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birds are dones
From a comedic perspective, Birds Aren't Real is a good one.
It's funny because, unlike chemtrails or earth shapes, and lacking the scientific literacy element, it's easy to disprove and people believe it anyway.
it's easy to disprove and people believe it anyway.
If I didnt believe it myself, I'd have thought nobody believed in this one. But I guess some people really can be that stupid. Iykyk.
It's a nitpick, but I don't believe it's as simple as people being stupid. I think it's people being suspicious, suggestible, and algorithmically educated.[1] i.e. they reject mainstream anything, believe what harmonizes with their brain waves, and are served weapons grade dopaminergic content.
ironically, such algorithms are made and tuned by physics phds in many cases. ↩
It sounds uncheritable, but i think people are mostly to blame. And while you say suggestible i say stupid. My opinion is that each person has, at a minimum, the responsibility to use their brain and putting the onus completely on the technology/the system feels a little like saying guns kill people.
believe what harmonizes with their brain waves
Exactly. Confirmation bias can be a deadly disease.
ironically, such algorithms are made and tuned by physics phds in many cases.
Interesting. I wonder what it might be doing to humanity that children and teens often can have "answers" to questions before they can even pose them to their parents. Talking to parents, they might be wrong, but at least there is tge built in feature that eventually you see their foibles and realize maybe they haven't actuslly gotten it all worked out.
Putin is a peeping tom
While the real peeper is Google. On my not-very-secure phone I have the Graphene and sandboxed+uninitialized Google Play Services setup (needed for Signal video calling compatibility) but without logging in. It just sits there and runs the background service.
The amount of shit it tries to do is insane. It polls and monitors networks (cellular.) You turn on Wifi or Bluetooth it starts polling that too. It tries to connect to gtalk. It tries to download fonts. And this is without ever opening it or logging in to Google. And after actually going into the sandbox configuration and turning everything off that can be turned off.
MJ had the right feeling... just 30 years early to the game.
https://soundcloud.com/top-of-the-pops-80s/somebodys-watching-me
One the best one I've heard that the birds are dones. Sometimes I like to pretend Putin is a peeping tom looking in my window through little beady back eyes.