Located 9429 results from search term 'Social Media'
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Yeah,large swaths of the Internet are such a wasteland. I liked it way better before social media.
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Commented in Streaming Overload: Viewers Feel Overwhelmed by Too Many Choices, Nielsen Survey Finds
It's definetely an overload, yes. I visit regularly several websites for my binge-watch-cravings and they offer really a lot of series and films from all providers. The majority of the content quality correlates to the quality of the majority of the regular internet and is slightly better than the average social media outlet.
That being said, once every few weeks I play a game of chicken with a movie which I select by searching on numerical reviews. One out of five stars, less than 4 out of 10, you get the idea. The chicken part is about how long I can stand the movie until I turn it off, because of several things like acting quality, special effects, soundtrack, et cetera. -
Commented in Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
Unfortunately, all of the social media and media platforms that have sprung up to offer alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, etc, are either filled with political extremists who have been banned from other platforms or are dead. I like the idea of Substack and Minds and any other platform that allows creators to monetize their content easily. I just wish they weren't populated with the dregs of society.
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Commented in Texas is set to pass a new law banning Facebook from censoring conservatives
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Commented in McDonald's has run out of milkshakes in the UK
You forgot something. :-)
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Commented in YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month
They have a work around they are gradually unfurling world wide which makes add blockers useless. I copy the url of what I want to watch,plop it down in the media window on a website,hit review,watch the video,which won't have the ad at the start,then delete the whole thing.
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Commented in Australian Union in fight against new laws that would force 2 million workers to turnover internet history, emails
Correct answer: "What's an internet history?"
Edit: This is a very thinly disguised social credit score.
Barely disguised at all.
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Commented in Biden to donate 500 million Pfizer doses, urge others to join in
So Pfizer is only getting $7 a dose?
Doesn't square with media reports of $19.50 a dose in the US and $30 a dose in Israel.
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Commented in FBI: Tennessee man paid hitman in Bitcoin to kill his wife
could you imagine if the media reported the specific currency used in each of the crimes they report?
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Commented in Valve Illegally Monopolizes the PC Gaming Market, Harming Gamers and Developers, Class Action Alleges
Valve's so called monopoly has saved me money with the regular holiday sales, time by not needing to find a disk or hunt down a no-cd patch, and it was great not needing 50 different stores. These days I now have Bethesda, Gog, Ubisoft, EA Play, Xbox/Microsoft, Blizzard, Paradox, Social Club, Epic, and Steam stores or launchers. It's absurd and intrusive how things are now, my opinion.
I think steam was more like Netflix than a monopoly, it was just the best most convenient place to get things when there happened to be no competition. Today this lawsuit almost has to fail because of all the other stores that are out.
I hated Steam when it came out, I still have a slight hatred for it, but I will never like this new system of a launcher/store for every game. I miss the days of installing a game with serial codes.
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Commented in Science has fixed the worst part of psychedelic drugs usage for depression
Last year I have tried psychedelics for the first time in my life (I'm 51 years). Both out of curiosity and for getting insights LSD-25 (the classic), 1cp-LSD and mushrooms passed "the lab". I got my insights and it helped me with my attitude towards several things in life and a cascade of good things followed, courtesy of Mother Karma. But the thing is that the hallucinations were a real part of the entire experience and helped me understand the source of, for instance, my more or less depressed state of mind. Even the staring at the curtains and being really fascinated by the dance moves of the wrinkled up bedsheets helped me free my mind. And the colours! Oh, the colours were splendid and out of this world. Good thing it is not a drug that has habitual tendencies like alcohol (which I do not use for over six years) or cannabis (which I sorta quit a few months back, thanks to the psychedelic journies). Listening to music helped also boost all the wondrous things I was able to encounter during the sessions.
Taking away the hallucinations is not helping with the healing qualities of those glorious chemical compounds. Having a bad trip has mainly to do with the settings you have the trip in and with the sources of whatever you're trying to deal with IMHO. For instance: having babbling nurses and analyzing doctors around you won't really do any good to the effectiveness, I'd say. Also, having hallucinations helps you discover your true potentials and, believe me, is just worth undergoing it. Every trip, before ingesting the tab or capsule I gave myself a hug and told myself: "Whatever you see, hear or encounter, is you with the help of what you're about to take. And I will love that to its' full extent." Also: I did the trips alone, no disturbances, phone turned off, social media was forbidden, no communication but myself and the thoughts.
Researching these medicines is very good and will help a lot of people, I'm so sure about that, but please: healing is a fun experience, the visuals and silly stare downs of the carpet and wallpaper could make one wonder about what we don't see or forgot to look at. Anyway, let's see if those doctors and researchers will get that part. It might help if they tripped themselves before they started researching. It would save a lot of implants in those poor mice.
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Commented in Who Got It Right: Orwell or Huxley?
Having read both books,I lean towards Orwell's 1984 myself. That being said,the control freaks are big corporations, not some megalomaniac government,at least in the states. Corporations force you to use their technology their way,tracking every move you make OL,etc. Force you to look at advertisements by making ad blockers not work,etc. They also control the media and lie to us.
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Commented in Intelligence Chiefs Say China, Russia Are Biggest Threats To U.S.
The USA is the biggest threat to the USA. China and Russia only have to sit back and watch as the USA tears itself apart from within. The factionalism and media stoked hatred for anyone that thinks differently from you makes a mockery of the "E Pluribus Unum" motto.
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Commented in The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn’t telling you about
Less children means less (future) income -and other- taxes, so that's probably a reason you won't see that in schoolbooks or in the media. It also goes against the church's doctrine and its' much needed flock. Also, less children means less consumers and that means less profit.
I have no kids, never had a car, have travelled just about six times by airplane, which justifies me being a flexitarian (I eat about three days a week vegetarian meals). Gotta love them lambchops. :-) .
Edit: G.G. Allin knows what's up.
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Commented in Twitch has a cockfighting problem and is struggling to stop the streams of the violent content
Sounds like Twitch has not figured out how to censure folks properly...perhaps they should watch some of the social media giants for tips (sarcasm).
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Commented in Google Play Store Suspends Polyamory Dating App
Ha, ya think?! One of the taboo subjects all the big brother social media platforms are hammering right now.
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Commented in Instagram Suggested Posts To Users. It Served Up COVID-19 Falsehoods, Study Finds
Gotta love this. Users are getting banned all across social media for "falsehoods" as identified by the specific platforms. Who is going to ban the platform for doing the same?
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Commented in Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
It's the cost of shipping on a vhs tape that causes this, most buyers want priority mail shipping, or whatever we now call the 3 day shipping option. That's $8.75 for the prepaid box, not including any wrapping materials or cushioning you might use and no insurance, I think they now include delivery confirmation which most call tracking. It's the worst part of selling on eBay or amazon, the shipping charges are insane before you ever get to the charges eBay hits you with, they even charge you a percentage on the shipping fee.
You can do cheaper shipping with media mail which starts at $3 but you then need to buy a box and packing materials which quickly brings it back up to about $7-$8 if you aren't buying in bulk at which point you almost just give up and go with the prepaid priority mail box.
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Commented in Twitter suspends Project Veritas account
“I don’t agree with what you have to say but I will defend to death the media conglomerates’ right to redact your comments” is the 21st century version of that saying I guess
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Commented in Alexei Navalny Grows More Powerful Every Time Putin Talks About Him
he never talks about him
i only ever hear about Navalny from western media
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Commented in Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
First of all: melodramatic much? “Doomsday device”
A corporation run by a manchild on short leash from investors? Come off it
this tool is as nothing more than the guttennburg press equivalent for the 21st century and nothing more
it could have been a way to torpedo the rich and powerful but that ship has sailed since we sold it out to them (virtually from day one might I add)
this article is so off that mark that it hardly qualifies as an opinion
more like eternal September first ever essay “hai government regulators are like violence - if they are not working it’s because we are not using enough, i can haz into forum post?”
There’s a notion that the social web was once useful, or at least that it could have been good, if only we had pulled a few levers: some moderation and fact-checkingy here, a bit of regulation there, perhaps a federal antitrust lawsuit. But that’s far too sunny and shortsighted a view
Please
that is the sunny outlook? Oh my...
Let me burst that bubble for ya champ: the notion that social web once was good is BS
geeks have been explaining this one from day one of the advent of so-called social media platforms
it’s always been a fallacy and is now standard fair - the dogma that The Problem is the wild, wild west of the worldwide web
nothing could be further from the truth
on the contrary - any system with a single database under the control of a single legal entity is the very antithesis of an open net; it is the subversion of the idea of a free association network where everyone has the right and means to publish uncensored information
that’s fundamental and first and foremost - if your post doesn’t get that right the rest is either self aggrandising drivel or paid-for promo
the fact that people are now trying to regulate this very same database under the watchful eye of oversight committees (under the thinly veiled guise of “public outcry”) is mere endgame political posturing of a long term strategy - over three decades in the making - to reign in free exchange of information that the Pandora’s box of World Wide Web opened up; in spite of every effort by APRANET’s paymasters to design monitoring into the very fabric of the TCP/IP infrastructure
and every advent into the network design to make it more distributed has been downplayed and shot down ever since
just as every advent which makes it more restrictive and corruptible has been promoted and hailed as good
illegal exchange of ideas notwithstanding (drug trafficking; illegal pornographers et al) - all information exchange on a free network would be monitored by law enforcement in any case
this was never in doubt
a single database approach only makes it easier to identify and keep watch over the neutral players which constitute the bulk of the masses and data traffic on the internet; exchanges of garden variety, regular run of the mill information like food recipes and service complaints (interestingly enough about big business and government)
in other words - Facebook-like facilitation of Internet-based communications does nothing to deter or prevent people exchanging harmful information and gives only the power to big player agents to intervene and monitor and/or incite outrage of mass populous when it suits them and for a price
which makes it both profitable and exclusive to those that can afford it
this final nail in the coffin only serves to outlaw all other possible channels which hav...
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Commented in Rupert Murdoch-owned US outlets turn on Trump, urging him to act with 'grace'
party is over
if he retaliates now, he will be retaliating as a rogue agent. no media support, no government office
his only hope is that his base turns on Murdoch-owned media and they reverses their position, incite base, base protests increase, escalate, get violent and forces a court ruling to rule election results fraudulent
that would prolly spiral US into civil unrest
it will be interesting to see if trump has the stomach and capacity to pull that off
short of that, out of moves. 4D check mate. maybe retirement in Sochi and taking long reflective walks with Snowden
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Commented in Robots aren’t better soldiers than humans
I know a good social experiment: let's not make war and see if peace has a better return on investment. I mean: we don't know how that is, so it's kind of worth trying out, no?
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Commented in Australia slams 'grossly, grossly disturbing' invasive searches of women at Doha airport
Mind you, the Australian government only said anything after it got into the media. They hid the incident for 2 weeks.
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Commented in ‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors
i feel like i have schizophrenia
am i in an inverse truman show?
every time i read 'brain cloud' i remember it is verbatim a line from the movie "Joe v Volcano" used by the doctor as plot device whereby the doctor falsifies the protagonist's (a hypochondriac) diagnosis, giving him a few weeks to live as a ruse by a billionaire, laying the groundwork to find a person to pay to throw themselves into a volcano on a remote island in the pacific so local tribesmen would surrender mining rights for a mineral essential for manufacturing of superconductors
am i going nuts or is the audience trolling me via credible news organizations?
recently, there was a story about a herd immunity declaration by signed by more than 15,000 scientists and medical practitioners around the world, including “Dr Johnny Bananas” and “Professor Cominic Dummings” including a resident at the “university of your mum” - according to the followup
the cherry on the cake is that this came to light after Sky News (?!) did the fact-checking. i mean... Sky News verifying data to expose an obvious troll in mainstream media... that's gotta be peak meta meme trollolololulz or something