably his former master, Dooku.

Obiwan trained Anakin because it’s what Quigon wanted. And nobody could tell him otherwise because he was the first jedi to face a sith in millenia. Even YODA had never fought a sith lord at that point.

So ya even tho Obiwan’s emotional attachment to quigon was clearly what drove him to defy the council if need be, there wasn’t much they could do because Obiwan was galactically viral at the time.

Luke can use dark and light side force abilities. What makes him different from other similarly capable users like Darth Tyranus or Yoda is that he didn’t use the force to create a power structure. Everyone else, including Obiwan, was using the force to perpetuate an empire, a jedi temple, a senate, some sort of artificial construct that in would inevitably lead to imbalance in the force.

Luke trained Jedi with the goal of protecting life in general.

If we’re good little consumers we can have some trickle down crony capitalism for dessert.

Ah yes the classic, “pro gamer move.”

To turn left onto my local stroadway it’s often faster to go straight, make a u-turn and a right turn because the left turns are advance green only. The main green is 5x longer so inevitably a bunch of people are just stopped with no cars going through the intersection.

I’ll never get over how apt the comparison of AI-generation is to someone sitting in front of a programmable piano playing itself and clapping gleefully at their own musical prowess.