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James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman?
James Earl Jones, he’s the best and I’m not only saying that because we’re related.
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Good to hear. It is hard though, I know as a parent I couldn’t imagine anything worse than outliving your kids.
She’s clearly still in that frame of mind but hopefully intervention can gradually give her some new motivation.
She’s clearly always been troubled but I like Sinead, she’s a great artist and thinks differently, and would like her to get some solace. I was a fan before her cover of Nothing Compares 2U, my music video station used to show this is a lot which is a great song.
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So… Is Die Hard a Xmas movie?
You should start asking people this around Christmas, it could really catch on.
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Is Back to the Future a sci fi movie?
No I believe it’s a documentary.
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Al-x wrote:
TikTok does have its critical thinkers with their video snippets providing social commentary on sociology, race, politics, current events, pop culture, and so on.
That’s kinda what I meant with political propaganda… ;)
Social commentary is not the same as political propaganda.
In TikTok, one person for example makes a video, and then someone else follow up and makes rebuttal video of sorts and that back and forth is more of a debate than anything.
tiktok videos are at most 60 seconds long now, and it used to be 15 seconds. Seems barely enough time to do a few slogans, certainly not enough to explain complex issues.
On social media you often get random vloggers to repeat certain talking points that are fed to them by educational institutions or other influential cultural forces, or even directly by political agents. Say the CIA or some other agency pays an influential vlogger to repeat some stuff that furthers their interests while making it appear this person made these statements completely independently, so it doesn’t look like propaganda. PragerU on youtube is perhaps the most obvious example, they even revealed a while back their director was a Mossad operative.
But often it isn’t obvious at all. You know the Chinese Communist Party controls tiktok, right? I stumbled onto a youtube rabbit hole a while back of travel vloggers who were paid by the CCP to travel to Xinjiang to walk around and say stuff like “wow everything looks so nice and modern here and peaceful and I spoke to Uyghurs who said they weren’t abused at all.” Like wise the CCP has an interest in doing stories that paint the US in a bad light.
I think this mechanism works on the right as well as the left. You have the Koch brothers and someone like Dave Rubin, and I think some in the “intellectual dark web” that blew up on social media shortly before the 2016 election and which includes Jordan Peterson and some other weirdos, are financially supported by Peter Thiel who is the boss of Eric Weinstein, the buffoon who came up with the term intellectual dark web. These all have a libertarian or “ancap” bent.
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I suspect you wouldn’t be particularly happy if people made fun of you for your mental health issues, would you?
Not happy no, but I wouldn’t want them prosecuted for it.
Maybe you’d feel differently about that last part if you were a public figure. Especially if you were talking about what you felt were important issues and the response was just to mock you for your mental health issues first.
And let’s be clear here, that guy made fun of the climate activist with the full expectation that he’d get in trouble for it so he could cause a controversy and piss on about how he’s being silenced just because he’s right wing, even though that’s never the case when you drill down into it.
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I went on tiktok a few times to see what’s up but it seems to lack a search function which means you can just see the videos the algorithm chooses for you. I only got tiktok dances, stupid jokes etc. How do you get to the “social commentary”?
You go to the search engine at the top and type a topic and you will get a listing. Usually I choose the hashtag which is like an umbrella and it gives you all the video snippets.
I agree on TikTok that the young go for the girls in bikinis dancing/twerking (funny how quick they get over 100M followers).
Instagram is mostly about young aspiring models posing in swimsuits, looking to be discovered for a modeling gig, or to have a star athlete or billionaire mogul direct message them for a date, etc. But it is all about marketing your looks, even when it comes down to Photoshop pictures (touch up on figure flaws) and a special filter to do away with facial wrinkles and so on. There is even a private “Only Fans” section to see even more risque pictures provided you pay a monthly subscription. Also on Instagram, when you get over 100M followers, you get branded an “influencer” and companies will sponsor you as long as you promote their products. Quite an easy way to reach 100M. Sex sells, and capitalism at its finest.
I am none too crazy about them, but the Kardashians are pretty much the first family to use the social media platform to promote themselves and go further than just the leaked sex tape. Many are studying how they did it and try to mimic their strategy.
Getting back to you @arjandirkse , social media can be put to both a good and bad use, especially in reaching the masses. It is what you make it to be.
To be honest… It is all really The New Pornography. Overseas from me, I believe it is called “lad mag” content, here in the States it used to be “booty” pictures now it is called “thirst trap” pictures. In the newsfeed it is all “clickbait” material ie. Here is a link to see Megan Fox or some other young female celeb at the beach…
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I think a criminal punishment would be justified if there is a rape threat in there, but there isn’t, he just says he would have sex with her. It is a bit insulting but yeah I agree a 6000 euro fine is ridiculous.
Female politicians have been trying to fight online insults and threat unsuccessfully for years now – for example, another Green politician, Renate Künast, sued people for sexist insults and, yes, even calls to rape her, and didn’t get anywhere with her lawsuits. She only recently was finally successful in court with her lawsuits. I think that and the Neubauer decision shows a bit of a change in our how those laws are applied here, and I am glad to see it.
The fact is, you can be sued for insulting people in Germany – theoretically even for giving someone the finger – and applying that to online behaviour is long overdue.
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The better version of that is what happens if everyone Trump has insulted sues him.
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Instagram is mostly about young aspiring models posing in swimsuits
I think it’s less that’s what the app is specifically for and more a case of that is what you use it to search for.
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However I think you have to be able to prove some kind of ongoing campaign of harassment or a threat or defamation. Just an insult here and there should not be prosecutable.
I really don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t be. If somebody screams insults at me when I haven’t done anything to antagonise him and haven’t used that kind of language myself, I think it makes a lot of sense that I can sue them for it.
I think when it comes to actually prosecuting these things and fineing people, it’s mostly used in cases that are more like harrassment, or close to hate speech.
Imagine if someone like Trump would be able to sue everybody that insulted him.
I’d be fine with that, provided people could also sue him for insulting them. The problem with Trump isn’t that he’s not being insulted enough, I think.
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Nah, in the US you don’t get sued if you insult someone, they instead run you over with a car or shoot you – far better!
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At any rate, what you are doing is criticizing the site and its content at the same time that you haven’t put it to full use. You just don’t know its entirety. Please don’t do that, namely, passing judgement only knowing half (or less than half) of a matter.
Much like how we can’t criticize nazism unless we lived in Nazi Germany.
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Al-x wrote:
Instagram is mostly about young aspiring models posing in swimsuits
I think it’s less that’s what the app is specifically for and more a case of that is what you use it to search for.
I agree: for me Instagram is about seeing photos that my friends and family post, and to follow people I choose to follow (like Mike Mignola and Luke Hamill and a couple of chefs I enjoy). Trust me, I’m not looking for Mignola or Hamill to pose in a swimsuit.
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Instagram is about seeing photos that my friends and family post
That is 100% what I have it for, and to share photos to the same of course.
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Instagram is mostly about young aspiring models posing in swimsuits
I think it’s less that’s what the app is specifically for and more a case of that is what you use it to search for.
In fairness Bruce, no matter what combination of “models”, “swimsuits”, “young” and “tits” I type in, I just seem to get the same results every time.
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Guys, instagram is for pictures of dogs and process shots from comic artists. I thought everyone knew that.
And people posting pictures of their Transformers.
Wait, they can do that on there?!
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Nice to see the BBC going full The Day Today throughout this bizarre story.
I can’t help but read that last caption in the voice of Ted Maul.
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Luke Hamill
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Guys, instagram is for pictures of dogs and process shots from comic artists. I thought everyone knew that.
And people posting pictures of their Transformers.
Wait, they can do that on there?!
Only if you first ask them what form they prefer to be pictured in.
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Wait, they can do that on there?!
https://www.instagram.com/toygrind/
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least of all a bunch of manchildren who still get excited about the new MCU show or the new Boba Fett show =P
You just said the truth about the Carrier!!!
Cliques and tribalism.
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I think is was @njerry who said that Ming Na Wen of the Boba Fett show is 58. (I also remember her from the ER show.)
Excellent!
I said before about drawing inspiration from Bruce Wayne in his 50’s from the Miller story. I need real people though. I felt for a while that after a certain age, you should do less, but that is self-limiting bovine excrement. It is over only when you say it is over. You should still work out and look your best no matter what age. I mean look at a George Clooney and others his age.
Inspiration…
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I think it’s less that’s what the app is specifically for and more a case of that is what you use it to search for.
It is that for the most part, but it is also the algorithm.
What do you think Instagram is mostly used for @bruce ?
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What you look at feeds the algorithm. If you interact with (ie like, comment on, or jerk off to) photos of young women in swim wear then it feeds you more of that. If interact with other stuff – dogs, comics, action figures, whatever- it feeds you that.
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Twitter is used mostly for porn. In my house anyway.
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What you look at feeds the algorithm. If you interact with (ie like, comment on, or jerk off to) photos of young women in swim wear then it feeds you more of that. If interact with other stuff – dogs, comics, action figures, whatever- it feeds you that.
True…
As for TikTok, it is mostly for entertainment. Then again Playboy in its heyday was Entertainment for Men, yet some insisted they just read it for the articles. 😂
Also:
The youngest Kardashian Kylie now has 300M Instagram followers. The US has 300M pop. to give you an idea.
Apparently, the strategy is that Kim isn’t getting any younger, so the family groomed Kylie (as a Kim 2.0) to eventually replace her.
It is all so planned. If you want, just look at their before and after surgery pics on Google. It is ridiculous.
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The youngest Kardashian Kylie now has 300M followers. The US has 300M pop. to give you an idea. Apparently, the strategy is that Kim isn’t getting any younger, so they groomed Kylie as Kim 2.0 to eventually replace her. It is all so planned. If you want, just look at their before and after pics on Google. It is ridiculous.
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What inspiration are you taking from him?
That he was in his mid 50’s and decided to go back in action.
He didn’t feel too old.
But you’re not Bruce Wayne ;)
What sort of action are you looking for Al? I hope you’re not going to dress up as a flying rodent and beat up thugs?
I for one welcome the vigilante actions of Flying Squirrel Man.
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Makes you wonder about how much disposable income and spare time the perverts really have
This messageboard tends to give us a pretty good idea.
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I seem to know a little bit too much about social media and its marketing strategy
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Whatever happened to everyone accepting the fact that Al has a thing for Tik tok and social media and leaving him alone about it?
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