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  1. There are trolls, idiots on Twitter Asks For Help Fixing Its Toxicity Problem (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    And “toxic” to the left and right on many social media sites.
    Most social media suffers from that because the way they function are a popularity contest and you get more likes when being a cunt towards outside your group and being a decent human being.
    But Twitter’s format are even worse because it is best suited for short snarky comments.

  2. Re:Quit on Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

  3. Flim Springfield on Detroit Decides Against Banning Airbnb -- For Now (detroitnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Flim Springfield

  4. Re: If only Hillary Clinton had won! on Former Google/Facebook/Mozilla Employees Will Fight Addictive Technologies (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And didn’t a large number of people from the tech industry work for the Obama administration, or at least were consultants?

  5. Re: You helped create it on Former Google/Facebook/Mozilla Employees Will Fight Addictive Technologies (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a dopamine addiction?

    Keywords: Skinner box, dopamine, Facebook.

  6. It don’t touches my sphaget!

  7. He’ll be the coolest monkey in the jungle.

  8. Could be worse on The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    they could be streaming Buzzfeed videos.

  9. A union for employers? on This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees' Data (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    So it is a union for employers? Working together, making sure they don't pay their employees more than they have to? :D
    "You want how much? No no, that's not what they are paying you!"

  10. I can live without it. on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's TV, I can live without it. I haven't had any TV channels for years now.
    I only use it for streaming now, of course I wouldn't accept ad's when watching it.
    I have the feeling that they are really over-estimating their worth, Personally I watch less and less TV shows and movies, I haven't watched a movie in a year, and I can't find any new TV shows that I care to watch anymore.

    However, I do subscribe to a bunch of youtube channels and support some of them on Patreon.

  11. I like the pinball machine too on CBS To Reboot 'The Twilight Zone' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    "I like the pinball machine too", the geek says while looking at this Twilight Zone pinball in his livingroom.

  12. Re:They could avoid it.... on Another Million Subscribers Cut the Pay TV Cord Last Quarter (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I fell the same. After a few years without TV, I don't want it, even if it was for free.

  13. Fake activity on Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures For 3 Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried out Twitter for a while and have tried other platforms as like Instagram etc.
    It seems to me that most of what happens on platforms like this are that when you post something, they get some "likes" that comes from accounts that use automated systems that trigger on keywords releated to what they are trying to sell/get them famous. It happened with every post.

  14. I don't care. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't really like the new show. Not sure why, I used to like Star Trek, so I figured that I would really like it.
    It seems a bit off.

  15. They often change their minds. on YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident (freebeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you get community strikes on 5 year old videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. Aren't they already? on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I was going though some of the rules and guidelines on american flights(I can't remember if it was FAA or other) because I was carrying some hobby camera equipment(*). And it stated that the batteries were not allowed in checked. So I was puzzled when I heard about the ban on laptops in carry-on.

    (*) I did the stupid thing and asking at checkin about a controller for a camera slider/dolly I had in my luggage that had 8 regular AA batteries and I had to open my luggage to uncover it at put it in carry-on. And some of my rechargeable battery banks just about reached the maximum allow capacity.

  17. I have the same problem when traveling in the US, I can't pay at at pump anywhere, I know a Conoco station where usually travel where I can pay at the pump so I go there when I am in the neighborhood. It is so annoying.
    A few times it does work to type in a random ZIP code.
    So I researched the problems and had hopes that the problems would be over since a colleague said that he could pay at the pump at all Shell stations on their road trip.
    I believe that once they get around to use the chip on my card, it will be better, but that seems to have been delayed. :(

    https://usa.visa.com/visa-ever...

  18. Re:Yeay Twitter on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, these are unsettling time. I still opt for ignorance., :D
    It's not like I have the power to change anything.

    I'm gone fishing
    I got me a line
    Nothing I do is gonna make the difference
    So I'm taking the time

    And you ain't never gonna be happy
    Anyhow, anyway
    So I'm gone fishing
    And I'm going today

  19. Yeay Twitter on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For a happier life, ignore everything written on Twitter.

  20. someone will find that article and think. Why can they only get access to look at plantes local to them and not the ones local to everybody else.

  21. Such emergencies on Dubai Police Get Hoverbikes (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    as someone kissing or holding hands. Yikes, better put a stop to that.

  22. Unless, of course on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless, of course it is CNN or any of the old news outlets, having "experts" speculating for hours.

  23. Re:I'm starting to warm up to the idea .... on Tesla Still On Top In US Electric Vehicle Sales, GM Close Behind (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ditto. I drive 45 miles every day. Sometimes 70. I have a garage where it can charge.
    3-4 times a year I drive to a location where I will need to charge to get home again.
    Sadly, around here in Denmark, our anti-green goverment have added the taxes back on EVs. So we will after a few years have a 150% on EVs too, like reqular cars.
    Right now it is "only" 40% tax.
    And so, Chevy/Opel, won't even bother to sell the Bolt here(as the Ampera-e). I would have bought it if I could buy it at the old price without anything except the 25% sales tax, without th 40% on top.

  24. But the klingons on According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    are still the future version of trump, right? :D :r

  25. Social media are evil. on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't use Facebook or twitter anymore, I never really liked them but I had to try it of couse, but once you had found your old classmates, had a party, discovered that you had notning in common, I really disliked most people when they were on facebook, or at least the facebook version of them.

    I feel like these social media platforms encourage people to be narcissistic assholes. Being a genuinely good person of value to your surroundings and local community are of no value, unless of course that you are ready, camera in hand to document it all.
    What matters are being the loudest voice, the biggest victim, the most outraged couch potato.
    I don't feel like it enhances anything that's good about humanity but amplifies all that is bad for a healthy community. It's the way that content are rated by likes and that people are in their own filter bubble of reality.