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First, they came for 8chan...

That sucks, I just watched him on the One Bad Movie podcast. He had a great story about Pacino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjth0fhAhSI

I guess someone thought a David Lynch museum wouldn’t generate as much revenue as an auction. Sad to see.

I pity those who missed out on those tech golden decades of the 80's and 90's. The very idea of email was revolutionary. Getting news on demand while others waited for newspaper deliveries or set time TV shows was thrilling.

This is probably why Weird Science is one of my favorite films, because it captures that period where imaginations ran wild. The simple video games were fine as we used our imagination to fill in the gaps.

Tech these days has long lost it's magic. The 'AI' boom tried to recreate the buzz with nonsensical claims that it has failed to deliver. It's all smoke and mirrors these days.

I think the last time I was truly wowed was when Shazam appeared. That was 23 years ago.

Wait until they finally tie the increase in autism with the increase in gender diversity. There have already been studies showing an increased level of autism in those who identify as trans or non-binary.

The sheer lengths Twitter went to to silence anyone not sufficiently far-left enough is quite hilarious and alarming. It was nothing more than a propaganda and censorship machine.

So what where all those hot take pieces from the media saying that Musk was dragging Tesla down? Propaganda?

The legacy media is not dying off with its dignity intact, if it even had any to begin with.

DYK that direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers in only legal in the US and New Zealand?

India has the right and ability to stop foreign propaganda. Most countries do. Except the US apparently.

I watched the documentary. It was terribly low quality, filled with rumors and hearsay, and featured once prominent UK politicians and BBC newscasters. It truly stunk of British propaganda. Not surprising for the BBC.

The idea of Adult Swim having a serious conversation makes me LOL

What happened to ‘innocent until proven guilty’?

Are mere allegations enough to lose your job?

Why is this a surprise to the author? At no point in the history of social media has anything been organic. They are fully controlled, for-profit, social manipulation/propaganda ecosystems.

Add that to the list of corporate doublespeak from Twitter, like ‘we don’t shadow ban’ or ‘we have no political bias’.

So it looks like animal charities are out then. A local shelter was my chosen charity. Saying that, I only generated $70 of donations with 300 orders so it wasn't much, but every little helps.

The fact that they're axing this at a time of mass layoffs makes me think they're not telling the truth.

“diversity training is likely the most expensive, and least effective, diversity program around.”

The whole entire social justice movement has been a massive scam.

Us the Twitter Advanced Search and filter by dates. I’m sure that’ll go next.

Climate change guilt is a thing?

Same here. It took me a while to even remember what J6 even referred to. Some flag wavers and old people received impromptu tours of their own government buildings and that was it until the liberal media machine decided to jump on it.

Everything you said is correct.

Transgender identities rely on society simply believing that they exist, as there is no scientific proof of someone being ‘transgender’. The same goes to transracial and transspecies. We’re supposed to just be nice and accept everything everyone says and never assume ulterior motives, mental illness, or just plain falsehoods.

I don't supplement and have been vegan for a decade, and a vegetarian for 5 years before that. My yearly blood tests show everything has been fine since day one. I eat what most people do, just the vegan version. Luckily plant-based meat alternatives are everywhere these days.

A lot of the nutritional misinformation out there is deliberate to scare people off. It's not a conspiracy theory to say that the meat and dairy industries spend millions promoting their products and scaring people off vegetarian and vegan diets.

My advice is to watch the documentary Forks Over Knives and maybe read the corresponding book, The China Study. I personally avoid vegan websites and groups as their meals are super complicated to make. I don't have time for that.

Map out your fave meals then looks at how to make them vegan. It's super easy and you really don't have to worry about nutrients etc. People have been desperately searching for some nutrient that negates a vegan diet, and they think they found one in B12. They have not. 40% of Americans are B12 deficient, and this is after livestock being pumped full of B12 supplements themselves!

I fail to see how owning a $6000 Leica 'limits' anyone, aside from your bank account. Part of me is happy that the photography industry has been disrupted by the quality cameras in cellphones these days.

‘Why do women continue to shoulder a disproportionate amount of housework and childcare despite economic and cultural gains?’

Let me help you out: males and females have set roles in life. This is present in almost all societies worldwide, throughout history. These are laid out by God and present in all legit religions.

Housework and childcare have long been the role of the female. Modern western atheistic feminists have pushed women into the role of males BUT males are not under their control so largely maintain their own role in society.

Long story short: women want to act like men but cannot ignore their role in life, and men have no desire to switch places because it’s unnatural and requires being pressured by feminist propaganda for generations before it becomes seemingly ‘natural’.

A child’s first guru is their mother. Then, once they are older, their father becomes the guru, offering life guidance and discipline. There’s a reason why fatherless homes largely breed antisocial and criminal offspring.

Feminism is an unnatural and unsuccessful political movement.

Daily active users:

Twitter: 238M

Mastodon: 1.8M

To think I had to see all those Mastodon hype posts everywhere!

Stealing from the IRS seems like a good idea…

Back in the 90s I knew people who would take temp jobs at Equifax then wipe their bad credit scores/history before being caught and fired. Apparently Equifax had no way of restoring the data. Amazing.

Governments demanding private businesses fight disinformation will never not make me laugh.

Another point scored by conspiracy theorists who have been saying for years that the lack of regulation in crypto is deliberately to allow for a push of digital currency and then Chinese-style social credit systems.

I use Roku but opt for an external box that can be replaced or upgraded, as opposed to a built in TV. I had one TV with built-in Roku and it was fine for a few months until it slowed to an absolute crawl. Nothing could fix it. Ended up plugging a Roku box in and having the TV default to its input, bypassing the built-in shitshow.