You’re doing a lot of dodging here. The original comment you made wasn’t a neutral “observation” about AI’s impact on cognition - it was a blanket dismissal of people who criticize wokeness by claiming they’re bots. That’s textbook ad hominem: attacking the people instead of engaging with what they’re saying.

Since then, you’ve shifted the conversation multiple times - from AI and cognition, to whether “worldview” is the right word, to tone and intent - none of which address my original criticism: that dismissing someone as a bot simply for expressing a particular opinion is intellectually lazy and corrosive to actual discussion.

You can claim it’s just “an observation” all you want, but the reality is that you made a personal attack in place of an argument. I’m not criticizing you for being mean - I’m criticizing you for sidestepping the discussion entirely.

If you think critics of wokeness are wrong, then show why. Don’t just insult them and pretend that counts as insight.

As far as I know, many of the judges Trump appointed during his first term are now making rulings against his interests - despite having been seen as “aligned” when appointed. So in other words: you can’t know. Just make sure they’re competent and fit for the task.

You can swap out “worldview” with any other term you like as that is neither relevant to the discussion. You’re getting hung up on terms and completely ignoring the substance of my argument.

Nobody has claimed your views on AI count as a worldview, nor are they in any way relevant to this discussion. The discussion is about you blanket dismissing everyone who criticizes “wokeness” as a bot.

Yes, really. You’re effectively saying “everyone who disagrees with my worldview is a bot,” which is a textbook example of ad hominem - dismissing a position based on who is assumed to hold it rather than engaging with the argument itself. That kind of framing is both delusional and extremely bad faith.

To your question: no, what I said isn’t ad hominem. Criticizing someone for making an ad hominem isn’t the same thing. I’m not using a personal attack to avoid addressing your argument - I’m pointing out that you’re using personal attacks to avoid having one. There’s a difference between attacking someone instead of responding to their point and calling out someone for refusing to make one.

Because I have no issues with YouTube. I’d much rather use American spyware than Chinese one.

Well what isn’t. Those terms have been devalued to zero over the past 7 years or so.

All that to say that today we have an epidemic of violent, emotionally inept, unsuccessful men.

Do we, though? I’m not sure if you’ve come across the Male Sedation Hypothesis but it basically argues that we should be seeing more violence from disenfranchised young men - and yet we aren’t. The hypothesis suggests that this is largely due to porn, video games, and drugs. Rather than acting out, many men are withdrawing from society into their mom’s basements, supplementing real-life relationships and career success with virtual equivalents.

Countering arguments with ad-hominem puts you right up there with AI bots when it comes to providing value to online discussions.

In my view, even voicing genuine doubt about the validity of elections undermines the very democratic institutions people claim to care about. It feeds into the same narrative that Trump and others have pushed, casting suspicion on the process and eroding public trust. Whether intentional or not, it ends up doing their work for them.

calling out men as predominant perpetrators of violence towards women

…and children, as well as other men. If there’s violence, statistically, the perpetrator is most likely male. Most people in jail are men too. I guess this only becomes controversial to those who believe group averages apply to every individual within that group.

The ones stopping us from making a change are the same people who are completely unaffected by others just complaining about them online. The ones most affected by hatred and anger are the hateful and angry people themselves - and the people around them.

Every time I see this meme format I come to the comments specifically looking to see who gets angry about it this time.

No, but engaging with chronically hateful people here on a daily basis has led me to believe that’s not the way forward either. There’s enough hate in the world already, and I don’t intend to partake in it. If you feel that being angry at strangers online leads to a better world, then go ahead - I don’t.

I don’t get any pleasure from hating on people. I prefer to look for solutions rather than ones to blame but hey, you do you.

I’d say it’s pretty pointless to blame individuals for taking advantage of a broken system. It’s probably more productive to focus on criticizing and changing the system itself.

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Add that to your adblock custom filters and create a new one for every keyword you want to block. If you start blocking entire communities that post about U.S. politics, you’re going to kill your feed completely - I’ve tried that already.

Keep in mind that these filters apply even when the keyword is part of another word, so if you filter the term “ice,” it’ll also block titles that mention “police.” You can get around this by adding spaces on both sides of the word.

Also, the instance in front of the filter needs to match the one you’re on, so in my case the filter is:

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It’s compounding interest. The more money you have invested in the stock market, the easier it becomes to make even more. No “squeeze” is required - just sit back while your money works for you. You don’t even need to be in the global top 1% to take advantage of this. Even I passively earn the equivalent of a few months’ salary each year just by investing my savings - and I’m by no means rich; I do manual labor.

It plays a factor but there are many others as well. There are no simple explanations to complex problems.

Podcasts. I almost never listen to music nowdays. I even canceled my Spotify subscribtion which was the only streaming service I’ve ever paid for.