There are windows??

Ah yes, the anti weird test. That’s how you get all of the autistic people and POCs out of the recruitment pool.

Gmail killed the popularity of most email services. Don’t let Threads end up like Gmail

Meta keeps a profile on you even if you’re not a user. They mine data from your friends, family, and colleagues to learn who you are. If anyone you know has you in their phone contacts, and if they’ve given apps like Messenger or Whatsapp access to their contacts, then you already have a secret Meta account.

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profiles-data-collection-non-users-mark-zuckerberg

Why does Meta want to gather data on non users? Because this information is valuable for data on social engineering. Social engineering includes advertising, influencing people to make purchases in both direct and in subtle ways. But it also includes political campaigning, and the efforts of industry giants to influence people in certain directions.

Maybe car companies want you driving bigger and more expensive cars. Maybe fossil fuel companies want you to form positive associations with the idea of gas stoves. Maybe Israel wants you exposed to pro-IDF memes on your social media. Maybe the US government wants you to respect the law and ignore covid.

This data is a tool that tells organisations how to make subtle changes that influence populations. If you have access to enough information, you can run scientific experiments to see what random changes influence people’s behaviour. Then you figure out how to make those changes less random, and more controlled. Meta has already gotten in trouble for running exactly these experiments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-scandal-fallout.html

In a companion piece, The Times reported that people at Cambridge Analytica and its British affiliate, the SCL Group, were in contact with executives from Lukoil, the Kremlin-linked oil giant, as Cambridge built its Facebook-derived profiles. Lukoil was interested in the ways data was used to target American voters, according to two former company insiders. SCL and Lukoil denied that the talks were political in nature and said the oil giant never became a client.

Democrats looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election — already interested in Cambridge’s role in providing analytics to the Trump campaign — said they would seek an investigation into the leak. They were echoed by lawmakers in Britain investigating Cambridge Analytica’s role in disinformation and the country’s referendum to leave the European Union.

Meta has been using the internet to influence the government and control the laws you live under, no matter what part of the world you’re from.

Meta has been ruining the internet long enough. It’s time the internet told them to shut up and go away

I’m applying the same standards to their model of the state as they apply to anarchism. They assume anarchism will have no antiracist action, so I assume they haven’t heard of antiracist action.

Bruh doesn’t trust white people to do the right thing without a state, so their solution is to give white people a state and then… trust them to do the right thing anyway.

That’s not very similar to Warframe or to this new game at all

The meme’s punchline is that a tourist is transphobic. That’s not funny if the meme’s author is transphobic. It’s only funny if the author is laughing with us, at the tourist. I think the meme is supposed to be funny, so whatever is funny must be true

I don’t think the person who posted this meme yesterday is the one who made the meme. I think it’s a re/crosspost. I think that since it’s a meme making fun of tourists to Thailand for being transphobic, the author would have to be someone who understands the basic subtleties of gender in Thailand.

How is it more charitable to think the Thai person is nonbinary than binary trans?

It’s still in Team Fortress 2 and Factorio

Fun fact: in nature, alphas are parents and betas are their children. Omegas are grannies.

So if you live in mum’s basement, you’re definitely a beta

No, Thai culture has five genders iirc. The punchline is that the tourist only knows about two genders and is confused

Back in 2000-2012, a good lot of mainly singleplayer games had optional multiplayer modes. Think Halo, Starcraft, TRON, Titanfall, etc. Even DOOM 2016 had it. These games function with the servers down.

Okay, let’s say there’s a serial arsonist who’s been burning down houses in your neighbourhood. Now he’s on GoFundMe asking for money to buy more gasoline. I like burned down houses, so I give him money with the knowledge he will use it to burn down your house.

Do I share any responsibility for what happened to your house?

So if I gave money to an assassin and told him to kill you, I wouldn’t be responsible for his actions?

Wow, you found a way to pay for corpses and somehow contrive yourself into not being responsible for the deaths

But you get to influence which decisions are profitable. When you pay them money in exchange for dead animals, you create incentive for them to arrange for there to be more dead animals

Grocery stores keep budgets and expense reports. They downscale whatever products aren’t selling or making them money. It’s called running a business.