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Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:25 pm
by featherboa
elon getting a virtual handjob by 100k people for every dumb idea he tweets

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 7:53 pm
by FVBTVS
his twitter nut hangers are the worst possible shit

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:02 pm
by Necrometer
as I understand it, the musk elves goofing around with their little submarine in the pool gave the people the thailand the courage they needed to save that soccer team before the musk-sub arrived

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:49 pm
by Necrometer
Necrometer wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:11 pmreminder via the last week or so: facebook's sidebar thing got rid of the catered-to-me news suggester and has been replaced by a "Facebook Watch" panel of suggested videos. these videos, merely in thumbnail/description, are beyond depressing/disturbing and it totally caught me off guard. not so much that they're bad, but that they're deliberately produced. the idea of actual resources being dedicated to some of this garbage content drives me nuts. it's like if those clickbait ads with an eye-catching photo of t&a/grotesquerie next to an unrelated headline about my mortgage... were inexplicably used as the basis for a series of netflix original movies

JUST LOOK AT THIS SHIT

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 5:23 am
by cxwx
Necrometer wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:49 pm
Necrometer wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:11 pmreminder via the last week or so: facebook's sidebar thing got rid of the catered-to-me news suggester and has been replaced by a "Facebook Watch" panel of suggested videos. these videos, merely in thumbnail/description, are beyond depressing/disturbing and it totally caught me off guard. not so much that they're bad, but that they're deliberately produced. the idea of actual resources being dedicated to some of this garbage content drives me nuts. it's like if those clickbait ads with an eye-catching photo of t&a/grotesquerie next to an unrelated headline about my mortgage... were inexplicably used as the basis for a series of netflix original movies

JUST LOOK AT THIS SHIT
I was reading an article about draconian homeless laws and a woman in the article had to have her arm amputated because of an infection and in the middle of the page is a giant click bait add with a picture of some yuppy bimbo talking about “pot farm millionaires”

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:32 am
by cxwx
There’s some stat floating around about how the income Jeff Bezos makes in 24 hours could House Seattle’s entire homeless population for a month.

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:01 pm
by Necrometer
Necrometer wrote: Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:11 pmreminder via the last week or so: facebook's sidebar thing got rid of the catered-to-me news suggester and has been replaced by a "Facebook Watch" panel of suggested videos. these videos, merely in thumbnail/description, are beyond depressing/disturbing and it totally caught me off guard. not so much that they're bad, but that they're deliberately produced. the idea of actual resources being dedicated to some of this garbage content drives me nuts. it's like if those clickbait ads with an eye-catching photo of t&a/grotesquerie next to an unrelated headline about my mortgage... were inexplicably used as the basis for a series of netflix original movies
this is the most end-times shit I've ever seen - not the content itself, but everything that had to happen to bring these into existence




the music in particular... :x

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:06 pm
by cxwx

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:35 am
by Necrometer
OK now facebook has revived the feeling of public access? maybe I'm coming around on their video-feed thing...


Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:46 pm
by Necrometer


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Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:24 pm
by cxwx

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:30 pm
by FVBTVS
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cold-brew- ... 1539097216

11 Scoops or 12? Coffee Wars Come to the Office

Companies thought fancy coffee bars and endless refills would make employees happy. Instead, it brought grumbling and bickering. ‘They argued for 20 minutes.’

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 9:05 pm
by Necrometer
ahahaha :tup:

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:13 am
by FVBTVS
sitting through advertisements for extremely short videos of hurricane tracking is about as jarring a thing one can experience when you're worried about your loved ones and friends

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:25 am
by FVBTVS


https://www.gofundme.com/insulted-but-not-broken

the explosion of this genre of content

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:02 am
by FVBTVS
youtube videos of people watching and reacting to youtube videos

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:09 am
by FVBTVS
my garbage memory becoming more and more garbage

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:09 am
by FVBTVS

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:10 pm
by ghost boner
how is that like pulp fiction?

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:50 pm
by FVBTVS
i'm guessing the wolf chapter

rumor is they rolled up with empty luggage and saws and shit

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:56 pm
by MANTIS
I wonder if the Washington(JeffBezosAmazonCIA)Post is going to stop sucking Saudi Arabia's dick anytime soon. I'm just so glad they're standing up to Trump for freedom of the presss :tup:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/10 ... khashoggi/

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:10 pm
by FVBTVS

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:16 pm
by ghost boner
yeah, were fucking done

Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:46 am
by FVBTVS
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Re: reminders of encroaching dystopia

Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 10:41 am
by featherboa