Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits::Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

  • @killeronthecorner
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    31 year ago

    “worse” generally means more bad than another thing that is also bad.

    • @seaQueue
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      21 year ago

      It also implies that one (the worst one) deserves more attention. In this case we should probably be paying attention to both.

      • @killeronthecorner
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        11 year ago

        Mm no, they just said it was worse. You’re reaching.

        • @paintbucketholder
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          11 year ago

          No, they said it was “far worse,” which definitely implies a ranking of how bad they perceive the respective issues.

          • @killeronthecorner
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            11 year ago

            It’s possible for more than one thing to be bad, we don’t have to pick just one of the two.

            This is what they said; they implied the root comment was saying that two things couldn’t be bad or only one could be solved. But it didn’t. He said, paraphrasing, “there are two issues and I find this one to be far worse”.

            Ranking issues in terms of how bad they are seems a fairly normal thing to do. It also implies that there is more than one.

            • @paintbucketholder
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              1 year ago

              they implied the root comment was saying that two things couldn’t be bad or only one could be solved.

              I don’t agree with that interpretation.

              They simply stated that ranking things by “badness” also implies a ranking in terms of which one of those bad things is more urgent and should be addressed first - not that one thing was bad and that the other wasn’t, or that only one thing could be addressed.

              • @killeronthecorner
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                11 year ago

                It’s a bad interpretation but you are, or course, welcome to it

                • @paintbucketholder
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                  11 year ago

                  I’m merely reiterating the position of the poster you replied to.

                  You can disagree with that position, but you seemed to be replying to a position that nobody was even taking.

                  • @killeronthecorner
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                    11 year ago

                    I am not, you just haven’t understood the position. But that’s fine.