For-profit media sells whatever makes them the highest profits. (Those who won’t, make way to those who will, or remain in obscurity e.g. how many people have even heard of Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios.)

They will sell anything it seems, with little to no regard for facts. Then they leave it to you to determine the lies of omission, while hunting for the real truth, i.e. to do the true work of journalism. But usually unpaid, painstakingly, and again you’ll never be able to share that message by virtue of being in conflict with the for-profit sources. Or if you do, who would even understand you, especially among the sheeple who either cannot and/or also will not bother to read anything at all.

Some people like Jon Stewart have railed against this for decades… but he lost, and it’s worse than ever before. Adjust your expectations accordingly. This is the world.

Okay it looked more like 3, but still you can imagine the joke as if it were funny 🤣.

Green definitely learned their lesson: don’t talk to the drug addict until after they get their fix 🫠.

Edit: a very well-done comic either way to be clear. 😁

I almost cross-posted this video to fuckcars, but held back bc people tend to dislike my video shares. Anyway the word is getting out there, both of the dangers of cars, and alcohol, and especially the combination, and furthermore the dangers for others who did not make the choice to drive.

https://infosec.pub/post/18142706

If he had mistimed that, we would have seen a VERY different ending here, delivered as it would have been to/from the man in the muscle t-shirt 👕.

Tbf, this community is called “The Onion”:-P

What if - just hear me out - your name was not Steve? 😜

I mean, blue shirt is being a bit of a Karen there… but green kinda brought that into themselves too, so I guess it all evens out:-P.

Oh dear I didn’t even think of that 🫠. LET THE MURDER GAMES COMMENCE! 🔪 (I’ll offer you a 2s head start, beginning… NOW!)

Speaking of, I saw a post today that lead me to check out Reddit for the first time in months… damn we sure do have much more friendly conversations here! It’s enough to make me forget all the years of toxicity there, towards the end. 🙃

How ashamed of myself should I be that I found this funny? 🤣

Yeah, why not just 11 minutes surrounding 9am? :-P

Hehe caveats definitely apply, like if you are talking to someone only over the phone, then maybe don’t say that one 😜 😉.

But it’s a good thought.

Weird bc I got my certificate right away… oh I mean uh, yeah, s-s-s-sure!:-)

I may do that! (Read: I won’t do that!:-)

I suppose it depends on your goals - for a child or pet, is it okay to lie to them or simply force the issue, whereas for an adult human, how far should someone go to remove from them the consequences of their own actions?

Interesting article about the changing language surrounding climate change. Like now it’s starting to become climate emergency/breakdown/crisis, but before any of that it was global warming, and in the 80s apparently it was “inadvertent climate modification”.

Never forget that behind the mobs is a controller.

Oh, I naively thought it was included, but I see that it’s a bit controversial. Interesting 🤔.

Just that they are actively recruiting people from STEM.

Most of what made Reddit great was not Huffman’s software but the people that were worth chatting with. Most of those people did not come here, hence the huge lack of niche subjects here by comparison.

Though indeed, even before the whole fuck spez fiasco Reddit was becoming enshittified, as it encouraged people to talk rather than listen - e.g. to make a new post rather than be able to find an existing one. And yes, it also encouraged us to become pedantic assholes, making every one of us defensive - me too.

A fantastic article somewhat related btw: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb, highlighting that social media becomes what the vision of the developers makes it to be. From the size and position and coloration of the buttons - and which ones, like are downvotes even turned on? - and every little thing, Reddit was doomed to become what it was purely bc of its choice to encourage its own profits at the expense of all else.

A favorite example of mine is that since ads go in-between posts but not comments, Reddit encouraged “more posts”, far more so than “more comments”, and not at all searching for existing posts, e.g. they only allowed 2 pinned posts, not 5 or 10 or 20 or something, just 2. So in places like r/Android they would have weekly mega threads where people could ask things e.g. “what phone should I buy?”, but rather than help connect people to those mega threads specifically offered for that, the developers forced mods to do the work to try to stem the absolute tsunami of posts all saying “which phone should I buy?” - almost invariably with no other details, each just a child (of whatever mental age) wanting personalized recommendations attention, but thereby halting the ability of people to discuss things related to Android phones, bc how could you get a word mixed in among all that noise?

Even nonprofit social media is still damaging to us, but to a radically lesser degree it would seem, compared to a for-profit one attempting to predate upon e.g. our anxieties.

What about intentional ones?

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