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(Insert roger Moore eyebrow raise here)
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Now there’s a helpful chap..
Those machinations remind me of the (extremely talented!) forger Konrad Kujau, who in 1983 (in collaboration with the Nazi-obsessed reporter Gert Heidemann) managed to sell the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler to the German magazine Stern for what was then $3.7 million, and managed to initially fool the majority of historians and graphologists. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries.
There is also a pretty good movie, more in the satirical vein, about this: Schtonk (1992), so named after the expression that Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator Hynkel attributes to democracy and free speech. I don't know if there is an English-subtitled version available, but check on IMDb if you're interested.
Oh I remember reading about that one. It had an everlasting effect on historians.
Ok, my annoyance today. I'm not very active on social media, but I was posting something on Twitter which got a bit of traction, and some replies from half-witted Moscow fanboys. So I wanted to respond to those, but apparently Twitter thinks I'm on my daily limit. Which they state is 2400, not 24 ( I didn't even manage that amount). So, I decided to cmplain to Twitter, which is completely impossible. They decide what you can complain about, and this isn't an option....
That would be one solution, but it's an important information source for me concearning the war. And a good place to counter the Russia apologists. At least that way I feel I'm helping a bit.
Good luck. It's probably as effective as countering those MAGA morons, QAnonists, Anti-Vaxxers, Scientologists... ("the list is endless", to quote M). But don't let me discourage you.
My social media diet is almost perfectly 'vegan', i.e. apart from this forum, I want nothing of it. I find the likes of Facebook and Twitter damaging to one's digital health in pretty much every possible regard. "Awful" doesn't even begin to describe it.
That’s my experience as well, I just try to be open-minded and think maybe some other people are wired differently and / or have better experiences than me. But yeah, I feel so much freer and happier without that stuff. I guess this site is a form of “social media,” but being more niche goes a long way in avoiding issues I think.
Well, compared to the acidic YouTube comment section, the bloody trenches of Twitter, or the asinine "look at my cute cats" nonsense of Facebook, I'd say we're doing okay here.
Agreed. Pick any random YouTube video and there's a good chance that comments have lapsed into "Left-wing BS" or "You $)!#ing ... go $)!# yourself!" posts within five minutes of the video's release. Most of these platforms look like a place where frustrated people who can't do a lot of thinking for themselves gather to celebrate the fact that they hate multiple things without knowing why. Trying to talk to these people is like trying to teach quantum physics to caged mice--all they want to do is break out and wreak havoc. Certain corners of the Internet have become cesspools of human trash. Meanwhile, FB and other platforms have encouraged people to suddenly stop minding spelling, interpunction, grammar, and general etiquette. We are currently feeding inordinate amounts of energy into a world-wide-web so that vast numbers of people can splooge their insane nonsense all over it. The only thing we get in return is that a handful of companies get "stupid rich" off the stupid and their stupidities.
Oh, and those pictures of what you're having for lunch? Not interested. Good to see you're doing okay over there in the Bahamas, by the way. I'm robbing your place while I continue to nurture your 'likes' addiction. Oh, and please put your no-doubt very insightful message in English; I don't speak "hashtag", "duckface" or "emoji". Those languages are lost on me but I hear they can be quite useful when your life equates to recycling other people's opinions in a blatant attempt to impress people who won't even look at you in real life. Also, I prefer friends over fans. Also, I talk to people rather than text them. Also, I've seen very talented, young people (try to) commit suicide after digesting a harsh regime of cyberbullying. Yes, thank you, asocial media, for making it so easy for cowards to hide behind their keyboards and destroy other people's lives.
So no, I'm not a fan. Social media? I'd rather sell a kidney than set up an account.
You are correct, of course, @FoxRox.
Old-school bullying is bad enough as it is. But cyberbullying is even worse. Since a direct, "real-live" confrontation between bully and victim can be avoided, the cyberbully can go on without ever considering the other person's feelings. (It's the same reason why many of us have no trouble shouting insults at other cars in traffic over minor annoyances, while we are mostly civil and tolerant in face-to-face situations.) The Internet, meanwhile, makes everything stick. Everything the bully types, every picture or video he posts, and every lie he tells, goes viral within seconds and is almost impossible to delete. Face-to-face, a bully's words are dissolved in the air; posted on some social medium, they are carved in stone. Anyone victimised by a bully in the school's playground can try to render the episode a distant memory with the passing of time, but victims of cyberbullying are in for a never-ending nightmare from which there is no escape, neither in time nor in space. "That" picture, video or gossip will always show up again, usually at the worst possible time, to destroy within seconds what you've spent months or years rebuilding.
I've seen students of mine, the kindest young people, cross paths with cyberbullies one day, only to find themselves bereft of all their dreams, hopes and ambitions within a matter of a few weeks. Whatever they tried only seemed to make things worse. Their parents as well as we, their teachers, were either never informed about what was going on, or found ourselves just as powerless against cyberbullies cowering away behind anonymous accounts and the assured safety of their keyboards. Losing a student to the desperate act of suicide after an exhausting struggle with cyberbullies has made me very cynical and harsh towards cyberbullies. I don't care what psychologists tell me about the cyberbully's "difficult youth", "own experiences with abuse" and whatnot. If it were up to me, we'd lock them away in the deepest, darkest, coldest dungeon. If you want to pick a fight with someone, be a man and face your opponent directly. If you are so weak that you must resort to cyberbullying, then I'm positively done with you and I wish nothing but the worst upon you.
Small hopefully amusing rant............
I was doing a bit of grocery shopping with my Dad today. I ran into someone I barely know and honestly didn't recognize. Someone I maybe met once at a job, say 5 years ago. He suddenly starts baring his soul to me and asking my advice. Nautical advice and I had no idea what he was talking about.
I answered his questions to the best of my knowledge and politely excused myself.
Then I realized I was wearing my Navy peacoat and he had mistaken me for a sailor.
I suppose if I don my fedora someone will come up and start asking me archeology questions?
Thanks to AI hahaha.....
I don't know how AI could talk like that, but still, it's not perfect, I'm exhausted after the conversation :))
It's not different to a messenger, just chatting, no pictures or videos, just messaging or chat.
Here's the link: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=JOWIEiYfDk-E-PyBybRUB_fSrMLFvJCPidDfvclzJvU&hist=Ef2qByf-on9eQ3FYylC2V90zLUT1y4AT_FmnHFhjwQ0
Our society has a duty to provide victims of abuse with everything they need in terms of physical and mental health care, legal assistance, and more. If it fails to do so, the democratic machine must try to "correct" the situation. But a hard life with or without abuse is never a good reason to start running other people's lives into the ground.
@FoxRox No matter what we have done at some point in our lives, if we can learn from past mistakes and change our ways, become better and more empathic people, then that's always a good thing. We are inherently imperfect people, but the best of us, yourself included, try to change for the better. Bullies don't.
I’m so sorry. I can’t speak to physical violence, can only imagine how much worse that made it all. But I’m very glad you made it out and wanted to be better. That’s how I imagine it should be for way more abused people is for others not to suffer the way they did. But for instance, with predators that prey on children, they bring up their own past experiences to excuse it. It makes it worse honestly; why would anyone want to repeat such a horrible cycle?