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Bobstar posted:But I also find that weird about the way some people use Facebook. Before I ditched it, it only contained people I knew in real life (plus one guy from here, and two people who share my name because we added each other in the early days of Facebook). People who I knew, but posted horrible right-wing takes got defriended or unfollowed. So I don't think I had the full political Facebook experience. Ads are now only a very small part of how facebook manipulates it's users. And it does manipulate them, as this volcano-lair level experiment in evil revealled. At the moment mine shows me a LOT of resin tables, which i actually like watching, especially the final stage where they buff the yellow stuff over it and it goes shiny. It's very satisfying, but I'm pretty sure they're up to something and the resin is hypnotising me to be racist and buy things. E: nice
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therattle posted:Ok, so what are some non-terrible countries? I am not asking facetiously. Or is that the wrong question because all are bad albeit in different ways? I’d still think that some were better than others though. Is that contentious? I don't think you're asking that trollishly, I have asked it trollishly in the past, and there's no good answer. The immediate impulse is something like Guam, Guam hasn't caused much harm, but that is so clearly a consequence of limited ability to impose harm outside its borders that it's actually only harmless in the pathetic sense of the word, there's no meaningful model for Good there. So then you think somewhere like Bolivia, resisting capitalist imperialism and maintaining the soc dem line to benefit its poor, sounds good but it's also ethnonationalist nativism and state capitalism with no regard to negative externalities outside its own borders, so if we're saying Bolivia is good we logically have to greenlight literally every rich country with a welfare state. So if we're talking welfare then we need to think 'oh lifting people out of poverty is good', so now we're absolutely on the pro-China train which feels wierd but why does it feel wierd and wrong to say China is good? It can only be explained by principles and liberalism, which surely do mean something just ask the people suffering without them, but now you're just hosed, there are no logical answers possible anymore because it's an impossibly complicated calculation. Continuity NIP posted:We should be ruthlessly critical of our own countries because we can, in theory, change them While it's nice to have a fellow traveller on the pragmatic nationalism train, take a seat anywhere there's literally only two of us, the ruthless criticism really does need to be kept internal/amongst friends. Ruthless sharp-minded objective criticism of your own country that's coherently relative to other countries is legit impossible to do, you aren't that smart, so you'll usually just end up being that boring oval office slagging off the UK, looking like a mean-spirited twat and getting owned by one of the many, many examples of how the UK is actually pretty great compared to most of the world.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's changed a lot since it was primarily about friends - Facebook now shows you posts your friends like / replied to, recommends you pages and groups (groups are absolutely the worst for radicalisation, especially private groups), and has a 'stories' feature which is a compromise features for attention whores who want to make absolutely sure that everyone on their contact list sees their latest pyramid scheme motivational. Just a moan more than anything, but this sort of thing is what is driving me off twitter. I had it nicely curated to people, things and info I wanted to read about and interact with. Now it's clogged up with tweets from accounts that I don't follow but people I follow do, tweets that other people that I follow have liked, from accounts that twitter thinks I would like, and in an order that it thinks is the most important. Sometimes the tweet at the top of my timeline can be several days old. Plus because it's now algorithm driven, it assumes that if you don't interact with a tweet in some way you never want to see it again. Scroll past it but think you might want to look at it later? Gone. Mis-use the back button on the browser? Gone. Not to mention how everything's de-generated into massive threads with sub-threads and comments stacked within them. And every time you fire up twitter you have one or two 'notifications' (which used to be your dopamine hit that someone was talking to/about you....) which are just twitter telling you that someone, somewhere has tweeted something. It's a new form of  - "I remember when this was all BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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I don't really mind if people think I'm being overly critical of the United Kingdom as I'm a member of a party that wants to get out of it
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Nobody has (credibly) linked any video game - even Depression Quest - with actual literal crimes against humanity though. The free-to-play propaganda game America's Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59mAtrmEGA that released on the 4th of July following the 9/11 attacks increased enrollment into the US military enough that the game is still being supported over a decade later, it has absolutely led to war crimes happening
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Vitamin P posted:The free-to-play propaganda game America's Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n59mAtrmEGA that released on the 4th of July following the 9/11 attacks increased enrollment into the US military enough that the game is still being supported over a decade later, it has absolutely led to war crimes happening More recently they've been targetting teenagers on Twitch with fake giveaways and recruitment streams.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I like to read some of the tweets i see linked on these forums but actually having a Twitter account sounds miserable
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blunt posted:More recently they've been targetting teenagers on Twitch with fake giveaways and recruitment streams. Didn't the "us army esports team" basically get laughed off the platform lol?
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't the "us army esports team" basically get laughed off the platform lol? Yes, that's what the link is about.
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Continuity NIP posted:I don't really mind if people think I'm being overly critical of the United Kingdom as I'm a member of a party that wants to get out of it There seems to be a fine-but-firm line between the ironic funny poster nippers and the wierdo actual nippers, if we have an actual blood and soil nipper in you then that's gonna be a lot of fun you should post more. JollyBoyJohn posted:I like to read some of the tweets i see linked on these forums but actually having a Twitter account sounds miserable Yeah having A Twitter Account seems miserable as gently caress but it is the best platform imaginable to have multiple accounts on. Having any part of your personal status or career or self-esteem be tied to a twitter acount looks like hell, but using it to easily have an in to literally every wierd subculture or political viewpoint that exists is amazing.
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Vitamin P posted:There seems to be a fine-but-firm line between the ironic funny poster nippers and the wierdo actual nippers, if we have an actual blood and soil nipper in you then that's gonna be a lot of fun you should post more. I don't know where you got blood and soil from mate, that's weird
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Vitamin P posted:There seems to be a fine-but-firm line between the ironic funny poster nippers and the wierdo actual nippers, if we have an actual blood and soil nipper in you then that's gonna be a lot of fun you should post more. I mean they're trying to do something. Why is that so funny to you?
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Continuity NIP posted:I don't really mind if people think I'm being overly critical of the United Kingdom as I'm a member of a party that wants to get out of it It's just a shame what else they stand for https://twitter.com/Rumda/status/1337943493113761795?s=19
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1337457123555487747?s=19
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure he's going to be offering something solid and cogent as to why we should all be behind him. Something that resonates with ordinary working class concerns without being fringe or divisive, like free at the point of use domestic water, that's a good one during a global pandemic. Or the wider rural concern that all the private entities that managed those water boards have left England without a single safe river to swim or fish in, that sounds like a working class resonance that the metropolitan elite have ignored. Any minute now he's going to throw out some solid commitments, I just know it. Some kind of real world concern about drinking and heating and washing from someone that doesn't swim in a var of piss. Every working man in Great Britain gets to shag 1 nuke a year.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I want to shag a nuke that a million other people have shagged. How attractive is the nuke
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think I want to shag a nuke that a million other people have shagged. We'll have to build more nukes then! Communist Thoughts posted:which one is luke akehurst? The radioactive baked bean of a man who went from working as a PR man for weapons manufactures to being a weird permanent fixture of the Labour right. Never got to be an MP. Somehow got to be on the NEC twice. People have been asking him to gently caress off and join the tories since at least 2006. Constantly trying to push for more wars/bombings/genocide. A horrifically evil little man who is the unmasked face of the Labour right. He gets really mad if you threaten to drown him in a Var of piss.
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Tarnop posted:So what's the deal with the NIP suspending their diversity and inclusion officer? I posted tweets about it above as one of the trans people suspended for talking about the party leader being against no platforming Nazis and TERFs.
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Rumda posted:I posted tweets about it above as one of the trans people suspended for talking about the party leader being against no platforming Nazis and TERFs. The apology tweet that you mentioned also seems to have been deleted. If you don't mind talking about it, what were the contents of the deleted tweets? I looked through a few discussion threads and couldn't find screenshots. Please don't take this as me not believing you BTW. I've mentioned the NIP to a few friends and if they now need to be warned off them I'd like to be able to provide some details. Tarnop fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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I’m not sure Nolan is right about that. Residuals are not paid on theatrical revenues, only from TV, DVD, SVOD etc. New rates for these new methods of exploitation have been agreed already. It may the case that residuals on a straight to VOD production are lower than on a theatrically-led film (I’m not sure) but there are definitely still residuals and pension, health and welfare payments payable on them. Correction: for the budget levels we are talking about residuals for New Media productions are the same as theatrical (at least for SAG). I don';t know about IATSE but I'd imagine they also get residuals on New Media productions. therattle fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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kecske posted:download Awful app, phone posting is the one true path Holy poo poo never a wronger thing has been posted. Jaeluni Asjil posted:I am using the app! It's just these titchy screen keyboards are not suited for my fat fingers. I'm a touch typist in real life so this hunt and peck or swish and swipe kills me. A real computer with a proper keyboard is the only way. A phone in my world is for posting short simple messages when you can't wait to get home. Ugh at the idea of typing this on a phone.
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