Twitter is better

[WrestlingRasta]

2 minutes ago, ionel said:

We can grow potatoes on Mars @Idaho is on board with this.  

Matt Damon can grow potatoes on Mars.  You are not as smart as Matt Damon. 
 

How you like them apples??

[ionel]

Just now, WrestlingRasta said:

Matt Damon can grow potatoes on Mars.  You are not as smart as Matt Damon. 
 

How you like them apples??

Well sure ... but if we are gonna populate a planet with Musk's sperm/offspring then what better place than Mars and I say let them eat spuds! 

[Offthemat]

Domes?  They should just enlist the indigenous martians to build pyramids. 

[WrestlingRasta]

10 minutes ago, ionel said:

Well sure ... but if we are gonna populate a planet with Musk's sperm/offspring then what better place than Mars and I say let them eat spuds! 

And apples 

[headshuck]

Shall we start making short list for Eve?

[Paul158]

36 minutes ago, headshuck said:

Shall we start making short list for Eve?

Kamala.

[ionel]

37 minutes ago, headshuck said:

Shall we start making short list for Eve?

Good point.  With Musk we already got the smart DNA but surviving on Mars is gonna be tough. 

Maybe looking for genetic material able to survive opening up the western plains:

or even harsher conditions say a million years ago:

[headshuck]

9 at a time would get things going.

[Offthemat]

32 minutes ago, ionel said:

Good point.  With Musk we already got the smart DNA but surviving on Mars is gonna be tough. 

Maybe looking for genetic material able to survive opening up the western plains:

or even harsher conditions say a million years ago:

Decisions, decisions. 

[mspart]

2 hours ago, WrestlingRasta said:

Why are we fixated on colonizing on Mars? I don’t see any oceans for kayaks.  Wearing a space suit will undoubtedly lessen the smoking experience, whether it be brisket or ganja….and there are no alligators to shoot at. 
 

Why is this attractive? 

This is really an important issue.   No smoking of meats there?   HaHa!   I'm not going.  

mspart

[Idaho]

On 7/17/2024 at 12:09 PM, ionel said:

We can grow potatoes on Mars @Idaho is on board with this.  

I bet we can! Potollo 18 

[Offthemat]

[BobDole]

Freedom of Speech

[mspart]

I can understand attacking Musk for this since he is a free speech crusader but why not also go after Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and others?   They certainly have more bona fides than Musk on censoring. 

mspart

[Le duke]

I can understand attacking Musk for this since he is a free speech crusader but why not also go after Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and others?   They certainly have more bona fides than Musk on censoring. 
mspart

Because they don’t claim to be “free speech absolutists” like Musk.

They aren’t hypocrites; he is.


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[jross]

On 12/21/2022 at 4:14 PM, jross said:

Citing sources of lies, censorship, and manipulation to amplify social views of Democratic views while suppressing those on the right.  I believe this was part of the plan to win the presidency because it was admitted as much.  https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
 

Core of complaint.

I share the concern of Twitter Chinese employee that said

• Censorship destroys public conversation.
• The First Amendment in the U.S.A. exists specifically to prevent the government from silencing the people.

Evidence

• https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602365655595962368

Here we had a publicly owned company running a digital town square that connects millions of people.

Evidence

• https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/tech/what-if-twitter-dies/index.html
• Jack's opening discussion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P9cbaWiBc

It's been proven repeatedly that people conform to the people around them.  "You are who you hang out with" is a well-known saying. 

Evidence

• Asch Conformity Experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT1lDhA
  • People will deny what they see and conform
• See also: Milgram Experiment

The company lies to the public.  They lie in court.  They say they are not doing the things they are accused of doing around censorship. 

Evidence

• Claims:
  • We don't shadow ban - https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/Setting-the-record-straight-on-shadow-banning
  • Misc. -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P9cbaWiBc
    • We do not censor conservatives 
    • We believe it is dangerous to regulate speech
    • Mr. Doyle - Are you censoring people? Jack - "No"
    • Mr. Doyle - You are shadow-banning prominent Republicans?  Is that true?  Jack - "No"
• Evidence
  • Blocking content from trending - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjfvHVFVsAAydKR.jpg
  • Blocking from search results - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjfvoMhVQAE6ho5.jpg
  • Do not amplify - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjfwWDEVEAAqIBA.jpg
  • The Twitter files: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598822959866683394.html
  • The Twitter files supp: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600243405841666048.html
  • Secret exclusion lists: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601007575633305600.html
  • Removing Trump Jan6: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601352083617505281.html
  • Removing Trump Jan7: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1601720455005511680.html
  • Removing Trump Jan8: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602364197194432515.html
  • The FBI Subsidiary: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603857534737072128
  • The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1604871630613753856.html

Later it comes out that not only was this company censoring information, the government was paying them to do so. 

Evidence

• https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604908670063906817/photo/1

Beyond foreign, this was domestic psychological warfare. 

Evidence

• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605292454261182464.html

I believe millions of people, myself included, were influenced to think a certain way because of censorship.  Censorship to silence people with certain speech, to gaslight them, and to amplify other social views is anti-American.  

The Twitter files are remarkable.  It exposes unacceptable behavior that many people were unaware of and that smart people cannot believe is true.  It does not matter who is breaking the story because the screenshots of emails are stand-alone evidence of facts.

Reminder about why Twitter is better.

[Danny Deck]

"I know I told you to go ***duck** yourselves, but now I would like for the state to force you to give me money."

 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214536/x-elon-musk-antitrust-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 hours ago, Danny Deck said:

"I know I told you to go ***duck** yourselves, but now I would like for the state to force you to give me money."

 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214536/x-elon-musk-antitrust-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott

Ah, the free speech absolutist and his smaller government/less regulation lap dog, Jim Jordan, strike again.

[jross]

My favorite part of 

 

is how well the people love it.

——

And because of this commitment to our users, even despite the boycott, usage has reached all time highs. Using a Twitter legacy metric, user active minutes, in August 2022, people spent 7.2 billion active minutes on the platform. Today, that number is more than 9 billion, a 25% increase.

The same is true for video - even compared to last year, daily video views are up 45% to 8.2 billion. X is innovating and growing.

[PortaJohn]

I blame Obama

[Wrestleknownothing]

I just heard from Musk's lawyers that they are working on a lawsuit against all of the people who stopped buying Bud Light.

[Wrestleknownothing]

3 minutes ago, jross said:

My favorite part of 

 

is how well the people love it.

——

And because of this commitment to our users, even despite the boycott, usage has reached all time highs. Using a Twitter legacy metric, user active minutes, in August 2022, people spent 7.2 billion active minutes on the platform. Today, that number is more than 9 billion, a 25% increase.

The same is true for video - even compared to last year, daily video views are up 45% to 8.2 billion. X is innovating and growing.

By growing I assume they mean shrinking.

[jross]

Being against a global town square is weird.

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, jross said:

Being against a global town square is weird.

Suing companies to force them to support it against their will is weirder.

[Bigbrog]

Everyone is weird