Most fake human accounts are easy to detect with a simple reverse image search on Google. They almost always just steal a profile image, from real social media users or from fake account packs that people on 4chan put together.
The other dead giveaway is copy/pasted messages and links. Those guys are not that original, it seems.
This is why the "new media" has put so much effort into destroying the reputations of the "legacy media" and in inflating their own. They have made turning a zero trust blog into a reputable news source an art.
As well as simply making their blogs look like proper news organizations and doing endless stories about how corrupt the "MSM" is, they rely on syndication a lot. A story that originates on Infowars will likely be dismissed by a lot of people, but once it's been slightly re-worded and re-posted on other sites and then spread on social media the true source has been obscured, making Infowars' poor reputation less of an issue. It also allows them to have a version of the story for hard-core conspiracy theorists and one more mainstream one for "normies".
The other interesting question that is being largely overlooked is if gamer culture is being used as a gateway to extremism.
If you look at a Venn diagram of hardcore gamers, incels, red-pillers and the like there seems to be some overlap. Leaked emails from Brietbart show that Milo Yianoppolis was groomed for that role, before he self-destructed.
There has been some study of it, e.g. the book Kill All Normies.
The nature of school shootings has changed. Used to be more disputes between individuals ending with someone getting shot, now there are more mass murders by people with severe mental illnesses.
I doubt games alone could alter most people's behaviour significantly, but along with other things...
Have a look at some of "The Golden One's" videos on YouTube. While games are only a small part of his journey, along with fantasy novels and bodybuilding, it's hard to ignore the fact that he fantasises about murdering people he dislikes, enacts those fantasies in the game world (see his Skyrim videos), then goes out into the real world to pose like the characters in the games and books, and finally ends up doing some MMA fighting.
Most of his videos are about how the world would be so much better if it was just like Game of Thrones too. So while playing Mortal Kombat for 30 minutes a day probably won't make you rip someone's spine out, for a certain small number of people it may be more than just a video game. If you are feeling brave try searching YouTube or any hentai site for "ryona".
It seems pretty selfish... I'm guessing most of these drivers benefiting from these apps would not be happy if traffic outside their front door massively increased, but are willing to do the same to other people.
Companies should offer flexible working hours, with say core mandatory hours between 11 and 3. Then there isn't a mad rush for everyone to get in a t 9 AM, overloading the road network.
It's more than just one person getting to work a little more slowly. The road system is designed to manage traffic, for the benefit of more than just the drivers. People living in residential areas with children and pets, road surfaces that are not suitable for heavy use, keeping pollution away from more sensitive areas, preventing jams building up earlier so that people who come a bit later (e.g. bringing the kids to school) can get in etc.
The majority of drivers used to follow the signs and other features designed to nudge them down those paths. The loss of this control has ramifications beyond just some people being annoyed that their secret route has been discovered. Many roads are simply not designed for the volume of traffic and the interaction between that traffic and pedestrians, for example. Another common effect is drivers coming off a fast, divided road tend not to slow all the way down to very low local road speeds, especially if the shortcut is only a few minutes.
In theory they demonstrated that they have the best cyber security people in the world, and therefore their systems and products should also be the most secure.
Maybe the decided it wasn't worth the bother any more because no matter how good they are it can't overcome all the innuendo about Chinese state back doors, and US efforts to block their products on national security grounds.
It's a really tricky one because children don't have the mental tools to realize that these videos are outlandish conspiracy theories and not credible. The marketplace of ideas is great but only if the buyers are informed and capable of making good decisions.
That's why religions put so much emphasis on indoctrinating kids. Try convincing an adult that there is an invisible man pulling all the strings who will torture you for eternity if you don't obey his seemingly arbitrary rules.
Someone will probably blame the parents, which is valid but also impractical. Like TV, YouTube is probably going to have to be the responsible babysitter.
Did YouTube demonetize them or did advertisers ask not to be on gun related channels? The advertisers are the ones driving this. After a serious of scandals they want to protect their brands and are quite conservative.
In the future everyone will have multiple identities. Like people have multiple credit cards and select one per transaction.
There will be a huge market for bootstrapping new identities. Reputation merchants will have to develop spam filters, and the false positives are going to be brutal.
Norway has set 2025 as the cut-off date for ICE sales, although I expect there will be a few exemptions. India set 2030, various other countries including France and the UK are looking at 2040 which is a bit pessimistic.
Norway has put in a lot of infrastructure. India is going to have to work at it but 2030 is realistic.
As to communists, they met your standard of being divergent from the political norm. I can also show many examples of violence from communist organizations that can rival anything you would cite from the Nazis.
If you don't accept the communist ban then I have to conclude there is no integrity in the argument.
Ah, I see what you are saying. Well, I wasn't advocating a ban, merely saying that because they are less mainstream they can't expect as much promotion.
We do know how to do it, just make it the economically best choice and let capitalism fix the problem. Doesn't matter if some voters don't believe in climate change, as long as wind energy is cheapest that's what the power company will invest in.
What we have not completely figured out is how to make it happen quickly enough. Subsidies do help, certainly, and can be sold to voters as jobs programmes. But we also really need to push new tech.
The US government deserves some big credit for investing in Tesla. Without that I doubt EVs would be where they are today. The Chinese government too, for pushing EVs hard and getting domestic manufacturers to produce them, and for hitting peak coal a few years ago. European governments that have shown EVs to be not only viable but often the better choice, even in harsh climates like Norway.
TL;DR ignore them, make your compelling case. Don't apologise or try to defend against their accusations, because it's a losing proposition. I actually screwed up by doing that in my post above, although at least I didn't engage too much with their nonsense directly.
I don't know any good sites for finding chargers in the US... I know Tesla has a map but it doesn't show everything.
Anyway, the UK is complete crap compared to the rest of western Europe, especially Nordic countries. Even so, you can see that there is actually quite a lot of infrastructure already: https://www.zap-map.com/live/
I don't have any trouble destination charging pretty much anywhere I want to go. There are still dead spots but of course in reality the chances are they do have electricity, very few places are off the grid. It's not there yet but it is improving.
If you look at countries like Norway where they are installing massive amounts of on-street charging, almost every car park has it, loads of rapid charging... And if Ford got on board and invested too they could actually make some on-going cash from the charging.
As to "alt right"... ban the communists as well and I'm on board.
But they are not equivalent. Communists don't want to create an ethnically pure state, don't want to murder people, don't think that some people are inherently superior to others. You could argue that Stalinists or Maoists do see murder as a legitimate tool perhaps, but it's not something communist ideology is generally associated with.
But yeah, if they say "Hitler/Stalin/Mao did nothing wrong" then okay.
Things that were acceptable 50 years ago are not now and things that weren't then are now.
Is that a bad thing though? I mean, do we really want Cartoon Network showing those old quite unbelievably racist cartoons from the 1930s? Or those films where a guy in blackface tries to rape a white woman and gets lynched by the "heroes"?
That material still exists, in fact some of it is on YouTube as part of videos discussing it (can't post the whole thing due to copyright I guess). It's not censored, but equally when kids search for Disney clips it's not promoted either.
Ignore the AC. This is just the latest shitty bit of trolling they get up to. Seems to be some kind of reaction to guys like Weinstein finally getting called out. Sad to say it was started by Mashiki, who was the first to imply that I'm some kind of sexual predator.
Feminist here. Against censorship and pro-free-speech. Being a white man myself in somewhat in favour of them too.
Anyway, what she seems to be saying it's don't promote these videos. Don't remove them, but don't give them front page billing or put them high up the recommendations.
Who decides? A better question would be who decides what gets promoted. Should popular TV news channels be giving equal time to flat earth and fake moon landing theories every time NASA gives a press conference? It's a spectrum, some conspiracy theories are more mainstream, e.g. climate change denial. There is no easy answer.
As for the above conspiracy theory, if she was a Google shill why would she be saying YouTube's plan isn't going to work?
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Most fake human accounts are easy to detect with a simple reverse image search on Google. They almost always just steal a profile image, from real social media users or from fake account packs that people on 4chan put together.
The other dead giveaway is copy/pasted messages and links. Those guys are not that original, it seems.
This is why the "new media" has put so much effort into destroying the reputations of the "legacy media" and in inflating their own. They have made turning a zero trust blog into a reputable news source an art.
As well as simply making their blogs look like proper news organizations and doing endless stories about how corrupt the "MSM" is, they rely on syndication a lot. A story that originates on Infowars will likely be dismissed by a lot of people, but once it's been slightly re-worded and re-posted on other sites and then spread on social media the true source has been obscured, making Infowars' poor reputation less of an issue. It also allows them to have a version of the story for hard-core conspiracy theorists and one more mainstream one for "normies".
The other interesting question that is being largely overlooked is if gamer culture is being used as a gateway to extremism.
If you look at a Venn diagram of hardcore gamers, incels, red-pillers and the like there seems to be some overlap. Leaked emails from Brietbart show that Milo Yianoppolis was groomed for that role, before he self-destructed.
There has been some study of it, e.g. the book Kill All Normies.
The nature of school shootings has changed. Used to be more disputes between individuals ending with someone getting shot, now there are more mass murders by people with severe mental illnesses.
I doubt games alone could alter most people's behaviour significantly, but along with other things...
Have a look at some of "The Golden One's" videos on YouTube. While games are only a small part of his journey, along with fantasy novels and bodybuilding, it's hard to ignore the fact that he fantasises about murdering people he dislikes, enacts those fantasies in the game world (see his Skyrim videos), then goes out into the real world to pose like the characters in the games and books, and finally ends up doing some MMA fighting.
Most of his videos are about how the world would be so much better if it was just like Game of Thrones too. So while playing Mortal Kombat for 30 minutes a day probably won't make you rip someone's spine out, for a certain small number of people it may be more than just a video game. If you are feeling brave try searching YouTube or any hentai site for "ryona".
It seems pretty selfish... I'm guessing most of these drivers benefiting from these apps would not be happy if traffic outside their front door massively increased, but are willing to do the same to other people.
Companies should offer flexible working hours, with say core mandatory hours between 11 and 3. Then there isn't a mad rush for everyone to get in a t 9 AM, overloading the road network.
It's more than just one person getting to work a little more slowly. The road system is designed to manage traffic, for the benefit of more than just the drivers. People living in residential areas with children and pets, road surfaces that are not suitable for heavy use, keeping pollution away from more sensitive areas, preventing jams building up earlier so that people who come a bit later (e.g. bringing the kids to school) can get in etc.
The majority of drivers used to follow the signs and other features designed to nudge them down those paths. The loss of this control has ramifications beyond just some people being annoyed that their secret route has been discovered. Many roads are simply not designed for the volume of traffic and the interaction between that traffic and pedestrians, for example. Another common effect is drivers coming off a fast, divided road tend not to slow all the way down to very low local road speeds, especially if the shortcut is only a few minutes.
In theory they demonstrated that they have the best cyber security people in the world, and therefore their systems and products should also be the most secure.
Maybe the decided it wasn't worth the bother any more because no matter how good they are it can't overcome all the innuendo about Chinese state back doors, and US efforts to block their products on national security grounds.
It's a really tricky one because children don't have the mental tools to realize that these videos are outlandish conspiracy theories and not credible. The marketplace of ideas is great but only if the buyers are informed and capable of making good decisions.
That's why religions put so much emphasis on indoctrinating kids. Try convincing an adult that there is an invisible man pulling all the strings who will torture you for eternity if you don't obey his seemingly arbitrary rules.
Someone will probably blame the parents, which is valid but also impractical. Like TV, YouTube is probably going to have to be the responsible babysitter.
Did YouTube demonetize them or did advertisers ask not to be on gun related channels? The advertisers are the ones driving this. After a serious of scandals they want to protect their brands and are quite conservative.
You can assume that. I don't want to censor this stuff. Aside from anything else it's a comedy goldmine.
In the future everyone will have multiple identities. Like people have multiple credit cards and select one per transaction.
There will be a huge market for bootstrapping new identities. Reputation merchants will have to develop spam filters, and the false positives are going to be brutal.
Norway has set 2025 as the cut-off date for ICE sales, although I expect there will be a few exemptions. India set 2030, various other countries including France and the UK are looking at 2040 which is a bit pessimistic.
Norway has put in a lot of infrastructure. India is going to have to work at it but 2030 is realistic.
As to communists, they met your standard of being divergent from the political norm. I can also show many examples of violence from communist organizations that can rival anything you would cite from the Nazis.
If you don't accept the communist ban then I have to conclude there is no integrity in the argument.
Ah, I see what you are saying. Well, I wasn't advocating a ban, merely saying that because they are less mainstream they can't expect as much promotion.
It should apply to moderation too. Moderating without having read the article is just as big a problem as commenting.
We do know how to do it, just make it the economically best choice and let capitalism fix the problem. Doesn't matter if some voters don't believe in climate change, as long as wind energy is cheapest that's what the power company will invest in.
What we have not completely figured out is how to make it happen quickly enough. Subsidies do help, certainly, and can be sold to voters as jobs programmes. But we also really need to push new tech.
The US government deserves some big credit for investing in Tesla. Without that I doubt EVs would be where they are today. The Chinese government too, for pushing EVs hard and getting domestic manufacturers to produce them, and for hitting peak coal a few years ago. European governments that have shown EVs to be not only viable but often the better choice, even in harsh climates like Norway.
It's their favourite tactic. Try to paint you as some kind of monster.
I really recommend this series of videos:
https://youtu.be/4xGawJIseNY
https://youtu.be/CaPgDQkmqqM
https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA
TL;DR ignore them, make your compelling case. Don't apologise or try to defend against their accusations, because it's a losing proposition. I actually screwed up by doing that in my post above, although at least I didn't engage too much with their nonsense directly.
Trump said he had a brilliant solution during the election... yet for some reason all we got was a gong show from the legislative branch.
To be fair though, who knew healthcare was so complicated?!? Certainly not Trump.
I don't know any good sites for finding chargers in the US... I know Tesla has a map but it doesn't show everything.
Anyway, the UK is complete crap compared to the rest of western Europe, especially Nordic countries. Even so, you can see that there is actually quite a lot of infrastructure already: https://www.zap-map.com/live/
I don't have any trouble destination charging pretty much anywhere I want to go. There are still dead spots but of course in reality the chances are they do have electricity, very few places are off the grid. It's not there yet but it is improving.
If you look at countries like Norway where they are installing massive amounts of on-street charging, almost every car park has it, loads of rapid charging... And if Ford got on board and invested too they could actually make some on-going cash from the charging.
As to "alt right"... ban the communists as well and I'm on board.
But they are not equivalent. Communists don't want to create an ethnically pure state, don't want to murder people, don't think that some people are inherently superior to others. You could argue that Stalinists or Maoists do see murder as a legitimate tool perhaps, but it's not something communist ideology is generally associated with.
But yeah, if they say "Hitler/Stalin/Mao did nothing wrong" then okay.
Things that were acceptable 50 years ago are not now and things that weren't then are now.
Is that a bad thing though? I mean, do we really want Cartoon Network showing those old quite unbelievably racist cartoons from the 1930s? Or those films where a guy in blackface tries to rape a white woman and gets lynched by the "heroes"?
That material still exists, in fact some of it is on YouTube as part of videos discussing it (can't post the whole thing due to copyright I guess). It's not censored, but equally when kids search for Disney clips it's not promoted either.
Have a look about 16 minutes into this, for example: https://youtu.be/_-P9_oUV9Gw
Sound reasonable for your internet censorship concept?
I have no such concept.
Ignore the AC. This is just the latest shitty bit of trolling they get up to. Seems to be some kind of reaction to guys like Weinstein finally getting called out. Sad to say it was started by Mashiki, who was the first to imply that I'm some kind of sexual predator.
Feminist here. Against censorship and pro-free-speech. Being a white man myself in somewhat in favour of them too.
Anyway, what she seems to be saying it's don't promote these videos. Don't remove them, but don't give them front page billing or put them high up the recommendations.
Who decides? A better question would be who decides what gets promoted. Should popular TV news channels be giving equal time to flat earth and fake moon landing theories every time NASA gives a press conference? It's a spectrum, some conspiracy theories are more mainstream, e.g. climate change denial. There is no easy answer.
As for the above conspiracy theory, if she was a Google shill why would she be saying YouTube's plan isn't going to work?
They probably mean that they can't be sure his apartment doesn't have more explosives in it.
To be sure they would have to clear it out and strip it down. In bomb disposal gear, with the risk of being blown up.
Not sure what the kind of job costs or even if it can be justified given that the loss is material things vs life.
I wish they would ban sales of fireworks to the public. Some official ones are more than enough.
Twice a year at least we get random explosions all week. Freaks out pets and other animals, and sometimes kids use them as RPGs.