JonEFive

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm... You know, every argument I can come up with about why that might be okay could be just as easily applied by the trans-phobes.

"Well maybe we need to consider whether people might actually act on it". In the case of gangs, they definitely do. Gang violence is as bad as ever. Meanwhile, I suspect this antitrans song will provoke far less action than some diss tracks.

"Yeah but it's somewhat of a cultural thing, if we take it away from them it's going to start a whole big thing"... Black inner city culture / white country boy culture... They'll both react the same way.

Is it just the quantity of it? There's more gang rap so it's become normalized? That doesn't bode well for what we can expect from these country folk.

Seriously, I can't think of a good reason why gang rap that encourages violence should be allowed while this isn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure. And just don't listen to fascist speeches if you don't like them. Just let those nazis live their best life.

An extreme example, but my point is that we can't just ignore hate speech.

I see no way in which that attitude will end well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From what I've read, Edge sends way more data back to Microsoft than Chrome sends to Google which is already too much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like how people are downvoting this and not commenting on why they think it's a bad statement. Old message board habits die hard I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is part of the overall concept of the fediverse and the activitypub protocol.

Think of it this way - what is the difference between Twitter and Instagram? They're very similar. The one key difference being that Instagram requires you to include a picture. But you can include pictures in Twitter too. So wouldn't it be nice to be able to see Instagram accounts from your Twitter account? Speaking only of the technology and not the content or corporate shenanigans that is. (by the way, Pixelfed is an activitypub clone of Instagram, and it can interact with Mastodon)

What if you have an idea for a microblogging platform, but it's a little bit different from the vision that the developers of Mastodon have? You can try to submit code to Mastodon's code base but there's no guarantee they'll accept it. You can fork Mastodon, but then you have to work within the framework that they've laid.

Or you can create your own platform. The benefit is, you can implement the same set of interoperability standards that the community has agreed upon. You don't have to attract all the users to your service to the exclusion of other services.

So why is all of this a good thing? There are a few reasons. If Mastodon starts heading in a direction that users dislike, they aren't stuck with Mastodon. For example, if they started behaving like Twitter, users could just jump to a different platform, but they would be able to continue to interact with Mastodon users who choose to stay.

If someone has a much better idea for a platform and puts the time and effort in to make it truly great, there's no reason for users to be stuck on a now inferior platform.

And if one software package tries a cool new feature that Mastodon doesn't presently have, and that feature catches on, Mastodon and other services can choose to also implement the feature. It increases competition, but also increases potential for collaborative development.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In buildings in some cities, entry ways for big buildings often have an emergency access box somewhere near the door. If police or the fire department need to gain entry, they have a master key that will let them access the lockbox and the lockbox will contain keys to the door.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Entry level doesn't necessarily mean literally anyone can do it. What I meant was basically first job out of college. Except you could apply while you were still in college. If that isn't entry level, I don't know what is.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yes. This wasn't an open "literally anyone can do it" job. It's entry level as in starting a path to a career. A certain aptitude is definitely necessary.

Let me ask you this, is a job that requires a two year degree and zero years of experience entry level? Because our requirements were even less than that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you. This wasn't a joke where we were like "entry level; requires 5 years of experience". This job fair was at a community college... So it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that maybe someone there had some interest and at least a minimal level of training. Like I said, a class or two.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I've been on the opposite side. A company I used to work for did a table at a job fair once. The candidates who showed up to talk to us were mostly under qualified for the entry level position we were trying to fill. And by that, I mean that people with zero knowledge, training or experience in our industry. Even one class or a little knowledge might have sufficed.

We had one guy lingering near our table who really seemed to want to work with us even though his skill set didn't fit our needs at all and we told him as much. The whole thing was a big waste of time for us, we never did another one after that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And in other parts of the world where it's just a standard. I was surprised when I saw WhatsApp numbers on advertisements with the WhatsApp logo. Hard not to be on WhatsApp in those places.

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