So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post
So, you're leaving out the details as to why you really got banned. It's not because of the word itself, you used it in a context you knowingly placed it in.
We don't need millions of users to thrive as a community.
I'm going to rightfully assume you're asking this out of bad faith.
I used to have moderated chat rooms and forums.
People didn't like me because I operated on a neutral, non-bias level of judgment. I also actually did shit like, banning/removing people who were problematic or fueling drama.
I guess we're still not ready for that kind of moderation yet.
It's a class-based metaphor that judges how successful you are when compared to an idealistic version of someone who is successful by class. The Jones's are portrayed metaphorically as this rich, up-to-date, always on top of things, always getting things first and other things. If you don't meet those kind of qualifications, then you're not keeping up with the Jones's.
If it already is, because it had already been decided. People once again misunderstand what exactly the 1st Amendment even covers. It protects you from the government silencing your voice and expression, which is what someone like Trump has been working hard to do.
It does not and should not protect you outside from that. You do not have a case on your hands when you're banned from an online forum for using hate speech. Because that forum, is not the government. Facebook, is not the government. Reddit, is not the government. So on and so forth.
I think what always has plagued software engineering jobs is the office politics. The constant meetings. The ridiculous standards. The monotonous routines. The zig-zagging logistics of upper management. The dead-end dread feeling.
I don't even work software engineering, but it's just something I always heard about and kinda seen a bit of.
IMDB has existed for a long, long time. It's honestly a shame as to what they turned into. They used to have been like the pinnacle of online movie reviewing and showcasing. Then they decided to axe the forums. Then they decided to blanket their splash page with what big movie is happening.
It just declined from there.
I'm incredibly jaded about voting. I think these mid-terms and the next general election are elections of which I will not bother with. And it isn't even because of what's being done with voters rights or the intimidating corruption from the republicans/trump.
It is stemming more from me realizing that there has to be more done than just simply voting someone end. That there has to be more done with getting society straightened up more to be aware as to how badly they're getting fucked with. There just simply has to be more there to be done and I think voting isn't enough.
I've voted in past mid-terms and general elections, I felt I tried my part in being with those who tried to vote against and vote out corruption in anyway I can. But, I'm having difficulty in seeing how much voting can do in these chaotic times.
At this rate, yeah.
I mean, that's how America was originally founded. We got sick of Imperial Britain's shit, fought them to get the fuck away from us. Then, when critical ideals came ahead about slavery, we had our civil war. We definitely need another, but the problem is, with how the world has changed.
Because, it'll be very bloody simply because one side will have all of the guns and ammunition (Government, police, military .etc) and the opposing side would only have numbers. In either case, it would send a very impactful and long-standing message about what happens when things are left unchecked for too long.
I don't think Democrats are that interested in fixing or helping things anymore, they have their own agendas, disguised in the form of progressive measures. They helped fund ICE earlier this year. They didn't fight hard enough to prevent any measures Trump and Republicans have taken that has undone what progress we have done.
So, if shedding blood has to be the answer to make anyone see or realize what really needs to be done, then that's what it is going to take.
I hate it.
I think gambling has tainted sports and is the epitome of corruption to the core. It's very ironic that a baseball player by the name of Pete Rose, got a lifetime MLB ban for gambling, yet give it 20 some odd years later and Draft Kings is promoted which is gambling.
It fuels addiction, it makes people throw away anything they could that they could bet with, on the off chance, which is narrow, of winning it big.
It's why I hate Las Vegas entirely, I hated it when poker games were nationally broadcast for a while at one point and so on.
Yes. Because, there's a friend who I know we'd mesh well together.
No, so stop being freaked out for christ sake.
You and people like you, are making it sound like AI is capable of initiating Skynet-level of capability. At worst, AM-capability (I have no mouth and I must scream). That may be true in the beginning, but AI has been sharply nerfed to where it is just simply a talking search engine, calculator, number cruncher .etc that just so happens to also talk to you about other things.
So while you live in your worry caves, we're all over here being unimpressed with what art it spits out with extra limbs and inconsistency.