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Looking through my image folder. Got some good stuff in there. https://social.guizzyordi.info/attachment/490331
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I should start a community like the Amish, except we'd be ok with technology up to 8 bits computers.
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I just got myself angry by reading a local newspaper's article about Trump's speech to the UN. This is a paper I used to respect a lot before. The piece is disguised as a neutral, factual article, but is written in such a was that the author's opinion is clearly communicated through the tone and the punctuation. Of note particularly is the way that they put between quotes any claim of Trump that the author disagrees with. For instance:
> Words once unthinkable coming from a US President, he went as far as praising the "courage" of Pyongyang strongman Kim Jung Un, once saddled with the derisive nickname "Rocket Man"
That's technically factual, but dripping with barely disguised opinion. THIS is the kind of wholesale propaganda what I've been seeing for over 5 years and has been driving me insane while my friends and family don't acknowledge is really happening.
The payload is not the direct meaning of the words; people are too wary of those. It's almost always hidden in the tone, in the choice of what to highlight.
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The future we all want.
Pinterest automatically adds stuff to your "Wanted" lists on Amazon, Etsy and eBay accounts. Which are linked to Paypal, and automatically buy wanted items when funds reach a certain threshold. The Paypal account is linked with Patreon. The Patreon account is linked to Mastodon and automatically e-begs when funds are low.
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@lnxw48a1 @delores Exactly. Blocking another user is really easy to do, a couple of clicks. Click-click; annoying user is gone. And it takes an order of magnitude more effort for someone to make alts to circumvent such blocks. So now that it's clear that in effect, getting rid of content you don't want to see without locking out hundreds of users whose content you might actually find valuable is trivial...
The fact that users would want their admins to use instance-wide blocks leads me to only two possible conclusions, neither one flattering:
1- These people are intellectual babies whose heads will explode if they so much as glance at a contrary opinion, so they need to be protected proactively from seeing those, or
2- it's never been about them not having to see stuff they don't like: it's always been about "striking a blow" against people their hated enemy, and stopping OTHER PEOPLE from being able to communicate with them.
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@shpuld @dirb Reminder that she's not the only one prone to copier mishaps https://social.guizzyordi.info/attachment/421384
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@hakui Re: Aggretsuko being an attempt to ruin japanese society
https://social.guizzyordi.info/url/378689
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Alright, federation. Please be cool tonight: no load on my server. I don't need you to warm up my room now.
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If you had asked anyone back then whether the government was storing and intercepting all electronic communications, I would guess most smart people would have said yes or "probably". There's something that flipped the switch from "meh" to "omg" with regards to that knowledge, and in my opinion, it's purely the way the media frames it.
It's the same thing with social media analytics. Everyone even slightly smart knew Facebook made it possible for companies to do extremely targeted advertising campaigns. Only when the media decided it had to be bad because it could be used by people on "the other side" did they flip the switch from "meh" to "omg" in people's mind regarding this.
So basically, everyone that suddenly started to care about analytics in the last two weeks; what I've laid out above is the proof that you're all mind-controlled zombies. Start thinking for yourself; take the information you have, and make your own conclusions about whether it's good, bad, worth or not worth freaking out about. Don't wait for the media to give those conclusions to you, because they don't operate on principles, the operate in what is to their benefit.
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad The supidest thing about it is that HP makes a great case FOR gun ownership. I'm sure JK Rowlings hates it.
Hogwarts is open carry. The students ability to defend themselves is attacked and the good guys covertly train how to fight to protect themselves.
"but the spells the good guys use are not lethal!" Bitch, create a non-lethal weapon that is just as effective for protection as lethal ones and I'll be 100% on board with the idea that no one needs a lethal weapon (for protection, at least).
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By that, I mean you only realized that social media analytics were dangerous when you found out that they were also available to people you disagreed with, which makes you paint chips eating stupid in my book, or massive hypocrites. But hey, maybe you'll learn.
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Hello new people! I think you've joined the federation for a spectacularly stupid reason, and I'm sure we'll get the chance to discuss this soon, but I'm still glad you arrived here in the end.
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@espectalll @azurolu Hayao Miyazaki: "Anime was a mistake. It's all trash. Mike Cole is okay though. I wish my son was Mike Cole instead."
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Inability to see a way out of circular epistemology doesn't mean that it's right and infallible.
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@moonman The marches and lobbying reeks of establishment democrat / Soros-linked organizations. The fact that teens can be so easily manipulated into playing into these groups' hands is proof that they shouldn't have a say.
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@thatbrickster I've gone from going along with the mainstream opinion, to less alarmist, to lukewarmist, to skeptical of the whole affair in a very short period of time.
On a meta level, the way the "information" is presented is extremely dodgy. Claims of things being a proof that we're experiencing climate change are unfalsifiable: it's climate change when it's cold, it's climate change when it's warm. The funniest thing to me is when you get news that push the climate change narrative with stuff like "The warmest /season/ on record since 1970-something or 1930-something". It's very rarely "the warmest ever" or "the coldest ever". No one seems to realize that baked into these articles, is the assumption that the temperatures were higher/colder back in those days.
The celebrities and mainstream news being put forward tend to push the extreme predictions, but quietly behind the scenes the scientists are pushing super wide prediction ranges so as to not be proven wrong anymore. Crucial information is being kept from the public as to past change (medieval warm period/little ice age). Small scale, settled science experiments as to greenhouse gasses are being used as "proof" that once you add in a "mystery sauce" feedback loop factor, the tiny proportion of those gases in our atmosphere are having a disproportionate effect on it.
In the end, if all that was said is that we don't really know much, and that we should use the precautionary principle and avoid polluting too much, I wouldn't have a problem with that. But the obvious bullshit that's being sold to me makes me react strongly in the opposite direction.
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Improved https://social.guizzyordi.info/attachment/277126
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@mrmcmayhem Even without the controversy, it's deeply, DEEPLY flawed.
I mean, it takes a lot to make a story about space wizards seem implausible, but The Last Jedi did it.
You have characters letting themselves die for absolutely no reason. Characters actually using a tactic that could have won them a battle/war only when it's too late. Characters having a scene a few feet from enemy lines while no one bats an eye. Action sequences that serve absolutely no purpose for the story. The Force being changed from space magic that requires training to use to the ability to do whatever whenever it's convenient.
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@gameragodzilla I didn't dislike The Force Awakens. It didn't have an original bone in its body, and the setup to it is stupid (so... The Rebels won in RotJ, but nothing changed?!?) but it was proof to me that at least some people at Disney knew why Star Wars became popular in the first place. Rogue One I was meh on, it came close to being good, but it's like the execs didn't have faith that the movie could stand on its own and shoehorned in as much fan service as they could, taking away from the serious story they were trying to tell.
The Last Jedi took some risks, I'll give them that. But so many scenes go directly against what Star Wars is. It tried too hard to insert dramatic and emotional scenes, that it forgot that to suspend disbelief, the world they build still needs to make SOME sense.
Characters being blatantly stupid. If you've seen it I'm sure you'll understand precisely what scene I'm talking about, but there's one in particular where something happens that had me scream (in my head, of course) "WAIT, WHY DON'T THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME?!?"
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"How dare these companies discriminate about what goes on their networks?
Oh, but we need to discriminate to make sure only the the right messages are spread on OUR platform!"
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