That makes sense.

I imagine Amazon has for more influence than Meta do to AWS, could be wrong though.

Hounding someone on something they don’t agree with just makes them shut down a conversation.

Using something like that brings the bias to light without them ending the conversation. You cannot assist someone with seeing bias in media who just blocks you. While it sucks, sometimes small steps help getting you going in the right direction.

How I pointed something out to a family member this morning.

When Israel attacks housing units in a country it is in a “ceasefire” with, the media says they are “threatening the ceasefire.” If someone fires back. The media will say Israel is being attacked and the ceasefire was broken by the other party.

While that should seem wrong to many, it flies under the radar for most

Education and healthcare one should hope. The issue is time. We need to educate both parents and kids, while leaving the freedoms to choose (unless the choice directly impacts the health of others). So the issue with a lot of this “brain rot” as people call it to me is 1. A bit exaggerated do the not knowing, just a bit though. 2. Parental controls exist, but the parents weren’t educated during a time period when these parental controls existed. Sorry kids, but you don’t have full freedoms until you turn legal age. Guardians must be taught how to effectively block and monitor what is being consumed and in which formats it is being consumed. Researched well rounded data and not hysteria needs to be well documented and available to everyone. Databases created but not monitized or for profit. These databases should include sites and media sources in groups similar to how we use them in proxy filters for large businesses. Then guardians can choose what groups they want blocked and what hours/limits etc they want on this information and format type. Next comes user suggestions and vetting processes to have new sites or routings added to groups so guardians do not have to be on top of everything everywhere all of the time. If a site is blocked the child should be able to request approval, which then the parental controls apps receives a notification for review so they can click approve which would punch a hole for IP/DNS. Who when and what they are consuming can be easily regulated (some parents may set it to block all data usage during school days and hours and only allow phone calls to direct family/friends for their emergency contacts, that’s up to them, but for those who worry about kids using their phone in school, fixed). The next step is educating the kids. How and why things get and keep their attention. Why they can be harmful, how to avoid those things if left up to their own accords. Also as they age, what can be motives behind keeping their attention, money/influence? How that influence impacts purchasing. Poof, we’ve entered into how to integrate the introduction to marketing into their lectures. Also, how to help their guardians use parental controls for those who have younger siblings. This can bring into many conversations pertaining to security, whether it be information or even authentication methods for accessing data online in a safe and secure manner.

Just some rough thoughts thrown together. If someone fleshes it out, then you create non-profit or .gov site that updates and presents tutorial videos on how to best enact all of this for guardians and populous. Links to the available solutions and most up to date versions for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, standard Linux distros and even routers if the parents are preferring that. It could show them how to block ads at the router to ensure their children are not being influenced by advertisements they don’t want their kids to be seeing.

(Some of this can be repurposed obviously) And reused to protect older non technical individuals from accidently stumbling into things families decide aren’t best for them. Grandma maybe doesn’t like porn adverts, grandpa keeps clicking on silver singles in his area and getting scammed, who knows. Compile, research, make available. No cost. For the benefits of the society

I don’t use tik Tok, but I assume it was a video. I don’t care for it much, but should maybe save the mass slapping for those screwing over healthcare or rent/mortgage costs. Some people use video calls, I do not. Doesn’t mean I slap them for calling me that way, I just don’t pick up or only answer with voice.

What exactly does a DragonTypeWyvern tail look like? Is it long with scales?

They are just trying to say that you don’t want all your eggs in one basket. In my opinion it’s better to have it posted once on either and it shows up in my list. The logic is that if everyone posts on 1 instance, that instance ends up having more power over other instances. For instance it can defederate with another instance and since all the content is on theirs those users would be forced to start over, or join the bigger instance and abide by their rules. Slowly you end up back in a situation like reddit. Where maybe they put ads in, and you have to choose ads and active number of users, or no ads and very little content starting fresh. Spreading out content helps combat enshitification if you will.

That sounds amazing. Have a great night and get an extra hour sleep? Win win

DEI requirements in federal programs make sense. A private dance team organized intentionally to be shown as the black workers of America holding up the flag(country) was a symbolic choice emphasizing what that poster clearly missed.

DEI practices aren’t forced on private companies, otherwise hooters would have had a lot more male servers. Attempting to force private businesses to not be able to make their own choices on the subject is absolutely consistent with their forcing their views on other people and controlling their lives and choices though. I think there’s a better term for it though. Fascist ideology.

And thus we ended up with a 12 hour clock most places

They are spewing false claim after false claim when they are easily verified as being incorrect. It’s hard to take such seriously, but at the same time so long as they repeat it over and over confidently, their base eat it up. I suppose that happens with everything though. I hope you have a good day Z. I need to find something constructive around the house to throw myself into.

So you think it will just never be used in mainstream media like I was saying?

I didn’t say what I believed, I was discussing the usage of the term tankie in mainstream media. If it were used, I would assume western media would voice it with the red scare propaganda that is always pushed. With the media conglomerates jostling to find a way to fall in line with Trump’s administration I figure they’d label anything left of them a violent communistic extremest group.

This is why I don’t think this term will ever really leave usage on the internet moving forward.(not talking about historical use in GB and such). It seems many people believe it means something different. Not that I want it to be a mainstream media term.

Not that stack exchange users are the end all be all of what one should believe is correct, but this was what they showed as their agreed definition.

The parts about supporting the aggressive putting down of a rebellion with tanks is what usually has people tie in the supporting authoritarian violence. If you look at it from the other side one would would argue the ends justified the means which was to stop an escalation and thus a possible war as well. So really all sides of the term were going to be tied to aggression and supporting one mindedness ruling over another.

I don’t see anyone using it as a compliment for anyone anytime soon

I thought it had to include the pro authoritarian and often pro war aspect of it. So a Marxist/communist or what not wouldn’t fall into tankies without the call for an authoritarian leader like Stalin.

The President was picked specifically because he was a white male. Kick him out please

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Supports far right movement in Germany, says they are the only way to fix Germany.

Agrees with Jewish people being anti white- "“Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

The billionaire owner and CTO of X, formerly Twitter, responded the same evening: “You have said the actual truth.”"

Does NAZI salutes on a national platform.

People in denial: “I’m sure it was a mistake”

Maybe a CDN funded through a few non-profits, never looked into it