I feel seen and humiliated.

Just looking for a woman with a cheese drawer…

The redneck kid in my 8th grade that wore a skeleton kama sutra shirt under a Corona poncho his dad got from the liquor store would love this.

Not hooty owls, it’s a conferencing thing.

Oh, I’m absolutely not criticizing your comment at all. Far from it. It’s fully bonkers that you made a joke that was a good joke, and I can’t take as joke because it hits too close to reality for me.

Life is tragic, not us.

I do a lot of privacy and cyber advocacy and research. Selling lists is what already happens, so this is more real-sounding than I expect Damage@feddit.it knew when saying it.

Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that’s a standard deviation of from normal. They’re too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.

Wooooah, there, buckaroo. Gonna need a citation for that.

In Latin that would be Panisius.

I appreciate it. In the last year or two they’ve gone downhill considerably. Isolating themselves during COVID seems to have really done a number on their mental health.

Oh shit, sorry man. My parents are wrapped up in the same kind of stuff, like drinking bleach as a cure for everything. My apologies to bring that up in that way.

OOOhh - which community? Not going after your mom, I just love a good conspiracy community. Most forums seem pretty insular, so it’s always nice to get a lead on a new one.

Only 40 minutes a day for Drag Race history? Hardly enough time!

Put on my skeleton jammies and start TEARING SHIT UP! Go Team Skeleton!

I mean, try as we might to blame Zuck or whatever like this is a new problem, it’s also a standard with humans that we do love our own toxic self-reinforcing mess sometimes when we get in a groove with it. The Taliban literally fought and won two wars to uphold their brand of misogyny, ignorance, and general illiteracy. Nazis. The Confederacy and all their vestigial holdover racism. The Communist Revolution in China where they just executed academics because math and physics did not support the CCP.

The barriers previously were just access to a wider group of people with one’s own brand of mess, and the point of the internet in general was to lower the friction of communication. For any many bronies out there living in Bumblefuck, AL that have finally found their people, there’s just as many old forums like Something Awful that still exist that are cursed corners of the internet, and have been since the 90s. They’re just the internet version of that shithole bar in your town where it’s all methheads and bikers and generally terrible people.

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life. The Facts of Life.

2019. When leadership changed hands they had a “yellow alert” over not constantly increasing ad revenue fast enough.

Facebook actually did start off that way if you’ll recall, and you don’t have to use your real name on FB still. I was sad when my friend’s dog’s profile got deleted for very obviously being a dog. I hated FB from the start, and it was around 2010ish is when they started to get too serious about themselves.

It’s really only just a few platforms that are more toxic than average. “Social media” includes things like WhatsApp and Signal, which are functionally similar enough to email threads that they don’t compare to Twitter where everything is public-facing.

No.

Search engines exist and tell people how to spell things, simple math, and get them to things like recipes and wiki pages.

Top Google search right now in the US is emmy winners. That’s a search for information, not conformation bias.

People also can’t seek confirmation bias of they don’t know where to start.

Why confidently start of a comment with “No” and gamble with absolute when that’s a net losing tactic over the long run?

There’s a terminology issue here, feature phones run apps, flip phones and true dumb phones shouldn’t run apps or have any data connections. But it seems more common now to draw the line at Smartphone and anything else is “dumb” even if it’s basically just a 2008 smartphone.