Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.

Reformatting InfoWars as a serious, unironic branch of the Onion that deals with misinformation would just be great.

This is just the difference between science and academia.

I’ve dropped websites over less.

The things you mentioned are tools for researchers. This discussion is about art.

Yeah, I just checked. I can see my own dislikes. They hide the number directly, but I can see how many likes I have and the ratio of likes to unlikes.

Also, the creators that I follow didn’t like having the dislikes removed. Even if they did, I can make my own judgement calls. I’m sure the creators who are more dependent on sponsorships like not having their embarrassments visible. I’m sure IH doesn’t mind that stuff not being visible for “his” hole video.

Except that the uploader can still see the downvote count. It was just removed so that corporations wouldn’t be embarrassed when they put out an unpopular trailer or product.

There’s a long list of historic examples of people who actual are what the techbros fantasy about being. I was limiting myself to living examples of people who were just interested in the tech. Carmack’s comments when he left facebook was fun to see. I always thought he was better then that company.

When Google removed the dislikes from youtube videos, one of the lies they told was it was for the users(or uploader’s) mental health.

A few things the cynics are missing.

1. The engineers who are designing this car don’t have the political power to push for better mass transit.
2. Even in ideal circumstances, there will still be a need for personal transport vehicles and infrastructure. Small cars will still be needed.
3. Aptera has 31 employees as of 2023. If they’re working overtime, it’s because they’re letting the company do it. Maintaining good moral is way more important in small companies.

Well, Stark is actually a fictional character in a genre that too often uses the term “smartest X alive” when that’s not how intelligence works at all. Also, like others have said, Howard Hughes is more likely the inspiration for Stark. That being said, the closest irl “tech savant” I can think of is John Carmack.

When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

He looked pretty weird in his sweet baby rays video and he was the one putting that out.

That’s a lot of words to describe managing.

He’s acting exactly like a brownshirt/Sturmabteilung during the Nazi rise in Germany.

Yes, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for assaulting United Nations Children’s Fund workers in the streets. I’m sure despite not having any visible injuries, not being restrained, and seemingly being well enough coordinated to rule out a seizure, that he was well within his right to not only be screaming, but to headbutt a non aggressive individual.

Now that’s an idea.

And North Carolina and South Carolina while we’re at it.

But it is better for people not to be so focused on numbers like removing number of likes on Instagram.

Is my mental health really something I want Google managing?

Apparently Logitech does have this out now, so I wonder if they patented the “concept” and it will be another 20 years before anyone can do it. Assuming that someone else didn’t already do it 20 years ago and that patented already ran out.