They’re already trying. LibGen is flame resistent :)

Department of human trafficking control. --FTFY

It’s not a hobby but I really been watching a lot of drainaddict, it’s just this dude in Australia water jetting sewer lines and storm lines apparently they’ve got a really bad problem with tree roots everywhere down there. You wouldn’t think an hour-long video watching somebody run a pressure hose through a sewer line would be interesting but I just zone right the fuck out. He’s very religious but it never really comes out other than the end of each video he has some Jesus thing on his water container in the truck. But he never brings it up and daily work. He’s had a couple of videos where he answered q&a and talked about it he is very religious, like metal music is the devil. But you know, he doesn’t cram it down your throat and he just regularly provides the same content and for no apparent reason I love it…

One of his more endearing terms, I also miss the swedish thumb fucker and only the tip in just for a minute.

And of course whatever makes you chooch.

I liked his merch

Yeah, he’s found his charismatic enough to go on tours and collaborate with make real money. The couple of things he did with Adam Savage were pretty cool.

The problem is that the site offers very little in the way of discoverability and differentiation. You’re not even getting to the free stuff without a CC enabled acct.

If someone just opens an account there and shows up it’s not enough. They have to pop up in social media and engage with people. Hey I’m fun, I’m over here and I’m worth the time and money. They have to know their market and clientele and drag them in.

I was introduced to him somewhere around solar freaking roadways. And I thought okay this is cool He’s just going to go and debunk stuff.

And the next five videos I watched had no substance whatsoever to them. He was just repeating the same debunking over and over. I don’t think I even got down to the point where he was spouting misogynist bullshit.

I’m half inclined to buy the set Make a silicone mold and start replicating them.

musk fires Jon

Maybe he’ll come back and lead the resistance with Bernie and AOC

IMHO, It’s the algorithm that’s the real devil.

For a long time, it was us against the bots and the companies. But we no longer know what’s being given to us because it matches versus what’s being given to us because they’re paying for it to be seen.

The danger is the algorithm gives us a steady stream of what we appear to want. It’s serotonin. Then it’s weaponized. There’s no appreciable difference between the ads, the propaganda, the creators honest content and the creators paid content. We’re getting echo chambers of what we want and paid advertisements to sure that up.

People see it on Facebook and TikTok and just take it as read that what’s being presented is truth. Even the ones that are savvy to bias end up getting swept along with the tide.

The only way to stop this is to demand disinformation and fact-checking. But instead of that, everyone seems to be hell-bent on knocking out private conversation where we might be able to communicate and are being forced to rely solely on whatever the algorithm allows us.

Its not explicit

I could see people going either way on that. I think it’s safe to say few people want to see that and the vast majority don’t want to see it more than once.

it is a public figure AND a current news story.

true

Imo, it seems like poor judgement.

Probably, but it’s also pretty understandable. Generally how that kind of stuff is handled in media is to report on it, link to it and tell people what’s in the link, let them decide.

Fuck, I laughed, I’m going to hell… Take your upvote

I still mostly do think that

Yeah, he hasn’t changed much. We know a little more about him and that changes things.

FWIW, I think the allegations are “mostly unfounded”. I think he does work people a bit too hard, which I don’t REALLY care that much about. Him hiring a CEO to manage things he was shit at was probably the smartest thing he’s ever done.

I’ve seen plenty of people complaining about going up to meet him and him going why are you important and why would I want to talk to you? Self admitting no friends. He’s probably either a narcissist or a sociopath in a personality suit.

I stopped watching regularly after the 17th video of them installing shit in his Mc Mansion turning everything into a write-off. I was still listening to WAN show once in a while to catch up with tech news, even if he has stupid takes, it was still getting me the news. Once the GN stuff started , I just turned off the TV. He’s not wrong, but he’s an asshole and goes to great lengths to pick small details to be correct. Yes, he should have done a follow up when he dropped honey like he did when he dropped a VPN sponsor. Absolutely. OR he could have just responded to GN and said my lawyers said to leave it alone. Nobody really cared. But the back and forth whining, I don’t care to watch either of them anymore.

Does anyone know any long-form tech news creators? I need something that’s about an hour long.

Resist the algorithms

Yeah I just switched to Piped/Tubular/Grayjay; you sub to who you want; no recommendations. IF someone is good enough to watch, they’ll collab with their friends and you can grow that way.

The best part is, I run out of content, and I go do other things.

Fucking AvE…

I hung on every damn vidjeo

I still watch him how and then, I probably even agree with some of his hot takes, but he’s just fucking tonedef heading into the conservative crap.

Probably about time to go protest in the streets and get mowed down by a squadron of corporate armed drones.

On the upside that’s sequel to 1984 is going to be lit

Thank you I absolutely love Photoshop battles this was like 90 seconds in Gimp.

I would have preferred to have folded the uniforms, tucked them under their arms and gotten rid of some of the white space in the upper right but time makes fools of us all.

It’s kind of unfortunate the community never took off over here.

Unfortunately, no one in the antiVax is going to change their minds until it hits them very close. That kids first cousins might, maybe, get vaxed. More likely, they’ll blame it on the hospital, or the flu.

Even if they’re willing to admit that the vaccination would have saved his life they’re going to be torn getting their other children vaccinated because of the possible negatives they think could happen. In their view it’s a slight chance of death versus guaranteed autism.

I bet if you go ask them right now they’ll point out that colds Have death rates associated with them. Just another avoidable unavoidable tragedy.

They’ll refuse to be reasoned with or educated. These people were literally taking horse dewormer and an attempt to avoid vaccines.

I don’t think that wishing them extra pain is particularly useful. We’re all mad at them but realistically they’re just undereducated, obstinate, and programmed.

looking for this?

aww look at you articulating your feelings, so cute