Notices by taoeffect (taoeffect@mstdn.io), page 3

@KitlerIs6 @Parmolive @bot Yes because most black people are not gang members despite what the dark corners of #ActivityPub and #FreeSpeechLand would have you believe.

@bot @Parmolive Arresting gang members only is not “indiscriminately arresting people”. You are confusing American race relations with gang membership where race plays no role because they’re all the same race.

@bot @Parmolive You are being dense and clueless. They did not jail people of a specific race.

@bot @Parmolive Except that’s not at all what they did. 🤦♂️

@bot @CattleBaron "You're right in a way (not really tho)"

See, this is why I don't want to answer your questions. This conversation feels like it's getting into argumentative territory, so whatever I say you'll just "not really me", even if I'm right.

I will continue advocating for it because locking people up in prison over a health problem is wrong.

@bot @CattleBaron @Free_Idealist You know what, I'm not going to answer that. Because you must think I'm a stupid slow turrtle.

But why don't you ask the Internet? Or ChatGPT?

That answer is easily searchable. Many people who have dedicated their lives to the study of the drug war have answered that question better than I can here with 250 characters.

@bot @CattleBaron Alcohol is most certainly addictive and it has destroyed many lives. It is far worse than many drugs currently prohibited.

@bot @CattleBaron @Free_Idealist Well for one it makes them significantly less dangerous. For another it gets rid of the cartel violence, and it frees up police resources to focus on real crime.

@bot @CattleBaron I live there! 😂

Have you ever heard of prohibition?

@Free_Idealist @CattleBaron @bot You mean wise, but I'll pretend you said that 😂

@bot @CattleBaron Yes, those laws.

@bot @CattleBaron It's kind of implied by the OP. Get rid of the drug war laws, and replace them with something better

The United States government creates drug cartels thanks to its drug war laws.

Why are we doing this?

@CattleBaron Cartels going around engaging in gun fights and doing all kinds of other very bad things

Here is #AlexJones posting an idiotic poll for his #InfoWars readers.

Note how it's not interested in solving the problem, but in creating more problems.

People should ask @MattWalshBlog@twitter if he thinks "sex" and "gender" mean the same thing.

Whether he says "yes" or "no", the trans debate should end at that point, at least for people who are OK with not warring over definitions.

QT https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/1621565281570258944

Back in 2016, @Google & co scrubbed me from the results for "Slepak".

This censorship persists to this day.

I am not the only one they do this to (see https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac https://www.zachvorhies.com).

To give an idea of just how bad Internet search is: I could not find a single search engine that lists Donald Trump's Truthsocial account on the first, or even second page of results.

Yet that is clearly the link that needs to be either #1 or #2 in the results.

.@brave somehow allowed Google to corrupt its results.

They're trying to fix this with an opt-in setting called WDP (Web Discovery Project): https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1593297632880775168

I mean, that's one way of doing it. A more correct approach would be better though.

QT https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1593297632880775168

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#web-discovery-project

In desktop settings:

The Internet has not had real search engines for over a decade.

What you see in search results for practically every search engine is not "The Internet".

The Internet needs search engines - real ones.