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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. After a while you realise you don't need to, it does take time though. If you wish to stay informed, subscribe to a Sunday newspaper or a weekly news email list. You'll still hear about the important news, but the other 90% (which is often just conjecture) wont reach you. Oh snipe. Here's another picture of my dog, she knows nothing about the goings on in the world. 
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. I run through the streets in ragged clothes, grabbing passersby and shouting "WHAT YEAR IS IT? WHO IS THE PRIME MINISTER? HAS THE WAR STARTED YET?".
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Oct 29, 2021 11:23
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. Having quit (and relapsed) multiple times after a few days of no Twitter you can genuinely feel your brain starting to function differently. It's remakrable. The relapse trigger is always some big news or sports event that actually would be fun and hilarious to follow on Twitter, so I log on and then it sucks me back in for weeks.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:24
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I've never been on twitter, but I do read these forums too much, and do wonder how much time I'd save if I didn't post here anymore I wish I knew how to quit u, ukmt 
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Oct 29, 2021 11:30
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. I rely on this forum and my FB page subscriptions to alert me to topics of interest (and those on my FB friends who post political stuff - mostly my FB friends are grannies and post granny stuff) and also when I'm out, I'll look at newspaper front pages to see if there's anything going on I should look into. There's just too much information out there so some sort of curation is necessary. Pick your personal hot topics, maybe pick out a couple of blogs that cover them. I read a statistic once that the average heavyweight Sunday paper contains more information than an educated medieval woman would be expected to know in her whole lifetime! I follow twitter links from here but mostly do NOT sign in. Signing in leads to madness (says Queen of the Unsent Replies). If I do sign in, I have to force myself off again. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Oct 29, 2021 11:30
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The trick with twitter is to look but not touch, and limit your looks to the main tweets and ignoring the replies. That's how I twit. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:33
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Barry Foster posted:I've never been on twitter, but I do read these forums too much, and do wonder how much time I'd save if I didn't post here anymore There are a few android apps that will tell you how much you use apps and allow you to limit their usage. Awful app was twice as much as the 2nd most used app, firefox.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I read a statistic once that the average heavyweight Sunday paper contains more information than an educated medieval woman would be expected to know in her whole lifetime!
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. You refresh this thread.
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Yeah, tweets get posted everywhere even if you don't actually have an account of your own.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:38
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Guavanaut posted:In the case of the Sunday Express it's mostly the same stuff about foreigners stealing relics from churches and putting dangerous Muslim prayers in your food. That's why I said 'heavyweight'. The big fat multiple section ones. I've never bought the Sunday Express so didn't think it came into that category. Dad and I always used to have a tussle over the Sunday papers. He would instantly throw away all the financial sections which I would have to retrieve from the bin (I love reading that stuff). On the other hand we mutually agreed that any sports and car news was a considerable waste of trees and only good for lining the cat litter tray.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:40
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Mega Comrade posted:There are a few android apps that will tell you how much you use apps and allow you to limit their usage. Awful app was twice as much as the 2nd most used app, firefox. Oh I deleted the app a long time ago. I'll occasionally reinstall it as a treat for bed posting when I'm feeling lazy, but I always delete it at the end of the day. It's when I'm at the femputer that I wind up mindlessly, well, His Divine Shadow posted:You refresh this thread. Now the femputer doesn't get turned on til I've at least been to the gym/had a run. I'm getting better slowly. It's worst at the minute because the job I'm doing means I have to be at the PC to receive calls, but I get so few calls that I'm at a loss for what to do, but I can't really get stuck into a film or something because I'm always waiting for the phone to ring. So reading the forums is the easiest and least stressful way to waste my time
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
They must have been using a pretty narrow definition of 'information'.
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As everything has gone "Meta" i have a FB account to keep tabs on a few things that i can't track anywhere else. I read a few subreddits on Reddit (never been a member). Imugr cause it makes me laugh (which is nice). YT, source of entertainment and knowledge. This place is "home?!?" as far as the internet goes; nicer collection of ppl than you usually get on a forum, a lot of varied topics and i think it's a good base. My main worry about the internet (other than download speed) is landing in an echo chamber and never noticing until i am well past the possibility of hope. I still think it's more reliable than a lot of other medias.
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keep punching joe posted:Trip report : I deactivated Twitter and now have no social media presence. How in the hell do you get by without knowing precisely what is happening every second of everywhere? It's quite anxiety inducing to be honest. If it's important enough to worry about you will be able to see the glow on the horizon or notice the sudden uptick of leather and chain wearing mohawked yooths around. Except specifically this weekend at whitby because it's goth weekend and the people dressed like that aren't cause for alarm.
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Oh dear me posted:They must have been using a pretty narrow definition of 'information'. Yeah, because even the most sheltered big-cone-on-head castle maiden is stiil going to have a circle of friends and know about their lives, some knowledge of the happenings in the area around from that too, and also probably have a pretty big chunk of bible verses, prayers, saints days, festivals etc memorised. Given most Sunday papers are just gossip and opinion the mix of info is probably about the same. Her servants will have all that plus a lot of practical knowledge - probably more than most people nowadays because there's not many who off the top of their head can tell you how to spin thread, make soap, when and how to store and use dozens if not hundreds of foodstuffs, plus all the basics of day-to-day life like making bread and cooking.
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e: 8===D (seems like the story i posted isn't quite true. sorry)
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Oct 29, 2021 12:24
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Absolutely no one should engage with FB or any of its Meta reincarnations whatsoever, it's evil poo poo. Fair enough tho Whatsapp is kinda unavoidable for just functioning in your local community unless people can be convinced to move to Signal.
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What's a meta, I have never used a face book or paid any attention to it.
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Oct 29, 2021 12:33
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OwlFancier posted:What's a meta, I have never used a face book or paid any attention to it. Nothing, what's a meta with you?
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keep punching joe posted:Nothing, what's a meta with you? 
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OwlFancier posted:What's a meta, I have never used a face book or paid any attention to it. Imagine PlayStation Home but for your work.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Imagine PlayStation Home but for your work. I also haven't owned a console since uh... original xbox I think? E: playstation home looks like second life? E2: only with fewer big dick wolf furries and therefore worse. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Imagine PlayStation Home but for your work. https://i.imgur.com/bo2QW9x.mp4 e: what's that movie with a young robot joel haley osmont who eats a broccoli and ruins his machine innards kecske fucked around with this message at 12:51 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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lmao I just realised he eats dry loving toast
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He really looks more and more like an early prototype of Dr Noonien Soong
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OwlFancier posted:(there are dragons in game of thrones right I never watched it) OwlFancier posted:What's a meta, I have never used a face book or paid any attention to it. OwlFancier posted:I also haven't owned a console since uh... original xbox I think? are you a tibetan mountain shaman, what's your secret to immunity from media saturation exposure
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Jesus that man is unsettling. Like i feel at any moment his jaw is going to Unhinge and thousands of flies will pour out of his mouth while the shriek of the damned rings in all our ears.
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Oct 29, 2021 12:50
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Is he using a bottle of brown sauce as a book end?
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Oct 29, 2021 12:51
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Just Another Lurker posted:Imugr cause it makes me laugh (which is nice). And I wouldn’t worry about the echo chamber thing, it always seems to be a concern of the far-right “DEBATE ME” types who never argue in good faith or the far-centre LessWrong types who think that debate can win over the first group
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peanut- posted:Is he using a bottle of brown sauce as a book end? Yes. He's trying to be funny cos people made fun of his cooking meats video. He's in on the joke see, he's a cool guy!
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Oct 29, 2021 12:54
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kecske posted:are you a tibetan mountain shaman, what's your secret to immunity from media saturation exposure I don't own a TV or a streaming service, and I also absolutely hate paying subscription for anything and I try to limit my discretionary spending as much as possible (except for the odd food treat, I like eating) So yes I am basically a tibetan mountain hermit. If you never get attached to any of that stuff it really has very little pull, I think. Same thing people said upthread, you don't need to keep caught up with any of it, it's only habit that makes you think you do, the feeling that you're "missing out" is entirely in your head, put there by the evil advertising goblins. Honestly I don't know how everyone else manages the stress of trying to keep up with everything. It seems utterly exhausting and often fairly ruinous on the bank account.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Jesus that man is unsettling. Like i feel at any moment his jaw is going to Unhinge and thousands of flies will pour out of his mouth while the shriek of the damned rings in all our ears. https://i.imgur.com/MGmGml6.mp4
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Barry Foster posted:It's worst at the minute because the job I'm doing means I have to be at the PC to receive calls, but I get so few calls that I'm at a loss for what to do, but I can't really get stuck into a film or something because I'm always waiting for the phone to ring. So reading the forums is the easiest and least stressful way to waste my time I've been doing this for the last week, but it's actually very stressful because I get judged based on my work output which is recorded on a daily basis in multiple ways, but I can only work on tasks I'm assigned to (and the management is very clear on that front) and we've just had a major release so there's not much to do. Means I'm constantly stressing out whether I'll get cut from the team (which is not quite the same as sacked, but still very bad job-wise for various reasons). e: it doesn't help that one other person in a similar situation is leaving the team on Monday and got less than a week notice Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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TACD posted:And I wouldn’t worry about the echo chamber thing, it always seems to be a concern of the far-right “DEBATE ME” types who never argue in good faith or the far-centre LessWrong types who think that debate can win over the first group This has overwhelmingly been my experience too
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OwlFancier posted:I don't own a TV or a streaming service, and I also absolutely hate paying subscription for anything and I try to limit my discretionary spending as much as possible (except for the odd food treat, I like eating) The same, but I just torrent anything I want to watch.
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Oct 29, 2021 13:01
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1454036422273478656?s=20 might be nothing but... lol... thank god for the freemarket!!!!1!1
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peanut- posted:Is he using a bottle of brown sauce as a book end? check out this fancy lad who doesn’t use condiments as furniture
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