You can tell it’s true by, uh, some of the facts

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  • @[email protected]
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    7024 days ago

    I liked it better when crazy people could only find a platform to spread crazy by a news letter, or a small web forum. Giving every single person a giant digital soap box has proven to be not be such a great thing.

    • @brbpostingOP
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      5824 days ago

      Newsletter, forum, sandwich board, or van

      • Flying Squid
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        4224 days ago

        That person is disturbingly dedicated to smoking.

        Like someone with that much political shit on their car is crazy to begin with, but it’s almost all about smoking. What the fuck?

        • @[email protected]
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          1424 days ago

          Yeah I noticed that too. Who knows, but my guess is they started off as a staunch smoking advocate and then got sucked into the MAGA cult sometime later. This van has seen some shit.

          • Flying Squid
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            1924 days ago

            They must be a chain smoker if they literally can’t get through a meal without smoking. I smoked a pack and a half a day back when I was a smoker and I could wait until I was done eating to light up.

            Who I really feel bad for are her children. Can you imagine how much second-hand smoke they’re inhaling?

            • @[email protected]
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              623 days ago

              I’d like to imagine the back seats are removed and in ifs place are thousands of torn up cartons and squashed stubs

    • Zoolander
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      3224 days ago

      I knew that the internet was fucked when MySpace came out and the barrier of entry was all but eliminated. When I first started using the internet, most of the info that was out there was from scientists, researchers, and people with an expertise in very specific subjects that had enough motivation to jump through the technical hoops of needing to join a BBS, host a website, or jump into IRC or another forum.

      Once MySpace, and then Facebook, allowed anyone to post any dumb shit they wanted with an immediate way to spread that nonsense, it was all over. From there, corporate interests in how the internet could be used to control messaging and serve ads turned what little there was left into the same bullshit we’ve had since the advent of television. You can still find pockets of the old internet around but it’s mostly related to extremely niche interests.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        524 days ago

        And MySpace still had a much bigger barrier to entry than the popular formats today. Now all you need is a phone and the ability to tap a few buttons on the screen.

        • Zoolander
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          324 days ago

          MySpace wasn’t a huge barrier unless you wanted to really customize and personalize your page. You could post dumb shit just by signing up for an account (which really only needed an email address) and then you had access to add friends and post to your wall/feed right away.

      • @brbpostingOP
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        524 days ago

        As much as I agree with you part of me is experiencing cognitive dissonance because I don’t know how to square this view with the appeal of democratization of a powerful tool.

        There are intelligent voices out there exposing otherwise unseen parts of the world that range from fascinating to alarming. Some of those people are far from technical and we only hear from them because they do know how to hold down the record button on their phones, and they found platforms with built-in audiences who were responsive to their messages.

        Let’s say it were possible to review all content prior to it being published. You might be able to nip a lot of the e.g. anti-vax or anti-science or garbage anti-intellectualism in the bud. (Garbage that should be legal to express [in USA] but that is harmful when spread so there is no need to help enable its distribution.) I expect however some legitimate, underrepresented views would be silenced as well.

        I could probably ramble on – I don’t think I have a specific point, just meandering thoughts.

      • @Zipitydew
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        324 days ago

        Smartphones also really fucked things up. At least before that you had to kinda know how to use a computer to get online.

        • Zoolander
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          124 days ago

          Not really. You needed to know how to use a web browser and that’s about it. Facebook really opened the floodgates allowing anyone to post whatever dumb shit was in there head for all to see.

      • @[email protected]
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        124 days ago

        You know, I was a kid back then with my own website on Tripod, and I felt the same way. Growing up I realized that was just an infantile thought, but… Maybe I realized wrong.

        • Zoolander
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          324 days ago

          It’s not an infantile thought. Barriers of entry change the signal-to-noise ratio of what gets put on the internet.

  • SharkAttak
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    5924 days ago

    Aerosol transmission of metal? Like, imagine if there was some lead or something inside the gasoline!

    • @[email protected]
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      1124 days ago

      Or something like Iron in your food. That’s a very heavy metal, definitely not supposed to be ingested.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      It’s completely ridiculous. If the batteries had any kind of access to the open air it would very quickly degrade them until they were useless.

    • @atzanteol
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      2024 days ago

      Everyone has that one idiot friend. Problem is that online you get to interact with all the idiot friends…

  • @Naz
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    2524 days ago
    1. Hair Loss

    • Elbow-length hair

    … Which one is it, lady?

    • Jo Miran
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      1924 days ago

      I’m not saying she isn’t full of shit but she might mean “thinning hair”. Pattern balding is more of a male thing.

  • @[email protected]
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    2424 days ago

    I like the debilitating neck and shoulder pain, yet drives with a pillow behind her back with zero support.

    • @[email protected]
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      224 days ago

      Didn’t even notice until you said it.

      She likely originally had that in an old car with crappy seats, and doesn’t realize that the Tesla seats already have adjustable lumbar support.

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    24 days ago

    My friend is friends with/works for this old lady (70s) that is a “holistic practitioner” and believes in all of this shit, and he believes in a fair amount of it too.

    Last night he called her from his smartphone and told her that he needs her to order him a Lightning to Ethernet dongle for his iPad “because that’s the only way to not get fried by the EMF”.

    I just sat there and chuckled to myself because I know there was no point in arguing with him.

    • @[email protected]
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      524 days ago

      When they’re that far gone, there’s no point trying to bring logic into the discussion. You just shrug and agree to disagree.

      • @[email protected]
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        524 days ago

        I’ve gotten into it before with him because I find it funny, but didn’t feel like it at the moment.

  • Jo Miran
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    1524 days ago

    I’m no fan of Elon but I’m pretty sure that the most you’re going to catch by driving a Tesla is the side of a freight train.

    • @[email protected]
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      1624 days ago

      My friend disabled the 5 GHz WiFi radio on his access point and labeled the 2.4 GHz radio as “Fuck 5G” for a while. For those not aware the 5G that these idiots are talking about is The 5th Generation of Cellphone Technology which is completely different from the 5 GHz radio in WiFi access points.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m impressed someone that knows how to disable the 5 GHz wifi and yet doesn’t know it’s not the same as 5G

          • @[email protected]
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            124 days ago

            computers don’t have drivers

            The 15-year IT guy at my old job who got me fired cuz he was scared I’d replace him cuz I knew shit like computers needing drivers and how GPUs work (he asked ME for advise ffs)

        • mynachmadarch
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          324 days ago

          My router has a simple button right on the main admin page. They’ve really gotten pretty easy to use for the basics.

      • Flying Squid
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        424 days ago

        The only way to truly be safe is to put your router in a Faraday cage.

  • @[email protected]
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    423 days ago

    And here I am reading it like a comic and going ‘is…did she just make watermelon juice with the rind?’