Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt our battle against climate change?
Servers are probably a bit more energy efficient than most consumer devices, but in general it does not matter if you calculate it at A or at B. Somewhere it needs to be processed.
You were maybe thinking of processing once and then push it to thousands of clients? Those scenarios exists, but are the exception and not the topic here.
There is a school of thought, primarily from critical theorists and their derivatives, that proposes constant agitation, there is no neutral. E.g. Kendi's anti-racist. As this school of thought has taken root in schools and media, political discussion has expanded to encompass more and more of life. It is the intended result. Fair to say they have been wildly successful.
No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged in online ad tech may combine or allow any other entity to marry online identities with real life.
An arguer conflates two positions that share similarities,
one modest and easy to defend.. and one much more controversial....
The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged,
they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position.
Thank you for pointing out this argument fallacy. I've certainly seen it and been unable to articulate what is going on and why it feels like an argument in bad faith, and now I have a name for it.
Not exactly. Motte and Bailey is a fallacy as an argument, but memes are not arguments. You can think of it as a distributed version of Motte and Bailey: someone out there surely is trying to actually abolish policing, but if you fish the internet for arguments in favor you only get people looking to reform
The answer, like to most of these kinds of issues, is to avoid arguing against internet memes. Have a debate with a singular person on an agreed upon position, or don’t debate at all.
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