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verge, to random
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The MPA has big plans to crack down on movie piracy again https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125560/mpa-block-piracy-websites-cinemacon

beans_please,
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@verge remember when piracy was dropping off because you could get basically everything from Netflix or Hulu? These people decided to shoot themselves in the foot, then tell us we're to blame for all the blood in their shoe.

jrconlin, to random
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I think I found a way to get the folk on NextDoor to understand the minimum wage thing.

The last time the minimum wage was set was 1997. At the time, the average Social Security payout was $774 a month.

(It's currently $1696)

So, that extra $922 is just waste you don't need,, right, Gran'pa?

beans_please,
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@jrconlin ah, but see that social security was earned because they worked hard for it, whereas the minimum wage is given to the barely deserving workers who haven't justified their existence fully. Complaining about how little the minimum wage is also proof that they're ungrateful, so they probably shouldn't have jobs in the first place.

shoq, to random
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I sort of knew modern society was in deep finish trouble when every third reference I heard from young people was to a Harry Potter, X-Men, or Lord of the Rings movie.

beans_please,
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@shoq implying what?

beans_please,
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@shoq popular media has always been criticized as vulgar and shallow. Go back to any century and you'll see people disgusted that the audiences for high art are so much smaller than the less challenging material

beans_please,
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@shoq I'd argue the Ivy League grads have just become more easily accessible to the general public and are able to talk about the things they actually enjoy instead of always having to front for the cocktail party crowd. I'd also say there's a wide variety of quality in graphic novels/comics just like literature or cinema. The story someone tells can be affected by the media they choose to tell it in, but there can be powerful stories told through any of them imo

beans_please,
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@shoq I don't disagree, I just think that's how it's always been where I guess the implication I'm reading from your original post is that culture is somehow changed. Admittedly, it's easier to commoditize, but I'm just doubting that things would have been significantly different if the technology of the 1920s or 1820s allowed the same kind of distribution

beans_please,
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@shoq just different perspectives, I suppose. When I look at the far-right takeover you note in the screenshot I see echoes of a lot of history, just not in the modern US. Maybe I'm trying too hard to find patterns, and you're probably very much aware of whatever examples I would think up, but to me, it looks like a lot of the splits that have caused political earthquakes in the past.

beans_please,
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@shoq see, I don't disagree that society is changed, but I think that those are only accelerating the underlying trends rather than creating new ones. Cyberbullying is so terrible because it enables the bully to reach out and get to their victim all the time. The same fundamental psychological impacts that might have been cordoned off to just school or wherever have been enabled online, which I guess is how I view the broader technology. It's made it easier to ramp up the preexisting dynamics

beans_please,
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@shoq Bowling Alone was published in 2000. The trends of social isolation and the atomization of our society into families or individuals started long before that, and the natural result of the decaying community life is depression, anxiety, and all the other issues we're seeing. I'm not going to say social media has no explanatory power, but it certainly seems like it's partially a symptom of those trends as much as a cause to me

beans_please,
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@shoq a lot of people said the same thing about the Gutenberg press and the ability to spread enlightenment ideals. Would the Arab Spring have happened without Twitter? I'm not sure, except that there were revolutions before Twitter and there will be revolutions after Twitter. Where I see technology continuing and accelerating the underlying trends, you see a new phenomenon, and I think both are useful frames for critically examining technology. I'm not trying to minimize the negative impacts

beans_please,
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@shoq I understand that about the Arab Spring, I casually mentioned it just like the Gutenberg press' effects since it's a character limited format, probably mercifully for everyone. I think I fundamentally disagree with you that there's something different about social media, though. If people weren't already predisposed to authoritarianism the shtick wouldn't work with them. You argue the medium is the problem, and I'm saying it's the people.

dangillmor, to random
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Elon Musk invents Cliffs Notes:

beans_please,
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@dangillmor "God, I'm confused by all these words, I wish there was a more techbro way to say all this Dostoevsky stuff and remove 90% of it"

shoq, to random
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Oh, this could get ugly:

'I Am Not Prepared For Life' – Millennials Blame Their Boomer Parents For Not Teaching Them How To Be Responsible Adults

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/am-not-prepared-life-millennials-150011198.html

beans_please,
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@shoq my parents were certainly more interested in pushing their religious beliefs on me than teaching me how to be a person. I would say it's mostly worked out, but that's because I actively seek good advice from wherever I can find it. That whole generation seems to just think things kinda work out on their own instead of requiring a huge amount of effort.

donni, to random
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I liked things better before everything got super evil

beans_please,
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@donni yeah, damn that fish monster for leaving the primordial sea

kevincollier, to random
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I've lived in NYC more than 15 years. I honestly don't think I know a single person who would feel more safe, rather than less, having to regularly go through National Guard checkpoints/bag checks to use the subway every day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/nyregion/subway-national-guard-police.html

beans_please,
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@kevincollier we heard you felt unsafe so here's a police state!

beans_please, to random
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4DGYGHKcxgu6hICZsKpgd3?si=e728b73eca4c4705

shoq, to random
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It’s just too cruel to keep a nine-year-old cat indoors that has always known the outdoors. Now that she’s been litter trained, if the vet permits it, I’m going to let her run free during the day, but always shut the cat door after she comes in for dinner. She only got in fights late at night.

beans_please,
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@shoq it's really bad to let cats outside in places where they're non-native, both for them and the animals they'll inevitably kill.

MissingThePt, to random
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The least believable part of Dune was a character being named Duncan New Jersey.

beans_please,
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@MissingThePt idk this guy felt pretty believable as a master swordsman to me

RickiTarr, to random
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Please follow me!!!

(into a mysterious bog from which none have returned)

beans_please,
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@RickiTarr could I just go into the bog by myself? Kinda tired of playing games with eldritch horrors and I just want to get to the horrors part

the_etrain, to random
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I actually don't read any of this on screens. I pay a guy to transcribe my feed onto note cards and pass them to me. Then I dictate any replies or subtoots.

beans_please,
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@the_etrain I've got a sophisticated laser that engraves them on incredibly delicate crystal sheets which are then deposited into a projector, shown on my wall for exactly 40 seconds, then immediately shattered and dumped on my living room floor. But you do you.

StefanThinks, to random
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beans_please,
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@StefanThinks but if you start feeding the poor, that will encourage people to be poor. That's just economics

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm gonna be honest y'all, it's felt dark lately, and for good reason, LGBTQ+ rights in the balance, an election coming up, women struggling to get basic Healthcare, mass shootings, SCOTUS, the environment. The list goes on and on, and the media twists everything to sound even worse, or just straight up ignores actual news. But here's the thing, I know a lot of you, and the fact that you exist in the world gives me hope. You care about the future and you want good things, and so do I, and as long as that spark is there, we have hope. So, let's focus on some good today! Share a good headline, some positive news either on a larger scale or just something personal, a nice picture you took, a funny meme or video, whatever made you feel good or at least, gave you a smile. Let's share some joy!

beans_please,
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@RickiTarr

Daojoan, to random
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George, intent on his tuna melt: "I said, I’m a prompt engineer."

Jerry, eyebrows arched: "You…engineer prompts?"

George: "I craft AI scenarios!"

Elaine: "So, professionally making up delusions?"

George, defensive: "It's a tough gig! You have to be very…what’s the word for being good at words?”

Elaine, enunciating: “Tal-ent-ed?”

George: “no..no…that’s not it…”

beans_please,
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@Daojoan Ironically, the endless Seinfeld AI episode probably already came up with this before it became transphobic

mcc, to random
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Archival quality nightmares

beans_please,
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@mcc got some that never leave, right?

shoq, to random
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The only thing that surprised me about Tucker’s Russian tour was that Glenn Greenwald wasn’t carrying his luggage.

beans_please,
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@shoq but Glenn is a Serious Journalist and would never lick boot!

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