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Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position by SQueeeeeL on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:00AM (#33204445)
Probably not, if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end. If you brainwash a man, forever his actions will no longer be fully his own. Plus most people view violence as something undesirable (see Vietnam war protests), but advertising still has many hawks who will never stop singing it's praises while all public spaces are consumed by corporate branding until we have no where uninfected
Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position by appletrotter on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:47AM (#33205102)
> if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end

I don’t know about this assertion. It does not ring true to real life for me.

Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position by thih9 on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:12PM (#33206907)
I'd say the state of "forever his actions will no longer be fully his own" is easier to reach with doomsday weapons than with ads.
Re:TikTok has an open computational chemistry position by dryd on Friday October 14, 2022 @03:44PM (#33207982)
Is the claim here that working in the advertising industry is worse than working on “doomsday devices to incinerate all life on Earth”? What a hot take!