Conan the Barbarian

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@mjfree "We" (who?) are hearing (how? from where?) confirmation (what makes it confirmed)? Are you really this worthless of a person? This is what you do for a living?

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

The easiest explanation, I believe, is automated censorship triggers get hit. They get hit by getting a certain number of reports (like report -> sexual content). Doesn't matter if the report is true. No human sees those. It's algorithmic. China, therefore, just has to have bot farms deployed to shut down any content that they dislike.

(The American left does this too. Actually the American left does a lot of things the CCP does, which, now that I think about it, is kind of suspicious.)

I can't say this for a fact but "abuse moderation algorithms" is definitely a thing that people do. I have never heard of repercussions for a false report.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

After @amazon canceled @parler_social, I canceled everything I had through them:
Amazon Prime, Amazon Music, additional subscriptions through Amazon like Showtime and Paramount+, stopped using my Kindle and unplugged my Echos.

I did eventually go back to Prime. It's too convenient. But the rest I never went back to.

Amazon Music -> Spotify
Subscriptions -> direct or via Hulu
Kindle -> Kobo (Walmart, different ebook store)
Echos -> decided I didn't need to talk to a speaker that badly

To this day I shop directly with manufacturers where it's practical (clothing is usually the exact same price straight from the manufacturer, almost always free shipping too) and use Walmart more.

Amazon is damn convenient but it's not worth getting sucked into a whole ecosystem with a company that has political agendas.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@SGFansUnited You just know the "fresh new perspective" will turn it into an internal drama show, where the team spends more time in conflicts with each other than with any enemies. It's all these "fresh new" writers seem to know. They do it on every show now.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@Not_the_Bee needs an AI division. The hook: videos that are so ridiculous, so stupid, that you think they have to be AI, but they aren't.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

They're brainwashed, and it makes me sad and concerned.

I see people on X like this, but I also know people in real life that I consider to be victims of left-wing propaganda. They live in actual fear and totally unnecessary, unjustified misery because of what they are told from so many angles.

And you can't "correct the record" with them. They are fed emotion and it's all they respond to. What they need to do is disconnect and touch grass and realize their actual lives are okay but what they will do is go online and consume fear-porn until they become unglued, and then go to bed and do it again tomorrow.

A lot of these people are very smart but somehow they have been dragged into this hole, where they can only see one thing, and I don't know how to drag them back out, so they can see everything.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@MrAndyNgo I'm guessing they're all back from New Jersey, then?

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@DHSgov I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of NJ prisons to ICE prisons. Are federal inspections a thing that can happen?

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@RobertPicardo @ScottPelley @SpeakerJohnson @GOPHouseOfRep @SenateGOP It will certainly be interesting to see how an alternative voice fares in a media field dominated by the one-sided, one-party sensationalism that replaced the news we used to watch 30 years ago. At this point, I’m ready to roll those dice.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@esrtweet @nikitabier @brave I'd call it a Brave issue. If they're doing what I think they're doing then it makes you look like a bot account. They should be able to give you a level of protection without randomizing your browser's internal stats.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@MrAndyNgo @Surge_Philly Influencer. He is literally paid for this. Wonder how many "superchats" or whatnot he got for this.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@RonDeSantis China is celebrating this news. They paid good money to make it happen.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@TN_20_ Financial smoke & mirrors. They are reinvesting heavily in themselves and this takes away from profit figures.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@Not_the_Bee Amazon's fresh new perspective...

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@onca2022 @DavidIppol15284 @RealMattCouch How is that different from iron mines, copper mines, coal mines, etc.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@DavidIppol15284 @RealMattCouch Feelings. He has feelings. Possibly memes.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@TheRubberDuck79 Used to know a guy in shipping. He said all those west coast shipping yards operate off of illegal labor. Yard drivers are supposed to be licensed but they aren't, and few speak English. Democrats protect their illegal underpaid labor force that makes them wealthy.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@japan_nobunaga This works well until you start inviting in people with no such history, and no such culture. They don't believe in conflict resolution through conversation.

[Conan the Barbarian @RandomPerson242]

@douga111www @grok is this story true?