Misc Chat

[blazing depot]

There is a way for anyone that cares, as in just buying the already existing official ones. Never mind that they are at least twice the price of 3rd party products.

[hoary charm]

mfi is a certification, it doesnt mean /all/ third party cables are limited

[blazing depot]

They're not gonna give that certification to anyone they don't profit from. Come on now.

X % of every cable sale, Apple store style

[hoary charm]

well yeah no shit. their options are basically enforce mfi standards to make sure cables meet the correct specs or enforce nothing and run the risk of tarnishing their "it just works" approach to hardware

[blazing depot]

The joke here is, this would all be fine and just the usual Apple nonsense blabla "We're the best product, buy only us :D" shenanigans if it weren't for the "We'll limit everything else, even if it works cause it isn't certified"

There is just no justification for that part

At all

[hoary charm]

on the data transfer side no there isnt. there absolutely is on the power delivery side

[trim flicker]

Wacky apple things
I'm just wondering if a perfectly good cable that theoretically should work will be limited

Just because lack of certification

[hoary charm]

if its anything like lightning now then maybe, not sure. it used to be really hit or miss when they first rolled it out

no idea what its like now

[trim flicker]

It should work because it's just a spec thing right

unless they're doing some weird shit

[eager parrot]

the certification just like their lightning cables will be through a chip, which is basically artificially limiting every existing USB-C cable, whether they do or do not meet power delivery or data transfer rate standards that iphone would need

[trim flicker]

[eager parrot]

a chip in the cable

[blazing depot]

It's almost like there's no actual technical justification and they're just mad no one wants to buy their vastly overpriced cables and chargers

[hoary charm]

if you dont understand how bad the usb standard is then you cant really say theres no technical justification lol

[eager parrot]

I understand how bad it is

but this isn't to address that, this is to sell a certification chip to OEM cable makers as well as sell their own overpriced cables and accessories

[blazing depot]

If you can't understand that this isn't solving the issue then idk

[hoary charm]

the issue is that the usb consortium are dumb and fracture out their standards instead of enforcing a common feature set

[eager parrot]

Apple is part of that consortium

[hoary charm]

yep

[eager parrot]

it's not some evil cabal that could enforce things, they just develop standards and maintain specifications...

they have a compliance program but that's mostly left to the companies who are members, as well as OEMs who work with those companies and apply for vendor ID

[hoary charm]

which is fair, but that also doesnt really solve the problem of the standards allowing features to be mix and matched

[eager parrot]

fair, I agree with the USB problems, I don't think anybody here will deny it

I just can't see how paying Apple for a chip will resolve that

when there are existing standards and specifications

[hoary charm]

the mfi standard has a handshake of sorts that basically outlines what it supports, it doesnt replace the usb standard

it allows the cable to tell the phone "yes i support displayport and audio"

still has to use dp over usb

[eager parrot]

a proprietary handshake that gives apples certification money for every cable produced with their chip in it.

and denies fully compliant cables without chips from running at their full potential

I say this as an Apple user, other than PC, everything else I use is Apple

but I know bullshit when I see it

[hoary charm]

sure, never denied that. my point is that it at the very least ensures the cable you buy will work

[eager parrot]

it's the same thing they did with lightning

Anyway, at least Apple will finally move to USB-C

should have done it a while ago when their laptops and ipad pros did tbh

[hoary charm]

big agree, hate having this lightning cable dangling from my phone

[eager parrot]

lightning cable running at freaking USB 2.0 speeds smh

[hoary charm]

one can only hope they sort out their horrific wireless charging speeds too

[halcyon iron]

okay does anyone here know how equalizers work cuz im doing something but idk what

these sliders are a mystery to me....

ik i might sound stupid but 😭 im genuinely at a loss here

[eager parrot]

what are you trying to do?

[halcyon iron]

idk atp

i was trying to see if i can tweak the sound to better suit me bc while i like sony's presets i feel like they're lacking something

but the issue is i never used an EQ and i have no idea how anything works aside from the clear boost slider

[eager parrot]

Are you listening on PC or phone or what platform?

oh phone

what headphones?

[halcyon iron]

sony wf-c500

these

[eager parrot]

okay so autoeq has some profiles for that
https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/tree/master/results/oratory1990/harman_in-ear_2019v2/Sony WF-C500
and I assume when you use the EQ on that software, you're not using the Sony presets anymore right?

[halcyon iron]

unless you count manual as a preset

[eager parrot]

right

it only allows you to modify five bands like that?

[halcyon iron]

yeah

[eager parrot]

so in that link above, let's look at the fixedbandEQ

they have 10 bands there, but you could kind of get some "guestimate" of what would sound good (they are EQing to harman curve) from that

I assume the "clearbass" part on the bottom is just a generic below 200 boost to bass

if you want more "bass" on those headphones, and the bass band isn't doing it for you, it might be because the tips aren't sealing very well in your ears

[halcyon iron]

my ears are weird
they're the only ones that fit me really well

so

[eager parrot]

there are foam tips you could buy that may fit better, but anyway let's try EQing it first and see what happens

[halcyon iron]

yup

i cant really test them rn but once i get home and mess around with what you sent me ill get back to you

its kinda dumb but its out of my control

[eager parrot]

so based on this EQ, but summed to 5 bands, what I would try on your software is -5.0 on 16K band, +2 or +3 on the 6.3K band, -3 or -4 on the 2.5K band, +1.5 or +2 on the 1K band, and just 0 on the 400 band. Then set Clear BASS to 0, try that with some music you're familiar with, and see if you need more bass or less bass, and increase or decrease accordingly the horizontal clear bass

[halcyon iron]

okay ill try that the moment i get to use these

thanks a lot :)

[balmy igloo]

https://kotaku.com/funko-pop-spider-man-harry-potter-post-malone-pokemon-1850178280

funko not doing so good

its a shame these things can't be recycled into something else. what a waste.

[trim flicker]

Man that sucks

[valid magnet]

funkos always looked ugly to me but damn

too much waste

[unborn echo]

rip

[eager parrot]

they couldn't write it off if they recycled it

[balmy igloo]

i know

still sucks

[unborn echo]

casual collectors have only so little space yeah

[balmy igloo]

hopefully someone finds them and melts them down for some other purpose

[eager parrot]

yeah hopefully the landfill is a plastic-only one 😔

[balmy igloo]

but its corporate tax write off bullshit so they're probably going to go out to the mojave and just torch the whole lot

[eager parrot]

yep

maybe film it for tiktok views

[trim flicker]

Explode them

And make a video about the funkos actually popping or whatever

I POPPED 1082918328$ WORTH OF FUNKO POPS

Wojak pointing, red circle

[valid magnet]

I PUT 948948348 FUNKO POPS IN A HYDRAULIC PRESS

titties thumbnail

[eager parrot]

speaking of tax writeoffs and waste

corporate waste when it comes to tech is absolutely obscene

whenever they decomission a datacenter, they waste like millions of dollars worth of equipment and drives, shredding petabytes of drives and just giving away the rest to metal scrappers for free

drive security I get though

although in reality a lot of the tech does get "recycled" they just can't sell it

[halcyon iron]

just tried this

sounds good so far! i turned up the bass a bit tho

[haughty steppe]

i only own one funko pop and it's the riddler one edwin gave me

[eager parrot]

nice, glad it is working out well. try it between the two different values for each band I wrote to tailor it more to your taste. And yeah I don't know exactly what the bass horizontal slider is doing, but I suspect it is just 200hz and below being raised, so that one's up to your taste and how well it sounds to your ears 🙂

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1632068420001755136?t=3X_dhdSSHH6nmFpmOcdp6g&s=19
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1632069085356859393?t=ouvfAkpqCz4lY5ha2NI9SA&s=19

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

US regulators rejected Elon Musk’s plan to test brain chips in humans.

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Twitter · Mar 4, 2023, 5:20 PM

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

Elon Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.

🔗: https://t.co/Vw5p5FcJ3v

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Twitter · Mar 4, 2023, 5:22 PM

[eager parrot]

gee I wonder why FDA rejected it lol

[dire canopy]

I mean after what I saw I'm not surprised they declined

[eager parrot]

the data they have shown so far from primate testing is horrific

[dire canopy]

it was around 3 months ago when there was the report of 1500 animals that died in 4 years

if it was just mice it would be within the normal range

but there was 280 monkeys, sheep and so on

[blazing depot]

Seems ready for human testing

[dire canopy]

when the normal range for highest level safety is 100

and they are regulated and expensive so people only go into them once they are sure

and them saying they have no record on that is absolutely stupid

imagine doing a research and not keeping track of your product

or doing a research and not writing stuff on paper

[valid magnet]

Yeah sure give us this shit and we can fry our brains Cyberpunk style

[blazing depot]

Elon cut costs on paper and the scientists only have so much space on the back of their hands

[last eagle]

https://www.sssamiti.org/google-unveiled-bard-as-competition-to-chatgpt-ai/

naur

[valid magnet]

[dreamy ledge]

I see tech companies continuing the march towards making dystopia stories a reality

someone read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison and thought maybe that might be a good idea

[trim flicker]

yea

basically

[valid magnet]

can't wait for the robots with their 3 rules

[balmy igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/robocop-prime-directives-serve-the-public-trust-protect-the-innocent-uphold-the-law-gif-14814171

[charred fulcrum]

JUNG_E but for real this time

[blazing depot]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/04/ai-apps-such-as-chatgpt-could-play-a-role-in-whitehall-says-science-secretary

Well

I guess England being governed by ChatGPT wouldn't technically be worse than the Tories.

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1632799515999625216

William LeGate (@williamlegate)

Elon Musk now has bodyguards flank him everywhere inside Twitter HQ — including accompanying him to the bathroom. He is reportedly paranoid that someone in the company may go rogue & stage a coup.
https://t.co/BdTQvvJmqg

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Twitter · Mar 6, 2023, 5:45 PM

As always, the replies are pure gold

[valid magnet]

Twitter The Hunger Games

[trim flicker]

LOL

that's how it works

whoever knocks him down wins the company

ezpz

[grave shore]

you know you're doing something wrong when you need bodyguards inside your own company's building

[last eagle]

hire hitman from the hit movie hitman

[blazing depot]

Yeah, they went a liiiiiittle overboard with the previously introduced system

(read: this is a positive change)

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/princevogel/status/1632922043216805888?s=46&t=DjB4Js2bXrPRH5Ps3ZXpmA

Prince Vogelfrei (@PrinceVogel)

Euros give Americans shit for not knowing geography, but how many of these states do you recognize?

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Twitter · Mar 7, 2023, 1:52 AM

[blazing depot]

Probably about as many as the average American

[vital needle]

Bet you can tell me.the capital city of New Philton though

Nor Central Carolina

[blazing depot]

That's a trick question, clearly. New Philton is just a bunch of crazy american football fans huddled around a stadium, hissing madly at anyone who comes by

[oak lodge]

shout out Idaho, Washington, and Oregon tri-state

[shadow elbow]

gang

[oak lodge]

they have cool roads to drive on apparently

[dire canopy]

to be honest I can't name half of the states in Germany either

[valid magnet]

dw the Germans can't either

[blazing depot]

I can, but generally... ye

[dire canopy]

by half I mean I can name 2

or at least point you on the map on 2

[blazing depot]

Which are?

[dire canopy]

Bavaria and Saxony

had to look up the translations for them

[blazing depot]

You know at least 2 more without knowing you know

Cause they're both city and state

With Berlin and Hamburg

(Bremen is the same, but definitely much lesser known)

[dire canopy]

I personally thought that Saxony is actually Sasau but turns out that Sasau is actually a city over here

because Saxony is called Sasko in czech and Sasau is Sázava so I didn't put those things together

[blazing depot]

Now I have to look up wtf Sasau is

Oh, just a city in CZ

Gotcha

[dire canopy]

it's also a river

people will most likely know that city because of Kingdom Come though

it's the monastery area

[blazing depot]

Bold of you to assume most people know Kingdom Come

https://twitter.com/markmobility/status/1633492928315244545?t=NT1HMmvXFuRj3kQAHk9MPg&s=19

Mark Elliott (@markmobility)

U.S. officials are investigating Tesla after reports that steering wheels fell off the Model Y SUV. https://t.co/ZXf7wUrNgd

Twitter · Mar 8, 2023, 3:40 PM

[clear tide]

lol

[blazing depot]

Truly masterful engineering

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/briggityboppity/status/1633211638978424834?t=PKKAZeIwoHDyo85fCygvAQ&s=19

🌿 stick 🌿 (@briggityboppity)

elon musk fired a guy with like a $100 million termination contract, fired him because he was disabled, ridiculed and publicly disclosed info about his disability

its going to turn into like 5 different massive easy lawsuits & elon fans still act like hes playing 12d chess

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Twitter · Mar 7, 2023, 9:02 PM

[oak lodge]

Not even the shittiest of aftermarket steering wheels fall off that easily

that's factory standard LOL

[blazing depot]

That's the high Tesla standards, man.

[trim flicker]

This was pretty funny

The guy he fired actually just the most epic person

Mr. Based himself

[dreamy ledge]

lol

Big Mouth Musk really likes having his foot in his mouth.

[trim flicker]

Yeah this guy just THE GUY

Hope he actually sues

[oak lodge]

He's perhaps above that even.

[blazing depot]

Why would he be above getting what he's effectively due for his company

[eager parrot]

yeah they're not gonna play their way out of this one if he was effectively being paid for his company in wage-like payments

[blazing depot]

Basically sure, you can fire him, but then you'll just have to pay the full remaining amount

[trim flicker]

Yep

[eager parrot]

yep

they may be able to get away with firing him without notice and perhaps not paying his fair severance and all that if they can find a "cause" to convince a court

but they'll still have to pay him the rest of what he's due for the company they bought

[trim flicker]

He has been fired but musk said the guy's considering staying at Twitter
Honestly he should just sue

[blazing depot]

(and in Germany you couldn't even fire him cause disability protections, but you know)

[trim flicker]

And i hope he does

[eager parrot]

that exists in the US too

I don't know wtf Twitter is doing

[blazing depot]

Whatever Musk says

Which... well. You know.

[trim flicker]

He was also in a "do not fire" list

not that it mattered anyways

[blazing depot]

Musk be like "I'M the boss here, no list can tell me what to do!"

[eager parrot]

He has been treated like that in California for too long

despite stepping on way too many labor laws and regulations

both at Tesla and SpaceX, and now Twitter

[blazing depot]

wdym, everything at Tesla is going great

They're putting out A+ products

[eager parrot]

Every person I know who worked at Tesla R&D says it's only slightly less worse than Amazon

and that's like a below ground bar

[blazing depot]

I miss the days when the only thing we saw Musk do was do some stratosphere jumps

[blazing depot]

So you don't have to pee in a bottle, gotcha

[trim flicker]

Tesla is pretty good at engineering fire hazards

[eager parrot]

yeah I can't imagine what the work conditions for the lower labor are like

if at the top research levels they're shitty already

I suppose there's still time for Twitter to shut down for good, maybe some good will come out of this after all

[blazing depot]

I'll say what I always say when someone says that: That would NOT be a good thing. Outside of stupid drama and shitposting Twitter is at this point an extremely important tool during catastrophes of all kinds without alternative.

[eager parrot]

I know that, I'm only being facetious

I'd still prefer Twitter to just about any other SNS

even in its current condition

I still think Elon could turn things around for the better at Twitter in the long-term, if he just stopped being a giant egotistical dickwad for one second.

He had the right, how do you say, "vision" for it

but once he took over, it became some weird analog for "owning the libs" or something when it came to the employees there.

[blazing depot]

Maybe the new CEO that he promised will bring some quiet once Elon finds a new chewing toy

[trim flicker]

I feel it's a lost cause at this point, Elon would probably have someone likeminded controlling the platform

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1633545251116965889?t=u9ZdS1vhxgM3YrMZ6_7v7w&s=19

Pop Base (@PopBase)

Spotify introduces new design, including a vertical scrolling homescreen that resembles TikTok and Instagram.

The scrolling feed will consist of music, podcasts and shows for users to discover.

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Twitter · Mar 8, 2023, 7:08 PM

This looks shit 😄

[blazing depot]

#changesnooneaskedfor

Not that I use the thing, but it does indeed look terrible

[trim flicker]

Changing things that already work pretty well for absolutely no reason at all

[blazing depot]

More importantly

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1633586422124019713

Pop Base (@PopBase)

Spotify officially announces ‘Discovery Mode.’

In exchange for lower royalty rates, artists can use the program to gain more algorithmic exposure through Spotify Radio and autoplay.

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Twitter · Mar 8, 2023, 9:52 PM

Artists can now do their favorite thing! Work for exposure!

[trim flicker]

I LOVE that

[blazing depot]

As if Spotify weren't already the worst paying streaming service out there

[valid magnet]

The ultimate artist thing of them all

[trim flicker]

Very cool

[blazing depot]

Man, the Spotify CEOs really despise artists

(they've said so often enough)

[trim flicker]

Even lower royalty rates like

How

LOL

[blazing depot]

But the EXPOSURE, don

[trim flicker]

How can it be lower

Really impressive stuff

[blazing depot]

Watch this resulting in anyone NOT taking the deal not getting any algorithm plays at all any more

[trim flicker]

Naaaah they wouldn't do that :clueless:

[blazing depot]

You wanna just autoplay to listen to random stuff without making a playlist because that's kinda fun and you hear new stuff, too? Well fuck you, lol.

[hoary charm]

i dont get it, whats the problem with this

its optional...

you're essentially paying to be inserted into whatever radio stuff theyre doing

[blazing depot]

Right, and you can believe that if you want. Opting in on this effectively means not getting paid at all and not opting in will mean the algorithm ignores you, so also not getting paid at all by anything but direct streams.

How anyone can look at this and think it's a good thing is beyond me

[trim flicker]

Spotify just has a rep of being shitty to artists in general and they already pay next to nothing

So offering to pay even less in trade for exposure is (?)

[last eagle]

Ah yes, Tiktok bootleg but more music oriented

[unborn echo]

yeah for big companies, this doesn't matter anyway. this hurts the indie scene more

[blazing depot]

Big companies don't care about streaming revenue in the first place, ye

[last eagle]

this would be a good shot for bbc right...?

[valid magnet]

Idc how popular tiktok is stop tiktokfying every bullshit

If I want tiktok functions I will just get the damn app

[hoary charm]

as if putting stories into everything wasnt bad enough

[grave shore]

I recently discovered spotify has a whole video player now when i was trying to listen to a podcast and it had a video playing. Do they not understand If i want to watch videos I go find the podcast on youtube

and now they're pushing video content even more in the form of whatever this is

[hoary charm]

thats been a thing for ages

[grave shore]

probably

[hoary charm]

some songs have their entire mvs there

i think star used to

while it was being promoted

[oak lodge]

We all love when applications replicate other applications near 1:1

soon every site will be a similar user interface as the most popular/"engaging" platform

[grave shore]

please just do one thing and do it well

[last eagle]

It's like that one case in Flappy Bird era

once it boomed there came the bootlegs

[oak lodge]

the best the future has to offer is a ✨discover new✨ tab with the fast-pace, death-grip of the latest in engaging sns platforms to a working formulae near you! (hopefully not discord)

[unborn echo]

discover misc chat, now above orbit chat in main discussion category

[oak lodge]

Let's stop right there before any more realisation happens.

[last eagle]

what happen if discord follows this trend?

[valid magnet]

i will send yall cringy tiktoks then

[last eagle]

[grave shore]

discord already has the home feed on some servers which works like this

[last eagle]

ah yea

[dire canopy]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/wwe-betting-scripted-match-results.html

[blazing depot]

Betting on.... totally real and not at all predetermined wrestling matches?

That's gotta be the dumbest shit I've ever heard, ngl

WWE isn't bloody UFC or something

[balmy igloo]

theres alreaady betting for AEW matches, though i have no clue if its for the match results or other aspects of the show

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/woot_master/status/1633877361488982016?t=0u4tzjVIUVQEiqkde_Pn7w&s=19

Wootmaster 🦓 (@woot_master)

@discord oh, so that's why you're gonna record voice calls. its to turn Discord into one giant AI training model. How perfectly horrifying.

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Twitter · Mar 9, 2023, 5:08 PM

[grave shore]

oh awesome...

[trim flicker]

how nice

xddddddd

[haughty steppe]

yikes

[valid magnet]

Oh boy

[trim flicker]

tech companies when they go 5 seconds without doing some heinous shit

[clear tide]

yoo i got access to chatgpt now

[eager parrot]

Discord is already adding GPT-like features based on their own training data

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/discord-hops-the-generative-ai-train-with-chatgpt-style-tools/

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/lgbtanime/status/1634040747879202823?t=EL-T_0z8WnsQcDVwVNZeNg&s=19

Nisha | Baizhu waiting room (@lgbtanime)

is it just me or twitter putting and slipping tweets from ppl u don’t follow and making it look like they belong on the timeline like who tf are these ppl

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Twitter · Mar 10, 2023, 3:57 AM

[balmy igloo]

Yeah that’s the for you timeline. Surprised it took them that long to realize it was there.

[valid magnet]

Yeah that fucking sucks

I just wanna know who these random people are

[dire canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X79aNegBTKY

[eager parrot]

at least it didn't end with him riddled with bullets

[last eagle]

silly tiktok is slowly becoming of
https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1634299209464651776?s=20

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

TikTok has launched ‘Series’, a paywall feature allowing creators to charge between $0.99 to $189.99 for video access

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Twitter · Mar 10, 2023, 9:04 PM

[blazing depot]

So... onlyfans, but no adult content

Also I can't for the life of me imagine any tiktok vid that would be worth paying 189,99$ for

[last eagle]

i'll paywall over the rickroll videos

[eager parrot]

what

[eager parrot]

for now 💀

[trim flicker]

190$ for a tiktok video

sounds like a deal

[blazing depot]

Given the average age range of tiktok users I'd hope that doesn't change

[trim flicker]

tiktok definitely has a decent chunk of things that border on adult content too lotta very wacky thirst traps

[blazing depot]

Did some research, huh

[trim flicker]

I end up knowing by proxy since i do know people who work with adult content

[blazing depot]

Uhuh

[trim flicker]

but yeah there's lots of those

[vital needle]

This is a great vehicle for pyramid schemes, get rich quick schemes, masculinity coach schemes, pua schemes

Crypto schemes

Btw why has twitter started showing me straight up fascist accounts never heard of or asked to see.since yesterday?

Did elon fuck smth up again? It's unusable

[dire canopy]

do you mean his tweets or different fascist accounts?

[trim flicker]

yeah gotta be specific

[vital needle]

Different fascist accounts

I will be scrolling and then @ tradionalwesternart or whatever will be posting about how women deserve no rights

It is not a like, not a retweet, not a sponsored post, nothing

It' just there

[eager parrot]

Perhaps the algorithm has identified you as a potential candidate for radicalization.

[trim flicker]

Ah it's the for you page

Idk they're always pushing some weird shit

[valid magnet]

Sure include payment so the kiddies will steal their parents credit cards to watch some dipshit throwing tons of food into a bowl to waste it

[vital needle]

Makes sense I only follow brazilian politics so it's giving me brazilian politics from the wrong side

[scenic cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYizFLBxZ8 a musicians commentary

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/asianjunkiecom/status/1635174696214994944?t=-dMzeKR0e1fePeeqEMLsbg&s=19

Asian Junkie (@asianjunkiecom)

DKZ’s Kyoungyoon and parents admit they were a part of JMS cult, explain their involvement, and say they’ve cut ties - By: IATFB https://t.co/UJYugJRNTH

Twitter · Mar 13, 2023, 7:03 AM

Oh boy

[last eagle]

cancel train incoming

[eager parrot]

if they're gonna go after one cult, they should go after all of them

[last eagle]

i just hoping my biases not in this cult, it will be super creepy

[eager parrot]

JMS is just a little more extreme version of Unification Church ideologies

[last eagle]

the cancel movement will be alot more stronger than bully accusation

bc it involves forbidden cult activities

[valid magnet]

Kyoungyoon at least seems to be a victim of this too

Basically being born into it

Cults are shit in any kind so I hope they actually get out

[eager parrot]

I hope he is not punished for the sins of his parents

Given the chokehold cults seem to have over Korea, I'm sure there are a lot of idols and celebrities linked to various kinds of these cults

JYP's thing isn't that far off from a cult either

[valid magnet]

His thing seems very Christian cultist-y (?) to me

[eager parrot]

this JMS thing above is also the same

an offshoot of unification and methodist churches

[valid magnet]

And if other celebrities are part of the cults at least they are hiding it better

Basically yea

[trim flicker]

Oh damn, hope Kyoungyoon doesn't get shit because of his parents Don't even know the guy but that sucks, man was just born into this

[unborn echo]

honestly, anybody in the lower ranks of these types of cults, i'd consider victims

like you can't be surprised how people in need and on the very lows of their lives would actually cling to these types of cult stories. give them the tiniest bit of faith and they'll take the bait

[eager parrot]

especially those who are either born into them or roped into them at a young age during their teens or college years, which is prime cult target years.

||(coincidentally K-pop targets the same demographics, fandom behavior sometimes isn't that far off lol)||

[trim flicker]

Yeah i consider anyone on lower ranks to be victims, cults seek people when they're the most confused

Meaning teens and college years, and after losses

[eager parrot]

Absolutely, they recruit those who are vulnerable and impressionable.

Surprisingly a lot of these Korean cults have found their ways into western countries, not that we were lacking cults to start with.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dp8j/gun-church-that-worships-with-ar-15s-bought-a-40-acre-compound-in-texas-for-its-patriots

Offshoot of Unification Church also

[trim flicker]

Japan did recently block Unification Church activities right

[eager parrot]

I think so, but it'll be difficult when these things have penetrated all levels of government.

In Korea, that female president was part of a cult too, some real fucked up shit involved with that one, it goes all the from the top to the bottom there.

[trim flicker]

Oh yeah the president thing

Forgot about that

[last eagle]

One of the KBS PD apperantly got it too

They're now under investigation for that

Like sheesh, this is mad serious

[eager parrot]

I remember reading an analysis of this, the issue with Korea is they have such a longstanding tradition of Shamanism and other kind of superstitious cults and religions, as well as Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. Then when Christianity became very common there just in the past 100 years, a lot of these belief systems started melding together, giving rise to these new religious movements that don't neatly fit in any traditional category as sects of existing world religions.

This isn't necessarily uncommon elsewhere in the world either, but Korea seems particularly vulnerable to it.

[last eagle]

there's always be darker rabbit hole in every country

who ever knows we just in the tip of the iceberg

[eager parrot]

Yep, if you start digging into these things, it gets dark and scary quickly.

With no bottom to the abyss.

[unborn echo]

but yeah, the cult thing is pretty big in korea. you'll even see it in dramas, movies and even webtoons.

[trim flicker]

Plenty of dramas with cults

I only watched Save Me tho

[eager parrot]

I get the concern people have with that particular idol being part of a cult though, whether by choice or not.

Idols have a pretty darn close parasocial relationship with their fans nowadays.

It wouldn't be that difficult for them to subliminally affect their fans...

Especially the youngest and more impressionable and vulnerable among them.

[pale flower]

One of my recent psych classes had a discussion on how similar cults are to other more "accepted" systems like the military, and honestly if you think about it, being a kpop fan can sometimes result in cult-like behavior

So I don't blame anyone who ends up "falling for it"

Kinda a thin line at times between what makes a cult what it is, they can either be harmful or useful to their followers (like others mentioned, helping them with social needs/a feeling of purpose/etc)

I actually think that if they managed to cut ties with the cult though that's a better reason for that idol to stay in the industry

Because it means they're more likely to speak up on their experience and either warn/educate others

[valid magnet]

Really interesting how fast people can go into cult like behavior even if it isn't as normally recognized

Like yeah seeing how being a kpop fan (or any kind of fandom) can lead to it (excessive love towards the artist, defending them at everything especially their crimes, attacking others etc)

[hoary charm]

blue gang is a kpop related cult please help

[pale flower]

Yeah and again, it's just part of what allows some people to fulfill their psychological/emotional/social needs

It's why a lot of people end up saying that stanning x group/being part of a fandom makes them feel better

Which again kind-of points to why one can't say that all cults/cult behavior are inherently bad
Though the worry is understandable considering how well-known bad/harmful cults are

(This isn't me telling peeps to go join a cult btw, I'm just saying that it might be less rare than some people might think, and some things/groups that can very much exhibit cult-like behavior are considered socially acceptable)

[oak lodge]

Reminds me of the psych studies about how gangs recruit and how the impressionable are drawn in. Quite similar in fulfilling a sense of belonging.

[eager parrot]

https://apnews.com/article/silicon-valley-bank-uk-bailout-hsbc-sale-4d2da0e9c6f39c0fd8faf321a2b295cf

[hoary charm]

lol

[eager parrot]

2nd and 3rd biggest bank collapses in US history

all in the matter of days

I don't know much about how the banking system works (they've made it into black magic anyway) but if they're paying out of treasury for these deposits, it's a bailout by some other name.

[hoary charm]

my boss shorting us banks is paying my salary rn

[oak lodge]

The only bailout they have is the fed. It's how it's setup. A house of cards with fiat currency and constant printing.

[blazing depot]

It's the one kind of bailout the GOP will shut up about though

[eager parrot]

it's hilarious, they always want smaller government, but when something like this happens, they scream "but where were the regulators that let this happen??"

[trim flicker]

Classic

Regulations only good when it makes it so they can keep their money

Otherwise they just get in the way of making money ofc

[blazing depot]

Topical
https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1635298985761206274?t=UyHQQhlonq_W8FufTSRIPA&s=19

Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo)

Doing some journalism

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Twitter · Mar 13, 2023, 3:17 PM

Still my favorite meme template btw

[trim flicker]

not a bailout :copium:

[vital needle]

https://youtu.be/hRC3PBjthxI

A banger

[haughty panther]

badempanada

valid

[eager parrot]

https://fxtwitter.com/GillianBNews/status/1635397817526267904

[oak lodge]

the corner clubhouse

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1636422525298294786?t=4zaPbPbgi-n3Exa3tyj0pQ&s=19

Pop Base (@PopBase)

Twitter now shows the number of bookmarks a tweet has.

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Twitter · Mar 16, 2023, 5:41 PM

[blazing depot]

I mean... why not I guess

This one is fine, really

Useless but fine

[oak lodge]

extra stat is fine

[eager parrot]

they removed views

or so it seems

and most "quotes" don't show past the first few days to a week

[valid magnet]

I still see views

[eager parrot]

maybe my adblock is removing it 😄

[dire canopy]

oh Macron vetoed the decision by parliament about the retirement age

I guess that the Paris is gonna burn down now

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1636698040370077701?t=GUmH8QP8kYig98eb_gMhyw&s=19 about that

Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen)

BREAKING: After French President Emmanuel Macron decided to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, the French took to the streets rioting and protesting to show their displeasure.

This also happens to be the Republican’s plan in the United States. They want to raise the age…

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Twitter · Mar 17, 2023, 11:56 AM

[blazing depot]

tbh that change is somewhat neccessary. France is in bad need of reforms in various sectors to adjust to not living in the 19th century any more

SHould be noted that this is still lower than pretty much everywhere else in Europe

[oak lodge]

The age of living expectancy certainly has increased by a substantial factor from when the rule was made

So, it's understandable

I will say additional 2 pension payments a year from what it already was sounds nice

[blazing depot]

It's a change very much explained by demographics

Younger generations paying the pensions of old people who retire early is just not realistically affordable any more

[oak lodge]

mmmh, good point

[blazing depot]

Unions in France are just like "NO CHANGE!" "But who is gonna pay for that in the future?" "WE DON'T CARE, NO CHANGE!"

[oak lodge]

"No change" is a conservative tenet lol

[blazing depot]

Well, unions aren't neccessarily leftists, you know

[oak lodge]

certainly

[blazing depot]

But yeah, this isn't even out of the ordinary. Whenever they wanna change anything about the social system in France all of this happens like clockwork, no matter how neccessary or useful it seems

[lilac lodge]

no we don't

how many poor people die before the age of retirement

the age of expectancy has rised but what's the point of spending retirement in pain and bad health

you can't enjoy those years

[blazing depot]

That's an emotionally charged argument, not a fact based argument. Fact is, given the demographic changes current models are unsustainable.

[near jetty]

German work ethic moment

[lilac lodge]

let's not fight fiscal evasion

we work less but more efficiently than other countries 🤷

[blazing depot]

Hey man, I don't wanna work til I'm 67 either but such is life.

[lilac lodge]

I'm glad my family has heart problems historically

[blazing depot]

What a weird thing to say, lol

[near jetty]

France stays winning

the less old people I see working the better

[lilac lodge]

https://vxtwitter.com/EarnKnowledgge/status/1636317807955808256?t=tHtoDmiDMP8kfat6nniTLA&s=19

brb saving money for retirement

[near jetty]

good thing I'm carrying 2 plungers with me at all times

[oak lodge]

that is 100% a method that EMS uses on minor cases of autos being locked. They mostly use very strong adhesive sheets

just a swift pull down

[blazing depot]

No need to break things after all

[grave shore]

yeah this is going to be a huge issue in the future, idk how other countries do pension but here the amount of old people is rising fast and their pensions are fully paid by the young people working. It's estimated that soon the whole system will collapse as there isnt enough money to pay for everyone's retirement

[blazing depot]

Ye, that's the tl;dr for lots and lots of countries.

[grave shore]

ye i assume most eu countries do it same way

[blazing depot]

Germany sure as hell does, we've had that political discussion as well and it's still not enough. Current official retirement age is 66 and that's increasing to 67 by 2031. (Already decided and in law)

I guess the solution™️ is to have more unprotected sexy time, amirite

[grave shore]

lmfao yeah just make more kids to pay for it

im kinda expecting to have to work until 70 tbh

at this rate

[blazing depot]

Please, by that time you have to speak Russian anyway

[grave shore]

[vital needle]

Damn if only we had a society that was not based on stealing surplus value from workers we could afford to not force the elder to work

[grave shore]

please tell me your incredible plan that will fix everything

[blazing depot]

Step 1: Communist Utopia
Step 2:

[near jetty]

would probably get assassinated at step 1/4

[blazing depot]

True

[haughty steppe]

https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1636803726236057632?s=46&t=JzEB50njYXNvNaUeushwzA bro what

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Lance Reddick has sadly passed away at the age of 60.

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Twitter · Mar 17, 2023, 6:56 PM

[balmy igloo]

No fucking way

He was often the best part of any project he was in. He’d elevate even the most mundane. It’s not an exaggeration to say he was one of the best there ever was. Rest in peace.

[haughty steppe]

I'm so sad dude

What the fuck

[eager parrot]

That's so sudden, he was posting on Twitter just a couple of days ago and looked fine, jeez.

[balmy igloo]

🫂

[haughty steppe]

So young too

[vital needle]

Idk but I think someone should write a book about it

[dreamy ledge]

oh shit, liked him since The Wire. dang

[grave shore]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570?s=20

Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st

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Twitter · Mar 17, 2023, 9:01 PM

huge

[eager parrot]

First look at a recommendation algorithm from a major SNS huh

That'll be fun

[toxic spoke]

wow he's actually gonna show what he cooked

[blazing depot]

"Elon Musk twt > all" is the only line

In whatever programming language they use

[toxic spoke]

that was funny seeing anecdotes about the day it was just all elon

[grave shore]

lmfao

[last eagle]

and considering that date

is sus

[haughty steppe]

sometimes the internet makes me happy

[valid magnet]

Wow

[balmy igloo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/destiny2/comments/11u89s5/lance_was_just_playing_last_nightdetails_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

sam 😢

[haughty steppe]

fuck dude

this fucking sucks

[haughty steppe]

[hoary charm]

i havent seen any videos of his actual personality but "idontcare" is very on brand for zavala and sylens' characters

[dreamy ledge]

saw this link on another Discord (I don't play Destiny), but he played Warlock
https://www.reddit.com/r/destiny2/comments/11vs0ss/bungie_dev_recounts_his_time_running_wrath_of_the/?

[last eagle]

zippyshare will shutdown in 2 weeks.
https://twitter.com/tanyarlfes/status/1637636324378431489

Tanyarl ㅡ 🚫 Rep OOT/JUALAN/LINK AFF (@tanyarlfes)

💚 goodbye zippyshare. terima kasih udah membantuku untuk menonton film dan anime 😭

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Twitter · Mar 20, 2023, 2:05 AM

[clear tide]

another 9k job cuts at amazon huh damn

[valid magnet]

money is money...i guess?

[oak lodge]

I wonder what would happen if the young man sold woke lemonade

||Sleeping people: ||

[dire canopy]

speaking of anti-woke

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/florida-considers-ban-on-discussion-of-periods-menstruation-before-sixth-grade

[oak lodge]

When it happens varies by person

a bit backwards, that lot in florida

[dire canopy]

not sure why he needs 10 markers to sign something to begin with

[oak lodge]

hahahaha

good thing to point out

[valid magnet]

nice to see USA going back to 1950s

what's next separating white people from black people?

[eager parrot]

the pens are given out to people who basically pushed and supported the bill

it's pretty standard when it comes to governors or president signing new bills

especially ones that are supposed to be 'landmark' laws

they all wanna feel included and own the pen that signed the bill

it's petty bullshit but hey petty bullshit goes on from elementary school until death for most people

[trim flicker]

not surprised if that went through

if that goes through
my English stropped working for a second

[blazing depot]

It's de Santis, it will

[trim flicker]

Yep

[grave shore]

i don't understand what is supposed to be the point of this

[eager parrot]

basically no sex ed until sixth grade

which was already the case in most of florida

it's republican version of virtue signaling to appeal to their base

political theater that doesn't do anything in particular

but riles up both sides

creating in-fighting to distract the masses

[grave shore]

incredible

politics never fails to surprise me

[vital needle]

"See, my son. This is the anti-menstruation pen I got when me and my pals passed the no menstruation bill. It is my greatest treasure, and now it is yours to cherish. Please don't let it hear anything about menstrustion"

[eager parrot]

this but unironically

[blazing depot]

There's also the fact that de Santis is one of the most narcissistic people on this dear planet earth, so the pens probably have his initials someplace as well

[eager parrot]

Yep, that's also standard, they're usually engraved with bill name, governor/president name, time/date etc.

de Santis certainly takes the cake when it comes to narcissistic politicians in the US today

though they're all like that to some extent, self-serving douchebags, just to different degrees

[blazing depot]

Have you heard about how de Santis used to date? (this is from his own memoirs btw, lmao)
He'd go out with a woman and talk about thai food but pronounce it thigh food. And if they corrected him in some way like "Do you mean thai food?" he'd ditch them there and then on the spot.

[eager parrot]

that's pretty fucked up

though it does sound like something a self-centered person would invent about themselves to somehow make their dating life sounds "interesting" in their own heads and to look a certain way for their audience

[blazing depot]

It definitely makes him look "a certain way", lmao

I guess it's safe to say he isn't exactly going for the women's vote at this point

[eager parrot]

And yet, unfortunately, ironically, a significant minority of women would still vote for him 😔

I'm live in Ohio, which has now become extremely red among the midwest states here, and a lot of my own friends and other female peers would definitely vote republican no matter what despite every single thing that should be screaming about GOP being bad for women in the short and long term.

I can't even understand it, though "Anything but insert opposite party" is a pretty common sentiment here.

[blazing depot]

I mean, if Trump gets women votes de Santis certainly will

[trim flicker]

Ah yeah the thigh food....

Yeahhhhhh

[oak lodge]

Easy and simple exploits. Opportunism at it's finest.

[vital needle]

I love how despite being made by different people (i think) the presidents' personalities and dynamics in deepfake gaming presidents videos are pretty consistent

These videos make me very happy

I love how Trump developed from an antagonist into a dickish older brother figure that ultimately still cares for and humors Biden's antics

True character development

[trim flicker]

https://vxtwitter.com/cjtackett/status/1637436016637140995?s=20
Where have I heard this before

[hoary charm]

fucking bidenator https://twitter.com/voretecks/status/1625931323058552851

Vortex (@voretecks)

presidential overwatch debate (the sequel)

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Twitter · Feb 15, 2023, 6:53 PM

this one is too good too https://twitter.com/udysof/status/1625728953536376833

Toby (@udysof)

https://t.co/WeTO5CsDJm

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Twitter · Feb 15, 2023, 5:29 AM

[vital needle]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpQReijo_Cr/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I'm talking about this style with Obama as a mediator

"Me and michelle got turned on hotline bling while raining drone strikes on hospitals"

[eager parrot]

terrifyingly good lol

[hoary charm]

lmfao

[oak lodge]

those memes give the barren-ness of AI and such some much needed substance

[oak lodge]

"morality in terms of behaviour and not theology." — Interesting because of course behaviour is a universal language.

Nice line

[trim flicker]

classic rocket league gameplay so people actually watch the video

[oak lodge]

lol

[trim flicker]

because they distracted with silly car

[oak lodge]

I don't understand the videos that have multiple accompanying and occupying videos

[blazing depot]

Watching RL is about as interesting as watching paint dry tbh

[oak lodge]

of gameplay, a cartoon, and someone playing with gelatinous substances

[trim flicker]

Yeah but TikToks/reels are adding both that and subway surfers videos because it gets people to keep watching

[oak lodge]

how are you supposed to enjoy the darn joke!

it's a quarter the size of the already small screen

https://tenor.com/view/smh-eyeroll-gif-19044707

[vital needle]

Minecraft parkour too

The onion even made fake reels with the subway surfers and everything

But the robotic voicewas reading fake reddit comments written bythe onion themselves

It was very clever

[trim flicker]

Yeah it's a pretty good line
Very good video tbh, it's actually really sad to see this kinda thing repeating itself rn

[oak lodge]

the irony. In the grand scheme it's so satirical.

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/aprilrainn_png/status/1637698916065103874?s=20

evill::l:; ✉️💣 (@aprilrainn_png)

How am I on warcrime TikTok

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Twitter · Mar 20, 2023, 6:13 AM

US soldiers having a regular one over at tiktok

[eager parrot]

a bunch of aussie soldiers are getting prosecuted for actually doing it

was in the news a couple of days ago

[vital needle]

Yeah

[blazing depot]

This... err... feels like a #1042067405175783524 topic tbh

[vital needle]

I forgot that was a thing

But I don't think any of the topics there really fit either

[oak lodge]

Stateside enlistment is so bad that they probably use that budget on advertising with this type of shit

[eager parrot]

they might activate the draft if it gets much worse and US's potential conflicts in the world heat up

all boys with US citizenship or permanent residency green card have to register with selective services at 18 until 26 after all.

[shadow elbow]

no they spent it all on the jonathan majors ad

[forest sigil]

A draft just isn't gonna happen again

[hoary charm]

ltt got hacked lol

[balmy igloo]

damn

this is somehow Luke's fault

[hoary charm]

luke deserves to be cut some slack after he disarmed the hard R nuke

[unborn echo]

huh so this is why i got a notif

[clear tide]

they sure uploaded tons of videos very fast too wow

ltt asleep too iguess

[balmy igloo]

yeah its 4:30AM for them

[hoary charm]

channel got banned

[clear tide]

sure took their time considering how big ltt is

[trim flicker]

Lot of channels getting hit by that but first time I've seen such a big one

Aside from the Brazilian League of Legends channel lol

[balmy igloo]

looks like tech quickie was also hacked

[trim flicker]

Should be fixed soon enough but still surprising how it even happened

[hoary charm]

with how many staff they had it was probably just a simple phishing attack

not like they only have a dozen employees anymore

[trim flicker]

yeah for sure

all it takes is one distracted person

[unborn echo]

bye colton

[trim flicker]

LOL

[clear tide]

lmao

seems like they saved techquickie for when ltt got banned. their livestreaming there now

[grave shore]

next wan show is gonna be interesting

[clear tide]

how did they get so many wow

[eager parrot]

This is ominously 'famous last words' vibe

[clear tide]

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1638979111459885061?s=20

Linus Tech Tips (@LinusTech)

what really happened

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Twitter · Mar 23, 2023, 7:00 PM

[trim flicker]

classic

[blazing depot]

https://fxtwitter.com/NewsJunkieBreak/status/1638990551419871232?t=O4vuMIrchI6brmY8zhCCFQ&s=19

France be like

[trim flicker]

Damn

[eager parrot]

gotta respect their ability to protest on a whim

kind of a 250+ years tradition for them at this point lol

[trim flicker]

If there's one thing they excel at is organizing protests

[eager parrot]

very strong unions

rest of the world trying to raise retirement age to 67, meanwhile France trying to move 62 to 64, can't do it, Macron has to use a cheatkey to pass it, France burns.

[blazing depot]

One might argue too strong, given that they just block all change on principle

[eager parrot]

That's absolutely true, they are a bit too inflexible in the face of rapid changes to their demographics.

Civil disobedience and unrest has its place if the government is legitimately trying to go authoritarian with their actions, but at least imo this ain't it.

[blazing depot]

On a less serious note
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1638998314258673665

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw)

One of the simplest joke formats there is, and he still totally misses.

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Twitter · Mar 23, 2023, 8:17 PM

Amazing

[trim flicker]

man besides being the most insecure man alive also tries really hard to be the most unfunny

it's actually amazing

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1639018196853481473?t=a-9HlBoCQQl0MMtPSR7C7g&s=19 don't fuck with baseball - Japan prob

Unseen Japan (@UnseenJapanSite)

ANYCOLOR has suspended Nijisanji VTuber Gundo Mirei for their “inappropriate” tweets during the World Baseball Classic (WBC). Gundo feigned ignorance of the basic rules of baseball and wondered if the game would stop if the pitcher tried to take out the batter.

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Twitter · Mar 23, 2023, 9:36 PM

https://twitter.com/HalfwayPost/status/1638665081587130368?t=MmcTpwnmPHoQCqcLORa7Yg&s=19 lol

The Halfway Post (@HalfwayPost)

BREAKING: The gay dating app Grindr says if Florida doesn’t stop passing homophobic and transphobic laws, they’ll reveal every Republican legislator and party official who secretly uses the app.

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Twitter · Mar 22, 2023, 10:12 PM

Imagine that

||i know it's satire but still||

[trim flicker]

LOL

[oak lodge]

nothing gets between the Japanese and their baseball

[balmy igloo]

well the linus tech tips channel is back up but everything is a mess

[trim flicker]

Yeah they're uploading everything again or something lol

TechLinked was just salvaged too, but the channel still full of tesla vids

[eager parrot]

when Mnet was hacked a while back, a lot of videos were lost and never recovered

[trim flicker]

Yeah it's a big mess whenever this happens

[balmy igloo]

glad i got caught up with LTT just minutes before it was hacked so i wont stress over having missed a video

[balmy igloo]

https://twitter.com/LukePlunkett/status/1639141349550329860?s=20

Luke Plunkett (@LukePlunkett)

resale market got random guys rummaging through bins

Twitter · Mar 24, 2023, 5:45 AM

[blazing depot]

Why would anyone still buy that ONE dirty shoe

[balmy igloo]

just gotta add "game worn" to the listing

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1034987374582710364/1069893748990947388/832211259725709364.gif

[nova holly]

turns out im kinda used to this cause it happens to kpop groups a lot

didnt realise how big of a deal it was that it happened to lmg

[nova holly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGXaAWbzl5A

[clear tide]

oh main channel? that is fast

[dire canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84O_ZTUqvvo

[blazing depot]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65069823.amp

lmao

Man, I get that the reforms are neccessary but I guess you could really at least try and sell it a little better than this dude

[eager parrot]

^^^^ they really have done a terrible job of even trying to convince their citizens

they are meant to represent the will and interest of the people

if this really is in the interest of the country, and by reasonable measures it is, then they should do a better job of educating people

[blazing depot]

Less the will and more the interest, which isn't actually the same thing at all

And in more rich people being dumb news
https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1639208236527001600

Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)

Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://t.co/DjctZ6WwwD

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Twitter · Mar 24, 2023, 10:11 AM

Amazing

[eager parrot]

in six months the coveted blue checkmark has become a mark of shame lol

[blazing depot]

Bruh, lmao
https://twitter.com/CunningMastiff/status/1639307871350407179

[eager parrot]

Inevitable joke especially with them using yellow checkmarks for certain categories now

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/03/epics-new-motion-capture-animation-tech-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/

MAVE and Naevis could use a bit of this

[blazing depot]

Neither have that kinda budget

[trim flicker]

metahuman does be free

actually decent people working with unreal to make a good project isn't cheap tho

[valid magnet]

Guess they were tired of the bullying

Lol Discord didn't allow me to send this pic but with the tiny orange line it's suddenly okay now

[balmy igloo]

holy crap

the WAN show just ended, and its well over 4 hours

[vital needle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/969006453484580887/1073045326132412426/sigma_bushillionaire_grindset.mp4

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1639774178835406848?t=vpt5YJDq8MeOcm5wXMJFnQ&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Jonathan Majors was reportedly arrested this weekend on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment.

His rep claims “he's done nothing wrong. We look forward to clearing his name and clearing this up."

(Source: TMZ)

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Twitter · Mar 25, 2023, 11:40 PM

[eager parrot]

they couldn't come up with a better line than "he's done nothing wrong"?

[trim flicker]

Just remove the first sentence and it's a normal pr statement

[lilac lodge]

https://twitter.com/fussybabybitch/status/1639409818334294016?t=XMqlqjQEsHvUfvgEITU4eg&s=19

Jae Bearhat (@fussybabybitch)

Found out Microsoft Teams has its own in-app stickers that you can edit and customize to your workplace needs but also more importantly that this is a default completely unedited one

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Twitter · Mar 24, 2023, 11:32 PM

[oak lodge]

Microsoft teamers had the "it's over" memes

[blazing depot]

looks at trending Ugh... here we go again. Thoughts and prayers time.

Or, to go with The Onion headline
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1640412109090504713

The Onion (@TheOnion)

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/LrNke2WimM

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Twitter · Mar 27, 2023, 5:54 PM

[trim flicker]

[eager parrot]

https://fxtwitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1640093056689995784

[pale flower]

Recently ended btw ^

Protests were cause the PM is trying to take over the judicial system (which is in part responsible for supervising the legislature)

[eager parrot]

That's .... oddly fitting for Netanyahu to try to erode the independence of the judicial system

[pale flower]

He's still trying to do that but the next calls(?) for the law have been delayed to July now for the sake of negotiations/rewriting the law (hopefully)

And yeah extra it is 💀

It's almost like he's facing trial too hmmmm

[eager parrot]

I hadn't followed it for some time, but last I heard he only was able to form government by teaming up with some very extreme right wing and orthodox religious parts of the knesset

so this is not surprising given their agendas

[pale flower]

Yeah that's accurate

They're also the ones hard pushing for this law to go through

And threatening to break up the government if the law doesn't go through

But yeah these protests have been going on for the past few months, it's just it reached a new peak today after the PM fired our defense minister for doing his job and saying that splitting up the entire nation over this law is a huge security risk 💀

[eager parrot]

Sometimes I wonder if people in charge simply are blind to both history and lack complete foresight as to what their actions will cause.

I hope the strong civil disobedience shown, as is right and proper when governments try to do something authoritarian, is enough to at least sow the seeds of doubt and caution when it comes to trying to shove these changes through.

[pale flower]

Yeah people really came through for these protests

They were a lot more civil and loving than it might seem

The protesters in general had just soooo many Israeli flags, whether protest or counter-protest everyone was just showing their love and worry for the country

Maybe I'm just trying to see the good in the sea of bad there LOL

[eager parrot]

Glad to hear that, honestly. One does not simply try to mess with a longstanding democracy with proper checks and balances in place. Not on a whim when they get into power.

[pale flower]

Exactly 👏

The whole country basically went on strike btw it was wild

[vital needle]

Speaking from experience, protests that involve a lot of national flags are not necessarily a good thing as they are easy to hijack

[pale flower]

From unis to health facilities to airports to 700k peeps in the streets

[eager parrot]

Outside of violent revolutions, which should never be an option (or the very last resort), general strikes and civil disobedience have a good track record of working in democratic systems when governments try to do bad things.

[forest sigil]

it at the very least gives energy to those protesting for next elections to mobilize

[eager parrot]

Yeah as long as the ballot box is an option, there's at least hope for a peaceful change through the system.

Although messing with the judiciary gets people dangerously close to the ammo box. 💀

[vital needle]

Heh.

Nice username

[dusky rapids]

my hip is like a wagen

[oak lodge]

volkswa-

[blazing depot]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsRxldkWAAIO1k3.jpg:orig

Maybe write better algorithms, dipshit

I guess we're going back to "like, rt, reply" for twt voting

[eager parrot]

wait what, that would make twitter polls even more useless than before lol

[trim flicker]

well

That's in line with him making everything else more useless

[eager parrot]

I suppose it ends botting though I guess maybe

for polls

but it'll cut down the sample size of the polls by orders of magnitude lol

[balmy igloo]

is this not just a reaction to when he put a poll up about whether or not she should stay as ceo

[trim flicker]

It definitely is

Cause the evil bots voted for him to get out of course

[eager parrot]

it's kind of impressive

twitter was already terrible to use

but every move since he took over has just made it worse

like one would have to be actively putting in effort to make it all worse

[trim flicker]

Almost like he doesn't know shit about running a social media platform

[eager parrot]

you would think somebody with that much money and influence would at least try to find people who are capable and competent for the job

[trim flicker]

Or... running anything really

even his car company doesn't make money by manufacturing good products

but by selling carbon credits

[eager parrot]

for somebody who has made use of all the government handouts to make his two companies competitive and successful, he definitely had an axe to grind with ex-feds on twitter's employment roster 😄

which I don't really get, plenty of spooks and feds work for media after

whether traditional 'journalistic' media or social media I guess

a lot of those skillsets translate over pretty well

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1640344390584664064?t=NMt29nLB-FpIs6p1F28ffQ&s=19 i hate celebrities

Pop Base (@PopBase)

Grimes reveals she has changed the name of her and Elon Musk’s daughter from Exa to a question mark symbol:

“She’s ‘Y’ now, or ‘Why?’ or just ‘?’”

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Twitter · Mar 27, 2023, 1:25 PM

[blazing depot]

Grimes is just a tiny bit crazy, ok

[valid magnet]

Chelsea Manning if you're still with her and read this RUN

[trim flicker]

They broke up a while ago iirc

[oak lodge]

Grimey grime

soap will undo

[valid magnet]

Good she ran away

[pale flower]

https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg

[oak lodge]

The guy on first!

[lilac lodge]

cops used tear gas grenades (that were classified as war weapons) on protesters 🙂

French minister of the Interior denied they were war weapons

[eager parrot]

Peacekeeping weapons

Just a friendly deterrent

[blazing depot]

To be fair, the protesters are violent and are destroying property all over the place, which is also very much not cool

[haughty panther]

Ohi forgot about this chat

[vital needle]

It's not that they are war weapons, it's that their use is an actual war crime

[blazing depot]

Can't be a war crime if there is no war

[vital needle]

Yeah this is why it can be used against civilians it isn't a war

And it is used in war anyway because nobody cares about war crimes and international law is usually unenforceable

[blazing depot]

The whole France situation still boggles me anyway. Whole country in uproar over one way overdue change that in reality still won't be enough or even on the level of any other western country. It's not big societal issues like in Israel where they're protesting the descent into authoritarianism or BLM protests in the US or something. Protests in France should be peaceful over such trite matters and not get violent and eventually lead to the police using such (illegal) measures.

[vital needle]

Maybe some french people are just built diff and enjoy the chaos

[haughty panther]

people have the right to protest bad government when they don't represent or respect the people, and have the right to destroy government property or cause damage to private corporate property if the government doesn't listen as it sends a message of who actually run the country

[eager parrot]

I wouldn't say they have the right to destroy government property, certainly not private property, but on the other hand, a completely peaceful protest in designated places that the government approves of and gives permit for is simply too easy to file away and ignore by authorities and those in charge.

Protests by nature of their purpose are meant to be inconvenient and disruptive to get attention and be noticed. It doesn't have to be destructive though.

That's why general strikes are so effective.

But they're also really hard to pull off if society doesn't have strong social contracts and unity.

[trim flicker]

I'm pretty much fine with breaking government propriety if there's a good enough reason to be that pissed at the people in charge
I don't know much about the french protests, but I can understand people feeling violence is a bit of an overreaction to what they perceive to be a small change i guess

[eager parrot]

I guess it only seems that way from an outside perspective

since 64-68 are common retirement/pension ages basically everywhere else

though the French protests intensified now thanks to how the government bypassed a vote to pass this unilaterally.

which they see as an affront to democracy.

which I get, if they didn't have the votes to pass it, wtf then

it's a huge failure on the part of the government to not educate and inform the people of the urgency of the problem

but also a huge failure to not even be able to get enough support among the representatives of the people.

[trim flicker]

Yeah from the outside it may seem like an overreaction
But idk shit about french politics so

[vital needle]

No matter how "educated" they are people will never enjoy being told they have to work more for no personal benefit

Even if you tell them everyone else does it, it is as moms say. "You are not everyone else"

[trim flicker]

Tru

[eager parrot]

Right, so they shouldn't have tried to ram it through without even having support of the french parliament

Like it may not seem like an issue to have such an overreaction over, but how they are doing it makes it seem very authoritarian.

[trim flicker]

the main issue then is they're trying to brute force a very unpopular proposition without going through proper democratic means

[eager parrot]

at least that's what it has morphed into now

[vital needle]

Insane that guns managed to surpass cars

[eager parrot]

there's been a massive uptick of homicides for the 10-19 age range since 2017

just from 2019 to 2020, there was a ~33% increase in firearm homicides among that age group https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
which is just crazy.

[trim flicker]

oh man what...

jeez...

didn't think gun deaths would pass car ones anytime soon but look at that spike

[haughty steppe]

[haughty panther]

ugh

[blazing depot]

Yes to the first part, no to the second part cause lol, wtf. If you're telling me you'd be fine with a bunch of protesters torching down your livelyhood that you yourself worked hard for for years and years you've just either clearly haven't been in that situation or are just flatout lying (or rich enough to not care). This is people destroying the life of others' decade long work for fun at that point, not "to send a message"

[haughty panther]

"its fine as long as it doesn't happen to you"

[near jetty]

government property and private corporate property

dont see anything about family businesses in there

[eager parrot]

Hey that's what happened with BLM protests here. The moment it started encroaching on gated communities of the rich elite, they called in the national guard

[haughty panther]

So is there is defined size for a company before i can go in and nuke it

[near jetty]

like a target or walmart

[blazing depot]

There are no walmarts in france's inner cities

[eager parrot]

That's too arbitrary

[near jetty]

fine dont burn or destroy anything be nice just walk around

[eager parrot]

If you scroll back up to where that conversation started, that's not what anybody was saying either.

[haughty panther]

go burn your town hall or something

[blazing depot]

They did already in Bordeaux

[eager parrot]

There's a whole spectrum between burning down government buildings and looting private businesses and destroying people's houses versus quiet peaceful demonstrations in designated spots with government protest permits and licenses.

[near jetty]

cornball

[eager parrot]

[near jetty]

permit from the government to protest the government

[eager parrot]

reading comprehension.

[livid frigate]

i love asking the government for permission to protest

[near jetty]

did i get it wrong

oh welcome new person

[livid frigate]

thanks

[blazing depot]

Generally speaking it is customary around these here parts, not for the protest itself but for amassing in certain places. Like "no, you can't have 100k people protesting in this space that isn't meant for that many" or "no, you can't hold your nazi rally right next to the leftist rally while holding your protest lead pipes and protest baseball bats, tyvm"

[eager parrot]

And even then, I wasn't saying every protest has to do that, just that there's a whole world of escalation tiers between just standing or walking around nicely versus jumping to the extreme of burning down government/public and private property.

As grumpy was saying many scrolls above, when you escalate to that level, authorities who generally have a monopoly on force in these countries will also escalate their use of force.

[near jetty]

thats normally how it goes

[near jetty]

i disagree

[blazing depot]

There's nothing to disagree there, I merely explained how it works around here.

[near jetty]

i disagree with your view of things you consider to be objective

[blazing depot]

It's not my view of things though, it's how things are. My view of things was way above, which yeah, it's totally fine to disagree with.

[near jetty]

well then we have come at an impasse (french word)

[blazing depot]

(Well played,monsieur)

[forest sigil]

en passant

[vital needle]

Pretty much but that isn't necessarily a bad thing

It's hard to put a line on the color spectrum dividing what is green and what is blue and it's gonna vary from person to person, but in the end everyone knows the difference between clearly green and clearly blue

So the point at which someone divides a walmart level business or a local level business is gonna be arbitrary but that should not distract us from the point that it is ok to vandalize one walmart or two

Or carrefour in france's case

Idk if they have it in france still i know we have it in brazil and it is french

[eager parrot]

I guess I can sort of see the motivation in harming large corporations so they'd put pressure on the government to fix things one way or another, since governments tend to care more about corporate interests than people's demands.

But still, the system is broken when protesting and rioting has become a pastime for fixing government misbehavior.

Like on a fundamental level, there's a disconnect.

[vital needle]

Indeed

[lilac lodge]

https://twitter.com/LarrereMathilde/status/1640608222963744769?t=4RhFs32PLZuCsE9XLJlaFA&s=19

Mathilde Larrere (@LarrereMathilde)

au début on manifestait contre la loi retraite
ensuite on a manifesté contre la loi retraite et le déni démocratique du gouv (47,1 ; 49,3)
maintenant on manifeste contre la loi retraite, le déni démocratique et les violences policières, contre les mensonges, pour les victimes

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Twitter · Mar 28, 2023, 6:54 AM

cops sexually assaulting protesters, throwing canister in random appartments adjacent to protests, gasing a 9 year old girl that just finished her dancing lessons

government bypassed democracy 11 times

we've had enough of him

and his clique

the Paris Olympics's mascot is a revolutionary hat 😭

[trim flicker]

damn what the fuck

[lilac lodge]

either it finishes now or we'll give the world a very special show in 2024

[eager parrot]

how long are your presidential terms?

[lilac lodge]

5 years

[eager parrot]

I mean, are the people truly willing to do what has to be done to pull a president down from barely the beginning of his second term?

[lilac lodge]

we shall see

[blazing depot]

The people elected him, a coup isn't the answer to him.

Much like the US had to live with Trump and Brazil had to live with Bolsanaro you'll have to deal with it.

[lilac lodge]

a right wing newspaper did a poll and 70% of the people are against the reform

if a right wing newspaper says it 💀

we elected him so the Le Pen witch didn't

[blazing depot]

The right wingers are the ones fanning the flames the most in case you hadn't noticed

Marie rubbing her dirty hands already

[eager parrot]

yeah the alternative to macron is le pen

and you'll end up with a similar person in power as italy

[blazing depot]

• worse

At least the gal in Italy is just there for a bit of power and doesn't really seem to do much

[eager parrot]

and frankly, macron doesn't seem like the type to back down, he'll fulfill his 2nd term and might even run for a 3rd given his age and level of support, despite whatever current polls say in the heat of the moment about him and his policies.

best bet would be the level of protesting delays the law going into effect indefinitely, and maybe whatever your version of the supreme court/constitutional council is rules his method of passing this as unconstitutional or beyond the scope of the procedure he used.

[lilac lodge]

presidents can only do 2 terms here

[eager parrot]

I read that there's a loophole, 2 consecutive terms, but they can run again for a third after one other term passes with somebody else in charge

he's very young lol

[lilac lodge]

we didn't hear a peep from the constitutional council yet

oh and they plan on passing a bill about banning excessive protest from train people

[eager parrot]

yep, US did that too just recently

banned railway workers of all kinds from going on strike, forcing them back to work

[livid frigate]

thank you president "pro labor" biden

[eager parrot]

ended up great with chemical blanketing of ohio (and everything nearby), thanks a lot both trump and biden

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1641128808932687892?t=iaZe2KuDmmwHHF1xTIidaA&s=19 popcrave keeps using the same pic

Pop Crave (@PopCrave)

Andrew Tate to remain in police custody for another month after judge denied bail appeal.

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Twitter · Mar 29, 2023, 5:22 PM

[balmy igloo]

lmao

[blazing depot]

For all I care they could just "lose" the key to his cell

[trim flicker]

hey that pic is the best

man looks omega goofy

[last eagle]

Economy™
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1640531089751171073?s=20

Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru)

President of the European Central Bank admits if banks don't use central bank digital currency (CBDC), they will lose control.

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▶ Play video

Twitter · Mar 28, 2023, 1:47 AM

[blazing depot]

I mean, duh. "If no one use economy economy don't work" didn't really need explaining

[oak lodge]

new arbitrary currency!!

[vital needle]

This mfer interpreted this speech in thr worst possible way

[eager parrot]

frankly I can't even tell if that's AI generated or not

[vital needle]

Digital payments are not synonimous with crypto currencies

Cryptobros' brains have become soup istg

[eager parrot]

digital payments aren't the issue

central bank digital currencies are very similar to cryptocurrencies, minted out of thin air, though they may not need to use blockchain or anything if they are state issued.

central banks want to create money digitally without having to print an equivalent amount of cash.

A few countries already have this in place.

China most notably.

[blazing depot]

That's not "similar to crypto" at all though, that's just how the modern banking system works literally everywhere. No one has a vault full of gold like in some fucking movie.

[eager parrot]

They still have to mint an equivalent amount of physical currency for any amount of money they loan out to banks.

[vital needle]

Yeah most money is already created digitally

[eager parrot]

And the vaults full of gold also exist.

[vital needle]

They just add zeroes to another bank's account and boom

[eager parrot]

That's not how it works.

[blazing depot]

Comparing that to crypto is still peak dumb

The dumbest, really.

[eager parrot]

I'm not comparing it to cryptocurrency in any other sense than only in the minting/issuing procedure.

[livid frigate]

most money is just adding numbers to accounts

[eager parrot]

That's how it works at the consumer/commercial banking level, yes.

But not at the central bank level.

[atomic ether]

Answers depends on the economist you’re asking and how much Friedman koolaid theyve been drinking

[lilac lodge]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1641553740787331073?t=eWKNhOMerXhSFMlwdE-FDg&s=19

The New York Times (@nytimes)

Breaking News: A grand jury in New York has voted to indict Donald Trump over his role in a hush money payment to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. https://t.co/2p3Rlr0abC

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Twitter · Mar 30, 2023, 9:31 PM

~~i saw that from pop base first but i thought i had to find a more reliable source lol ~~

[vital needle]

https://twitter.com/yupthtexists/status/1641102217884098561?s=20

Yup That Exists (@yupthtexists)

Scientists create Liquid Trees; a tank full of water and micro-algae that could be an alternative to trees in urban areas.

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Twitter · Mar 29, 2023, 3:37 PM

I love capitalism so much

[haughty steppe]

forbidden mountain dew

[livid frigate]

i'm thirsty

[blazing depot]

Is it April Fools yet

That's not cursed at all

[vital needle]

All the comments are about how algae make more oxygen than trees, as if lack of oxygen in the atmosphere was ever an issue

Like, do they think the O2 is gonna wage war on the CO2 and methane above the clouds and somehow fix climate change

[valid magnet]

Yeah sure why not

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1641884551189512192

Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane)

Twitter’s algorithm specifically labels whether the Tweet author is Elon Musk

“author_is_elon”

besides the Democrat, Republican and “Power User” labels

https://t.co/fhpBjdfifX

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Twitter · Mar 31, 2023, 7:25 PM

tfw "author_is_elon"

the coders of this cord will love this

[trim flicker]

oh god

[balmy igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/see-you-again-paul-walker-gif-20189716

[hoary charm]

https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1641888407633936384

Amjad Masad ⠕ (@amasad)

They have an explanation for how they use these tags here https://t.co/1CH2rkGBtL

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Twitter · Mar 31, 2023, 7:41 PM

it’s only for a/b testing

[blazing depot]

And you can totally believe that, sure. Superstitions are fine.

[grave shore]

well at least there is no mention of those in the actual tweet serving algorithm

[hoary charm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8wCny94-_U

[valid magnet]

I can't read

[clear tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GjKn5KyAd0

meming so hard on twitter LOL this is hilarious

[eager parrot]

wow not a april fools joke

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close

fuck Amazon

They've been around as long as digital photography's been around in mainstream 🥲 so much content

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976892885540865?t=B1Yncbnn17JhPDQp29hlGA&s=19

Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0)

1. Likes, then retweets, then replies

Here’s the ranking parameters:

• Each like gets a 30x boost
• Each retweet a 20x
• Each reply only 1x

It’s much more impactful to earn likes and retweets than replies.

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Twitter · Apr 1, 2023, 1:32 AM

more in the thread ^

[trim flicker]

damn

now people can minmax twitter exposure!

[haughty panther]

i generally avoid the side of twitter that would do that

[vital needle]

https://youtu.be/xuBrGaVhjcI

Insanely good video

[haughty panther]

pre-watched can confirm

[livid frigate]

hmmmmmm economic planning?

seems rather red

[haughty panther]

[dire canopy]

this is probably the weirdest one I saw recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBP5NUDP28A

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1642158619184513025?t=3iZKqH1UFYKcO9gjUmijaQ&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

1 year ago today, ‘MORBIUS’ released in theaters.

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Twitter · Apr 1, 2023, 1:34 PM

[forest sigil]

Hiz's favorite movie

[valid magnet]

i haven't seen a second of it

[balmy igloo]

thats why youre the GOAT

knew i could trust you

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1642661094480044033

Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin)

I admire a businessman who’s fearless enough to tweet “Why won’t someone buy MY product when they ask people to buy THEIR product” when most others would consider it humiliating loser talk

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Twitter · Apr 2, 2023, 10:51 PM

[haughty panther]

im convinced elon musk is a 10 year old mentally

[last eagle]

https://twitter.com/IsabelleDotJpeg/status/1642632398281269248?t=NWJOAjRF9lQAnAy-sWu9sw&s=19

Isabelle The Jpeg (@IsabelleDotJpeg)

ELON TRIED TO HIDE WHO IS SUBSCRIBED TO TWITTER BLUE, BUT I CAN STILL SEE IT WITH THE NERD EMOJI SCRIPT

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Twitter · Apr 2, 2023, 8:57 PM

lmao this is genius

[balmy igloo]

i dont think it was so much "hide who is subscribed" as it was make people think all those legacy verified people decided to pay for it, so they can be shamed by their followers

[hoary charm]

of all things to add chatgpt to, i dont think a postal service is up there on the list of things people need ai to explain

[trim flicker]

thank god chat gpt told you that info

(absolutely no info at all)

[hoary charm]

the tracking is actually part of the site

this is all the chatgpt part is

[trim flicker]

Ah i thought gpt tried to grab the location and phone number for some reason lol

[eager parrot]

they could have just linked to the wiki instead ......

[valid magnet]

Apparently AI gets banned in Italy

https://twitter.com/MAiJiNTHEARTIST/status/1641921377480626177?t=3gBHoI5or2vseReWinJwXQ&s=19

MAiJiN.THE ARTIST (@MAiJiNTHEARTIST)

AI BANNED IN ITALY, after regulators found ChatGPT ILLEGALLY and unethically scraped/processed user data and materials without consent or compensation. Italy becomes the FIRST country to stand up for human rights against unethical AI by banning ChatGPT.

INVESTIGATIONS are now…

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Twitter · Mar 31, 2023, 9:52 PM

Or was temporarily banned

[last eagle]

https://youtu.be/TnlakHr-O4w

[dusky rapids]

https://youtube.com/shorts/RUnqDVwYk00?feature=share

i never knew you could do this

[haughty panther]

staples hypostasis

[blazing depot]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1642913934381395972?t=CLdLfQ5-npBI_gd1FKxDHw&s=19

The Onion (@TheOnion)

Verified Twitter Users React To Losing Their Blue Check https://t.co/40sxi4pDdp

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Twitter · Apr 3, 2023, 3:36 PM

[haughty panther]

the onion should run twitter

[valid magnet]

https://twitter.com/ZakugaMignon/status/1643010730763993095?t=wBypTPovwBRnuHrPfshLdg&s=19

🏮 Zakuga Mignon Art🏮 (@ZakugaMignon)

Coming in hot: Germany, France, and Ireland are all planning to ban Ai like Italy.

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Twitter · Apr 3, 2023, 10:00 PM

Will my classmates finally stop talking about chatgpt