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uziq wrote:

ouhh yes i'm terribly narcissistic, loser boy.

This might blow your mind but, I wasn't talking about you, about twitter posters in general.

Tiering is a bit of a fad. There's websites for that stuff. It's easy for me to imagine how it went from best pokemons to hard college topics. People got older.

Again in his defense, he's not so much propping one subject above the other or trying to pretend that this is at all comprehensive. Reiterates subjectivity once more halfway through the video.

No mention of difficulties in landing jobs and the difference between work and study. College vs. company environments. Apples and oranges, even with STEM. Upkeep, retesting in ongoing education.

Overall, not a very useful video. And with his disclaimer in mind, I don't think flat tiering like this really fits. I also don't like the implication of better and worse (using letter grading), even if this is opinion on difficulty rather than validity.

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Larssen wrote:

and that he has a 'method' which he doesn't care to explain.

Didn't he briefly summarise it as dropout rates, general workload, and then specifically 'ease' of getting passing grades? Just didn't get into it on a case-by-case basis.

Normal engineering wank would do nothing but punch down on English. Even if it was "downtiered" (again, not a useful video), don't often hear engineering types make reverent mention of the difficulty of getting an A in anything but their STEM content.

And again, letter grading for this kind of sucks. With his disclaimers, it doesn't mean much. But there's still this unstated painting of subjects as inherently 'better' or 'worse,' because difficulty (pff, you're taking a C-tier major?). Who can effectively argue against the importance of things like politics, dance, language, religion, and art to human civilization? In a general sense, certainly impactful over a longer period of time than aeronautical engineering.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2022-11-29 01:53:01)

Ah yes, the jet bombers of prehistory. Influential in the evolution of human civilization since time immemorial.

certainly impactful over a longer period of time

Ah yes, all human cultural achievement can be summed up in Chaucer. And the grand achievement of flight, in 'aerial bombing.'

How we even got to the point of aerial warfare is a long history of the sort you despise because it doesn't take place within the timespan of WW2. Or rather, when the good countries got involved, right?

How many more thousands of years of human history under which thing's belt:

a) storytelling
b) jet bombers

I guess Musk is fighting Apple now. /popcorn

Apple does seem to have that tied up in a neat bow. If they could just work on their Foxconn problem some more, that'd be fantastic. Not that other computer companies don't have issues with problematic labor.

My old laptop was capable of it but I never really used it for that when out and about. Things can be a liability anyway. Cop sees one in your car, even closed, they might try and tack on distracted driving to whatever they pulled you over for. Also thief-bait. There's not much I used to do on them outside of the house that can't be done with a smartphone and maybe a keyboard peripheral.

yes, capitalism is exploitative, thanks for telling me. i never read anything from the marxist or post-marxist canon before. i did an a-tier sTeM degree.

we're moving away from the era of users having their private data harvested by extremely unscrupulous platform capitalists like facebook. and that is in large part due to a hard technical-policy shift from apple HQ. they very much are changing the paradigm with the way they're structuring the security+privacy features of their latest operating systems, plus their new app store terms and conditions.

yes, a lot of this is likely being driven by seeing which way the prevaiing wind is blowing, especially with regards to grumblings from congress and the rumblings of EU law on regulating these industries. i never claimed they were saints or altruists. i did say they were 'unexpectedly' coming to the rescue of the consumer in the current era. but the simple fact is that one of the main tech giants in silicon valley are making wide-sweeping moves that are causing huge financial disruption to their peers and business partners.

made in the context of the apple vs. musk comments, it makes sense. apple aren't angels, again, but they have made several moves in recent years that have deprived them of measurable billions in revenue for the sake of sticking by their new user privacy mantra. i don't think they're going to be worried about elon starting a culture war with them with his paltry army of blue-tick twitter reply guys.



whatever comes to replace it will have to be more creative – and hopefully more fair and equitable, and let us hope – than the data mining that facebook has been doing on our phones for years, listening in to all of our conversations and tracking our activity across a broad swathe of apps that have nothing the fuck to do with their business, so that they can sell it to shady actors and push fear-based political disinformation campaigns to our phones, and so on. good riddance.

Last edited by uziq (2022-11-29 15:19:56)

Some experts and pundits are saying this exodus marks the death of social networks. Those articles aren’t entirely wrong, but they aren’t that right, either. What we’re seeing is not so much the death of an age as an evolution in social networks—a shift towards community-focused and -designed spaces like Mastodon, Discord, and Twitch. While social media was for 15 years or so focused on bringing your message to as many people as possible at one time, we’re heading now toward a future in which it’s about reaching a much smaller group of people with whom you already share interests, beliefs, or affinity.

Interesting snippet from an article. Back to message boards society goes.

The article acknowledged that there are old community based sites like Reddit specifically. Reddit has a more techy culture than the more broad Facebook and Twitter. People are leaving the broad platforms. The article mentioned that people on the broad networks have started to see the spread of their content as more of a liability than feature. People want to go back to Avatars and screen names.

I don't think it will disappear though I can see further fragmentation of social networks. The big players will still be big but their market share will be eaten into. It is not unlike the effect of having 400 cable channels vs just having 5 big ones like ABC, CBS, etc.

There are techy boomers. We were taught by them.