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There is also "True but not useful" and Not true but useful" (Newton's laws, for example)

It works when your interests are narrow and consistent over time. Sometimes, one wants "And now for something completely different" and not more of the same.

Here is a simple test to determine if one is a free thinker or a partisan - Name at least one policy that you support that could harm or even hurt you but would be good for the country or the world.

It is a simple but accurate test.

So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education.

The answers are wrong!
They did not ask permission!
The answers are WRONG!

How is this science?!

Which English should we choose? American, British, Australian?

After that - accent, dialect, era of a vocabulary.

Am I using the correct words here? Does correct still mean "correct"?

If you search and can't find them, then re-search

j/k

Me either. It was difficult in even favorable political environments definitely impossible in today's world, where one Republicans most definitely don't want many people to vote. If the voters switch, Democrats will switch sides too and will oppose universal voting rights.

Neither does India, kind of. Don't know about Brazil.

In India, the government sends reps
to the homes of senior citizens and handicapped who cannot go to an
official location. All paperwork is done in their home.

I want every legal citizen to have the right to vote freely. What happens after that in our broken system is upto the country to fix.

No American is my enemy, even if they consider me one.

Perfect.

There is no national Id in US. Only state Ids. In Republican states like Texas, Ids are carefully crafted to only allow those which are likely to vote Republican.

A free national voter Id, solves a host of problems. For example, make SSN an Id with photo, rather than only an Id for taxes.

I assume that there is massive voter disenfranchisement going on in the USA. However, Trump managed to engage in retail and transactional voting, peeling off many demographics that the Democrats believed were in their bloc.

That is immaterial. Let people decide for themselves. Allow free votes.

Whatever is the reason for opposition, free voter Ids take away the whole premise.

In addition, Presidential elections can ignore voter intent. Presidents are chosen by the states. The voters only choose their House members. The House chooses the senators and the House and Senate can choose POTUS.

Disenfranchising voters is the attempt of certain politicians, that much is clear.

So long as people fight for voting without Id, opponents can and will keep challenging it on moral and electoral security grounds.

Free voter Id takes away that premise and replaces it with a financial one.

In India, Id registration is free and available to every citizen. Why not follow the same process in US?

Instead of battling for Id less voting, change the battle to a guaranteed and free national Id for every citizen. Would be both more worthwhile, as well as harder to oppose.

To the surprise or no one.

Just as Bsky likely leans very left.

"When I was a child, all my necessities were taken care of without me having to work for them. What happened?"

Same vibes.

What are the chances of us seeing an American Wuhan in the current political climate?

India is an importer and refiner, so it would have to be Russia or one of the Middle Eastern or South American countries

I will cherish and defend your right to always agree with me.

Better than the days when Windows update used to say 1 hour, be at 99% in 10 minutes and the last 1% would take 3 hours, if it did not crash.

:)

Actions speak louder than words. Plenty of "independents" reliably vote for a single party.

Thanks, except this too is a Meta property and one I have been avoiding because it is the most useless of all. 😀

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So do I.

You would not necessarily be targeting him directly but he would be adding to the DAU as well as the demographic and psychographic profiles used to model your targeted advertisements.

FB may not show your ad to them but they will use the presence of this user to shape your perception.

Third party Cookies are one way of getting tracked. You can also get tracked by device fingerprinting, tagged images and first parties sharing your data with Facebook.

Even if YOU don't buy anything, your activity at Meta properties increases its value for advertisers targeting you.

Meta embeds tracking cookies on other websites, so you continue to add to its value.

The correct answer is to encourage your network to move to open protocols, one person at a time.

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This is a monumental day for the future of the open web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-... and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: freeourfeeds.com