@JewishWonk I think we need to do a much better job teaching about the generational sexual abuse that slaves were subjected to. Sally Hemings was Thomas Jefferson’s wife’s half sister. Let that sink in.
@ask_aubry …they wanted to maintain the possibility that he might give them his money and it looks like that worked. So the Tinder algorithm worked as intended here and is probably quite well designed and optimized for Tinder’s priorities.
@ask_aubry The Tinder algorithm (and all the algorithms, really) is optimized to maximize their revenue. If he is “shadow banned” it is because he is being a toxic douchebag and that actually makes other people less likely to give Tinder their money. They didn’t ban him outright because…
@bookiesnacksize Who else does he think is the hero or the good guys?
Alex from A Clockwork Orange?
President Clark and/or the Psi Corps and/or the Shadows (and/or the Vorlons)?
Rick from Rick & Morty?
Heisenberg?
The Joker?
Homelander?
Mirror Universe Terran Empire?
Section 31?
@DamnedTherapist …abolitionists acknowledge that there would still be violent people who would have to be sequestered from the rest of society but that would be a tiny fraction of the current prison population and the conditions of sequestration would be vastly different from existing prisons.
@DamnedTherapist I think this is an artifact of “online left” pushing people into outlandish positions, stated for clout, that are not representative of actual arguments put forth by people who work for prison abolition in a practical way. It’s kind of an auto-straw-manning. Honest prison…
@AdamSinger@JonErlichman I guarantee you Apple is working on foldable screen concepts and there will be a foldable iPhone when and only when it can be made to not get destroyed by a speck of dust getting closed in the hinge.
@elonmusk If the many worlds interpretation of QM is true than you can never actually experience death, so long as your survival is statistically possible, however remote. Consider the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the POV of the cat. The cat will always observe the alive result.