That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 12:48am
Re: Re:
The reason they do it is to get a following, so a marketer will take notice and pay them to promote sketchy crap to people following them thinking if I just use this I can be that too.
Your kids got to see the effort that went into getting the "perfect" picture. I'm sure they noticed they didn't look like they were having much fun when the camera wasn't snapping away. Meanwhile your kids got a couple cool snaps, then had lunch in a beautiful place, & got to enjoy themselves rather than worrying if they should take 50 more shots just to be sure.
One does wonder if you've ever had the not everything online is real conversation with your kids or did they figure it out on their own or a hybrid mix of it?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2021 @ 12:36am
Re:
Snapchat made my kid speed.
Rapper singing about lean made my kid overdose.
Apple should have stopped my child from texting and driving.
The clerk shouldn't have sold my kid that game.
If Dodge hadn't built the Charger the robbers would never have gotten away.
Its not the platform, its not the tool, its the complete failure of society to take the time to explain that behind every insta post is 500 takes & 3 hours of editing.
That teaching them carefully curated things aren't reality.
Perhaps handing your kid $75 to get a game without setting the limits, was a bad idea.
I don't have much love for the gun industry but people blaming mass shootings on the weapon rather than the mentally ill person & societies failure to have help available or to make seeking help socially acceptable.
We blame inanimate things that function without thought for making bad things happen, because accepting our role in screwing everything up is unacceptable.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Sep 2021 @ 10:39am
"Nor is it incompetent buffoons careening human society into a ditch under a billboard"
Because Congress has that job.
1 in 5 girls feel worse... but only because of Instagram.
Advertising had no role in this, parents pushing their faded dreams on their children, parents pushing sports dreams on children, society demanding size 0 on runways... yep no role in this at all.
Instagram did it all on its own.
Maybe its not insta that's toxic, maybe its the fact that image matters more than anything else?
You might be eating ramen brickmeal 5 times a week, but you had awesome pics on insta so obviously your life is awesome.
We make stupid people famous, then are shocked children emulate the stupid.
Perhaps if these 1 in 5 girls had parents that explained to their kids that pics on Insta sometimes take 100 shots to get just right, that many are retouched, that the image you see isn't actually reality but someone showing off a fantasy that they themselves might not even be living really.
Instead we hand kids phones worth more than the people who assemble them can even imagine having, turn them loose on the internet, and expect that someone is gonna parent the kid for them. There ain't a fucking app for that idiots.
I recall there was a bunch of outrage from parents pissed off at Lil Nas X because his new song was rougher than Old Town Road.
"I literally sing about lean & adultery in old town road. u decided to let your child listen. blame yourself."
"He previously responded to someone else who accused him of "targeting kids." Lil Nas X responded, "there was no system involved. i made the decision to create the music video. i am an adult. i am not gonna spend my entire career trying to cater to your children. that is your job."
Its trendy to blame things on the internet, but its really unpopular to suggest the problem is society itself.
Press a button, expect that some corporation is going to raise your child with the morals you pretend to live by & then meltdown when your kid turns out like you.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Sep 2021 @ 9:54am
Re:
How about in the US where unlimited isn't unlimited and these preloading ads with video and sound chew up the data pushing customers into paying more or the blazing speed of 128k.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Sep 2021 @ 8:25am
To be fair most of the government is running on Windows for Workgroups...
The problem is so bad they are thinking about government wide ad blocking... gee this seems like it is a bigger problem than some conservative got mad they got a time out for using the N word.
Imagine if they applied even 1/4 of the bluster against FB to the ad underworld...
But then they requires empathy for other humans & not just seeing them as cattle to be milked for their vote and then shuffled into the slaughterhouse.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Sep 2021 @ 12:51am
Re:
Hitler did nothing wrong.
Gushing Grannies.
See also: Know your Meme - Dub the Dew
I don't want moderation so find your own damn links.
4chan did it, Bronies did it, 4chan drove the Bronies out of the top 10, then the actual hacking of the site adding a rickroll & 911 conspiracy theories.
Anyone who puts one of these things forward as a marketing idea needs to be fired.
The internet will always win, you aren't smarter than the last 7 idiots who did this same thing & ended up shutting it down after Hitler came to town.
The execs who approved this going forward should have to return any bonuses they earned because this was stupid & all they needed to do was ask a 14 yr old to look for any flaws.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Sep 2021 @ 12:40am
Re: Robert Meicher - fool extraordinaire
"This was a foolish means to get attention and the source of the rumor has been addressed."
So she faked being in the hospital, having Co-Vid like symptoms, wasted the time of medical professionals just to get attention?
Or... perhaps some asshole sent kids to Florida (Home of DeathSantis) thinking 'what me worry?' & discovered how poorly things go when parents start to question how fucking stupid you are.
No, It's the children who are wrong dot gif.
This moron needs to fired.
He did no investigation, lied about the event, & decided to shred the Constitution all in an attempt to avoid anyone questioning the wisdom of sending children to the super spreader state.
He was more worried people might blame him for an outbreak than if anyone actually was sick... and as noted in other replies funny the school had an outbreak of covid the following Monday after this event happened.
This administrator decided how he looked in the community mattered more than admitting he put children at risk & he contributed the the outbreak that then happened on his watch.
I think DeathSantis has a cabinet opening for someone with this sort of thinking.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Sep 2021 @ 10:02pm
"“infringing Funimation’s copyright rights.”"
cuts to the video footage of their VO artists reading subtitles created by a group violating the copyright rights of the creators to have better translations for their version
(Waves at Evan, hey pookie!)
miHoYo employs very smart people.
They created a very liberal (and refreshing) clearly stated policy & are sticking to it.
Rather than wasting resources playing whack a mole at conventions hassling actual fan artists, they are okay with them making a living.
This lets them focus on the actual bad actors (which do exist but not to the imagine levels) who are ripping them & the fans off.
Something something rather than consider everyone who offers fan art for sale an evil thief, they look for the actual bad actors.
Such a refreshing point of view...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 Sep 2021 @ 9:43pm
Re:
"not to risk their lives for the ungrateful"
But you are perfectly okay with them risking their lives for other officers who do wrong & expect the blue wall to protect them from justified repercussions & will put anyone who speaks the truth about how shitty a cop that bad apple is in dangerous situations without back up for being a rat.
"Children are being murdered weekly so soon these same politicians will demand police officers go out into a much more dangerous and hostile environment to restore order. No one should blame them for walking and not running to do that."
Assumes fiction spun on Faux News as being reality.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Sep 2021 @ 8:09pm
"for fear that any encounter could become the next flashpoint"
It almost sounds like they are unable to do their jobs without violating someones (read POC) rights.
If you are more terrified of causing the needless death of a citizen than doing your job, perhaps you are in the wrong fscking job sparky.
If you are more terrified that you can only do your job in a way that if other citizens watched you would result in them demanding you be charged, perhaps you are in the wrong fscking job.
It really is high time that we stop listening to unions, pundits, 'history' and resort to using actual facts.
We've demanded cops do more & more, while giving them battlefield tools rather than the tools to deescalate a situation.
We want them to "fix" X and haven't paid much attention what their definition of "fix" is until the video is to disturbing for primetime.
Its a self supporting cycle, someone sees a POC & freaks out, the cops show up assuming they must have done SOMETHING to result in a call being made, they then work from the smrt place of you did something, I dunno what but I'm gonna figure it out.
A POC who can't walk, talk, drive, shop without being stopped maybe just maybe can't control how pissed off they are, the cops see this as a reason to fear for their safety and each side pours gas on the fire.
Imagine if the call of 'gasp, i just saw a negro' was met with... 'and did they do something beyond being black in your sight?' rather than 'we'll send someone out right away'.
Need to admit that racism is alive & well, its not always openly driven. You see someone who isn't like you, you default to the 'collective knowledge' society has imparted to you.
This often leads to dead Shiks, because all turbans are middle eastern & they dare to practice their faith in OUR country.
We don't mix with people unlike us enough, defaulting to the popular caricatures... then become angry when that nicer old man isn't sweet and polite like Uncle Remus was when we talked to him like a servant & not a person.
TAC recalls the oddest insult/compliment he ever got, You're gay but you're not like gay gay. That person "knew" how gays are "supposed" to be, and I broke that image.
We aren't all that amazingly different, but we should set aside what we've been told & treat others as individuals not just a smaller facet of a monolith of the stereotype we want to label them with.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 Sep 2021 @ 10:52am
Re: Re:
And some people still question why I am shocked the hold my beer race is still alive...
I think more people need to watch 'Collateral Murder' & demand answers. I'd love for Congress members to have to watch it and explain how what happened was okay and covering it up was okay.
But then they tried to pretend because its still a secret, despite it being out in the open, no one can look at it.
Maybe if the little girl had been unborn more people might have cared... (that's supposed to be a sarcastic comment... but its fucking true.)
On the post: Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
Re: Re:
The reason they do it is to get a following, so a marketer will take notice and pay them to promote sketchy crap to people following them thinking if I just use this I can be that too.
Your kids got to see the effort that went into getting the "perfect" picture. I'm sure they noticed they didn't look like they were having much fun when the camera wasn't snapping away. Meanwhile your kids got a couple cool snaps, then had lunch in a beautiful place, & got to enjoy themselves rather than worrying if they should take 50 more shots just to be sure.
One does wonder if you've ever had the not everything online is real conversation with your kids or did they figure it out on their own or a hybrid mix of it?
On the post: Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
Re: Re: Re:
Because now its on the internet.
On the post: Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
Re:
Snapchat made my kid speed.
Rapper singing about lean made my kid overdose.
Apple should have stopped my child from texting and driving.
The clerk shouldn't have sold my kid that game.
If Dodge hadn't built the Charger the robbers would never have gotten away.
Its not the platform, its not the tool, its the complete failure of society to take the time to explain that behind every insta post is 500 takes & 3 hours of editing.
That teaching them carefully curated things aren't reality.
Perhaps handing your kid $75 to get a game without setting the limits, was a bad idea.
I don't have much love for the gun industry but people blaming mass shootings on the weapon rather than the mentally ill person & societies failure to have help available or to make seeking help socially acceptable.
We blame inanimate things that function without thought for making bad things happen, because accepting our role in screwing everything up is unacceptable.
On the post: Facebook's Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity
"Nor is it incompetent buffoons careening human society into a ditch under a billboard"
Because Congress has that job.
1 in 5 girls feel worse... but only because of Instagram.
Advertising had no role in this, parents pushing their faded dreams on their children, parents pushing sports dreams on children, society demanding size 0 on runways... yep no role in this at all.
Instagram did it all on its own.
Maybe its not insta that's toxic, maybe its the fact that image matters more than anything else?
You might be eating ramen brickmeal 5 times a week, but you had awesome pics on insta so obviously your life is awesome.
We make stupid people famous, then are shocked children emulate the stupid.
Perhaps if these 1 in 5 girls had parents that explained to their kids that pics on Insta sometimes take 100 shots to get just right, that many are retouched, that the image you see isn't actually reality but someone showing off a fantasy that they themselves might not even be living really.
Instead we hand kids phones worth more than the people who assemble them can even imagine having, turn them loose on the internet, and expect that someone is gonna parent the kid for them. There ain't a fucking app for that idiots.
I recall there was a bunch of outrage from parents pissed off at Lil Nas X because his new song was rougher than Old Town Road.
"I literally sing about lean & adultery in old town road. u decided to let your child listen. blame yourself."
"He previously responded to someone else who accused him of "targeting kids." Lil Nas X responded, "there was no system involved. i made the decision to create the music video. i am an adult. i am not gonna spend my entire career trying to cater to your children. that is your job."
Its trendy to blame things on the internet, but its really unpopular to suggest the problem is society itself.
Press a button, expect that some corporation is going to raise your child with the morals you pretend to live by & then meltdown when your kid turns out like you.
On the post: CIA, NSA Block Ads Network-Wide To Protect Agencies. Ron Wyden Says Rest Of Gov't Should Do The Same.
Re:
How about in the US where unlimited isn't unlimited and these preloading ads with video and sound chew up the data pushing customers into paying more or the blazing speed of 128k.
On the post: CIA, NSA Block Ads Network-Wide To Protect Agencies. Ron Wyden Says Rest Of Gov't Should Do The Same.
To be fair most of the government is running on Windows for Workgroups...
The problem is so bad they are thinking about government wide ad blocking... gee this seems like it is a bigger problem than some conservative got mad they got a time out for using the N word.
Imagine if they applied even 1/4 of the bluster against FB to the ad underworld...
But then they requires empathy for other humans & not just seeing them as cattle to be milked for their vote and then shuffled into the slaughterhouse.
On the post: Content Moderation Case Studies: Coca Cola Realizes Custom Bottle Labels Involve Moderation Issues (2021)
Re:
Hitler did nothing wrong.
Gushing Grannies.
See also: Know your Meme - Dub the Dew
I don't want moderation so find your own damn links.
4chan did it, Bronies did it, 4chan drove the Bronies out of the top 10, then the actual hacking of the site adding a rickroll & 911 conspiracy theories.
Anyone who puts one of these things forward as a marketing idea needs to be fired.
The internet will always win, you aren't smarter than the last 7 idiots who did this same thing & ended up shutting it down after Hitler came to town.
The execs who approved this going forward should have to return any bonuses they earned because this was stupid & all they needed to do was ask a 14 yr old to look for any flaws.
On the post: Clearview Suffers Brief Bout Of Better Judgment, Drops Subpoena Demanding Activists' Communications With Journalists
Perhaps taking legal advice from the Arby's floorshitter was a bad idea...
On the post: Court To Sheriff: Sending An Officer To Tell A Teen To Delete Instagram Posts Is So Very Obviously A Rights Violation
Re: Robert Meicher - fool extraordinaire
"This was a foolish means to get attention and the source of the rumor has been addressed."
So she faked being in the hospital, having Co-Vid like symptoms, wasted the time of medical professionals just to get attention?
Or... perhaps some asshole sent kids to Florida (Home of DeathSantis) thinking 'what me worry?' & discovered how poorly things go when parents start to question how fucking stupid you are.
No, It's the children who are wrong dot gif.
This moron needs to fired.
He did no investigation, lied about the event, & decided to shred the Constitution all in an attempt to avoid anyone questioning the wisdom of sending children to the super spreader state.
He was more worried people might blame him for an outbreak than if anyone actually was sick... and as noted in other replies funny the school had an outbreak of covid the following Monday after this event happened.
This administrator decided how he looked in the community mattered more than admitting he put children at risk & he contributed the the outbreak that then happened on his watch.
I think DeathSantis has a cabinet opening for someone with this sort of thinking.
On the post: Misquoting Einstein Is Fast And Stupid, But Not Accurate
Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln.
On the post: Following Nationwide Police Brutality Protests, DOJ Steps Up To Issue Incremental Updates To Its Chokehold/No-Knock Warrant Policies
When you absolutely positively don't want to actually do anything, but want to look good in the media...
On the post: Genshin Impact Developer Goes With Extremely Fan-Friendly Fan-Art For Commercial Sale Policy
"“infringing Funimation’s copyright rights.”"
cuts to the video footage of their VO artists reading subtitles created by a group violating the copyright rights of the creators to have better translations for their version
(Waves at Evan, hey pookie!)
miHoYo employs very smart people.
They created a very liberal (and refreshing) clearly stated policy & are sticking to it.
Rather than wasting resources playing whack a mole at conventions hassling actual fan artists, they are okay with them making a living.
This lets them focus on the actual bad actors (which do exist but not to the imagine levels) who are ripping them & the fans off.
Something something rather than consider everyone who offers fan art for sale an evil thief, they look for the actual bad actors.
Such a refreshing point of view...
On the post: Rep. Jerry Nadler Pushing New Bill That Will Destroy Online Commerce; Make Sure Only Amazon Can Afford The Liability
checks
Isn't the government about to run out of money & play the shutdown game while not doing fsck all to fix the failing infrastructure of the nation??
And this motherfucker is worried someone might buy a knock off purse online...
ICE FLOES...
On the post: Research Shows Apple's New Do Not Track App Button Is Privacy Theater
Oh look... my shocked face.
On the post: Investigation: Minneapolis Cops Responded To George Floyd's Murder By Refusing To Do Their Jobs While Still Collecting Their Paychecks
Re:
"not to risk their lives for the ungrateful"
But you are perfectly okay with them risking their lives for other officers who do wrong & expect the blue wall to protect them from justified repercussions & will put anyone who speaks the truth about how shitty a cop that bad apple is in dangerous situations without back up for being a rat.
"Children are being murdered weekly so soon these same politicians will demand police officers go out into a much more dangerous and hostile environment to restore order. No one should blame them for walking and not running to do that."
Assumes fiction spun on Faux News as being reality.
On the post: Marvel Hit Once Again By Estate For Some Spider-Man, Doctor Strange Copyright Terminations
BUT ITS FOR THE ARTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Copyright, making everything way more complicated and costly for the public to make sure they never gain a benefit.
On the post: Investigation: Minneapolis Cops Responded To George Floyd's Murder By Refusing To Do Their Jobs While Still Collecting Their Paychecks
"for fear that any encounter could become the next flashpoint"
It almost sounds like they are unable to do their jobs without violating someones (read POC) rights.
If you are more terrified of causing the needless death of a citizen than doing your job, perhaps you are in the wrong fscking job sparky.
If you are more terrified that you can only do your job in a way that if other citizens watched you would result in them demanding you be charged, perhaps you are in the wrong fscking job.
It really is high time that we stop listening to unions, pundits, 'history' and resort to using actual facts.
We've demanded cops do more & more, while giving them battlefield tools rather than the tools to deescalate a situation.
We want them to "fix" X and haven't paid much attention what their definition of "fix" is until the video is to disturbing for primetime.
Its a self supporting cycle, someone sees a POC & freaks out, the cops show up assuming they must have done SOMETHING to result in a call being made, they then work from the smrt place of you did something, I dunno what but I'm gonna figure it out.
A POC who can't walk, talk, drive, shop without being stopped maybe just maybe can't control how pissed off they are, the cops see this as a reason to fear for their safety and each side pours gas on the fire.
Imagine if the call of 'gasp, i just saw a negro' was met with... 'and did they do something beyond being black in your sight?' rather than 'we'll send someone out right away'.
Need to admit that racism is alive & well, its not always openly driven. You see someone who isn't like you, you default to the 'collective knowledge' society has imparted to you.
This often leads to dead Shiks, because all turbans are middle eastern & they dare to practice their faith in OUR country.
We don't mix with people unlike us enough, defaulting to the popular caricatures... then become angry when that nicer old man isn't sweet and polite like Uncle Remus was when we talked to him like a servant & not a person.
TAC recalls the oddest insult/compliment he ever got, You're gay but you're not like gay gay. That person "knew" how gays are "supposed" to be, and I broke that image.
We aren't all that amazingly different, but we should set aside what we've been told & treat others as individuals not just a smaller facet of a monolith of the stereotype we want to label them with.
On the post: Clearview Tosses Subpoena To Non-Party Transparency Advocates, Demands Copies Of Communications With Journalists
Oh so they've taken a page from Chucks playbook and doing to the court dockets what did to the floor of that Arbys.
On the post: CIA Director Mike Pompeo Touted Kidnapping, Killing Of Julian Assange In Response To Publication Of CIA Leaks
Re: Re:
And some people still question why I am shocked the hold my beer race is still alive...
I think more people need to watch 'Collateral Murder' & demand answers. I'd love for Congress members to have to watch it and explain how what happened was okay and covering it up was okay.
But then they tried to pretend because its still a secret, despite it being out in the open, no one can look at it.
Maybe if the little girl had been unborn more people might have cared... (that's supposed to be a sarcastic comment... but its fucking true.)
On the post: Techdirt's 'Plagiarism Collection': A Plagiarized Set Of NFTs About Plagiarism
My head hurts
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