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- TheOverSeether : High dose of r-slurred today.
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Apartment maintenance didn't know that I had a security camera. They kept referring to me as a โsailorโ.
I wont say the apartment name or the owners. But the owners are very big. You've likely heard of them.
I wasn't home when the work order was done. They were just laying vinyl flooring at the entrance.
The context was along the lines of โDoes a young man live here? I don't know it looks pretty clean it might be a woman. Or maybe it's a โsailor'โ then they would all laugh. They called me a sailor a few times when referring to the apartment. At one point the maintenance man says โThey can't be as gay as me! No one laughs as much as I doโ trying to do that stupid haha joke that old people do do about gay meaning happy when it's convenient for them.
One of them used my bathroom and came out laughing because I have a bidet and he says โWell he's a sailorโ. And made some joke about using the bidet (let's hope not). They aren't even supposed to use our bathrooms, sinks, tools, etc to do the work order.
About 50 other strange things happened like them going through my pantry and my storage closet. Using my broom that they found. Talked about going into my bedroom to find a fan. Using my paper towels. Blowing their nose into my Kleenex then leaving it on my counter for me to throw away. Picking up the dishes in my sink and moving them around. I sent the entire 2 hour footage in to apartment management along with a timestamp for every comment/invasion of privacy.
My question is, what the frick does sailor mean in the context of them being homophobic? I'm bisexual but they can't really know that.
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WATCH: Facially expressive Ameca humanoid robot by Engineered Arts set to make debut at CES 2022
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 2, 2021
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teachers deserve all of this and 10x worse when you realize the total amount of life hours wasted away in a stale fluorescent lighting prison learning nothing instead of being in the sunlight and playing with your friends or developing real skills https://t.co/xDh6pQ5Yry
— kunk (@gunk4188) April 7, 2024
His message has spread to the rest of RW Twitter
https://twitter.com/revenant_MMXX/status/1777718356138688849
https://twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1777564404189405316
Check his timeline to see a chud take all comers
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Twitter will no longer enforce its policy against coronavirus misinformation, worrying experts who say the move could have serious consequences in the midst of a still-deadly pandemic.
The rollback of Twitterโs covid-19 misinformation policy is just the latest pivot since Elon Musk took control of the company a month ago.
Twitter introduced its policy against covid misinformation in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic. Since then, the company had suspended more than 11,000 accounts and removed more than 100,000 pieces of content for violating the policy, according to a report from the company. Several high-profile figures ran afoul of the policy, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose personal account wasย suspended in Januaryย for violating the policy by casting doubt on the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines. Her account was reinstated last week.
Experts in public health praised Twitterโs efforts to tamp down on covid misinformation. In aย 2021 advisory reportย to technology platforms, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy cited Twitterโs policy as an example of how tech companies should go about combating misinformation.
โHealth misinformation is a serious threat to public health,โ Murthy wrote. โIt can cause confusion, sow mistrust, harm peopleโs health, and undermine public health efforts. Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative that will require a whole-of-society effort.โ
However, Twitter has alsoย struggled to police misinformation accuratelyย and recently began labeling some factual information about covid as misinformation and banning scientists and researchers who attempted to warn the public of the long-term harm of covid on the body. As of last weekend, many tweets promoting anti-vaccine content and covid misinformation remained on the platform.
Covid becomes plague of elderly, reviving debate over โacceptable lossโ
โThat is a real danger of setting yourself up with the task of deciding what is true and what is false,โ Emily Dreyfuss, co-author of โMeme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America,โ said of Twitterโs fumbles surrounding covid misinformation.
But she said that was all the more reason to improve the process and policies, not scrap them altogether.
โDuring the pandemic, social media companies finally realized misinformation is a life-or-death issue because medical misinformation about covid had such dire consequences it could not be ignored,โ she said. โMusk getting rid of these policies is backtracking on years and years of painfully won lessons on how to make the internet safe and not harmful.โ
โIโm doing internal medicine, and I see a lot of patients in primary care clinic,โ said Max Jordan Nguemeni, a resident at Brigham and Womenโs Hospital in Boston. โA lot of what I do when I offer vaccines is combating disinformation. The spread of misinformation online on platforms people rely on for news, like Twitter, worries me, especially when I think about my patients who are more vulnerable, older or not English-speaking.โ
Jon Shaffer, a health sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, said he worried that, when combined with Muskโs plan to allow Twitter users to purchase a blue verified check mark for $8 a month, the abandonment of the misinformation policy will be especially dangerous.
โPeople with the purchased blue check marks will certainly sell snake oil and promote baseless ideas for their own personal and political profit, and the result will be that poor people will continue to die from covid,โ Shaffer said.
Lucky Tran, director of science communication at Columbia University, said scrapping the covid misinformation policy will contribute to public confusion.
โWeโre going through an infodemic alongside a pandemic,โ Tran said. โWhat that means is people are exposed to so much information that they donโt know whatโs true or whatโs not. They donโt know what to do to protect their health and the health of people around them. This change by Musk is going to make that problem even worse.โ
The move comes as Musk appears to be shifting more of the responsibility to policing misinformation to users through the companyโs Birdwatch program, which allows Twitter users to rate and add corrections to tweets. Lately, however, as Birdwatch has scaled to more users, incorrect information about covid has been added to tweets simply because a mass of users upvoted it. This is dangerous, Dreyfuss said.
How Twitterโs contentious new fact-checking project really works
โMusk is scrapping a misinformation policy that was imperfect and replacing it with a new system thatโs much more easily hacked and gamed,โ she said. โWhat heโs doing with this policy is washing his hands of Twitterโs responsibility of determining fact or fiction and giving it over to the users of Twitter, which we know is not going to be an effective strategy at all. They will make true whatever they want to make true.โ
Yoel Roth, Twitterโs former head of trust and safety, said Muskโs decision to stop policing covid misinformation was โbad and damagingโ and probably not โtenable going forward.โ โYou simply cannot do that if you are operating what you want to be a commercially viable consumer service,โ he said.
Musk himself has spread covid misinformation. In 2020, heย claimedย that coronavirus cases would be โclose to zeroโ by April 2020. Heย also toldย SpaceX workers in March 2020, as the world was just beginning to shut down during the pandemic, that they were more likely to die in a car crash than of covid. That June, he reopened the Tesla plant in Fremont, Calif., against county health and safety orders but promised employees they could stay home if they felt ill and would not be penalized. Employees with covid who did stay home, however,ย were promptly fired.
Musk also called virus-related restrictions โfascistโ on a 2020 Tesla earnings call. During a podcast appearance in September 2020, Musk said he wouldย not get vaccinated and downplayedย the virusโs death toll. โEverybody dies,โ he said.
But experts say Muskโs decision will lead to more deaths. โItโs a huge step backwards in a pandemic that has killed a million Americans and millions more worldwide,โ Shaffer said. โItโs certain to get many more people killed from covid than otherwise would.โ
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Lets show reddit how necessary the mods are by leaving reddit unmoderated for the weekend!!
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"We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good," says Pope Francis. https://t.co/MmLPBhWVU2 pic.twitter.com/7Be2GrKrdB
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 19, 2024
Bro, has the Pope even met people?
Does the Pope not realize that what goodnees he sees was hard-fought-for by his own church, and only possible by the grace of Our Lord as mediated by the Holy Spirit?
Does he not know that this is the good news that the gospels are named after?
!christians discuss!
- RabidModerate : I want my 300 dramacoin you fink.
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SORRY I'VE BEEN VERY BUSY PACKING and I'll be without a computer starting tomorrow for at least a week so I figured I'd bang these out rq
If you have already contributed a scary Marsey, link me to it ITT and I'll hand out your badge. I'll be doing a manual check later though, so no rush. Any Halloween-centric Marseys contributed up until November 1st will also be given this extremely high quality badge and GOD FRICK some of the letters go out of bounds ok lemme go fix that
update: it has been fixed but the thumbnail here can't be altered so whatever, it's fixed i promise
Also made the bait badge for @Sylveon (and in the future, any others who do outstanding bait things) and the PR badge for @TracingWoodgrains for the beautiful article.