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In the context of ad-supported algorithmic social media, offensive is the wrong question. It's about brand damage.

Showing an ad next to something that actually offends people can damage a brand, but even something a little edgy might turn off customers of a brand with a more formal or conservative audience. The algorithm's ultimate goal is to get people to watch ads, so something a little edgy might reduce the reach of that content. Censoring it prevents the algorithmic downrank.

Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work

Having debated a couple who are quite intelligent otherwise, I'm going to have to dispute that.

Sure, they know broadly that exposing the immune system to something that looks like a pathogen primes it to respond to that pathogen in the future, but they tend to be way off on the implications. I've heard it suggested that too many vaccines cause people to run out of immune memory. I've heard that all antibodies cause inflammation. I've heard that previous attempts to produce coronavirus vaccines killed the majority of test subjects years later.

None of those claims are true, and the only way they could be true is if everyone in the field of immunology is lying all the time.

I'd really like to know how many people didn't hear Trump call Brad Raffensperger and try to get him to throw the election. I'm shocked anyone could listen to that and think it's OK to give him power again regardless of their position on any of the issues.

Florida is a solidly red state in which Trump is winning by a 13 point margin with most of the votes counted. The amendment has 57% to Trump's 56.2% at the time of this comment.

Some states require a simple majority, but Florida's ballot measures require 60%.

Talisker promo, not sure who the OEM is.

"We" only condemn countries that are geopolitical opponents of the USA, while Israel is the strongest regional ally of the USA in a potential war with Iran.

It's probably more fair to call its claim of being decentralized fake or disingenuous. There doesn't seem to be any way to participate in the ecosystem without going through the Bluesky relay, a central point of failure with strong incentives to eventually do something shitty.

propagating and caching images

This leads to the problem of abusive users trying to cause legal issues for server owners by introducing CSAM.

No doubt it is for many. They're probably going to vote Democrat even if they find the candidate's stance on immigration unreasonably harsh because [insert long rant about plurality voting and the two-party system].

I have the impression quite a few Democratic voters are a bit anti-immigrant too.

easiest way to fix this would be to stop making voting a state by state thing

Maybe that's easy from a certain perspective, but passing the required constitutional amendment would be anything but.

General aviation airports often have little or no staff and only rudimentary access controls. People walking around aircraft are expected to be responsible for their own safety.