2020 Election MEGAthread

[Morton Jr]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly it just makes me sad we had what, 65% voter turnout?

Make it illegal not to vote and make it a holiday already this is embarrassing.

Smartphone voting, Picture of your face, and fingerprint and see vote go to 99%

my 83 year old aunt has a smartphone and orders shit online and takes ubers around

[Topgunben]

Originally Posted by Morton Jr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Smartphone voting, Picture of your face, and fingerprint and see vote go to 99%

my 83 year old aunt has a smartphone and orders shit online and takes ubers around

That would make it too easy for people that shouldn't be voting.

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tech companies are pretty transparent why they do things, they try to figure out the best way to do things and screw up sometimes.

I work for the [Data Acquisition Group] in the [Advertising Division] of [Big Tech Company] (generic names used to prevent doxxing).

We spend a lot of time manipulating you. We run A/B tests to see how. For example we will give you a web page that's 'happy', full of nice colors and soothing fonts and information designed to make you feel good. Then we check the response rates. Then we give the other people pages with more negative news, and then we check that. We find that angry people tend to stay on the page a lot longer, driving engagement and therefore offering more value. People reading about fashion will read that article then go somewhere else. People reading an intense article why their political opponent is a liar tend to read other articles of the same type. They click and click and click.

We assign a bid value to people based on their interests. If we have a bunch of low-value visitors, the ad revenue is small because people aren't bidding a lot for your engagement because your bid value is low, that is you're not likely to engage with the page for any significant time because you're not excited enough.

But if we can manipulate you into being more angry, and therefore more engaged, we can drive your value up. Then we can show our advertisers that our visitors are higher value so the advertisers pay more and we can deliver on our revenue forecasts.

We never ever talk about this stuff with people outside the industry. When we talk about manipulating people and operant conditioning techniques to drive revenue, that conversation stays there. That's because we're the opposite of transparent. When we issue a public statement regarding some data breach or privacy loss or anything, it's issued with one objective: Make people forget this shit so we can get back to business. Our 'transparency' is just another method of manipulation. We will be 'transparent' only if it helps you to be monetized over time.

This culture is endemic to the tech industry. I work for a big player and I talk to my counterparts at the other big players all the time, mostly because our businesses are so interconnected. And I hate to break it to you but we're ONLY in this for the money. The only concern regarding ethics is "will this ethics problem drive down revenue". There is never a discussion about what is right or moral, because revenue is paramount. It's all very objectivist - revenue equals success which equals morality.

Imagine Enron run by the Ferengi. Yeah, that's us.

[magnetaress]

mcdonalds definitely increased my bust size so we do have that going for us

sad reality is we could do more, but can we force people to do more?

i think the answer is obvious, and its going to take a lot of work to get people to be smart and efficient and gentle. And absolutely brutal and vicious and objective when necessary. And the only people who can do that is us.

Step 1 get those weird gay fantasy conspiracy head games out of our rhetoric. Good guys and bad guys. both.

[feniin]

How many ballots never got sorted and are sitting in a USPS facility because DeJoy tried to rig this whole thing? That it's even this close is a travesty. gg nerds.

[peterpal]

Remember when Trump was being a sore winner in 2016 and didn't want to accept that he lost the popular vote so much that he made a committee to investigate voter fraud and it didn't find anything?

[Mayge]

Originally Posted by Topgunben [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its over. Believe me, I wanted Trump to win badly. Ive had this profile pic for over 3 months now.

The only way that Trump could win is by somehow finding out that there was some major corruption going on, but personally I dont think democrats are stupid enough to do that.

I smell a fraud.

You have hair width margins in Nevada, Wisconsin and Michigan currently. All trump need to is win one of those and its over.

[magnetaress]

my mom still thinks trump won idk who to believe lol. she's not that well informed or cruelly pragmatic tho.

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Criminalizing a bad habit throws a person away. We throw too many people away my friend, is soulless and ungodly. We mandate treatment, not throw people into prison where they become even worse

thanks pat daddy. with out going into specifics, I found myself some time ago in retrospect taking my safety very lightly one night in a way that could have ruined my life. expired tags, contraband. imprisonment would have been completely uncalled-for, and would have ruined the little dream I have finally found myself in. I'm glad nobody else in this state will be eating the crow god spared me.

Truth is, our system of incarceration constitutes a cruel & unusual punishment that is not really ethically applicable to anyone. the founders remembered the story of John Andre when they wrote that verbiage. What on Earth would they think of our racial-jungle rape gymnasiums?

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why do you get angry at an opinion? I do not know the logistics of the policy, I know we throw human beings into prisons where they are raped by men, treated like dogs, and come out worst and generally no one benefits, especially not our national debt and our collective sense of civics. Drug prohibition does not reduce drug addiction, crime, or violence. Hence why I cited Portugal. We’ve always fought a war on this or that in America. We keep losing them. Let’s try to help people, not bludgeon them

It might not work. Then we vote to change it. What else is the point of being a pragmatic democracy of north European Protestants who invented human rights, the peaceful transfer of power, and the Enlightenment? Why am I the one championing the values of your ancestors more forcefully than you do?

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No way, Trump will concede

(Just kidding, he would never leave with an act of patriotism and humility)

This is where I lost all love for him. He treats our institutions and the culture of statemanship as lightly as he treated his opponents in 2016. He is *not* a statesman in any sense of the word, and I absolutely do not trust him to act in good faith once no longer beholden to a reelection effort. It was a long shot to try him in the first place, and condoning an encore is definitely beyond me. He will skip doing things because it's "not his job", since he wears the R hat. He lacks the magnanimity of a worthy Imperial ruler.

He has normalized a sort of ruling persona that bodes VERY ILL. We could wind up with a President Kanye because of this guy. Stop the bleeding.

Originally Posted by galach [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Worst case scenario for the nation. GL getting Trump to accept & leave peacefully if Biden actually wins now.

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Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It really doesn't matter who is wrong. TechnoPhilhuxdicklyian Utopistopiyaya. Is just right around the f'ckn corner mates.

yes and synthetic cyberladies are part 1, and are legit the best.

[Jibartik]

Sounds like an intervention with the Supreme Court is back on the menu boys!