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Tracks the multi-million dollar industry of Bangladeshi “click-farms” nurturing social media fortunes for celebrities and brands.

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Garrett Bradley
2016-03-29

Last edited by choad (2017-12-29 16:32:32)

Fled wrote:

Admission:  I drifted into FB over the last year, but recently decided that I had had enough.  It's effect is somewhere between soporiphic and corrosive.  I began to feel intense anger with certain people I have known for years, all because I had read their posts that struck me as stupid or hateful.  If I had never seen their posts I would have gone along quite happily thinking these old friends were just great.  I do not need to know that much about them.

Admission: I've never looked, not once. You don't have to scratch deep to find the ugly in any of us anymore, with or without Facebook validating the worst in everyone.

Spin Art!



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Last edited by choad (2017-12-31 16:15:28)

Monty Python, And Now For Something Rather Similar

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I6IB3V … 2f1UZ/view

If it doesn't play for you, there is a download icon at the top.

Last edited by Baywolfe (2018-01-15 13:07:15)

Baywolfe wrote:

Monty Python, And Now For Something Rather Similar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Pyt … er_Similar

Smudge wrote:

Baywolfe wrote:

Monty Python, And Now For Something Rather Similar

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I6IB3V … 2f1UZ/view

If it doesn't play for you, there is a download icon at the top.

I couldn't get it to play, but I downloaded it as you suggested. I tried twice, actually. There's something wrong with the audio, and it breaks up in a kind of machine gun staccato (at least for me it does).

Too bad; I'd listen to those guys for hours. What a great bunch of minds. I'll see if I can find another source for it.

Silly me, I should have checked YouTube straightaway.

Last edited by Baywolfe (2018-01-15 15:59:30)

Emmeran wrote:

choad wrote:

Admission: I've never looked, not once. You don't have to scratch deep to find the ugly in any of us anymore, with or without Facebook validating the worst in everyone.

Sarcasm and Jest have become a lost art, so much so you have to use an emoji to point out you aren't serious - followed by emoji's becoming such a thing we even had an "Emoji Movie". Leaning on the bar and laughing at the world is a long lost art apparently, the very reason I love this place.

Let's face it, I know my friends can be asses when pushed, so can I.  I just don't need to have that magnified for me, I knew that about them all along but still liked to have them around.  I'm quite convinced that the "Social Internet" has destroyed any bit of actual public socializing that TV hadn't already stomped on.

It's unnatural Facebook is. Because built in by design you will eventually come to hate everyone there, including yourself.

...provides the key to understanding why Facebook may not be so great for your mental health.

Since the earliest days of Facebook, social scientists have sent up warnings saying that the ability to maintain separate "contexts" (where you reveal different aspects of yourself to different people) was key to creating and maintaining meaningful relationships, but Mark Zuckerberg ignored this advice, insisting that everyone be identified only by their real names and present a single identity to everyone in their lives, because anything else was "two-faced."

With this confluence of lunar events (super moon, blue moon, blood moon and lunar eclipse), I'm just going to stay under my bed until it's over:



https://www.nasa.gov/feature/super-blue … ing-jan-31

Last edited by Smudge (2018-01-27 17:37:58)

Goodness; this was not the outcome that I expected.

No need to thank me, guys...

Last edited by nfidelbastard (2018-05-12 20:03:59)

Smudge wrote:

That type of background music in YouTube videos will be one of the factors historians cite as to why people stopped watching them.

(Yeah, I noticed that the music in that clip had me gritting my teeth too. I probably should have given a warning to turn the sound down.)