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Google distances itself from planned drag performance after employee petition

Can't trust these companies to do what's right.

This has to be drilled into the collective consciousness as much as possible. There is no such thing as an ethical corporation, or an ethical company that is for-profit -- they simply cannot be ethical, they are amoral by design. If Target or Walmart or Netflix do something that is seen as positive, the only reason is a profit motive, not because they are moving towards being 'good'.

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Reddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackout

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Maybe, but another way of looking at it is that this already unprofitable company just lost (potentially) 5-10% of their marketable advertising attention. That makes their job of becoming profitable harder, and anything they do to compensate may well make their situation worse. (It could, obviously, also have no effect given how large Reddit already is)

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What is the benefit to joining private torrents?

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As a non-AI Learning Model, I cannot conclude one way or the other with any certainty. What I can say is that ChatGPT responses tend to follow a similar pattern:

  • Consistent and clear responses: ChatGPT will often respond to prompts with very readable, well-formatted bulleted lists
  • Socratic reasoning: Items in those lists will have a logical structure from beginning to end

Finally, ChatGPT responses tend to end those lists with a summarizing statement that restates the previous ideas - that ChatGPT will often respond in lists, use a formal and logical writing style, and end with a concise summary of the previous statements.

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Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck

Thing is, people looking for a Reddit replacement are going to be in some way disappointed, since part of the idea of developing a new system is to avoid the things that made Reddit turn terrible. The sad truth it Reddit is probably too big for its users to just leave, but maybe they will financially just crash since their efforts to become profitable aren't looking all that effective.