I think it would be safer to remove all political posts from social media (both sides) as policy. There is a massive propaganda war on both sides and all it does is amplify sentiment, create further division, hurt more people and compromise security over time.

The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.

Of course our current American social media dictators are pretty lax on doing anything positive for society as a whole while it benefits them.

How do you disambiguate "political" content from "content people want to share?"

The hard thing about "getting politics out of X" is that every time people are involved, politics is involved. Politics is just what people think the group should be.

> The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.

No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."

> No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."

It's much worse than rumors: it's often deliberately misconstrued/out of context, or outright lies.

Rumors I don't mind so much, since they're usually pretty obvious.

Indeed. Then again "the news" is well known for carefully editorialising things and conflating unverified sources as facts on and off. General journalistic standards have been compromised because there's a race to get the information in front of people faster than social media and it is now seen as ok to correct it later. This is mostly online though. Print and televised media is usually not as real time.

Everything is a shit show.

Had no problems anywhere in the UK in recent years on 4G and I've been all over the place.

4G has been incredibly reliable for me. Even on a £10/month SIM only thing, I was up a volcano in the middle of nowhere in Iceland and able to make calls.

Most of the people I work with can barely tell the difference between git and github.

I think the point is the signal to noise ratio is poor. But it's less bad than everywhere else I find.

To be fair we were doing this in the 80s with crappy M42 lenses and slightly less scientific method. Pentax 50mm one that came with your GDR clunker could be pushed pretty hard if you were on a budget.

The main reason for this though was to make the bokeh look like it was from a more expensive lens.

Sometimes we do gold plating intentionally because the new tasks are stupid or will compromise the business and we’re trying to make them go away.

I think it is perfectly fine as long as it is a deliberate decision. But lines are blurry between deliberate decisions and just trying to push back the next difficult step.

Conversely my iPhone 13 Pro was taken all round the world and been soaked through, frozen and dropped tens of times in snow and a river. The clear TPU case looked like a water puzzle on a regular basis.

Apple replaced the battery in it last week without a whimper and I expect they would do the same in the future.

If I did this to my MacBook they probably would not. Which is the point.

Race to the bottom propelled by the current fad here we come.

Duolingo has been completely fucking useless for me compared to spending a few hours in the country in question though. It's pretty much HOW DO I GO LEFT AT THE BAKERY level of teaching.

In software this is a reboot or an apology to a client.

In aerospace this is dead people.

I thought hn disallowed low quality comments with no substance

I think you've shown otherwise. And me, too.