Just some additional context that not everyone has:
There was a propaganda campaign run by a chap named Matthew Elliott to make sure of the no outcome in the AV vote. Billboards with “baby needs a hospital not a voting system” and similar all over the country
That same chap was pretty instrumental in the Vote Leave campaign
I’d say something like Seinfeld or Friends is probably it, there’s still channels showing reruns of these all day long across the world.
You’ve got to consider stuff that was popular and universal enough to get translated to many different languages and then still get rerun in those countries too
Only if it’s intentional, it can easily be caused by ignorance/incompetence too
I was originally gonna say Sigur Ros but that’s already been covered
My shout out goes to Niteworks then, who sadly did their farewell tour last year. One of my favourites:
I don’t really smoke anymore, but the smoking ban in the UK (no smoking indoors from 2007) created the concept of the smoking area outside a pub/club and some of my best friendships in life ultimately started in that Petri dish
A smoking area outside anywhere in the northwest of the UK about 10-15 years ago was just peerless in calibre
When the rain keeps up, it was up,
And when the rain falls down, it falls down,
And when the rain keeps only halfway up,
It falls neither up nor down
Honestly I remember someone telling me and I’ve never seen it myself so I went looking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cycling_records
Turns out there’s even faster now
A dude got up to 90mph on a bike just off his own steam before
I remember all the adverts when I was a kid telling me that if I got hit by a car at 30mph there was a 90% chance I’d live (this was the happy path of the advert). This is also cars ostensibly driven by licensed people.
E-bikes with a 25mph limiter are not a risk if we allow cars in the same space as pedestrians
Well it’s more of a perk for a donation the way I see it,
But hey, it also breaks even after 25 years…!
I think I’ve had one my current email addresses for about 20 years
Not just the US government, anyone has been able to do this for years
There’s definitely exceptions
Gotta say those flippy top ones only look cool if you can pull off a full 80s beach holiday look with it. Those light reactive ones kinda end up giving history teacher vibes rather than cool vibes any time I’ve seen them. Oakley’s when not on a ski slope (and even then tbh) kinda makes the wearer look like an out of touch boomer.
I’m not a big fan of those super thin 90s styles coming back in, but some people can definitely pull them off, I think face shape comes into play a lot more with them
Honestly, what a monumentally shit take from OP
There are people out there losing family members, many of them forever, over politics
There are millions of people who don’t feel safe leaving their house right now due to politics
Millions more worried about straight up losing their house and everything they own over politics
People worried about where their next meal is coming from
People worried if they’re gonna be able to afford to continue to fucking live
Others wondering if there’s even going to be much of a world left to live in
Many people thinking about politics are doing so because they do not get a choice. No one wants to think about any of that, they’re being forced to by the reality unfolding around them.
Most people […] write […] comments […] and hope AI picks them up
Really quite sad if there’s even one person out there doing that.
This is also as much of a grift as any SEO that claims to have cracked the code of getting to the top of results. Even if they have figured something reproducible, it will get fixed. If someone can manipulate a search engine to provide results different to what it would otherwise do, that’s a bug they will fix
The hell are you on about?
Someone who basically just uses their screen to pull up a recipe to make dinner with is not going to have any problems. Similarly for someone who uses it to keep in contact with friends (directly, not via a social network).
Someone who only spends a half hour a day using their phone, but that usage is scrolling on twitter or some bullshit like that? They’re absolutely going to have problems. It only takes a few seconds to read a post and then a shitty idea might lodge itself in their head.
Focusing on just screen time rather than the content on it is expressly not focusing on the root cause, and we’re not going to fix anything if we focus on just the symptoms. It’s like trying to ban hammers because someone is smashing your windows with one. The hammer isn’t really the cause of the problem, and the person doing the smashing will continue a different way if they aren’t stopped.
Why do people focus on the screens and not what’s on the screens? That’s what needs to be regulated
There is no time limit that will render propaganda ineffective
The screen isn’t the problem, it’s the antagonists on the other side
Depends what industry you’re in, I guess
I’m in tech and there are more Plex guys than people looking for Plex guys
TBF I more meant they weren’t actively trying to be malicious in many cases
You’re entirely right that they are malicious though
Yes 100%
Wealth generates income, that income can’t sit as cash or it will lose value, so they need to invest.
When the ultra wealthy invest, it’s less important to get the best price for an asset than simply getting it. That money needs to be spent. So if there’s competition for an asset, they will spend more to get it.
When that happens, the price of the asset goes up. Causing inflation
Those assets ultimately determine the baseline cost of everything else. Can’t grow food if you’ve not got a farm. Farms being more expensive make food more expensive.
This isn’t malicious, this is just how it has to be when you have ultra wealthy people. They must invest, they must take property away from everyone else.
The ultra rich are actively pricing us out of living.
The ultra rich need to go
I’m just impressed all the tabs haven’t snapped off yet
Way to get out of it? Lawyers
Why are people afraid? Lawyers
Lawyers can get very expensive, and don’t have a guaranteed result. Also a company Vs an individual usually has disproportionate funds for legal fees