Yup, it's called greed. It's a part of human nature. That's one reason societies create laws and penalties: to discourage harmful behavior and keep that instinct in check.
If you went to Japan in the 90’s, 00’s or 10’s, you’ll find the issue is that Japan still feels mostly the same. It’s a wonderful country, but post-Japan’s asset bubble and crash there’s been noticeably less change.
Oh we're using anecdotes as evidence now are we? How about more comprehensive and quantitative analysis eg [1]? Former Netanyahu staffer, Jordana Cutler, now Meta's Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, just came out and said that's what they did [2][3][4].
More evidence: leaked audio from ADL Chief Jonathon Greenblatt saying "we have a Tiktok problem" [5]. Kinda weird that within a few months later Biden signed a hastily passed law to force a sale of Tiktok. Weird.
Need more? Twitch updated it's Hateful Conduct Policy to say "Zionist" is "hate speech" [6]. This is for a political designation not a religious or ethnic one as evidenced by the fact that Christian Zionists outnumber Jewish Zionists in the US by about 30 to 1 [7].
You are cherry picking. The sale of TikTok conversation goes way back and has little to do with Israel and more to do that they were caught spying on our phones.
> saying "we have a Tiktok problem"
All the more proving my point that TikTok is filled to the brim with anti-semitic content and "Palestine" content is in no way restricted.
> Twitch updated it's Hateful Conduct Policy to say "Zionist" is "hate speech"
Good. Calling for destruction of Israel is hate speech. Which is how "Zionist" is used most of the time.
The two are often difficult to dissociate. My town had a fairly fractious town meeting around a rezoning proposal that was mostly for a fairly specific commercial purpose--that passed through a basically procedural mechanism in a second meeting.
OpenAI had the the same restrictions. Also required you to verify via Persona. I complained and at some point the restrictions were removed. Not sure if because of my complaining or if someone in our org actually verified.
But the regional passes are still a good deal. If you are in Osaka or Kyoto, and want to take a day trip to Hiroshima, it more than covers the cost, in addition to granting access to various museums plus other benefits.
The Kansai Wide area pass that I'm talking about doesn't include access to museums. But some of the smaller passes (like the one of Osaka that you mentioned) do. Those passes don't include Shinkansen, though.
From what I see[1], that is an umbrella term that encompasses a few passes, including the Wide Pass. Maybe some do include attractions; I didn't know that!
I also looked up Tohoku JR passes for an upcoming trip and it wasn't affordable at all. I'm better served using single tickets even when riding the Shinkansen.
TL;DR: it can be all sorts of things, from 'half-pixel' positioning problems, to upscaling issues, to poor source data. I didn't put too much effort into getting the text rendering look good (and text rendering is hard).
More details:
The demo is using half-resolution on high-dpi displays (currently that's sokol-app's default setting, but not sure if that still makes sense in this day and age tbh), this half resolution amplifies all sorts of text rendering issues, and it gets especially bad when there's a fractional system-dpi-scale like 125% or 150%.
PS: another problem (maybe the main problem, even if everything else is correct) is that the demo's pre-baked font atlas texture isn't all that great since it has 'anti-aliasing' baked into the glyph pixels, and the font atlas texture has a very low resolution (glyph height is 10 pixels, which would be ok for a 'crisp' hand-drawn bitmap font, but not when the font atlas has been created from a regular TTF font, which this one seems to be).
Does this Dear ImGui demo look better on your setup? This is using the native display DPI and uses a TTF font instead of a bitmap font:
The Snopes article has him saying, about the article, "I was clearly trying to be provocative…". I would interpret that as being humorously contrarian.
He actually revisited the 1998 article in a 2023 NYT column:
The productivity numbers show he wasn't as wrong, economically, as folks try to make him out to be, which point (4) goes into. The research on computers and productivity goes back decades:
What groups do you subscribe to? My feed is mostly relatives, friends and their photos. Occasionally there are panels with people I don't subscribe to, which you can press X on and you won't see them again.
I don't subscribe to any groups except maybe a neighborhood association or similar. I was basically inactive on Facebook from 2014 until the last year. I've never been remotely right-wing and while I'm sure I have some old acquaintances who have become MAGA, the overwhelming majority of my Facebook friends are decent people--either normies, moderates, or left of center.
> you can press X on and you won't see them again.
I'm not worried about Facebook showing me propaganda, I'm worried about Facebook aggressively propagandizing society at large.
It's a mentality where you can't stop.
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