Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by Thorentis on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:27PM (#31078018)

Yep, based on the types of things somebody likes to talk about, the banality of their view of the world, what they simply regurgitate, what sort of nuance they bring (or can pick up on), pretty much allows you to place them in either bucket. And suffice it to say that the former bucket contains the least interesting people to talk with.

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Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by Sohurt00 on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:50PM (#31078206)

Anecdotally, as a life long STEM nerd, even smart people are boring.

I tire of discussing the potential of a theory; sure let me add that to the pile of a hundred others I heard about this month. How one was able to link two well known math objects by adding a few more of the well known glyphs; no one has ever done that before.

When one of you is on the verge of actually replacing relativity, or falsifying entropy, a warp drive, uploading kung fu to my consciousness; sure let’s hear it.

And FFS am I tired of listening to startup stories; it’s the new “read my script.” Machine aided reductions of daily life stats is a prosaic story to tell to someone who has been writing software since the 80s.

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Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by fallat on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:12PM (#31078356)

> I tire of discussing the potential of a theory

I guess you hate philosophy or I'm misunderstanding. I derive great pleasure from thinking.

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Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by Sohurt00 on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:21PM (#31078412)

I hate philosophy.

I derive great pleasure from making my piano or guitar sound cool, writing my science fiction; experience.

I tire of debating the potential of some pet paper should future humans find fit to do something with a theory we can merely acknowledge was written.

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Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by dwighttk on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:48PM (#31078579)

Sci Fi without philosophy? That sounds unique.

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Re:Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear by Sohurt00 on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:04PM (#31078692)

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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