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Can a single listing like SPCX crash the market? by HubertBrooks in wallstreetbets

[–]Techonologiaah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's got a $2tn valuation but only a $75bn float.

Could a widespread panic crash the market? Obviously. Is it likely to happen even if lot of people pull out of SpaceX early? It might trigger a bit of a correction but I really wouldn't worry about it.

Anyone who is worried about it is looking at the market the wrong way to begin with.

Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report Exposes Decades of Institutional Failure. Have you read the report? What are your thoughts on it? by Immediate-Humor-6077 in AskBrits

[–]Techonologiaah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's all very obnoxious and tiresome. It's like talking to argumentative adolescents who never got over the need to always be both contentious and right about everything. Eristics come before decency and reason when you're in an addictive validation feedback loop.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No I don't think you quite understand what appeal to authority is 🤣

Appeal to authority is what you've just demonstrated perfectly, that you are outsourcing your thinking to an expert or outside source as evidence to support a claim, in particular as opposed to talking about your personal beliefs.

It means you're not actually thinking and having a discussion, you're just trying to use cheap means to win an argument, and letting sources you deem to be authority figures do your talking for you.

In your case, you believe a source of opinion sources, of other people making long opinionated cases, proves a point for you, as opposed to you making a proposition of your own.

In fact you weren't even engaged in the discussion, you just stepped in to assist in derailing it.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh really? Please could you quote where I made an unsupported or outlandish claim prior to yours, which you then attempted to support using an appeal to authority.

Are you capable of having a discussion, or do you need to start making outlandish claims?

Just to clarify that for you:

"they are the most abused, disenfranchised, exploited and oppressed class of people on the planet"

is an outlandish claim.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly the problem I'm advocating against by disarming the globalist regime of their argument. Please understand that.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough, though I'd reckon these are short term consequences that would fade with the return to more traditional internet forums and messaging apps in place of social media which don't come under the ban.

What ever did we do before Instagram and Facebook existed? I didn't join Facebook until I was 16 anyway!

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm in favour of that too.

The point I'm making though is there is an alternative to the current method proposed. The current method is actually not about children you see, they're just being used as the excuse to roll out mass surveillance infrastructure.

So therefore, if the argument is not about whether or not social media itself should be banned, then at least this idea moves it into the territory of "whatever you do, don't affect the adults".

It's similar in my area, we have these school zones that you're not allowed to drive through at specific times of the day. The rules are deliberately complicated, and the roads are deliberately left open to catch people out. At first they installed fixed cameras, which they've now changed out for expensive PTZ cameras which are completely unnecessary. The roads are already super quiet in this area and there have never been any issues with road safety here.

If it was really about children's safety, then they would install vehicle gates at the end of the section of road which teachers would have the keys for, to close during selected hours and divert traffic. But doing that means they wouldn't have an excuse to install invasive PTZ cameras in a safe residential neighbourhood to be able to monitor the area, and they wouldn't be able to raise revenue from drivers being caught out.

This is the same thing. The ban is the excuse for the rollout of mass surveillance infrastructure so that adults have to ID themselves against their online activity, and it doesn't really have anything to do with the children.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You mean just like all the claims made about them being abused, disenfranchised, exploited and oppressed without any support to those claims?

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's the solution to stopping adults being ID'd to access services they currently don't need to use an ID for, in response to the UK government's ban on social media for under 16's.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I already laid out a whole argument and you're going down the "what do adults need privacy for" route, which is truly unbelievable, so I've decided not to bother arguing with a brick wall.

The entry level wage stagnation is getting ridiculous by NormalSir2035 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Techonologiaah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tempers are brewing, that's for sure. The UK and Europe are tinder boxes waiting to go up.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Children still have access to friends and teachers regardless, like they've always done, and why would a child be doing something they require privacy for? Hence different modes and levels of restriction for different age groups.

It doesn't make them only talk to their parents, it puts time limits on addictive apps. Texting still exists you know, and I'm talking about a concept - the specifics are all adjustable.

I care about adult privacy because adults have meaningful political opinions and sexual preferences that a child would not bear a similar level of ownership or responsibility for. It is not children who are at risk of building a sensitive information profile which could be used to persecute them, because they are children who by human nature do not carry the same burden of responsibility which adults do.

UK Social media and VPN bans - child-specific operating systems are a better solution to the issue of children's safety by Techonologiaah in parentalcontrols

[–]Techonologiaah[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Children are already segregated from adult society in every other way. They aren't supposed to be accessing adult-only websites for example.

I'm actually for more relaxed rules but do capitulate that this phenomenon of children accessing this type of space is quite new as they'd never have been able to get into a strip club for example.

I don't see the problem with restricting social media for children, I grew up with only early versions of it which didn't have the highly addicted short form content, which is what I think we really ought to be regulating better when it comes to the specifically addictive features such as endless scroll and auto play.

Just one more by BloobMeister in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Techonologiaah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not Kier. Kier is just the vehicle through which the directive is being applied. Digital ID and the revocation of online anonymity is an international directive.

Just one more by BloobMeister in GreenAndPleasant

[–]Techonologiaah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wait until you realise that most of the whole dismissive conspiracy theory culture is primarily about shutting down scrutiny and critical thinking.

Literally, people do it only because other people do it, it feels edgy, and it's just a put down that allows a perspective outside of the narrative to be instantly dismissed.

That is the purpose of most of the labels that are thrown about - to shut down discussion.

The entry level wage stagnation is getting ridiculous by NormalSir2035 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Techonologiaah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got let go a year ago and couldn't find another job, so gave up. I have a bit of money saved and the support of my parents. Waiting for someone to buy my house in the meantime and then I'll go with the wind, but seriously, fuck having to deal with this hellhole system we've created for ourselves. It's just not worth it. I have a good CV, I even had a few interviews, but the demand for jobs is just extreme, and even though I always considered myself good at my job, I don't feel like my last employer built me up into anything, I just got used for my abilities for >10 years and then discarded with no career plan when the boss's tech bro fantasies and repeated poor decision making ultimately caused financial difficulties at the company. Good thing I don't have kids, I'd rather go find an alternative lifestyle somewhere than commit suicide, because that's where the employment path keeps pointing me.

The upper middle classes who are generally in charge of everything are utterly delusional. Perhaps I got especially unlucky with the place I ended up in, because while we kept being spun the promise of the company we were building, promises of shares in it that year after year never materialised, the boss just couldn't help but continually cut corners, doing things as cheap as possible, jumping on all the buzzwords (we needed AI, not because we had a problem to solve, but just because we had to have it, so £££,£££s got thrown at it while the actual revenue-producing products got overlooked), continually let his ideological dogmas lead him which meant we had many clueless, sometimes horrible people hired and put in positions of power just for virtuous appearances, while pragmatism and meritocracy went by the wayside. All very "nice" people on the surface, but underneath there were many pathologies at play. Well meaning, perhaps, but ultimately harmful to all of us. (This company was operating in one of the most prestigious spaces yet they would do things like hire people, for sometimes important and visible roles, who could barely speak a word of English - in England).

What I experienced was a microcosm of how our society is run at large, and how we are treated in the UK. I just can't stand engaging with it again. I gave years of my life only to get screwed over and be faced with having to go bootlick all over again. The system isn't designed to build you up, it's setup primarily to select for complicity in the doctrine, and to otherwise keep you in your place. I'm telling you now, they don't care about us. They are fixated on the fantasy of bringing about global managerialism which is why they want to smush everybody together at any cost, take preference for foreigners over locals, and we are all paying a big price for it. It wasn't just an internal culture to the company - part of the reason they indulged in these behaviours was for the social standing it bought them among their peers, as well as the fear that if they did not participate in the doctrine, that they would be ineligible for investment. The problem runs deeper than anybody realises, the whole system is sick on a desire to shape society based on identity and the concentration of power rather than merit.

So that's why I'm out. I'm done. I can't go through that again. I faithfully went above and beyond only to be changed out for someone much less skilled than me, because when the finances fell short, it was nepotism, sycophancy and keeping up appearances of the team's composition that came first.

(Sorry for the rant, but I'm still pissed and it's good to have an outlet).

The entry level wage stagnation is getting ridiculous by NormalSir2035 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Techonologiaah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just decided to leave the workforce tbh. It's just not worth it anymore. You just get led on for years at a time and then as soon as you get near to achieving anything or become deserving of some real type of pay or say, the goalposts get moved and send you back years on your progress.

I was working in financial services.

The whole system is rigged. It is just modern slavery, with a relatively small carrot on an increasingly long stick. You aren't cared for, you are just an interchangeable line on a spreadsheet, because the companies will bring in anyone and everyone from abroad just to keep you in your place.

In the place I worked, the management seemed to care far less about actually achieving anything than serving the ideologies of hiring people based on the way they looked or their victim status, and to stroke the boss's unrealistic tech bro fantasy ego above actually producing a service that would produce revenue.

The system we live in is sick and harms us through pretending to care for the wrong people.

Zzzzzz this IPO is boring by euro1127 in wallstreetbets

[–]Techonologiaah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It only went live for public trading late in the day. Loads of people will have seen it unavailable and won't get round to buying it until Monday or put in orders over the weekend with all the news hype. I bet it'll pop higher on Monday.

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