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The whole point is that a social media platform must moderate content far beyond what is merely illegal. In the same way that if you want to host a popular party, your party rules cannot simply be: anything legal goes. Your party must prohibit a bunch of stuff which is legal, but socially unacceptable, like bringing a dead skunk to the party. In real life you cannot bring a skunk to a party because people will see your face, remember who you are, and blacklist you forever. But online, since most people are anonymous and have multiple accounts, this doesn't work. If you let people bring skunks, they will keep doing it and ruin every online party you ever throw. Thus you must ban such assholes. Because if they did that the real-world, they would be banned for simple indecency. Musk's policy is effectively this: Let's allow everyone back to our party who has ever brought a skunk. Well, it's obvious that Musk doesn't understand how parties work.
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Leo Gura replied to bejapuskas's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It is not so easy to draw a line between transphobia vs people questioning / having philosophical disagreements on trans topics. Trans people have a tendency to consider any questioning or philosophical disagreements about gender issues to be transphobia, which is not the case. Then genuine transphobes exploit this loophole. So here we are. Here's my question to you: Do you consider Joe Rogan a transphobe? -
You are the one who's inventing distinctions between God and machines. By your logic, AIs are stealing from noone but themselves. Maybe watch my Double Standards episode and my Understanding Bias episode. God vs machine is a duality. << there's your error
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I think lots of people have been fooled by alt-media as it was a new thing. But now the excesses of alt-media are becoming well-known, so people will be less fooled by it in the future. In the end, having more voices is a good thing, things just need to settle down. This is all part of expanding democracy. Don't demonize alt-media, don't demonize mainstream media. There is good and bad to be found in both. They supplement each other.
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See... now is where the right will have to contend with the monster they created. The right-wing elites would love to dump Trump, but they spent 6 years brainwashing their dumb base that Trump is their messiah. Now they reap what they have sown and lose in 2024. Their only chance of winning is if Trump steps aside. But he is too selfish to do that. And thus we have a perfect case study of how selfishness is self-defeating. This is why you don't support selfish assholes in the first place.
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Very dangerous. Could easily kill you. Not worth the risk. Syrian rue is not for use with the 5-MeO class. It works beautifully with DMT and DPT though.
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IQ is a bad concept. Stop using it. Start thinking in terms of pure Intelligence. Yes, it will increase your Intelligence, assuming you use them properly.
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Leo Gura replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
God realization is when you realize your girlfriend is a dream. -
Leo Gura replied to Razard86's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Exactly. So stop whining about your suffering. -
Leo Gura replied to WisdomSeeker's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
By his own logic we don't know if Jordan Peterson is a man or a woman or a chipmunk. It's amazing how sloppily JP does his existential deconstructions -- only in directions which suit his conservative worldview. If we don't know what "climate" is, then how the hell do we know what a man is? -
Please cut the BS. The simple fact is that people who watch lots of alt-media end up less informed and more deceived about reality than otherwise. So your claims of bias are spurious. Bias is precisely what makes alt-media so dangerous. The bias found in alt-media makes CNN look like angels.
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This reactionary stance won't hold water. The job of any media should be help people stay informed and make sense of the world events. People who listen to alt-media often end up having a poorer sense of events than those who listen to mainstream media. Which means alt-media is doing a worse job than mainstream media. Many people who hate on mainstream media don't watch it at all, instead only consuming alt-media. Which makes them worse informed than those who only watch mainstream media. This whole demonization of mainstream media is really unintelligent and transparently self-serving for alt-media.
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Definitely not. You have to be much more careful with subscribing to such simplistic stereotypes. This is just some narrative you invented based on cherrypicked media you've consumed.
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Everything seems better in retrospect.
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I think most people understand that absolute free speech is a dumb idea, and they don't expect it of their social platforms. Hardcore libertarians are a minority, which is why they never win any elections. It's an ideology which fails both in theory and in practice. Don't forget that the loudest voices on social media are often the most ignorant and do not represent the majority.
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All media has limited time and screen real-estate. They can only cover so much. Alt-media omits more stuff than mainstream media. You are falling into the trap of double-standards. US media doesn't cover European and world events much because most Americans tune out and don't care about it. All media is a business that must cater to people's desires and willingness to watch & listen. - - - - - The bottom line is that you're gaslighting us with your own biases and lack of understanding of media.
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1) Most mainstream news does not censor anyone. Who does CNN censor? 2) If you're talking about giant social media platforms, they have a duty and responsibility to moderate hate speech, abuse, and exploitation of their platforms. As do all smaller alt-platforms. They are just smaller. If you run a website, you have a duty and responsibility to block people from using your website for illegal and dangerous things. No matter how small your website is. You can't just sit back and allow people to use your website to plan terrorist attacks, for example.
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No mainstream media sources claims to be absolute truth. This is a silly smear against them. Truth has nothing to do with mainstream or alternative sources. No, this is just your twisted projection. The opposite is true.
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This is a seriously erroneous take. Alt media absolutely is a source of information and they definitely define "the truth". The only difference between mainstream media and alt-media is size, wealth, and power. Such that if you let the alt-media have the size, wealth, and power of mainstream media they would behave equally bad or worse.
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This is some epically cringe toxic masculinity.
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@Danioover9000 He didn't report you. I removed it of my own initiative. User profile images with Pepe frogs and other toxic right-wing memes are not allowed here.
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Look, Patrick is obviously not some sage. But be offers some good, practical, stage Orange success advice. I share his videos because many of you guys are missing basic Orange self development and getting lost in spiritual mental masturbation. Pat is a good antidote to that. Obviously fatigue is a much bigger issue than just the words you use, but how you talk to yourself is an important topic.
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It's something I just have to learn to live with. From what I have understood, it's just part of my genetics.
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I don't see a problem with it for warming up food. Don't use it to cook. Most importantly make sure you're not microwaving with plastic containers. Use glass or ceramic.
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Leo Gura replied to puporing's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Maybe that's why they call it Illumination?