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A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

Danger posted:

missed VR chat but helpful reminder that like every MMO or online game is used for information gathering and recruiting by western intelligence agencies.

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Real hurthling! posted:

they were looking at chat roulette to see if they could spot terrorists working in the background of men jerking off on webcam

Now they just join Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom meetings

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/kenbensinger/status/1559221869114302464?s=20&t=Yo_yGEQ1_dOVZXfI54-Gug

hmmm

Hubbert
Mar 25, 2007

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

That's right, any day now the CIA is going to notice your raiding skills and make you a secret agent

yeah dude they spent their time on eve

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://mobile.twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1560347828240752641

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

this would have looked like poo poo by the standards of 20 years ago
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1560434526823669760
There is no metaverse, it's just piles of garbage all the way down

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


My prediction is that this stuff will never not look like complete poo poo

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/GhostStoriesEnd/status/1560300198248824832

ghost I know you're out there please take care of yourself if chasing down these rabbit holes gets to be too much

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/GhostStoriesEnd/status/1560300198248824832

ghost I know you're out there please take care of yourself if chasing down these rabbit holes gets to be too much

Michael Reconnaissance

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Endman posted:

My prediction is that this stuff will never not look like complete poo poo

zucc wants to create vrchat "for grownups" so it has to look like poo poo because it has to look like the most boring, sterile environment, or someone might have fun in it

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

Endman posted:

My prediction is that this stuff will never not look like complete poo poo

correct

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

people thinking what they want is a sci fi glowing image sent us down the wrong path, and not just because it's impossible

I hate that menus are QR codes now, but I would hate even more than its a projection on my tablecloth.

just put it on paper or write it on the chalk board. batteries not required

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I "like" how COVID was used as an excuse to accelerate the QR-code-ification of restaurant menus

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat
menus on only the choicest of velum

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


gotta force people to use an app or website to order so you can more easily harvest all those datapoints!!

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


orders of diet coke are up 4.237%!!!

January 6 Survivor
Jan 6, 2022

The
Nelson Mandela
of clapping
dusty old cheeks


( o(

Real hurthling! posted:

they were looking at chat roulette to see if they could spot terrorists working in the background of men jerking off on webcam

in short: theres zero way you will be able to guess the dumb reason the nsa has for looking at any given thing

Timing my cum blasts perfectly on cam so Abu Mustafa in Syria can decode them from morse code and learn when to attack goverment troops with car bombs.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
cross-posting from the Ukraine thread because this is also the Gladio Appreciation Station:


my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

looks like meta's back on the menu boys

nut
Jul 30, 2019

if u wanna know why AR/VR is so crude and lovely remember it exists in the same world where Elon is making EVs following the same hype plan

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Antonymous posted:

people thinking what they want is a sci fi glowing image sent us down the wrong path, and not just because it's impossible

I hate that menus are QR codes now, but I would hate even more than its a projection on my tablecloth.

just put it on paper or write it on the chalk board. batteries not required

all restaurants that use QR type stuff are olive garden tier food. just don't go to places that use QR menus, the food is always as lousy as their attempt to big-datafiy you eating there

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

normal restaurants that make their money by selling good food don't need to harvest every advertiser ID cookie on your phone. if a place wants to squeeze cash from the big data it's reasonable to assume they cost cut everywhere else too. it's a good litmus test to avoid bad eateries

nut
Jul 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/colpeoplespress/status/1559908887243128832?s=20&t=OMCGH0Lq_ZuGTGGRItFQPw

*bangs table*

Tempora Mutantur
Feb 22, 2005


god dammit I came into the crazy thread to read crazy poo poo, not depressing everyday reality

but good point, it's been like 15 minutes since I've doomscrolled, I need to get on that

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
[Astronaut meme]

Cops are doing mass shootings now?
Always have been

nut
Jul 30, 2019

Perry Mason Jar posted:

[Astronaut meme]

Cops are doing mass shootings now?
Always have been

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
https://twitter.com/BirdWendy2/status/1560698389200789505

Give Wendy a hand

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




tell her to not appear with that guy she went on opperman with. he ruined the whole talk

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BirdWendy2/status/1559998395565150209?t=2-ll9jHxkrYBpQGEyg-SBw&s=19

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

Marzzle posted:

normal restaurants that make their money by selling good food don't need to harvest every advertiser ID cookie on your phone. if a place wants to squeeze cash from the big data it's reasonable to assume they cost cut everywhere else too. it's a good litmus test to avoid bad eateries

yah but I live in silverlake, LA. is there a place here that doesn't hav e QR codes? I haven't found it

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Antonymous posted:

yah but I live in silverlake, LA. is there a place here that doesn't hav e QR codes? I haven't found it

then maybe there is no good food there! time to move on?

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/GhostStoriesEnd/status/1560300198248824832

ghost I know you're out there please take care of yourself if chasing down these rabbit holes gets to be too much

Ziggy Smalls
May 24, 2008

If pain's what you
want in a man,
Pain I can do
Cheesecake factory does not have QR codes and I imagine Epstein wouldve liked their loving weird semi egyptian interior design that includes ominous eye of sauron lighting features.


Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


I miss the good old days of data harvesting, where companies would pay bored mums cents for every dumb internet survey they filled out, all the while advertising on every lovely website imaginable that if you fill out surveys for 16 hours a day, this is somehow better than whatever crap job you already have

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Endman posted:

I miss the good old days of data harvesting, where companies would pay bored mums cents for every dumb internet survey they filled out, all the while advertising on every lovely website imaginable that if you fill out surveys for 16 hours a day, this is somehow better than whatever crap job you already have

i had a few friends in high school who didnt have a real job but did hours of mechanical turk to buy stuff they wanted

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

mawarannahr posted:

then maybe there is no good food there! time to move on?

drat you have so much good advice. give me another

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Antonymous posted:

drat you have so much good advice. give me another

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '22
Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists
Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
Than my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
Until they've faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back
At photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now
How much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked
You are not as fat as you imagine
Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying
Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum
The real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday
Do one thing every day that scares you
Saying, don't be reckless with other people's hearts
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours
Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life
The most interesting people I know
Didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't
Get plenty of calcium
Be kind to your knees
You'll miss them when they're gone
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken'
On your 75th wedding anniversary
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much
Or berate yourself either
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can
Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room
Read the directions even if you don't follow them
Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good
Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past
And the people most likely to stick with you in the future
Understand that friends come and go
But a precious few, who should hold on
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
For as the older you get
The more you need the people you knew when you were young
Live in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard
Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you soft
Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders
Respect your elders
Don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse
But you never know when either one might run out
Don't mess too much with your hair
Or by the time you're 40 it will look 85
Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth
But trust me on the sunscreen

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

have any anti-US fascist groups in Europe been connected to Gladio. some of those guys existed. Mosley tried to make that his brand right after WW2.

I'm wondering how much Gladio wasn't just to kill communists, but to redirect fascist organizations away from a neutralist stance a bunch of European ones took in the aftermath of WW2.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


I’m currently listening to the Ghost Stories for the End of the World episode on the loving Moth Man and this rules

Living in the rural US must be crazy; every other day the CIA is putting psychedelics in the water and making you believe there’s flying boogeymen and UFOs coming to abduct you

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Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Victor Vermis posted:

The response is obvious, but still I'd propose: when the counterculture is countering one BIG, discriminating, fuckin culture, you're gonna find some weirdos under your tent, and not always on the culture's payroll. The counterculture, opposed to order, cannot succeed because it yields the concept of cultural/societal norms to THE culture. Controlled opposition at worst, harmless sideshow at best.

Identity politics must have given liberalism another 30 years and done immeasurable damage to the left. You can even organize without bodies and spaces

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWs

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