Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1318 - Hotep Jesus" video.

  1. Facebook's "trust and safety board." Reminds me of Comcast's "Loyalty Specialist." You know. The person you have to talk to in order to cancel your cable.
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  2. I've been a Hotep Jesus fan since he cry-bullied Starbucks for a free coffee, just to show how idiotic Starbucks is. It worked.
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  3.  @oiitzME1266  : Meh. Textbook publishers set their prices according to orders already taken, before they eaven move one book. Every book they sell, new, after that, is at that same price and is immensely profitable to the textbook company. BUT they're not in the business of printing extra copies just in case somebody randomly comes along, later. There are some, but not a whole lot beyond what they originally had contracts for. Or that's the way it used to be. They're going through some tough times, right now, with everybody going to open source. The best deal is probably the online license, because it comes with a teacher who's always awake, always ready to take your questions, and who grades your work, instantly. Learning management systems aren't perfect, but they can do a lot of the heavy lifting in education, with very little human interference. IOW, for free.
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  4. Good, knowledgeable conversation, so far @ 10:38. To me, anybody using a product for free has no expectation of quality. You want better content? Pay for what you want. I just took a big step, today, and cut every nickel out of cable t.v. offerings. Joe's spot on with the observation that since advertisers are paying for ALL of the free stuff, you're going to get corporate media, which, regardless of its good or bad intentions, is always going to pander to the complainers who are the biggest threat to their income streams, and the loudest complainers are the authoritarian, so-called liberal types. A conservative is USED to the public square despising their positions, so they just shrug and move on. internet's only been with our species for a very short time. We're adapting to it as we speak. Most of what government has done, beyond building the basic backbone, has been pretty toxic. People should have total customization of their own experience, and not through the platform's curation. The platform should just give the customer the most options. if you think a person's comments are toxic, you should be able to remove them from your individualized experience. No fuss. No muss. The other person needn't be notified, in fact, should NOT be notified. The troll should not be able to use notifications to set the hook in their next victim. I think that's the perfect way for society to deal with trolls. Just learn to turn that voice off, for yourself. Then the crazy people (Maybe I'm one of them) is shouting at the top of their lungs, and are totally frozen out of the conversation because nobody in the room hears them. I don't think a 12-year-old should have the right to hijack adult conversations. Maybe I'm in a TOYO site, and we're talking about making room for a 3.4 liter in a '93 Toyota pickup that comes with a 3.0 liter, stock. When the 12-year old says "You slept with your sister" you should have a turn-this-off switch that requires no mediation by the platform. A well-run platform should have that option. YouTube does not. YouTube allows you to report someone but not to take agency in a totally nonviolent way and use software a 10-year-old could write to have an "off" switch for people who are rude. Or maybe the kid just interrupts with something else that's not rude, but more a 1 + 1 = 2 question in the middle of Calculus Ii. You can calmly ignore someone, without any hard feelings in an online setting. We really - I really - need to grow up and migrate off the corporate/government platforms.
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  5. The more knowledgeable you are about what you're searching, the more obvious it is how your searches are being manipulated to show you what THEY want you to see, and not what YOU want to see, starting with advertisements "related to" your query, whether they have any relation or not. "Well, 'the second world war' DOES have the word 'the' in it, and so does 'the new Camry,' so..."
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