Vaccine

Grace T. said:
If they've lost San Francisco, the tide has truly turned against the die hard Covidians.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1493810509610635264
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Covid containment measures are still popular in SF.

The recall was more about PC politicians who weren’t thinking about the job they ran for. They were wasting time renaming schools instead of thinking about how to open them. Had they been pushing for HEPA filters and N95 masks in all classrooms, they’d still be in office.
 
dad4 said:
Covid containment measures are still popular in SF.

The recall was more about PC politicians who weren’t thinking about the job they ran for. They were wasting time renaming schools instead of thinking about how to open them. Had they been pushing for HEPA filters and N95 masks in all classrooms, they’d still be in office.
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The lefty Democrat Mayor London Breed supported the recalls and will get to name the replacements.
 
Grace T. said:
If even half of this is true, Fauci, the CDC and the FDA beclowned themselves again, for unknown and possibly corrupt motives, with remdesivir

doyourownresearch.substack.com

The Remdesivir Riddle

The drug was knowingly deployed in a way that prevented it from being effective. Why?
doyourownresearch.substack.com doyourownresearch.substack.com
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Remember that one time that some some people who may or may not have been drs were hammering away at lack of early treatment, early on? It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. I wonder if @dad4 contemplates possible saving of life with early treatment.

Don't fret though, pharma is the savior.
 
what-happened said:
Remember that one time that some some people who may or may not have been drs were hammering away at lack of early treatment, early on? It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. I wonder if @dad4 contemplates possible saving of life with early treatment.

Don't fret though, pharma is the savior.
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That's why I cut out meat two years ago and only eat gluten free and organic. I was getting prepared for this battle and so many laughed at me. Do you have any idea what these crazies pump into the cows that are cloned? Clone chicken sandwich and now Gates and his pals are making, "beyond meat." I would not eat any of that stuff. Beyond meat is insane!!! Metaverse wants you all in with their way of life. It's all about the social score. I already dealt with credit score BS, now they want to score how you obey.
 
Desert Hound said:
It really is a problem if the few sites that most people communicate on regularly ban conservative opinions.

Part of it is the ownership is generally liberal. The other problem are calls by Dem politicians to crack down on misinformation...aka other viewpoints.
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I don't agree with censorship, although that's not blanket as certain things, hate speech being an obvious one, should never be countenanced.

That said, these sites are designed to engage & retain users, allowing you to follow who you want and then presenting back to you like minded content / opinions. Given the various things posted on here, people are not having any difficulty finding people/opinions that they agree with, whether those opinions are accurate or not.

They are also public companies, i.e. the ownership. The leadership & the employees may allegedly be "liberal", but the ownership are the shareholders, who can get rid of the leadership if they don't perform. The company purpose is to deliver value for the shareholders. If policy decisions run counter to that and impact the bottom line, then the leadership will be in trouble.
 
whatithink said:
I don't agree with censorship, although that's not blanket as certain things, hate speech being an obvious one, should never be countenanced.

That said, these sites are designed to engage & retain users, allowing you to follow who you want and then presenting back to you like minded content / opinions. Given the various things posted on here, people are not having any difficulty finding people/opinions that they agree with, whether those opinions are accurate or not.

They are also public companies, i.e. the ownership. The leadership & the employees may allegedly be "liberal", but the ownership are the shareholders, who can get rid of the leadership if they don't perform. The company purpose is to deliver value for the shareholders. If policy decisions run counter to that and impact the bottom line, then the leadership will be in trouble.
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Just wanted to say whatithink is a perfect moniker for an opinion site. I wish everyone in here realized that most all the content in these forums are what they think and things they pull from the internet that agree with that opinion.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Just wanted to say whatithink is a perfect moniker for an opinion site. I wish everyone in here realized that most all the content in these forums are what they think and things they pull from the internet that agree with that opinion.
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Just wanted to say I love you :)
 
whatithink said:
I don't agree with censorship, although that's not blanket as certain things, hate speech being an obvious one, should never be countenanced.

That said, these sites are designed to engage & retain users, allowing you to follow who you want and then presenting back to you like minded content / opinions. Given the various things posted on here, people are not having any difficulty finding people/opinions that they agree with, whether those opinions are accurate or not.

They are also public companies, i.e. the ownership. The leadership & the employees may allegedly be "liberal", but the ownership are the shareholders, who can get rid of the leadership if they don't perform. The company purpose is to deliver value for the shareholders. If policy decisions run counter to that and impact the bottom line, then the leadership will be in trouble.
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The end result though is like media we will have conservative and liberal social media in the future for the very reason you outline. I don't quite think people like Ben Shapiro are right and it means different movies, sports, shoe brands, or even fast food, but Seinfeld was prescient with the Poppy episode....conservatives might lean In N Out and Chick Fillet, for example.
 
Grace T. said:
The end result though is like media we will have conservative and liberal social media in the future for the very reason you outline. I don't quite think people like Ben Shapiro are right and it means different movies, sports, shoe brands, or even fast food, but Seinfeld was prescient with the Poppy episode....conservatives might lean In N Out and Chick Fillet, for example.
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'We cannot give the people the right to choose any toppings they want" -- Poppie

Is it pizza when it comes out of the oven, or when you first put your fist in the dough?
 
The San Francisco school board recall effort and result is from a mix of different things. Some frustration was from keeping schools closed. Some from the school re-naming effort. Most of the anger was from the effort to change admissions criteria to Lowell High School (which is a test based) and Collins’ old tweets about Asian Americans. Asian Americans, especially Chinese, turned out to vote on this issue because it involves education and their kids. Many Asian American parents would have been ok with the school closures and other mitigation measures. But they are not ok with policies that attack and take away opportunities for their children simply because they are high achieving. The tide is turning or had turned on the left regarding “equity” and the various policies that try to socially engineer equal outcomes. It just doesn’t work.
 
Grace T. said:
The end result though is like media we will have conservative and liberal social media in the future for the very reason you outline. I don't quite think people like Ben Shapiro are right and it means different movies, sports, shoe brands, or even fast food, but Seinfeld was prescient with the Poppy episode....conservatives might lean In N Out and Chick Fillet, for example.
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I always figured that politics is pretty niche on social media, important to a small number of users and probably not that consequential to the bottom line. That's not to say that politicians or commentators don't use them, but they are just a small part, from a revenue perspective, to those businesses.

Take T's venture, is that really looking to attract enough unique users from Facebook/Twitter or just appeal to a very small niche crowd? Twitter has something close to 200M daily users (& loses money), Facebook has nearly 2B. What are they going to lose to truthsocial? Are they even going to lose all those, i.e. will those people still go on the other platforms to then jump back and vent in an echo chamber? Facebook gives zero Fs about truthsocial, but TikTok has them scared. Google (youtube) likewise gives zero Fs. Twitter are probably interested but maybe lose <1% of their users, if even.

Censorship is not good on social mediums, but echo chambers for singular right/left viewpoints are probably worse.
 
whatithink said:
I always figured that politics is pretty niche on social media, important to a small number of users and probably not that consequential to the bottom line. That's not to say that politicians or commentators don't use them, but they are just a small part, from a revenue perspective, to those businesses.

Take T's venture, is that really looking to attract enough unique users from Facebook/Twitter or just appeal to a very small niche crowd? Twitter has something close to 200M daily users (& loses money), Facebook has nearly 2B. What are they going to lose to truthsocial? Are they even going to lose all those, i.e. will those people still go on the other platforms to then jump back and vent in an echo chamber? Facebook gives zero Fs about truthsocial, but TikTok has them scared. Google (youtube) likewise gives zero Fs. Twitter are probably interested but maybe lose <1% of their users, if even.

Censorship is not good on social mediums, but echo chambers for singular right/left viewpoints are probably worse.
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I disagree on twitter. All it takes is someone like a Ben Shapiro (who has long advocated for building up separate traunches for conservatives) to move and twitter will lose its conservative content en masse. Twitter is largely a political and cultural war cesspool anyways...people aren't there largely to follow their latest star wars news or cooking contest. The character limit makes it mostly useful to link to other sources and to get news/propaganda.

I agree with things like facebook and instagram which aren't necessarily political. The grandparents who are chatting about their favorite quilting b could care less. The social media influencers chatting about how they are riding a private jet to the latest beach concert in the bahamas don't care about the censorship either.
 
whatithink said:
I always figured that politics is pretty niche on social media, important to a small number of users and probably not that consequential to the bottom line. That's not to say that politicians or commentators don't use them, but they are just a small part, from a revenue perspective, to those businesses.

Take T's venture, is that really looking to attract enough unique users from Facebook/Twitter or just appeal to a very small niche crowd? Twitter has something close to 200M daily users (& loses money), Facebook has nearly 2B. What are they going to lose to truthsocial? Are they even going to lose all those, i.e. will those people still go on the other platforms to then jump back and vent in an echo chamber? Facebook gives zero Fs about truthsocial, but TikTok has them scared. Google (youtube) likewise gives zero Fs. Twitter are probably interested but maybe lose <1% of their users, if even.

Censorship is not good on social mediums, but echo chambers for singular right/left viewpoints are probably worse.
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Trying to call the game before it's even started is rather foolish to put it nicely.
 
Grace T. said:
I disagree on twitter. All it takes is someone like a Ben Shapiro (who has long advocated for building up separate traunches for conservatives) to move and twitter will lose its conservative content en masse. Twitter is largely a political and cultural war cesspool anyways...people aren't there largely to follow their latest star wars news or cooking contest. The character limit makes it mostly useful to link to other sources and to get news/propaganda.

I agree with things like facebook and instagram which aren't necessarily political. The grandparents who are chatting about their favorite quilting b could care less. The social media influencers chatting about how they are riding a private jet to the latest beach concert in the bahamas don't care about the censorship either.
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There may be a "a political and cultural war" going on, on Twitter, but that could also be a small subset of Twitter.

Some interesting Twitter stuff.

• Twitter by the Numbers (2022): Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts (omnicoreagency.com)
 
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