Mark Zuckerberg’s Proud Dad Moment

[Disgustipated]

It almost humanizes that awful man. Almost.

Awful? How so? I don't want to get too off topic here. Just want to say even if you hate the product (I don't use it myself), he's just giving people a product they want.

 

[PiR]

he's just giving people a product they want.

Not just that, no.
Just one example:

 

[Ryansinbela]

Nah, Mark's not Alien A.I., just Alien, lol.

Maybe Elon's also an alien and he just wants to go back home to Mars

 

[PSG]

Awful? How so? I don't want to get too off topic here. Just want to say even if you hate the product (I don't use it myself), he's just giving people a product they want.

He did steal FB from the Winklevii by creating an unholy alliance with the CIA or something like that right?

 

[ShakaKhan]

A Science Victory as well! Sorry Elon, but Zuck's won this round, lol.

Elon's busy modding the game to allow the player to construct railroads through tunnels and removing the resource dependency of all coal- and oil-consuming units.

 

[PiR]

And manipulating crypto-markets

 

[nzcamel]

It almost humanizes that awful man. Almost.

At least he's a tad less awful than Dorsey. If only because he doesn't hide his alien under a clever hipster suit

 

[Ivan Hunger]

Secret Society Mode must be banned in the Zuckerberg House, on the grounds that it spreads "harmful misinformation".

 

[Bibor]

It almost humanizes that awful man. Almost.

What you call an awful man is a very intelligent human being trying to live his daily life, while also proactively trying to 'figure it out', from the top of the world, where everyone's out to get him, for a product with no precedent in human history and nobody really knows how to handle. This man owns a company ran better and more efficiently than most governments, has more influence on the daily lives of people than the largest country in the world, and he's doing it income levels of Ireland. I'm all up for sharing our superior 'know how' on how to do this, since Mark is obviously missing some obvious solutions to this simple task and he really needs our help.

 

[Zaarin]

What you call an awful man is a very intelligent human being trying to live his daily life, while also proactively trying to 'figure it out', from the top of the world, where everyone's out to get him, for a product with no precedent in human history and nobody really knows how to handle. This man owns a company ran better and more efficiently than most governments, has more influence on the daily lives of people than the largest country in the world, and he's doing it income levels of Ireland. I'm all up for sharing our superior 'know how' on how to do this, since Mark is obviously missing some obvious solutions to this simple task and he really needs our help.

Not being a mind-controlling megalomaniac would be a great start.

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

Not being a mind-controlling megalomaniac would be a great start.

Well he'd have to be a human being, first. And we all know Mark's programming is still far too robotic to even approach that.

But in all seriousness, Mark really can feel like an alien/lizard man/robot at times. Sometimes he even convinces me that he's nothing more than a complex experiment by the Facebook company themselves

And, I hold no hard feelings toward the man. I don't know enough about him to form a solid opinion, nor do I have enough information to judge the opinions of others here. I just find the robotic emotionlessness in some of his mannerisms funny.

 

[glider1]

The picture of MarkZ and his daughter is almost proof to me of why Civ6 is such a mediocre game.

Traditionally a hard core strategy game is assessible to beginners so that experienced parents can teach their young children how to play it and enjoy it (like happens in chess for hundreds of years for example).

In Civ6 they break from tradition and instead designed it as softcore so that both patzer parents and children can share an entertaining game experience together where the child doesn't need much guidance in an anything goes game.

 

[nzcamel]

What you call an awful man is a very intelligent human being trying to live his daily life, while also proactively trying to 'figure it out', from the top of the world, where everyone's out to get him, for a product with no precedent in human history and nobody really knows how to handle. This man owns a company ran better and more efficiently than most governments, has more influence on the daily lives of people than the largest country in the world, and he's doing it income levels of Ireland. I'm all up for sharing our superior 'know how' on how to do this, since Mark is obviously missing some obvious solutions to this simple task and he really needs our help.

Pre 2016 I would have largely agreed with you. Since then however Zuck has caved to demands that social media be sanitized of things that only a few find abhorrent. The liberal ideal of live and let live has taken a beating; and obvious and practical solutions like people not looking at things they don't like and/or blocking people/pages they don't like has been replaced with a growing totalitarianism, which will not tolerate dissent. No, liberal democracy is under threat, and while I respect that social media companies are privately owned they are the new public square due to their ease of use, ergo their clamp down on speech they have accepted that a shrill minority do not like is a massive problem for any country that aspires to still be part of what was not that long ago the "Free World".

Edit: I am certainly not stating that the shrill voices have no genuine complaint. They do in some areas. But the solutions they seek are often worse than the problems they seek to end.

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

Didn't some guy named Ben try to portray Zuck in a bad light on Twitter by posting this, which ended up making him seem more humanized? At least, IMO.

https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1347754704688832515

And no, I still don't use Twitter, I just found this while randomly looking through the internet. Anyone else remember this? Just thought I'd put this.

 

[Ivan Hunger]

In honor of this thread, I have founded a religion in my current game and named it Harmful Misinformation.

 

[PiR]

Didn't some guy named Ben try to portray Zuck in a bad light on Twitter by posting this, which ended up making him seem more humanized? At least, IMO.

https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1347754704688832515

And no, I still don't use Twitter, I just found this while randomly looking through the internet. Anyone else remember this? Just thought I'd put this.

Those kind of hater threads make me want to stop using it.

 

[Duke William of Normandy]

Those kind of hater threads make me want to stop using it.

These kinds of hater threads make me want to stop using it; I don't even use Twitter!

 

[leif erikson]

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[God of Kings]

There's a lab rat in Pinky and the Brain named the Brain. His dream is to take over the world.

The Brain exists. His real name is Mark Zuckerberg. He's extremely close to taking over the world.

 

[Bibor]

Pre 2016 I would have largely agreed with you. Since then however Zuck has caved to demands that social media be sanitized of things that only a few find abhorrent. The liberal ideal of live and let live has taken a beating; and obvious and practical solutions like people not looking at things they don't like and/or blocking people/pages they don't like has been replaced with a growing totalitarianism, which will not tolerate dissent. No, liberal democracy is under threat, and while I respect that social media companies are privately owned they are the new public square due to their ease of use, ergo their clamp down on speech they have accepted that a shrill minority do not like is a massive problem for any country that aspires to still be part of what was not that long ago the "Free World".

Edit: I am certainly not stating that the shrill voices have no genuine complaint. They do in some areas. But the solutions they seek are often worse than the problems they seek to end.

So lets put Facebook into the perspective it really is: a market square that can accomodate 2 billion people. Everyone on that square can have their own stand and sell whatever they want. For free. It might be scam, might be legit, but Facebook lives from people owning stands wanting to advertise what they're selling.

Now, even a much smaller market square would have police, a fire brigade, health and safety inspectors etc.

Your question is, I guess, are these services going to be performed by Facebook's regulations or local regulations?

Well, Facebook trancends municipal, regional, state and nation-wide borders, both in jurisdictional sense, but also in criminal sense. A pickpocket from USA can affect someone from France and vice versa.

Although Facebook exists in virtual space, everything on it can - and often does - affect the real world quite literally and profoundly. Thus, Facebook does need to adhere to political decisions, irrespective of true motivation behind them, of earthly governments. This is not a question of free speech. It's a question of excercising sovereignity over virtual space, which is as valid as you find any form of sovereignity to be valid, not more, not less.

You mention freedom, but it really depends on what you call free. I find the US right to bear arms an utterly totalitarian move. I would feel bullied into living in a society where everyone else is carrying, with all the consequences this fact might produce. No, thank you.

To get back to the fact that I used a market square as an example. If you want to organize any march or demonstration or excercise any form of freedom of expression in the offline world, you need the approval of local government. Or the police will come and disperse the crowd. Expecting Facebook to facilitate non-approved demonstrations is wishful thinking at best.

That's why Mark Zuckerberg is so emotionless in what he presents, because there's no room for emotion here. Facebook is pioneering something that will affect literally the whole world, from finding a way to silence that "petty bully armchair politician" all the way to Putin saying "yeah, alright, we can work with this". It's... incredibly hard and complex. And it has to be done by someone, otherwise the world will devolve back into un-globalization, realizing "it's too soon" and Facebook and all other platforms will fracture back to whatever politicians (and people!) feel comfortable with. In other words, back to the way it was.