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I wouldn't attribute to malice (on the part of China) what can be attributed to stupidity (Boeing taking short term gains at the cost of their entire brand). Capitalism ruins everything eventually.

I want to see how this looks without the log scale on the y axis.

The problem is unfettered capitalism. Our leaders are far more concerned about enriching themselves than acting on behalf of their constituents, so we've got this really jaded electorate.

And then as a dominant super power in the world, we've been targeted with enormous misinformation campaigns, both from our own "news sources" (Fox News is NOT real news, it's lies and half truths and proliferation of hatred!) and fake internet trolls. All of that on top of decades of political corruption, decades of businesses lobbying in their own best interest and spreading lies to support their position ("tobacco is safe and very cool!" "guns don't kill people", "weed is the root of all evil!", "pEoPlE ARe tERMinatInG 9 mOnTh oLd feTUseS anD bORn bABiEs!").

Conservatives have always been the temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and once they get theirs, fuck everyone else. Generations bought homes at affordable prices, then pulled the ladder up behind them and fuck all future generations. "Pull yourself up by your boot straps!" is sort of bullshit you get from them, but they didn't do that at all and they've broken the whole system in their favor.

Now conservatives are trying to break our educational system by banning books, banning subject discussion like evolution or slavery, foregoing sex education in favor of the provably bad "abstinence education". A country founded on "separation of church and state" is pushing harder and harder to make a "Christian nation" that doesn't and shouldn't exist. They want a stupid electorate making tons of babies who also grow up stupid and vote for them. The majority of Americans are liberal and have genuine sympathy and compassion for others, so before they wake up and actually get involved, the conservatives have to breed up a bunch of idiots they can convince real easily to vote their way.

All that to say... I don't think it's going to get any better anytime soon. Get me the fuck out of this place.

I agree that it shouldn't die, but evolve. It has been fascinating to see Tik Tok during interesting moments in time act as a boots on the ground view of a major incident. But wrongdoers just trying to stir up ad revenue or trying to sew mistrust and disinformation are always going to be a huge problem. Not to mention dipshits like in the op just making things up, whatever their motivation was.

Freedom of speech in the United States is freedom from repercussions from the government for your speech, but all of these platforms removing moderation and leaning in to this free speech ethos are lying about their motivation and hiding behind these free speech implications. And now they are all, predictably, absolutely riddled with misinformation.

It is my hope that the next big social media platform is one that is very open to moderation and aggressively removes hate speech and misinformation. I just don't know how you do that without throwing out the baby with the bathwater, taking too aggressive an approach to content moderation could catch legitimate posts and is going to piss users off and make them leave the platform. These companies did try for a while, before they went full "actively contributing to the destruction of humanity" capitalist dystopia.

It's molten salt, a clever solar energy storage solution.

You must be getting hit by tankies, because this is a perfectly reasonable post.

I worked for a unioned grocery company for many years and there were no merit based raises, because they were negotiated years in advance and dictated by the union contract. Getting any discretionary effort was incredibly rare and difficult, because why am I going to do more and get paid trash wages for it? I'm not saying that's the right way to think, but it's prevelant regardless.

He spotted a sucker and couldn't pass up the opportunity.

"Faith without works is dead."

In a case like this, I would assume it is a budgetary thing - if your marketing campaign is budgeted at $100k, you wouldn't want to give away a million dollars of free goods.

It also makes sense that a new law like this would cause an atypical surge of demand for a certain period of time.

I get where you're coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That's literally just how numbers work. That's the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.

But I guess I say that, and then there's Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it's hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.

I hope their appeal to the thieves to at least DONATE the pies doesn't fall on deaf ears.

I used to work in a grocery store and despised it when I found product in the wrong temperature zone - such as a milk jug in the freezer, a hot roasted chicken on the shelf next to the cereal, or a nice steak just sitting on an an endcap display. I was less concerned about the financial impact to the mega Corp, but I sure hated the fact that perfectly good food is now trash because some dipshit couldn't be bothered to put it back where it belongs.