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Hilarious, someone's wife developed a White Saviour complex:
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Must be exhausting living like that..
r/relationship_advice - My (28M) wife (26F) has developed a White savior complex.
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Must be exhausting living like that..
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>our daughter is just 3 but i don't want her to pick up on thisHilarious, someone's wife developed a White Saviour complex:
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yeah this sounds like the kind of situation that drives the hapa kid crazy
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Haven't read the thread, but can guarantee someone said school shootings. Also goes without saying, READ ANOTHER BOOK!
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ps1hty/if_harry_potter_was_set_in_the_united_states_how/
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None of them went with the obvious answer of: "That book exists and it's called The Magicians, by Lev Grossman."
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Don't worry, they go crazy with normal parents too.
I mean, it makes sense that the most popular books are upvoted the most.
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You're not required by the government to be confined within your house to avoid murderers and show an anti murder pass to go to a restaurant or get a job so that analogy is retarded.
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Yikes, how is snitching this celebrated now?
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I assure you I do not subscribe to nazism/nationalism/fascism nor have I taken part in the gassing/ethnic cleansing of 6M* people within the last century …… however, if you have proof to the contrary you should report meand unlike you I can own up to what I do — instead of hiding on sub and calling folks names.
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Matt Damon
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These people expect to forever hold the fashionable opinion du jour that's approved by government, media, and corporate interests.
Why concern yourself with increasing centralization of power or creating a culture of government informants when you expect the police state to always agree with you and do your bidding anyway?
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These are the same people who would have been doing pic related, if the shoe was on the other foot.
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Fun fact - "tout" means "informant" in Northern Ireland. The graffiti basically means "snitches get stitches".
Unfortunately that isn't what's happening in America right now.
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I don't think the Yanks want what went down in the North. You where lucky if you just had to get stitches.
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mmm dunno, they are really stretching the meaning of the word "functional"
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"But I never thought the people I gave ultimate power to would turn on ME!" - Guy facing the wall
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Another normal night on Concourse A (sent to me)
Reddit priorities:
Interestingly, if you google "Naked woman DIA" you get results from a different incident in 2012.
Interestingly, if you google "Naked woman DIA" you get results from a different incident in 2012.
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These people will just change their opinion as soon as twitter/hollywood/etc start spewing something different, conformity is the only consistent belief. It's a foregone conclusion that New York will always be blue at this point, even if a conservative party were somehow to win one election. The worst part isn't that the governments will be blue but that none of these people seem to care about anything other than getting the blue guys in office, after that they fall asleep or become passive cheerleaders. The passive decay of our systems of government isn't enough for these people, they actively engage in making things worse for everyone but the sycophants. It's absolutely bizzare.
"functional" penis, also how does this person not understand the difference between preventing conception and making all the sperm a male produces not function correctly? Is there even a point in researching male "birth control" when females already have it such effective forms of it? The only form of male birth control is going to be visectomy or becoming a Eunuch/tranny. Also, your female "penis" isn't going to impregnant even the most willing "female".
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Misinformation on Reddit has become unmanageable, Alberta moderators say
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Company behind website says it takes the issue seriously, but moderators say problems persist
Misinformation flooding some of Alberta's biggest online communities has become a major problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to three volunteer Reddit moderators in Edmonton.
In separate interviews with CBC News, the moderators said the number of posts pushing misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 has surged in their communities on Reddit, a huge social media and news aggregator site that hosts thousands of discussion forums or communities known as subreddits for millions of users.
The moderators say the vast majority of these posts come from users who have never participated in their online communities before.
Thousands of Albertans rely on their local Reddit communities, but volunteer moderators say keeping these places free of pandemic-related misinformation and disinformation — misinformation that is intentionally spread — has become increasingly difficult and time-consuming.
Posts questioning the safety of vaccines and masks, linking vaccines with 5G networks, comparing COVID-19 to the flu and promoting unproven treatments like ivermectin have become common, the moderators said.
CBC News is not naming the man because he has received personalized threats and harassment from people whose posts he has removed in the past and he fears he could be targeted again.
A fellow r/Alberta moderator, who is an Edmonton student in his 20s, said death threats have become common in the team's inbox and the authors of misinformation posts often urge moderators to kill themselves.
Moderators say they often receive messages from authors of misinformation posts urging them to kill themselves. (r/Alberta moderator)
r/Alberta is not the only online community dealing with a deluge of misinformation.
Troy Pavlek, a moderator for r/Edmonton, a subreddit with more than 136,000 subscribers, said moderators handle between 50 to 100 misinformation posts per day.
He said users opposed to masks and vaccines pose as health-care workers and spread messages like, "Have you heard that vaccines can kill you?"
"The acceleration, just like our case counts, has gone exponential," Pavlek said.
Troy Pavlek, a moderator for the subreddit r/Edmonton, says misinformation on the site has become a big problem during the COVID-19 pandemic. Volunteer moderators say they're burning out, but feel responsible for keeping their communities free of pandemic-related misinformation. (Troy Pavlek)
Following the online protests, the company banned one subreddit, quarantined 54 others and added a reporting feature for moderators to flag community interference. (A quarantine means the page won't show up in search results, and when users to try access it directly, they'll be shown a warning message.)
A Reddit spokesperson told CBC News the company takes the issue extremely seriously and has a goal of decreasing the burden placed on moderators.
The spokesperson said the company has changed how it detects users who evade bans by creating new accounts and said moderators can turn to a pool of experienced peers for help when it comes to unexpected traffic surges.
Moderators say the recent changes are inadequate because the flow of misinformation has not slowed down.
Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at George Washington University says online misinformation is harming society and accelerating the spread of COVID-19. (Madeleine Cummings/CBC)
"The very spread of these ideas in multiple spaces, multiple times are undoubtedly doing real harms to society, increasing the spread of COVID-19 and almost certainly leading to death," said Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at the George Washington University.
Tromble said companies could choose to restructure their platforms to be much smaller, but she didn't think they would do that "because where they achieve profit is through the very large, scalable model." She also talked about the possibility of governments breaking up tech companies through regulation.
She said the European Union has two large pieces of proposed legislation — the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act — that "when they go into effect, are going to have clear spillover effects around the world."
Despite being on the receiving end of so much invective, the volunteers said they cannot bring themselves to walk away because that would mean allowing more misinformation to spread in communities they care about.
"If I were to stop doing what I'm doing, then the misinformation just gets worse, and once we've made it a home for misinformation, once we've said this is OK, this is not something we're going to stop, then it sweeps in more and more, and this community, which has been a joy for me in the past, will never be a joy for anyone ever again," Pavlek said.
Misinformation flooding some of Alberta's biggest online communities has become a major problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to three volunteer Reddit moderators in Edmonton.
In separate interviews with CBC News, the moderators said the number of posts pushing misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 has surged in their communities on Reddit, a huge social media and news aggregator site that hosts thousands of discussion forums or communities known as subreddits for millions of users.
The moderators say the vast majority of these posts come from users who have never participated in their online communities before.
Thousands of Albertans rely on their local Reddit communities, but volunteer moderators say keeping these places free of pandemic-related misinformation and disinformation — misinformation that is intentionally spread — has become increasingly difficult and time-consuming.
Posts questioning the safety of vaccines and masks, linking vaccines with 5G networks, comparing COVID-19 to the flu and promoting unproven treatments like ivermectin have become common, the moderators said.
Harassment, death threats common
"Our moderation queue went from probably one or two of those a week to dozens to hundreds every day, and it is unsustainable — we cannot keep up with that," said a 32-year-old Edmonton man who is a moderator for r/Alberta, a community or subreddit with more than 138,000 subscribers.CBC News is not naming the man because he has received personalized threats and harassment from people whose posts he has removed in the past and he fears he could be targeted again.
A fellow r/Alberta moderator, who is an Edmonton student in his 20s, said death threats have become common in the team's inbox and the authors of misinformation posts often urge moderators to kill themselves.
Moderators say they often receive messages from authors of misinformation posts urging them to kill themselves. (r/Alberta moderator)
r/Alberta is not the only online community dealing with a deluge of misinformation.
Troy Pavlek, a moderator for r/Edmonton, a subreddit with more than 136,000 subscribers, said moderators handle between 50 to 100 misinformation posts per day.
He said users opposed to masks and vaccines pose as health-care workers and spread messages like, "Have you heard that vaccines can kill you?"
"The acceleration, just like our case counts, has gone exponential," Pavlek said.
Troy Pavlek, a moderator for the subreddit r/Edmonton, says misinformation on the site has become a big problem during the COVID-19 pandemic. Volunteer moderators say they're burning out, but feel responsible for keeping their communities free of pandemic-related misinformation. (Troy Pavlek)
Company changes inadequate, moderators say
Last month, moderators of r/Alberta and dozens of other subreddits around the world protested "rampant COVID-19 misinformation" on Reddit and asked the American company to take responsibility for it.Following the online protests, the company banned one subreddit, quarantined 54 others and added a reporting feature for moderators to flag community interference. (A quarantine means the page won't show up in search results, and when users to try access it directly, they'll be shown a warning message.)
A Reddit spokesperson told CBC News the company takes the issue extremely seriously and has a goal of decreasing the burden placed on moderators.
The spokesperson said the company has changed how it detects users who evade bans by creating new accounts and said moderators can turn to a pool of experienced peers for help when it comes to unexpected traffic surges.
Moderators say the recent changes are inadequate because the flow of misinformation has not slowed down.
Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at George Washington University says online misinformation is harming society and accelerating the spread of COVID-19. (Madeleine Cummings/CBC)
"The very spread of these ideas in multiple spaces, multiple times are undoubtedly doing real harms to society, increasing the spread of COVID-19 and almost certainly leading to death," said Rebekah Tromble, director of the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at the George Washington University.
Tromble said companies could choose to restructure their platforms to be much smaller, but she didn't think they would do that "because where they achieve profit is through the very large, scalable model." She also talked about the possibility of governments breaking up tech companies through regulation.
She said the European Union has two large pieces of proposed legislation — the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act — that "when they go into effect, are going to have clear spillover effects around the world."
Battling burnout
The Edmonton moderators said their teams have been struggling with burnout for months. Some moderators have left their positions and recruiting new ones can be difficult.Despite being on the receiving end of so much invective, the volunteers said they cannot bring themselves to walk away because that would mean allowing more misinformation to spread in communities they care about.
"If I were to stop doing what I'm doing, then the misinformation just gets worse, and once we've made it a home for misinformation, once we've said this is OK, this is not something we're going to stop, then it sweeps in more and more, and this community, which has been a joy for me in the past, will never be a joy for anyone ever again," Pavlek said.
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