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New comment by atlantas in "U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 6.52%, highest since mid-2008"

atlantas — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:50:59 +0000

RIP Canada. Over 50% of mortgages since 2021 are variable rate!

https://www.reuters.com/article/canada-banks-mortgage-rates-...

New comment by atlantas in "Francis Fukuyama: Preparing for Defeat"

atlantas — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:02:04 +0000

> The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.

Thankful for this, cooler heads prevailed. Despite relentless pressure coming from the news media and twitter demanding that we escalate.

New comment by atlantas in "The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)"

atlantas — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:36:51 +0000

You are pushing the moral panic in question, and it will age even more poorly than the previous panic since it's targeting and smearing a woman instead of a story.

New comment by atlantas in "The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:44:13 +0000

What is it about Harry Potter and moral panics?

Then "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The story is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

Today "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The author is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

New comment by atlantas in "The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:52:03 +0000

"master branch" and "grandfathered code" and "sanity check" are just a few of the terms suddenly deemed unacceptable.

Joe Rogan says dangerous things and must be silenced. Who is a Bernie supporter smeared as alt-right for saying unapproved things.

All kinds of campus panics about "unsafe" words and ideas. One example is a professor that said a word that sounds like another word during a lecture. It made some students uncomfortable and the professor was put on immediate leave.

People being cancelled for jokes they made a decade ago.

It just goes on and on.

New comment by atlantas in "The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:44:02 +0000

Same, center left here too. It feels like a cult trying to purify itself. We're impure and must be cast out. I believe, however, that it's a very loud minority that is scaring the rest of us into silence. So it appears larger than it is.

New comment by atlantas in "The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:20:38 +0000

Free speech. Strangely that has somehow inverted in recent years. It wasn't long ago that censorship was the domain of the right who were in a panic about what's acceptable speech and actively trying to police it.

New comment by atlantas in "DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:57:29 +0000

Yikes. Imagine thinking Breaking Points is right-wing.

New comment by atlantas in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:40:30 +0000

Thanks for doing this!

What would be your advice to new platforms that want to take a free speech approach, while attracting users across the entire political spectrum? (to avoid the fate of Parlor and Rumble)

New comment by atlantas in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

atlantas — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 01:14:00 +0000

If it involves money and it's something you don't like, you call it a pyramid scheme. Twitter discourse 101!

New comment by atlantas in "Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:18:05 +0000

"I used to be fairly optimistic that we could get through a period of consistently higher tensions with China without provoking a huge racist freakout against Asian Americans but the current reaction against all things Russian is causing me to revise that way way way downward."

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1501990346170978304

New comment by atlantas in "Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:16:35 +0000

That's when the rubber meets the road. It's easy for Apple to virtue signal in this case, but I have a feeling they'll think different with China.

New comment by atlantas in "DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:52:00 +0000

I replaced mainstream media with Breaking Points (https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints). I've found them to be far more reliable.

New comment by atlantas in "Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:59:54 +0000

And to top it off, now you have a toothache and have to visit the dentist in the year 536.

New comment by atlantas in "DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:44:47 +0000

Brilliantly stated. This is literally their one job.

New comment by atlantas in "DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation”"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:34:54 +0000

> I will now trust my own media and sources even less, if they rely on silencing the competition and insist on controlling

As you should! It's actually exactly what authoritarian governments like Russia do. They silence and control information, blocking out other sources aside from their own propaganda. Everything else is said to be dangerous disinformation.

New comment by atlantas in "Stripe Crypto"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:14:39 +0000

Serious question: Do you think pyramid schemes, get rich quick schemes, no value added services and predatory investments are new?

New comment by atlantas in "Stripe Crypto"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:01:56 +0000

In the current system when an artist creates something and sells it, they typically get paid once, often lowballed. The buyer may turn around and sell it for 100x. The buyer made far more than the artist, who gets nothing in this scenario.

With NFTs the artist can get a cut of every transfer indefinitely.

New comment by atlantas in "Stripe Crypto"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:27:45 +0000

It's unfortunate, but what would be a good alternative?

New comment by atlantas in "Stripe Crypto"

atlantas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:11:05 +0000

I find the sheer volume of anger and hatred surrounding this and other related announcements completely unhinged. Why are so many people threatened by services that give their users options?