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OwlFancier posted:Everyone on youtube started flogging that stupid "buy land in scotland and call yourself a lord" scam and it's bizzare how many people apparently think it's real and also that it's still around because I remember it being a thing decades ago. Apparently Highland Titles (probably the one you remember from decades ago) are super loving mad about the Established Titles outfit (this is the new one). Both are dumb-rear end grifts with basically the same pitch of selling you a souvenir plot that gives you the "right" to call yourself a Lord and then also some trees get planted and the company commits to never developing on "your" land. But Highland Titles actually owns a nature reserve with a visitor centre and recognition from Visit Scotland, while Established Titles buys small plots of marginal land and then donates to a greenwashing charity to plant trees on its behalf (iirc one youtuber worked out that they've probably earned $50m+ in revenue but donated only about $40,000 to the tree charity) Basically a large multinational real estate corporation discovered the grift and has thought, "wait, what if we do this but skip all the stuff that costs money except marketing?"
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forkboy84 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/risky-online-behaviour-almost-normalised-among-young-people-says-study We tend to hear about the good ones because of selection bias - Abi was surprised to hear that, and her reasoning was that she'd just met with a group of trans youths about the amazing stuff they're doing, but unfortunately Dev continues to maintain that the majority of them are basically radicalised by unfiltered tiktok which is just prank videos and Andrew Tate. Twitter is bad - moreso now Musk has taken off all the limiters on the timeline - but default tiktok is a nightmarish hellscape. The problem is that once you like and follow a few accounts, the algorithm is really good at showing you only stuff you'll like. My wife follows it for D&D, mushrooms, silversmithing etc and absolutely loves it. People who've been on there a while will defend it because it eventually becomes fun and you rarely get crossover between different polarities (unlike twitter). But if you sign in with a fresh account or an incognito browser tab and just look at the default feed, it's absolutely horrible. Clickbait about injured animals, women jumping round in bikinis, instagram grindset bragging reels. And those are the accounts Tate and the chuds attach themselves to so they can get into the default recommended page.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Dev continues to maintain that the majority of them are basically radicalised by unfiltered tiktok which is just prank videos and Andrew Tate. This sounds like total speculation and our generation's version of "TV/D&D/video games is corrupting today's youth". Like yeah those shits definitely exist but I'd want proof to show they exist in any larger number than other generations
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The eroticism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the new graphite pencil is turning the children into sexual deviants.
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Rarity posted:This sounds like total speculation and our generation's version of "TV/D&D/video games is corrupting today's youth". Like yeah those shits definitely exist but I'd want proof to show they exist in any larger number than other generations Unfiltered tiktok is much, much worse than twitter though, even new Musk flavoured twitter.
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Guavanaut posted:The eroticism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the new graphite pencil is turning the children into sexual deviants.
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I always find it difficult to credit the new thing corrupting the yoooths because whenever I work magazines, there is like an entire bay of MY HUSBAND SEX KILLED MY CHILD WITH AN AXE magazines for presumably old people.
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Big fan of The Spectator's defence of the royal hanger who got turfed out for being racist the other day.Big Brain Toff posted:And now we come to the crux of this tragedy. Susan Hussey has no prejudices at all. She spent much of her life married to a man called Marmaduke, who had one leg.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I suspect it's more that those kids are the very vocal minority and the other kids are going along with it so they don't get targetted. Unfiltered TikTok is just as capable of taking you down a hole of queer anarcho-communism. The algorithm is incredibly effective but all it does is respond to your own interests.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:women jumping round in bikinis Oh no 
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cat botherer posted:The Sorrows of Young Werther did actually cause a spate of suicides. Absent any shift in suicide rates it sounds more like a subculture sprung up around the work and then some members of that subculture killed themselves, and members of other subcultures found it more compelling to blame "the kids dressing weird" again. OwlFancier posted:I always find it difficult to credit the new thing corrupting the yoooths because whenever I work magazines, there is like an entire bay of MY HUSBAND SEX KILLED MY CHILD WITH AN AXE magazines for presumably old people.
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Speaking of NHS, I've been having odd, inconsistent vertigo for about 6 months and have noticed I'm slowly losing hearing in my ear, went to my GP and at exactly the same time everyone here was talking about wax removal my GP noticed I had lots of soft wax. Had that removed. Wait 2 weeks on the vertigo and see. Hearing kept getting worse so said gently caress it and booked a private GP with my work insurance last Sunday. Got seen at 1220am same day. Referred to ENT, saw them thursday. Same day hearing test, 30 percent reduction in high frequencies in left ear. Straight back to ENT for an endoscope. Weakened left vocal chord too but no infection or anything physical. Much brow furrowing he booked me for an MRI the next day with "Urgent" written on top to look at my ear and base of skull. Cue squeaky bum time. His secretary calls me friday and says he's going to look at it over the weekend and call me at 730am Monday. Double squeak time. The good news. I don't have a brain tumor. Yay. Apparently I have an arachnoid cyst at the base of my skull that is pressing on my nerves. Which very little can be done about but it may be literally causing all my health issues from adhd to migraines to numbness and all. Being referred to a board of neurosurgeons next. loving hell. If i had a brain tumour I'd be dead before they noticed and they'd still ask me to just wait a couple weeks and see if the death stays around.
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OwlFancier posted:I am glad you don't have a brain tumour Mebh and I hope they can at least do something to help with the symptoms if not fix the cause. Wow, same.
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Andrew Tate is a problem but I have little interest in listening to people in the news media talk about the radicalisation of youths online when they've basically turned everyone over 60 into slop brained Tories.
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Centrist Pundit:We all have to be worried about online radicalisation leading to a rise of The Far Right Also Centrist Pundits: Finally, some grown up politics https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1599814041454534656
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Gambrinus posted:CVs... I have used Parahexavoctal from Goon Mart and he was very good. He charged me ~$200USD but I spent a good couple of hours talking to him in some depth and he then spent a few hours writing it up and formatting etc. and gave me a killer CV. Worth it 'since it could make the difference between an extra £5 grand a year or something. This was ~3 years ago so I'm not sure if his prices have changed etc. and I think he actually just does an hourly rate so it depends on how difficult your CV is. Mebh posted:Apparently I have an arachnoid cyst at the base of my skull that is pressing on my nerves. I'm sure this is not that but it sounds like you have spiders in your head. In all seriousness though I hope this gets sorted for you!
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It's named after the arachnoid membrane, which is what keeps spiders out of your brain and spinal cord and is missing in most journalists.OwlFancier posted:I am glad you don't have a brain tumour Mebh and I hope they can at least do something to help with the symptoms if not fix the cause.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Centrist Pundit:We all have to be worried about online radicalisation leading to a rise of The Far Right Here he comes! Krackdown Keith! The government the country deserves.
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keep punching joe posted:Oxford English Dictionary has selected 'goblin mode' as it's word of the year. Word of the year? Why is this the first time I ever heard this word (phrase)?
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Emoji tears of joy is a poo poo word.
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As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith?
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith? He looks like a Keith
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith? He doesn't deserve the name Keir. The name Keir belongs to people who found labour parties, not destroy them
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith? Autocorrect originally and then it became apparent that it really winds up Sensible Grown-Up Politics People so obviously it's being run into the ground.
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Kieth, doesn't even deserve his name to be spelt correctly.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl9hDAvPOL8
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:As a comparative latecomer to this thread, why is he called Keith?  The duck is capitalism. Or Keith is the duck and the Keith in blue is the Tories
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smellmycheese posted:
This is my favourite explanation and the one I'm going to remember. Though I did think Chegwin initially.
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Dead Goon posted:Emoji tears of joy is a poo poo word.
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Bants emoji 😂😂 ugh
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Bobby Deluxe posted:cry-laugh emoji was definitely the word of the year for 2015 though Elon Musk currently beating a 7 year old trend into the ground on his newly acquired chat forum
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smellmycheese posted:Elon Musk currently beating a 7 year old trend into the ground on his newly acquired chat forum As opposed to what he usually does to 7 year olds?
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