If all they are doing is allowing color changes and slight UI tweaks (and the undo button), why not take a page from online gaming's playbook and just sell cosmetics?

There is pretty much no limit to what could be sold as a cosmetic...add "flair" to the twitter bird (googly eyes, hats, etc) ($5.99 - $25.99)...make circle logo on your profile an octagon ($1.99), a triangle ($1.25)...with a blue border for an extra $.99....etc

I bet they'd make gobs more than a $2.99/mo.

I guess more features will come out. Even they know 3 USD a month means they have to have good incentives.

But that is the whole point of the parent. Who is to say it is a "propaganda effort"? FB/TW/YT? Why? How would they know (unless they were part of that effort, ironically)?

Part of the answer is looking for patterns and bots. When it's a few voices being amplified by a whole bunch of bots it's propaganda.

"Whenever someone like me gets called a "white supremacist" for defending someone's right to post a job opportunity without being subject to attack, it devalues a term whose meaning is indispensable to retain so that genuine instances of racism can be identified and rightfully addressed."

Wow, this is basically what all us "crazy alt-right" people have been worried was going to happen since day 1.

Second and third order consequences are not always that hard to foresee.

They called too many people "racist" and so it became mundane. They had to up the ante to "white supremacist." It's become nothing more than a dog whistle.

Heh, I wonder about the relation to the ever increasing usage of superlatives and exaggeration in advertising and media. There was a short discussion on it yesterday and it got me thinking.

Media/news used to be pretty dry/neutral when reporting anything, and old advertising was more focused on practical aspects of the product it seems.

Now it's all OUTRAGE, person 1 SLAMS new proposal to make DRUGS more accessible to CRIMINALS!

So buy our INCREDIBLE super phone, it's not a phone, it's A FULL INTELLIGENT BEING in your pocket with the GREATEST features IN THE WORLD!

This isn't an entry level janitor position, you are a CLEANING MANAGER, you will be FIGHTING MICROBES EVERY DAY LIKE A HERO, so apply now by telling us WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT THIS JOB. An interview with HR and the CTO is mandatory.

Is it any wonder words are losing their meaning? Tbf, someone's probably going to come up with new ones :)

Isn't that what they call the euphemism treadmill?

"Proletariat" and "bourgeoisie", respectively. Identity politics becomes real easy to understand when you recognize that the supposed 'good guys' are bourgeoisie (and their apologists) trying to take self-sufficient peoples and reduce them to proles, and blaming those peoples for all the things the bourgeoisie(-apologists) do themselves. In other worlds, all identity politics is projection on the part of the perpetrators against one group of victims for the purposes of dividing and conquering their victims, lest they rise up against them and string them up.

I dont think the Palestinians are mad at Jews for being bourgeoisie. The identity issue is at the heart of that conflict, its not a proxy for class. If the Palestinians had more money they wouldn't get Israeli citizenship. I guess some identity politics could be proxies for class struggle though.

Edit: That makes literally no sense earlking. If Israel Palestine is a struggle between two bourgeoise then it isn't a class struggle. Its an ethnic struggle like I said above.

The issue at hand in Syria-Palestina is who owns the land and who can be there. It's one group of bourgeoisie slugging it out with the other. That's why it doesn't look like a class issue to you.

The secret meaning is "anyone I disagree with and wish to hush up", and the ones who hear are anyone who also wishes the interlocutor would hush up

Both things can be true. The alt-right is batshit crazy, but "woke" keyboard warriors on Twitter are also assholes.

This is a crucial distinction and I don't get it why it's so hard for people to understand it. Both extremes of the spectrum are toxic and at the same time have the "if you're not with us, you are against us" attitude. A stable central position is needed to protect the society from extremes.

And if you try and explain how throwing around labels dilutes the meaning of words, you'll get told "languages evolve" and "stop being a prescriptivist".

They don't care. Words are just a means to an end, a compliance tool that doesn't have to make any sense as long as it works on enough people, and enough people are willing to pat them on the head for repeating them. You're not talking to people who deal in principles, which is also why they're eerily unmoved by even the most glaring double-standards.

You can think of it as a difference in vocabulary.

What some phrase as "I disagree" other say "you're racist!".

I find it fascinating that Hollywood is doubling down on this type of writing after it's been shown to drive away audiences.

I'm just trying to wrap my head around how skewed a poll taken by "a diversity consultancy" would conclude that: "... two-thirds of adults in America want to be able to discuss racial-justice issues at work."

I imagine it depends on how the question is framed.

No one wants to be fired for merely mentioning the top news story of the day in office conversation. And sometimes it's a "racial justice" topic.

On the other hand, I also don't think most people want to be forced to detail their exact racial-justice views in the office or feel pressured to openly support something.

One of my favorite examples of "how the question was framed" is from ~5 years ago. They asked one group if they were in favor of Obamacare, the other if they were in favor of the Affordable Care Act. Turns out the ACA polls better.

Honestly I haven’t really had any bad experiences discussing these issues in person, but when I read the dumpster fire known as Twitter it makes me not want to get involved

You’ll never have any issues as long as you stay between the lines, that’s the point.

Coming up with a poll question where any answer you give will be interpreted as support for the pollster's politics is an art. I totally believe that poll. A lot of those people probably wish they could express an ANTI-work opinion at work, but we'll never know how many because the poll was designed to not reveal exactly how popular or unpopular woke politics are.

I think we would all like to be able to safely discuss most things anywhere. If you ask the question a certain way, it might not so much about about 'the desire' but the 'right / ability' to do it without getting fired.

Tricky question though.

But isn't that the grandparent's whole point?

If you can't take being called "soft" or a "wussy", you ARE...and need to toughen up...ignore trite insults, and be able to withstand the torrents of potential backlash/hardships (from customers, competitors, whatever externalities...or even from internal sources, eg: partners - you WILL fight).

OP is a young (I assume) college graduate, asking for advice and open to the fact that their current thinking may be wrong.

I see no weakness here.

Unless you consider thoughtfulness and introspection to be weakness?

Not everyone in business has to behave like they’re The Wolf of Wall Street.

One word: Ouroboros

Perhaps...but then you've mis-categorized the person as an introvert when they are actually socially awkward or, as you say, they have: "...poor social skills and lack of impact."

There are both introverts and extroverts who have "poor social skills and lack of impact".

Noisy extroverts who don't know when to stop talking is one example off the top of my head.

No paywall link: https://archive.fo/fdNyd

No one, other than the city of NY, will have the full node.

So in this use-case there is no distributed network in the first place. And never will be.