absGeekNZ @ absGeekNZ @lemmy.nz

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Got very excited

Whilst I agree that the FBI opening an office here is bad.

This is in no way similar to what happened with the Chinese situation. Other than they are both "police" forces.

The Chinese situation was not a public opening; or even a low key one organised with our government. It was an extension of the Chinese surveillance state; not welcome here, as we didn't officially know about it.

I don't think it is a good idea for us to be allowing the FBI to setup offices here; it is being run out of their embassy...so they can kinda do what they want there.

Welcome back to the 1950's; smoking and oil! That is where we want to be.

Well, obviously.

Completely restricting, potentially the biggest and most accessible corpus of knowledge ever created, is not my goal.

I'm trying to balance the good with the bad here.

Example:
Lichess training embedded videos are hosted on youtube; but can just be watched on youtube directly.

uBlock is my go to for killing the ads.

I'll look into freetube, my 9yo has some cool interests but YT wants to drive engagement through whatever means necessary.

As a parent of young kids....youtube is a complicated mess.

It is full of really great content; but YT kids sucks...so if you want access to the good stuff it is standard YT.

But the utter shit that shows up in the side bar and suggested videos is insane.

For older teens/adults; you don't have to worry about the shit tier garbage that is suggested.

I block the ads, but that is a whole other level of cringe/inappropriate content that just gets shoved into videos; completely unrelated to what is on.

Gold

I assumed this was the onion....reality wins again.

You can probably safely say plate tectonics is a lie in Texas, and not have to worry about inconvenient earthquakes to explain to the class. Try that in NZ...far more active over here.

Savage.... True, but savage.

You can, and do.

It helps set the bar, it is a tool for determining how to assess what level of imbalance is reasonable.

It's not the only tool, nor an I arguing for it to be.

Nothing about gender wars here.

Just because Facebook is shit, doesn't make this any better.

I was making the point, that despite the fact that this is mildly ok. The test for anything that gives one group power over another, is to switch the groups.

If it's still reasonable, than it is probably OK to keep it. If however it seems wrong after the switch, the bar to keep the power imbalance should be very high.

Agreed, but it is worse the way I put it...

There is some joke in there about no "D" but I can't quite make it work.

Change the target to any other group and the outrage would be 100-10000 fold bigger.

Try it out, instead of Women rating men, try subbing in various minority groups or races.

Bonus points for the most offensive combinations.....

e.g. Russians rating Ukrainians in your area....it can get pretty bad...I can think of many worse combos.

I thought that list was about NZ, until I got to fire trap....we don't have that particular problem here.

The rest, well fairly spot on.

Well he is really unpopular; and the economy is in the shitter....largely due to his governments handling of the place since his crowd got in.

You are forgetting about the chemtrail chemicals...how hot do they burn???

Check mate humanity