speff

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[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 5 points 2 years ago

That makes sense, but the targets of my first paragraph wouldn't be the die-hards. It would be people who think they can identify fake news - but their hubris is what makes tricking them even easier. It would actually be much easier making fake accounts than making the fake YT videos.

If I was to use your analogy - it'd be like if the gunner's level of effort to land hits or to whiff were the same. [S]he'd obviously just hit them.

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Sometimes I wonder if there are different "levels" of propaganda nation states put out. Like you have this obviously fake crap get a bunch of surface-knowlege people. Then you have more subtle things put out - like social media accounts pretending that something false is a ground truth. You'll then get people who can catch the fake videos and then believe the fake accounts no problem because it's obviously can't be propaganda - because you know what propaganda looks like. cough gell-mann amnesia cough

Or maybe nation states are really that incompetent and the only level of propaganda they can put out is like the article's videos. Honestly people give way too much credit to how much these folks know/plan out. There's no secret cabal playing 5d chess. They're normal people (ie. dumbfucks) pushing a message.

Who knows.

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This 2007 document seems to do a pretty good job at going over the motivations when the law was made. It's a bit longer to read than I have time for right now, but it seems like it's worth the time judging by the intro and background

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 17 points 2 years ago

My soul died a bit thinking of that wasted MDF

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Biden’s actions to ease housing costs

Biden’s plan to lower drug costs.

Biden’s actions to increase minimum wage. Here’s one of him telling UAW members to fight for a 40% increase.

Companies were in trouble, now they're doing incredibly well. And guess what? You should be doing incredibly well, too

  • ~~Bernie~~ Biden

Just because he isn’t stringing words together to say your second paragraph verbatim doesn’t mean he’s not taking steps to do something about it. And the links above took literally 2 minutes of searching “Biden addresses X”

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s getting there. The FTC proposed new rules two days ago to update COPPA to curb advertisers farming children’s data and prevent them from enticing kids to stay persistently online

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe they're trying the AoT thing where it's The Final Season pt1, pt2, pt3.1, pt3.2. Though yea, it's got to be an anime original ending. No way they can cram the rest in one season.

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. It's legal for the public to own guns in Czech Republic
  2. If you're going to try to start a anti gun control circlejerk - try not to do it under an article about a mass shooting, dipshit.
[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Definitely not shitty-bad, but it seemed like a Seinfeld moment. Looks like he's still a small artist so I won't name him here - but a guy I sat next to on a plane turned out to have drawn/designed the shirt I wore that day. We were having a nice chat when the discussion turned to the CCP and his admiration for their authoritative actions.

I definitely Noped out mentally from the conversation, but we still kept talking for a while because.... well we were on a plane. Was still a nice guy (to me) - just ...interesting.. views.

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Corpo donors probably don't care about them winning the presidency. They're doing it to get their foot in the door when the primary candidates inevitably end up in office positions.

Donations from the general public? I have no fuckin idea what the reasoning there could be

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 24 points 2 years ago

It's easier to tear things down / trash talk things rather than advertise accomplishments / build something. That's why the R agenda of the govt doing nothing can be fulfilled by just having either the House, Senate, or Presidency, but the Ds need all three to do anything meaningful.

The same concept goes for Biden's accomplishments. It's easier / more palatable to go with the status quo and say lol milquetoast, all of them are the same, too old than actually make people care about what he did do. It takes multiple sentences to explain his positives (like what actually happened with the rail strike) and just a few words to call him useless and dismiss the conversation entirely.

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't say anything about buying new clothes, but as the budget's tightened in my household I've been leaning how to mend my clothes. The ones I normally would've thrown away due to armpit/toe/crotch holes can be fixed somewhat easily.

One catch is that I use a sewing machine my MIL gave me - so there was some cost somewhere. But I see machines on craigslist going for sub 60 fairly often. The second catch is that I was lucky enough to develop an interest (and spend my free time) learning about how to mend clothes. If people lack free time/interest to learn how to do it, then they end up paying the new-clothes tax.

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