I’d do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I’m not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it’s just first name.

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we’d follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there’s no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I’d kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

huh, whatever that is, doesn’t federate to kbin

do you use the swiping function of it? I’ve found that to be TERRIBLE at “prediction based on context” e.g. understanding if I want “if” or “of” it does the one that doesn’t make sense in context. and it doesn’t understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

Absolutely

Sure thing!

so I totally get your point. For example, a therapy group that says, “this is a free speech area” and has 8 members who are all queer, would probably not mean it as a dogwhistle, and in that case, it also probably would not be one. But also, they wouldn’t be saying it to anyone other than those 8 members.

The thing is, in this case it legit does not matter the intent, they are saying it on a public chat forum. That makes it a dogwhistle regardless of intentionality, and it will be recognized as such, because if you say that on a public platform on the internet, guess who will hear it.

And now no matter what their intention is, if they didn’t want it to be a dogwhistle, it was one, and now their moderation is 10000x as difficult, because look who they’ve attracted the attention of now - and chased away.

I’d argue, it’s always a dogwhistle. You might not realize you’re using a dogwhistle, but you definitely are.

In other words, “free speech platform” is not actually “free speech platform,” rather it is a dogwhistle.

sorry, I X’d out of twitter before X X’d twitter, so I can’t actually X about Twitter or X on X,

I’ll take this at face value and assume u are asking “why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid”

The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, “vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act” to mean that, “vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]”

So the EPA issued a letter saying “corporations you’re totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can’t have a ‘haha i repaired it lol’ loophole”

yea ik but i meant this one when u can’t get via \shrug like u can in dc

¯\(ツ)/¯`

I’m so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I’m confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.

TL;DW:

• Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can’t repair your own shit due to “emissions concerns.”
• Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji

isn’t it pretty hard to determine if it’s worthwhile if they aren’t going all-in on making it an interesting place with breaking news & accounts for certain types of news etc?

Was quite confused that this is Microsoft Excel and not Excel Esports, the very real esports organization that competes in actual esports.

Maybe edit the title? I completely glossed over this and wondered what is a generic esports event doing in /m/technology for a while until I thought “wait is this maybe not about the esports org”

Seems entirety of reddit had a brief downtime earlier according to some other thread that I can’t find anymore

just wait, reddit is 100% going to sunset old.reddit within the next year

lol I debated, but it sounded nicer to say community