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FaceBook Loses Active Users For the First Time In History
Facebook's growth in users -- a near constant since the company created its viral social network in 2004 -- is slowing. Daily active users dropped from 1.93 billion to 1.92 billion, with the drop coming from Africa and Latin America. Facebook's growth has long been stagnant in the U.S. and Europe, but previously made up for it by consistently adding users all over the world. These new numbers suggest that Facebook is becoming saturated all over the world as well -- a potentially worrisome trend and one that shows another reason the company is pushing so hard into new arenas such as hardware.Right, they've gone as far as they can go with their stupid Likes and Walls model which is why they're pushing the truly dystopian idea of people living their lives in the "Metaverse." The news about their user base stagnating set off a major sell-off for FaceBook's parent company, the stupidly-named, idiotically-conceived "Meta." It lost a quarter of it's value, around $230 billion.
Shares of the social media giant were down more than 26% Thursday, the first day of trading after Meta reported a decline in profit and users during the last three months of 2021 -- and most tellingly, forecast revenue declines in the current quarter. Meta's market value fell more than $230 billion to a market capitalization of about $661 billion. The company's market cap had been $898.5 billion early Thursday.Zuckerberg lost some money. But not enough.
Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally lost nearly $32 billion Zuckerberg is the largest individual Meta shareholder, with more than 374.8 million shares, or about 12.5% of total shares outstanding, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Zuckerberg's shares had been valued at $121 billion before the market opened Thursday. When the markets closed, his holdings were worth $89.1 billion.
Here's an ad for FaceBook's new "virtual world, "Horizon." They say they want you to "try new things" -- new things, like sitting at home on the computer all fucking day long.
You know, "new things" like that.That Facebook’s first ad for Horizon tried SO hard to make it seem like The Good Place is indisputable proof that it’s The Bad Place pic.twitter.com/SSd9EJFrbC
— Amy Charlotte Kean (@keano81) January 24, 2022
Enter a world of imagination with Meta and explore endless possibilities in 3D. 🚀 🎨 pic.twitter.com/I7AYtzei78
— Meta (@Meta) November 4, 2021
You can now use your 3D avatar across Quest, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. We’re also adding new facial shapes, skin tones, hearing aids and wheelchairs. And if you’re an NFL fan, you can suit up your avatar with new shirts for #SuperBowlLVI! 🏈https://t.co/Oje1mxtjrK pic.twitter.com/pRLVI99alV
— Meta (@Meta) January 31, 2022
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:06 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:07 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 04, 2022 01:07 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Bill Belichik at February 04, 2022 01:08 PM (786Ro)
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Posted by: Prince Albert at February 04, 2022 01:08 PM (xMfQG)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 04, 2022 01:08 PM (4I/2K)
The Chris Watts murders showed that very clearly.
Posted by: Jmel at February 04, 2022 01:08 PM (RWHIh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (4oNyA)
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Dr. David Banner at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: JEM at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (8erNz)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: nckate at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (z5Nun)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: ZuckerHulk at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (5P6Lv)
Posted by: Dr. David Banner at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (786Ro)
I HAVE A PROSTATE PROBLEM! IT'S NOT A LAUGHING MATTER!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: James Felix at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (frcda)
Oops!
(trips over cord, unplugs internet, pixels disappear forever)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (7bRMQ)
Posted by: Ace at 01:06 PM
That's a relief. Ace throwing shade on our investments would be a disaster for our net worths.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: m at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (ugYvB)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
I SO wish you were not right.
Posted by: JEM at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (8erNz)
Freedom is slavery and slavery is freedom.
Get with the program or be reprogrammed.
Posted by: Czech Chick at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (+8w2C)
I'm sure I'm just unsophisticated, but I tend to think that if you lost $32 billion, you did not have $32 billion. At least not in any way other than a notional one based on spreadsheet entries or the like.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (Hica+)
Posted by: Eddie Haskell at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (8D42x)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (qpolg)
Anything else is masturbation.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (2R+p+)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (xxG/v)
Posted by: AOL at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: HA! at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (Eqkqm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (lqNK8)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: AOL at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (Z32m1)
The line starts back there, bub.
Posted by: Prodigy at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (z5Vrg)
so, DICE is running this?8
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (8D42x)
It has recovered a bit to -199.5 from Wed
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse
absolutely, I'd be interested in any opportunity to scam my readers, I mean, afford my readers an opportunity to invest in one-of-a-kind blockchain artwork
no but seriously I only understand NFTs on the most superficial level possible and don't even really think of them as real, if you know what I mean. I don't mean that they're intangible, I mean that it's hard for me to even consider "doing an NFT" because it still just sounds like something people are making up.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (0G13K)
I'm sure I'm just unsophisticated, but I tend to think that if you lost $32 billion, you did not have $32 billion. At least not in any way other than a notional one based on spreadsheet entries or the like.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (3YVs3)
Well it's like a house. Say you owned a $1M house in California before the crash, then it went down to $600k, and now it's $1.4M today. What you owned the whole time is a house. You "gained" or "lost" $ based on what people were currently willing to pay for it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (KbCG3)
I guess we'll have to wait for mad max times and reduce it to rubble the old fashioned way.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (VwHCD)
Why do I need Facebook for that? I have AOSHQ!
Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (qpolg)
I can NOT get my husband or my mother to stop using it. Even when ads for products pop up on their feed 10 minutes after we have a conversation about them.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (Ez6QX)
someone in my neighborhood keeps trying to get me on NextDoor.
I almost fell for it once except the code had expired so eff them anyway. I guess that gives them an air of exclusivity, the code is going to expire..."hurry, sign up before the code goes bad!"
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
I SO wish you were not right.
Posted by: JEM at February 04, 2022 01:10 PM (8erNz)
How do these companies reach their valuations and continue to amass this type of wealth? Google was just so much better that it took off to a degree that it now runs the world?
If Facebook told the government to piss off, Facebook would be gone in a week.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: WOPR at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (3YVs3)
"Fuck You War!"-Andrew Breitbart
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (0jZnq)
LOL!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (dNqv+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:14 PM (P3gRi)
Left all social media shortly after, it's a poison IMO and I don't miss it. Outside of commenting on a article such as this, I no longer have a social media footprint. I talk with friends and family instead.
Posted by: Gomjabber at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (gx8aE)
I don't post a lot on Facebook or even spend a lot of time reading there but it does keep me in touch with family that is far away that I otherwise have lost track of and that has some value to me.
And there's a lot of amusement value to having friends and family who "like" the lamp I've posted for sale. What are they thinking??
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (DibdT)
He probably makes virtual meals for her virtual boyfriends in Horizon, too.
Posted by: Grimmy at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (JCZqz)
And you'll like it, peasant!
Posted by: Meta! at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: Half Dozen at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (6UwML)
Posted by: Joss Whedon at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (3TihK)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (bVYXr)
It's because so many users have died of Covid!!!
Posted by: Eric Feigl-Dingaling at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: AOL
The line starts back there, bub.
Posted by: Prodigy
Sit down, old-timers.
Posted by: GeoCities at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: Prince Albert at February 04, 2022 01:08 PM (xMfQG)
Onion or guacamole?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
French
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (KAi1n)
Look, I've spent actual money in video games to buy the cool gear or the nice stuff to decorate a place but I had no illusions that I was doing anything other than blowing money to make something look cute.
It's not investing in anything. It's blowing money for fun.
Also has it been disclosed how much the celebs are being paid to do this? Because you know these are #ads not actually money from their pocket.
(The #ad is intentional, it's a requirement for streamers and Instagram models to put #ad in anything sponsored)
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Grimmy at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (JCZqz)
Everyone in Horizon has no lower body, so really no point for her to have virtual boyfriends.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (TDj17)
Mark ChuckleZuck is working to make outside so unwelcoming and unfriendly to push people into his Ready Player One world.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (VCz/u)
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (pnzcV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Jordan61
Same with daughter and some friends. It's an addiction. I just can't grok. Not a fan of meat space, but the alternatives are worse. Superficial.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (qpolg)
Oh, wait
Never mind. Uncle Sugar has that covered.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (BFigT)
Posted by: Muldoon at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: JT at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:11 PM (3YVs3)
Well it's like a house. Say you owned a $1M house in California before the crash, then it went down to $600k, and now it's $1.4M today. What you owned the whole time is a house. You "gained" or "lost" $ based on what people were currently willing to pay for it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (z5Vrg)
But I want to tax you on all this, ever freaking year!
Posted by: Senator Bernie Sanders, The Washington Generals of the Democrat Party at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (DJFLF)
That's a great idea!!!! The rubes'll give us money for sure!!! Everyone likes getting things with a code!! Quick! Send it out in an e-mail blast!!!
Posted by: Guyco at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (7bRMQ)
IRL they're all on their phones
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (pnzcV)
The book is actually worse.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (dIIrC)
Posted by: Jordan61
That kind of nonsense is why I do not have an Alexa thingy, or whatever google named their device. Siri spying on my is more than enough.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (TDj17)
Big brained zuckercuck didn't write one line of code for Facebook.
Posted by: we deserve what is coming at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (VYxP2)
Father arranged to have sperm transferred so his wife could get pregnant again.
Dystopian novels and short stories are not instruction manuals, darn it!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (dIIrC)
I started selling it last year when it started it's downturn.
It has a little more ruin left in it I think.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (2R+p+)
Posted by: nckate at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (z5Nun)
Posted by: George V at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (U2Tva)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (II3Gr)
Left all social media shortly after, it's a poison IMO and I don't miss it. Outside of commenting on a article such as this, I no longer have a social media footprint. I talk with friends and family instead.
Posted by: Gomjabber at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (gx8aE)
Yup, that's me. Life is better sans social media. Way less stressful and annoying...On Ace, you can skip a few days comment, ignore 75% of posts and content, and just overwhelm the Sunday food thread with love...and that's okay. That's not ok on social media...somehow, you'll be asked if you're okay, why you're not concerned about x, how you didn't have thoughts about x, and where the heck where you - all in one week
...Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (exHjb)
Oooh. MoronCoin is *tight*!
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (786Ro)
So this is for people who've always dreamed of... becoming a computer avatar?
But Ryan Long says that rich people are investing money in "virtual property" in the "metaverse," and other people are following their lead.
++++
It's for them, yes, but they are only a tiny fraction of the population. These people are not the core target market. The core target market is two kinds of people:
1. Office drones. Something like "make virtual meetings better with the Metaverse instead of just old, nasty Zoom." This group is not big enough to carry the business, either, even if it works.
2. People pushed into it by the resetters. The "Metaverse" - or something like it - is essential to those schemes. Live in your 350 sq. ft. efficiency apartment (your pod), eat your protein pack based on bugs, order in your goods from the outside, lease everything in your pod, pay for it with your UBI and welfare benefits, have nothing, and escape your miserable ersatz life as a valueless drone by building a virtual world in the Metaverse that allows you to fool yourself into pretending that your life sucks a lot less than it does.
That second group is the *real* target market.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (DU+/6)
EVE Online.
What makes a game that is fundamentally boring by mechanics with very little developer content interesting such that at any given time thousands are playing it? How do people's RW personalities change in EVE? How does their RW actions and habits change when they play EVE. Anyone whose actually played knows the answers to these questions. And they speak to one reality Facebook will have to deal with.
The users will use the virtual world to act out their fantasies and darker desires they can't indulge in the real world. It will devolve into a sh*t show. And if you don't let it, it will be so boring no one will want to use it.
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (T/vhV)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (5kI0z)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (XSRBF)
So you're seeing lots of dumb ideas and tons of money being plowed into questionable investments and glorified pump-and-dump schemes. For example, I'm convinced the "plant-based meat" market is a pump and dump scam designed to make some PE and VC guys very rich if it hasn't already.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (iFTx/)
I guess I could see the value in a virtual experience of somewhere you'll never be able to go but would like to see.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (Ez6QX)
Right. A house is an asset.
What comparable assets does Facebook have?
Ad revenue projections?
Software that is (a) not particularly cutting edge and (ii) fucking gayer than men's burlesque?
Educate me. Cuz I still don't get it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: self-righteous vegan at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (krWPY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (2R+p+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: MW at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (u33s0)
Remove easy transportation outside of high-density urban areas.
Placate the people who live in the urban, high density pods by allowing them access to virtual worlds so they can spend their free time in a chair or in their beds instead of interacting with the outside world.
All of a piece.
Posted by: Revenant at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (cOGHc)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Hey buddy mask up on that jog
Posted by: Karen at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (qwO6y)
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (786Ro)
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I'd invest. Heck, it might be the Pet Rock of the 21st century!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (5pTK/)
Father arranged to have sperm transferred so his wife could get pregnant again.
Dystopian novels and short stories are not instruction manuals, darn it!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022
***
Sounds like a Philip K. Dick story from about 1974, in which abortion is legal up to age 6. And by that age, of course, the kids know about it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (dIIrC)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (XvPQV)
I was kind of hoping the book was good. The people in it, all of them are unlikable. Like the part at the end when main bad guy is coming to kill the kid and the trash town people are all bravely kind of just standing in his way, sort of. Bad guy then pulls out a gun and the people go, "oh well he's over there, knock yourself out". Nothing is likable.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (pnzcV)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (7Nhxw)
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It is dystopian. And it's scary, when you think about the progression.
I believe the overall concept these guys have for the Year-Zero Great Reset, is to eventually create a neo-serfdom. Automate as much as humanly possible, with their political and plutocrat nobility sitting at the commanding heights of society, above a larger class of technologically savvy bourgeoisie, battling each other for power and wealth in a Great Game for Great People. All while the broad mass of the peasantry is shoveled into the Metaverse pods and subsisting on Soylent.
Now, this is insane and unworkable in any number of ways. But I do believe its their madhouse concept of the future. Problem is, in actual feudalism, the peasantry served a purpose. It's why the nobles were so reluctant to use them in wars - they needed them alive.
In this construct, they're just Soylent sinks. The day would come when the solons ask themselves "why the pods? Why the soylent? Just dispense with them."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (Cf/uA)
The granularity of a virtual electronic world can never match the atomic level granularity of the real world. All of this virtual world crap is a devilish trick intended to fool, rob and enslave.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (UrlYA)
Here's a guy on GoolagTube I discovered fairly recently pointing out how Apple likely played a key role in Farcebook's sudden devaluation.
https://youtu.be/aOcWtq5EOHU
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (j5ceG)
Posted by: profligatewaste at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (Be3jb)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Yep, this is always the excuse. But, but, but, pics of my grandkids.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (pnzcV)
The book is actually worse.
...
i was such a fan of the book when it came out, i raved about it here. Over time i've read other people complaining about it and i've retreated from my liking of it. it was an exciting romp at the time, tho.
movie was bad. Also, book is probably bad. case of premise being strong enough to carry a bad book's bad execution. movie suffers from lack of novelty. the book worked at the time only because it seemed like a new idea. The movie was made like six years later, when the premise wasn't so new, and it all just seemed like the childish daydream it was.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (0G13K)
Talk about a red-pill moment, am I right?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (0OmEj)
Interestingly, the flavor-offness (I have a sense of taste, it's just that everything tastes *wrong*) has some set parameters. Sour or tart things or acidic things taste like poison. My morning tomato juice was awful. Lemon-flavored seltzer was terrible. Bland and neutral things aren't awful, but taste wrong. I had some humus and bread and it wasn't good. Spicy, though, is tolerable. It still ain't right, but spicy stuff is the most palatable. My guts will rebel, but so be it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (3Zp/H)
Obviously should be "beta"
Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (nELcL)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (aW5/6)
But, I'll be it is never damp and freezing ass cold in the Metaverse. I'm hiding in my house today.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (sWM8x)
I remain incredulous that this miscreant made a fortune off of people posting what they just had for dinner.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:18 PM (TDj17)
No Alexa, no Siri, no Faceplant, no Twatter. The HQ is the closest I come to "social media".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: JEM
Facebook is largely a datamining and advertising firm with the freebies out front for the people using it to ignore the fact that each 'client' is worth about $150 or so. But, like Enron, its 'assets' are mainly virtual and its existence depends on being 'the spot' for its sheep to be shorn. If an alternative exists that becomes popular, then a bandwagon effect causes a more rapid collapse in values than something like a brick and mortar manufacturer. One factor is that the datastream must be constantly refreshed from the 'clients' or it goes stale and useless. Another is that people buying advertising services are affected by the bandwagon effect. The third is that a lot of investment is tied to growth rates--when that stops--the hot money goes elsewhere to invest. Thus, the price to earnings ratio drops to normal levels affecting share price.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (pnzcV)
I'd say that's closer to reality to than the other end of the continuum.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (II3Gr)
i liked it, at the time. Most critics did not, and as the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people admit they liked it. I have to admit it, because there's a post on the site about it.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
Yep, this is always the excuse. But, but, but, pics of my grandkids.
--
I always say, can't you email them? Email your pics? Email your life's updates? You can do all of your connecting to family by many other means. FB needs to die. It's a world menace.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (sVtYq)
And I've made the mistake of reading an ongoing post of an acquaintance who is hell bent on cancelling Joe Rogan. Now my head is filled with potential scathing replies. And I promised myself not to engage in any useless FB arguing.
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (DibdT)
i liked it, at the time. Most critics did not, and as the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people admit they liked it. I have to admit it, because there's a post on the site about it.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (0G13K)
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Did you ever check out the sequel?
I only ever heard that it was laughably bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: profligatewaste at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (Be3jb)
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My son wanted one of those things for Christmas a few years ago. He's still pissed that we returned the thing as soon as we read that you had to have Facebook to use it.
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (3Zp/H)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)
You don't say?
/flounder
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (XSRBF)
Right? Just as bad as the people who send me texts and then start these long text conversations. You're holding a fucking phone in your hand, push the frigging call button and end the miserable typing bullshit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (wejvP)
Please note a real, unstaged Uyghur response to the current Olympics:
https://tinyurl.com/252yruj3
I rate this: Harsh, but true.
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (lSZIs)
Right. A house is an asset.
What comparable assets does Facebook have?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (3YVs3)
Well the point is more that Zuckerberg owns X shares of Facebook, and the "loss" is just gyrations in the valuation.
Exxon has seen an $150B shift in market valuation over the last couple years, it's the same oil and equipment.
Typically the current value of a thing is assumed to be based on what people expect future income from it to be like. Future expectations of income tend to be informed by present income. So even though in the long run the good and bad years kind of average out, you see huge valuation swings.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (z5Vrg)
"Systematic Racism" is a way for white liberals to blame OTHER white people for the fact that they, themselves, indulge in the bigotry of lowered expectations.
They expect less of blacks because blacks don't have "white privilege" and because all of the decks are stacked against them. It's nothing but a cover for their own deeply held belief that blacks are an inferior race.
Posted by: 29Victor at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (XSRBF)
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (xPl2J)
These guy really know how to mock !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)
You don't say?
/flounder
Posted by: Jordan61
He liked it until I told him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (qpolg)
everyone says that, yeah.
another excuse I hear from the Always Online is: "I have to keep up with work!!!"
Your work is going on on Twitter, huh?
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
Gargoyle.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (dIIrC)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)
Well duh, you made a dirt sandwich.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Country_Breakfast at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (3xple)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:19 PM (II3Gr)
And take Fuckerburg with you.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (qpolg)
They have this program called "texting" that allows this function called "attaching images" you might look into it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (ZMraq)
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (RHGPo)
No indeed, they were now valued by "relationships" with other tech companies, global communications and other nebulous concepts. At least this "method" of valuation seemed nebulous, speculative, and far fetched to little old me.
Not everything went so well.
Posted by: RM at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (U3LtS)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (Ez6QX)
Like, for instance, Gwynneth Paltrow's cooch?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (NbCh4)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (wejvP)
Posted by: Ace
[ ] Meets expectations
[X] Exceeds expectations
[ ] Falls short of expectations
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (786Ro)
That's too hard. Nothing less than minimal effort that yields instant gratification will do.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (Xrfse)
i liked it, at the time. Most critics did not, and as the years have gone by, fewer and fewer people admit they liked it. I have to admit it, because there's a post on the site about it.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:23 PM (0G13K)
This is where you can copy a play from the Clintons and Bleachbit the memory.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (z5Vrg)
Interestingly, the flavor-offness (I have a sense of taste, it's just that everything tastes *wrong*) has some set parameters. Sour or tart things or acidic things taste like poison. My morning tomato juice was awful. Lemon-flavored seltzer was terrible. Bland and neutral things aren't awful, but taste wrong. I had some humus and bread and it wasn't good. Spicy, though, is tolerable. It still ain't right, but spicy stuff is the most palatable. My guts will rebel, but so be it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM (DU+/6)
Try some sweet and salty stuff, too...see what range you have, so you can keep your appetite up...
Bitter (coffee) and umami (mushrooms), too...
I'd skip sour for now b/c you'll stop eating if you want to vomit...
Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (+mkOR)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (0G13K)
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"Yes."
-Journalists
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (VwHCD)
So you turn around and call them so you don't have thumb everything, and they won't answer, even though they are obviously holding their phone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (ai0yS)
Posted by: Fritzy at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (VY+MJ)
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (0jZnq)
Posted by: Regular joe at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (njVMJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:22 PM
Yoo hoo!
Posted by: Taco Bell at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (a3Q+t)
The firm doesn't have a fb page. I don't think the web page has been updated for years.
It's all bs.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (qpolg)
He's done NOTHING in years........and when he WAS doing something, it kinda sucked.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (z5Vrg)
Is that like wiping? With a cloth?
~ Still Not President Hillary Clinton
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
^^That is not what I'm saying. It's just a passive way to retain a connection to family. And should I call them on regular basis? IDK. That's seems like work to an introvert...
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (DibdT)
Never have done the MySpace/Faceplant cults. Never have, never will.
AoS has MoMeets. Real Morons, Real 'Ettes. Real food, real booze, real shooty goodness. And if you're very, very fortunate, real Texas sunshine and wide open spaces.
AoS > anythingzukertrash
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (QzJWU)
A second U.S. official later said two of Quraishi's wives and one child were killed.
.. can't even tell a wife from a child
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Fritzy at February 04, 2022 01:27 PM (VY+MJ)
I'm going to name my ballsack "another world"
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: He will face Judgment at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (7vb6V)
tinyurl.com/yc24kpuh
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (wejvP)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (Lit6A)
1.3b people is a *lot* of people. I wonder what percentage it is of people who actually have internet access. I bet it's approaching 100% of people - period - in the West. This could be simple market-saturation at work.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (Cf/uA)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (w2JUA)
I absolutely DISPISE that 2nd meta commercial.
It physically pisses me off for some reason.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks
The third one has a guy rocking back and forth in a wheelchair and laughing.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (DU+/6)
Today, it's Jive Turkeyberg. Please make a note of it.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: He will face Judgment at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (7vb6V)
Giving handies by the overpass for a buck each.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (II3Gr)
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The former built Universities, Museusms and Libraries. The later seem to like to throw bombs. Weird.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (0jZnq)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (DibdT)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (Xrfse)
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Eh.....if you have a big family, it's an unwieldly process to go about sending emails with pictures to everyone, either in one mass email that turns into a wall of text chain of emails, or a few dozen individual emails.
The concept of Facebook itself isn't inherently bad. It's bad because horrible human beings run that company for nefarious ends.
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (3Zp/H)
Posted by: cool breeze at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (UGKMd)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (DibdT)
Just get all of your family's emails and do a weekly (okay, mine tends to be twice a month) update. You'll find out if you set up the group email, folks will use it b/c the work is done. You've just done what Facebook does for you. And you get pics and keep up.
I have 5 siblings...they all managed my move off Facebook, and we added a monthly Zoom call to see each other in person for those who wanted more "face time" than email could provide...once a month for 2 hours max isn't much for an introvert...
Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:24 PM (VwHCD)
Fist bump!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (P3gRi)
tinyurl.com/yc24kpuh
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (wejvP)
A stuffed potato. Nice.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (N2gf7)
But gotta say, losing over $30 billion of one's own wealth in a day would certainly get pretty much anyone's attention.
My sense is that Zuck, with his $400 million plus poured into the election, may have been the largest financial player in the 2020 election results.
Posted by: RM at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (U3LtS)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (XvPQV)
Mark Andrew Edwards Johnson is right!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (GYllL)
HA! It was easy for me. I had just gone through a painful breakup, so I made sure I saw NOTHING of her on FB. No, did not deactivate my account, but stopped logging in. Made it so FB did not notify anyone of my bday. Suddenly, no more photo tags, no more messages, no more spam on my wall on my bday.
B E A Utiful.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (TDj17)
I envision a physical world where participants go interact with each other and with businesses in physical spaces - like meeting at a bar, or going to a store, or taking a cooking class. This involves leaving the home and interacting with other physical persons in physical spaces in physical reality.
I call it the "Meatverse." Whaddya think? Catchy, right?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (Xo3T0)
Posted by: hurricane567 at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (aUNk3)
Right??
Ohhhhh.
We are so hosed.
Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (+mkOR)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (lCui1)
And virtual rape.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM
Well, maybe you can't see it, but she has offered opportunities to light a candle and experience the bouquet.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (a3Q+t)
tinyurl.com/yc24kpuh
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (wejvP)
LOL!
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (pnzcV)
Something like Democrat ballots, you mean?
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (njExo)
Posted by: He will face Judgment at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (7vb6V)
His conscious disembowelment wouldn't be sufficient.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (DTX3h)
he said they used to use spiders and snakes but they only work some of the time. Now they just use the beam.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
At least the reality part.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (qpolg)
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My wife convinced me to try it. Once I saw what a security sieve it was I stopped using it. That took about 2-3 weeks. FB was designed by DARPA to survielle COCOMs and their staffs and others in the US Foreign Policy world.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (sVfvf)
Posted by: Flyover at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Hampster Dance at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (MRe2S)
That occurs for the same reason motion sickness always occurs. Difference in middle ear balance and visual balance inputs. The solution has always been to dampen middle ear inputs. That's how medications like Meclizine work. First people will take meclizine to avoid motion sickness before they realize they can just surgically permanently deaden their inner ear and never suffer from motion sickness again, which they will start doing. I can't wait for David French's "The conservative case for surgically severing your inner ear so you can spend all your time in VR" article.
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (T/vhV)
Eh.....if you have a big family, it's an unwieldly process to go about sending emails with pictures to everyone, either in one mass email that turns into a wall of text chain of emails, or a few dozen individual emails.
The concept of Facebook itself isn't inherently bad. It's bad because horrible human beings run that company for nefarious ends.
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (3Zp/H)
But then you have things like Discord. Where you can have a real conversation and still share images or whatever.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Might want to dress up the word a bit. Sexy Meatverse might fly, Camel Meatverse, not so much.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: 29Victor at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM
Yep. So much so it's the one to beat.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (a3Q+t)
People have lost their damn minds.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (njExo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (DU+/6)
I'm sure Meatverse is already taken by p0rn. But it would be a great name for a BBQ bar and pub.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (pnzcV)
Call me.
Posted by: Auspex
can they involve collateralized future rent income streams from speculative superjacent property rights?
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (0G13K)
All it does is show you things and let you listen to things. Anyone who forgets that is setting themselves up for trouble. There's no tactile feedback. You can see and talk to people, but you can't exchange handshakes or a hug. It's not a stand-in for interacting in meatspace, which we all need to do for our physical well-being.
If you keep those limitations in mind, then it's pretty cool. And there are things I enjoy doing with it. And a lot more can be done with it, I suspect. It would be neat to see a museum load up a tour that allowed you to walk through it's galleries and see displays from different angles. Architects and designers can design products in full 3-D, and show them off up-close.
But I don't pretend it's a stand-in for real-life socializing.
Also, there's an issue with motion-sickness. You can build up a tolerance over time and practice. But your body knows that the movement your eyes have convinced you is happening isn't actually taking place. This creates a disconnect between your conscious and subconscious, and the result early on is motion-sickness.
Posted by: junior at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (E1Lts)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (DibdT)
Posted by: West at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (QY+6a)
Well...
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (Xrfse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Qcdzgj438
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (W+kMI)
No indeed, they were now valued by "relationships" with other tech companies, global communications and other nebulous concepts. At least this "method" of valuation seemed nebulous, speculative, and far fetched to little old me.
Not everything went so well.
Posted by: RM at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (U3LtS)
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Chinese Communist Party FTW!
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ai0yS)
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With the sheer volume of ignorance that surrounds us on a daily basis, the last thing I'd want is to hook myself into another platform to highlight local imbeciles in my neighborhood.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (YFAIE)
WHEW! I was worried you might be downplaying the:
"Nigerian Prince with BlockChain Eternium NFT in a totally not a Scam" that I just invested everything I own into.
I'm glad that's safe.
Posted by: ertdfg at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (I388C)
Gargoyle.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (dIIrC)
Neal may have gotten more right than wrong in his predictions.
"Fun" fact: The building at Amazon where they made the Kindle Fire was called 'Fiona', after the Diamond Age. I used to work there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
They initially tried nude Tank Abrams but it was against the Geneva Conventions.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (wejvP)
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (Rwq27)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
https://bityl.co/AnMc
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Dr. David Banner at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (786Ro)
Zuckerberg, or Andrew Edwards?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (sVfvf)
I bet I know why....
Posted by: Shep! at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (llON8)
Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (GYllL)
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In fairness, these sites are designed to addict people to their use. Completely understandable that it's tough to break.
Posted by: Revenant at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (cOGHc)
What is more worrying, how many pension funds are invested in this charade?
Zuckerberg will live well even on less than a trillion but what about all the retirees and their money?
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (N2gf7)
*
It's sort of neat to be able to see a date for when the internet changed so much for the worse.
That and google happened almost simultaneously. The wild, interesting internet disappeared, and the consumer-friendly internet of grandmothers took over.
AOL forever, but with a different name.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (CM8Oa)
tinyurl.com/yc24kpuh
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:29 PM (wejvP)
A stuffed potato. Nice.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM (yQpMk)
ROFL! oh and he will be fired, no doubt about that. He's stuck in employment limbo right now - everyone knows he's going to be fired, but there's a new boss coming in soon and no one wants to take over his job until they know who the New Boss is going to want to put there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (trdmm)
If it were to disappear I wouldn't be upset. Annoyed for a day or two, but that's about it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (wmDcS)
Posted by: Mean Tweets at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (BOJAx)
tinyurl.com/yc24kpuh
Posted by: ...
I think it's excellent! and, if it hasn't already been mentioned a couple dozen times the caption could be Potato Non Grata
Posted by: old chick at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (sOete)
The concept of Facebook itself isn't inherently bad. It's bad because horrible human beings run that company for nefarious ends.
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:30 PM (3Zp/H)
Yeah thats pretty accurate .
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (TEWKg)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (lCui1)
People have lost their damn minds.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 01:33 PM (NpAcC)
They're hoping to get invited over for virtual blunts, I guess.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3Zp/H)
Ace....have you consider allowing investment in NFTs of your best posts?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:09 PM (XvPQV)
Bidding for the Kaboom! post will be brutal. Knives, sabers, shrimp forks and buggy whips flashing on the field of battle. Blood spatters in the heather. The piteous cries of the wounded. The booming of cannon, the whine of grape passing through the ranks. The smack of musket balls in wet flesh.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (n+4am)
Speaking of stupid social media shit - I learned another word for hashtag, besides pound-sign. "Octothorpe."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (Cf/uA)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3YVs3)
Posted by: Grimmy at February 04, 2022 01:15 PM (JCZqz)
Everyone in Horizon has no lower body, so really no point for her to have virtual boyfriends.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM
You must have missed this headline from not too long ago:
"A beta tester has claimed she was virtually 'groped' in the metaverse VR platform Horizon Worlds from Meta..."
I guess that doesn't require a lower torso. Not sure if testosterone is needed.
Posted by: Grimmy at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (sy5kK)
Something like Democrat ballots, you mean?
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (njExo)
Ballots have a cash value -- About $150 a pop in Minneapolis. Or Houston. Or...
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (F0YaR)
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Bill was known to drink a bit.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (sVfvf)
It would be interesting to know how many millions of relationships and families it destroyed for the little "thumbs up" or whatever dopamine hits the users get.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (CM8Oa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (RkC6l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 04, 2022 01:17 PM (dIIrC)
Switch to the Poly-Saturated version...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (Rwq27)
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Ah, don't be so short-sighted. When the Resetters get their way, the Metaverse will be your only outlet to attempt to live an ersatz life with other people in it. It will become mandatory, and getting banned will be akin to a death sentence (it's a death sentence anyway, but it could make you kill yourself sooner rather than later if they take it away). You'll toe the line or you're banished from the world...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (DU+/6)
Ooh! I've got dibs on the vacant lot planted with marijuana!
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (njExo)
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (QYPq3)
https://tinyurl.com/hkbubpdt
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (GYllL)
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (Q8qgB)
They give me a headache just looking at them.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (NpAcC)
A second U.S. official later said two of Quraishi's wives and one child were killed.
.. can't even tell a wife from a child
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (RHGPo)
There's supposed to be a difference?
Posted by: Mohammed (yeah, the original) at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Roy
Techlords are suffering from the same disease affecting kings. All they hear is favorable information from their underlings and eventually they stop listening to anything critical because it hurts their self image of themselves. I would think that high iq individuals would be even more dismissive of criticism if they were head of such a firm.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (Iq9dF)
You cannot convince me that if Zuckerberg could get away with enslaving us to a VR machine, and we can't log out or take off the headsets or we will die, and it is all at his whims and commands, he would resist the temptation to make that our reality. He has proven untrustworthy with power. He is failing the great test of life and will be answerable for all this someday.
Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (+mkOR)
Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (yDmyH)
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (4oNyA)
Drink all the Valu-Right you want, all day long! No hangovers! No buzz! You can drive right afterwards, but why would you ever want to leave the Moronoverse?
$9.99/mo + S&H, 30-day-free-trial not actually free or cancellable.
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (asXVI)
It's sort of neat to be able to see a date for when the internet changed so much for the worse.
That and google happened almost simultaneously. The wild, interesting internet disappeared, and the consumer-friendly internet of grandmothers took over.
AOL forever, but with a different name.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:35 PM (CM8Oa)
It went from DARPA to Derpa overnight.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (Rwq27)
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (TEWKg)
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Except that Second Life wasn't immersive, which is supposed to be the secret sauce for the Metaverse.
Speaking of Second Life, the lunatic racist in charge of diversity for Seattle public schools - the chick that left her husband and 2/3 of her kids to move to Portland and shack up with a sex offender (the kid she brought was a little girl with development problems) - met the new beau on Second Life.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Mean Tweets at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (BOJAx)
It would be interesting to know how many millions of relationships and families it destroyed for the little "thumbs up" or whatever dopamine hits the users get.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:37 PM (CM8Oa)
Facebook and Twitter are the tools. Division is the goal.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Iris at February 04, 2022 01:34 PM (DibdT)
It has been better than social media ever was for us, b/c now if there are unexpected "fights", they can get noticed by all sibs and spouses and chilled out before there are pages of "mean text" between parties that friends, workmates, and randos are seeing...and it tends to never get that far b/c I know my sibs' buttons, so I try to stop one sib from pressing another's (or text privately in the call if it happens, b/c you can do that in Zoom)...
Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
AtC beware !
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
Makes sense. Not every place has deadly snakes or spiders, but heights will uniformly kill you or maim you if you fall.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (F0YaR)
It is the Babelfish.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Mean Tweets at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (BOJAx)
It was up for about 30 seconds before someone cried virtual rape.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (SH2Zi)
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Given the way a lot of people live on the Net and social media (present company excepted) RPO has a sad dose of reality to it. I've known some dudes who would think of the story as their perfect life. Anyways.... The novel had a good story, but the movie mostly ignored said story in favor of name-checking my Generation X pop culture life and having computer-game action stand in for plot advancement. Spielberg has outlived his greatness and is now a tired old man desperately trying to stay hip.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (W+kMI)
The buzz is the point.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (SchxB)
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The idea is to go out into the park and play but then we have lockdowns which say no, you can't.
I wonder if covid lockdowns are encouraged to keep people indoors so they have to resort to virtual outdoors.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (N2gf7)
"Iowa Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Friend... Over Mayonnaise"
And the story is more crazy and bizarre than a Florida-man tale. I guess stupid is everywhere.
https://tinyurl.com/4e4hwphx
Posted by: Grimmy at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (U1eOr)
I smile and tell them it's not them, it's me. I'm a luddite, I guess. (And I love my family and I want to continue to talk to them)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (CM8Oa)
Drink all the Valu-Right you want, all day long! No hangovers! No buzz! You can drive right afterwards, but why would you ever want to leave the Moronoverse?
$9.99/mo + S&H, 30-day-free-trial not actually free or cancellable.
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (asXVI)
There is a Platinum plan, so you don't have to share it with just regular morons, right? Some have standards and wish to wear pants.
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (Rwq27)
HAHAHAHA! We've blocked Blanco Basura from spreading his misinformation, but we'll still be collecting his $9.99...
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3Zp/H)
It's what college students and younger use...which is why Facebook is trying to move so hard into gaming b/c its social media business will be MySpace in under a decade...
Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (exHjb)
Everyone in Horizon has no lower body, so really no point for her to have virtual boyfriends.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (TDj17)
So, no Horizon for me.
I'm an ass man.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
You've definitely put me in an Iron Maiden mood. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: vmom
There was a story this week about a woman upset and complaining she was gangraped in one of these online universes. I didn't read the story. But I got a laugh out of the headline.
Posted by: Biergood at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (FQWHA)
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I blame Pong.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (sVtYq)
Facebook and Twitter are the tools. Division is the goal.
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I thought the purpose of Facebook and Twitter was to let all the tools talk to the rest of us continuously in real time.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (W+kMI)
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (T/vhV)
AOL forever, but with a different name.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Google too is fragile. And unless they persuade the US government to do something like China with a great firewall. They will be replaced. Already, google's algorithms are giving shittier search results and google's repeated attempts to monetize bought companies ends up simply datamining their customers as the value like youtube. Google values each 'client' at about 180 per person on average to datamine and advertise. Now, what happens if someone offers a better search engine.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: avi at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (hMd9S)
https://tinyurl.com/hkbubpdt
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 01:38 PM (GYllL)
Tempting....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (XvPQV)
**
It was so bad.
So.
Bad.
Fan Service the Book, and when you get to the end you realize your princess was in another castle.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (CM8Oa)
Me neither. I could tell from the positive reviews that it sucked infected donkey balls. "Oh, there's a reference to the Tomb of Horrors!" Okay, Urkel, calm down.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (3YVs3)
Uh...sure! Yeah, we have a brand new Pants-Required Platinum Plan, and it's only $24.99/mo!
We also have a Prove-How-Much-Better-You-Are-Than-Others-Plan in which you pay us hundreds or thousands of dollars a month--heck, the sky's the limit!--and then get to brag about it online!
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Mean Tweets at February 04, 2022 01:39 PM (BOJAx)
I'd figure it's teabagging or something like that.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (z5Vrg)
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You're fine so long as your movement in-session matches what your body is doing. So if I stand in one spot swinging light swords at colored cubes while music plays, I'm fine. If I run around my ship firing my blaster at space pirates, motion sickness will become an issue. A lot of games have the player teleport to move, which apparently reduces the problem somewhat.
Posted by: junior at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (E1Lts)
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (wejvP)
Zuck spending his money on this stupid boondoggle might be better for humanity than freeing it up for other, more evil purposes. But he has enough money at this point to use it for evil and stupidity simultaneously.
Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (+mkOR)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:40 PM (SH2Zi)
If a woman cries rape in the metaverse and there's nobody around to witness it, is she still batshit insane?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (iFTx/)
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
Jennifer Anniston has really lost weight.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (Cf/uA)
That's the official name for the symbol. Its #1 use is as a number sign.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3Zp/H)
It's another social media platform. Its popularity comes from people using it while gaming and talking about games. So it's starting with a younger crowd that abandoned thangs like facebook a long time ago.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:43 PM (pnzcV)
This slender, black-haired girl in a bikini has no interest in flirting in the Metaverse:
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
__________
She needs to eat more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
You've definitely put me in an Iron Maiden mood. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (KAi1n)
I think I will turn on the opening speech of Patton.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (N2gf7)
Or you can just accept Pixy's comment that they're stupid and a scam.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (EjmvJ)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
You've definitely put me in an Iron Maiden mood. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (KAi1n)
Shit, that got me in a Manowar mood. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (Iq9dF)
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Google's search sucks now, except for purely technical searches and their automated plug-ins (like putting in "1 USD in rubles" and getting a result). Outside of purely technical searches - where they are still the best, though by narrower margins - they are now an inferior search engine.
DuckDuckGo is okay, but not great. I have had the best luck with Qwant. Qwant is from Euroland (France) and actually returns really solid results most of the time. My experience with it is very good. Nobody can hold a candle to Google on image search, though - they're still way out in front for images.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (0jZnq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (W2Pud)
Yes, he did! Yesterday he accused me of being in league with Big Hummus.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (Ez6QX)
Or maybe because you want to assume one for victim points.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (pnzcV)
https://tinyurl.com/hkbubpdt
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They're a fine set of hotties. But they are no match for my shipfu harem from Azur Lane.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (W+kMI)
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How about various new genitals, especially enlarged ones?
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (ai0yS)
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Almost like a 'Circus of values?'
Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (U1eOr)
Posted by: cool breeze at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (UGKMd)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (LaNzR)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (CM8Oa)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (pnzcV)
Or microsoft. Neither cannot help but f up good things.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (sy5kK)
He's done NOTHING in years........and when he WAS doing something, it kinda sucked.
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It's no big deal, just proof that Snoop is now old enough to headline a Super Bowl halftime show. They can't get the Stones anymore, Mick is using a walker after busting his hip on tour.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (WEv0o)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (Xrfse)
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence. Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read....
Feb 4, 2004
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Now guess what date Facebook debuted. Go ahead. Guess.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (wejvP)
>Or you can just accept Pixy's comment that they're stupid and a scam.
I'm with Pixy. People are retarded and have too much money.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (WIpOf)
What's another half a billion dollars to Fuckbergface?
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (ai0yS)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3Zp/H)
Think of it as a comment section without the blog on top. Groups already formed without feedback comments can set one up and limit users, or not, on their own.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: cool breeze at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (UGKMd)
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Secured through obscure, slow and only somewhat reliable software and actually backed by a real-world asset mix?
That's innovative and entirely different. It's an idea who's time has come.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (DU+/6)
This slender, black-haired girl in a bikini has no interest in flirting in the Metaverse:
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
__________
She needs to eat more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM
I've got a sausage she can swallow...
Posted by: Degenerate Italian at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: butch at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (cHvOo)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM (njExo)
You guys and your crazy money schemes. Gotta have some credibility, man.
-Prince Kanihavadollah, heir to the throne of Nigeria
Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM (Xo3T0)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (sy5kK)
Wat R U tlking abot h8r?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: radar at February 04, 2022 01:36 PM (3Zp/H)
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It's a chat platform. You can make a group/chatroom and chat, share pictures, share videos, send links, etc. Discord is a lot like Slack, if you're familiar with Slack.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (W2Pud)
Lies; I never tried it. And I recoiled in horror at the thought that a trusted compatriot would try to poison me.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (N2gf7)
Some of that drop is from the countries cutting them off due to election interference.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (Iq9dF)
Yep. It's gotten particularly bad this last year. That was their bread and butter.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (wejvP)
People are too busy worrying and protecting themselves and try to maintain a job. Or, of course the spam-likes robots are dysfunctioning.
The become a painter thing fits right in with what we have been seeing for a while now. Kids and adults think they are smart and talented because they can hit a button. They have been living in a fake world for a while now. They get a star for not participating. They watch themselves gain followers and likes among thousands of "viewers" (not friends) without producing anything of importance or beauty.
The world is getting so ugly and fake for all of the newer generations. We were sold that it would be cool to be in a virtual world. They are trying to make this permanent. A permanent game chair in everyone's home with periodic forced injections. You will kneel. You will comply. Like Tucker always used to say (don't watch news on the tv anymore) - "Shut up and obey!" He was right. That is exactly what they want.
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (xKKnI)
Wat R U tlking abot h8r?
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (Ez6QX)
*smack*
Snap out of it!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Writers of the movie War Games at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (P1f+c)
Rightfully so as there is a big problem with the 3rd party providers who facilitate the exchange.
ALL of them are reporting.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (WIpOf)
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
That salute is all wrong. I whisk her away to my residence for intensive one-on-one re-training.
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (gmo/4)
Yes, and we need to find a way to exploit that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (SchxB)
FB was a hit because it was an instantaneous way for people to connect across distances. It was a way to easily share life's experiences with friends. Sure, FB will use some of my data to help advertisers target their product. No worries.
But then, you couldn't browse a thing without ads -- Big Brother-like -- stalking you across multiple platforms. You couldn't use an app without sharing every bit of personal info with FB data drones. Then came the pandemic and the "What are you doing, Dave" messages began popping up if you shared an unauthorized opinion. And let's not forget the $billions that Zucker made being seen as carte-blanche to start manipulating elections with ZuckBucks.
Screw em. Hope it all goes the way of AOL.
Posted by: red speck at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
I defer to your expertise in image searches because you have demonstrated that repeatedly. Bing is okay on image and video searches but I suspect they get their results from some tie in with Google on those. I like Qwant ok, have used Bing, DDG, and others. Rarely use Google now except its scholar search.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM (II3Gr)
Hell, wear 20 in the virtual world and do your virtue signaling there and still be able to breathe.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (N2gf7)
Some of that drop is from the countries cutting them off due to election interference.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (eoQWY)
Conspiracy theorist!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: MSDNCBSXiNN at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (II3Gr)
This guy gets it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (SH2Zi)
https://tinyurl.com/34uv7wd2
link goes to livestream
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (hObqH)
Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 01:41 PM
True Morons wear chaps. This is known.
(except for the Book Thread, where they may wear both.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (a3Q+t)
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I feel bad for the good people of Oregon who have to deal with being outvoted by all the woke trash in Portland, Salem, and Eugene.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (W+kMI)
Posted by: butch at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (cHvOo)
Yep.
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (gmo/4)
-Prince Kanihavadollah, heir to the throne of Nigeria
Dude, where's my crate of Krugerrands?
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (njExo)
Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 01:12 PM (Eqkqm)
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I agree. Zuckerberg's nastiness got him rich and it will also make him unrich.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (N2gf7)
Remove easy transportation outside of high-density urban areas.
Placate the people who live in the urban, high density pods by allowing them access to virtual worlds so they can spend their free time in a chair or in their beds instead of interacting with the outside world.
"Hey, this is a GREAT idea!"
Posted by: Revenant at February 04, 2022 01:21 PM (cOGHc)
Posted by: Xi Jinping at February 04, 2022 01:51 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: flounder
Pride /Covet
Greed /Envy
Instigate /Jealousy
Facebook makes it easy to widen the divide.
Posted by: old chick at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (sOete)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (eotFB)
Posted by: red speck at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (gS3OW)
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FB was also hugely important locally in its initial market: universities. When Facebook came to campus (my big school in 2004, which was part of the wider beta and my smaller school after I transferred, when it went general availability to .EDU E-Mail addresses), the non-Facebook venues all vanished almost immediately. If you wanted to learn where a party was, or what was going on, or anything else, you were on FB or you didn't know. The student union bulletin board became pointless, as did E-Mail and even phones to a lesser degree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 04, 2022
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For me it's Larry Niven's Known Space at the time of Beowulf Shaeffer, the puppeteers, and the kzinti.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (txdEq)
He's done NOTHING in years........and when he WAS doing something, it kinda sucked.
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Snoop Dogg was and remains a marketing creation. Every good rap he ever had was written and produced by Dr. Dre. Everything he did on his own after their collaboration is unlistenable. Much like Eminem, who had the exact same trajectory.
Dr. Dre was very good at laying down rap beats and writing lyrics, but recognized that he had enough of them for many "artists." He would just pick out a face he knew he could sell, flog them til the money stopped flying out of them, and move on. That's how you get to be fantastically wealthy in the music biz (which he was even before that $3b deal with Apple).
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (Cf/uA)
http://372pages.com/page/13
Posted by: moviegique at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (asXVI)
This is Mike Nelson from MST3K doing a multi-part podcast breaking down what and why this book sucks so much.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM (eoQWY)
Kind of like Usenet, then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (P3gRi)
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Weird.. her face looks like it could be Jennifer Aniston.
Posted by: red speck at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (gS3OW)
from the Livestream chat:
"toxic masculinity on full display"
---Is that you, David French?
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: ...
I have also found that Amazon's search engines are increasingly craptastic and pushing unrelated items, crap sponsored items, and generally making it more difficult to find what I want. Filters in particular are shitty. Ebay's is more effective and its filters are better for a lot of items. If Walmart did not have its head up its ass, they could hit Amazon pretty hard in online sales but their search engine is even worse than Amazons.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (Iq9dF)
Snap out of it!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (II3Gr)
I hate it when people text me shit like that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (xKKnI)
Ah, the oft-heard refrain, first heard throughout all of childhood.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: artisanal ette
I refuse to play. I so want spring to get here. It finally made it to 29 today.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (qpolg)
Guy had one decent LP. One.
...not much different than Guns and Roses, really.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (WIpOf)
Dr. Dre was very good at laying down rap beats and writing lyrics, but recognized that he had enough of them for many "artists." He would just pick out a face he knew he could sell, flog them til the money stopped flying out of them, and move on. That's how you get to be fantastically wealthy in the music biz (which he was even before that $3b deal with Apple).
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (Cf/uA)
Em has genuine talent.
Snoop is just a celebration of weed and being lazy, in musical form and in real life.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (eotFB)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (SH2Zi)
From what I hear, most of the manipulation is crudely done by string match -> downgrade kind of thing. Whatever sophistication is there below that forced boosting and crushing is hidden beneath crud.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (Kz9dH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (dNqv+)
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Ha, ha, ha!
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (N2gf7)
We created Facebook. It was LifeLog used to collect voluntary data of users. Zuckerberg was given the keys and the name was changed to Facebook.
This is how things work in the Harvard Tribe. Neat way to stay in power and rule over the useless eaters.
Posted by: DARPA at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (WdQMQ)
People are too busy worrying and protecting themselves and try to maintain a job. Or, of course the spam-likes robots are dysfunctioning.
The become a painter thing fits right in with what we have been seeing for a while now. Kids and adults think they are smart and talented because they can hit a button. They have been living in a fake world for a while now. They get a star for not participating. They watch themselves gain followers and likes among thousands of "viewers" (not friends) without producing anything of importance or beauty.
The world is getting so ugly and fake for all of the newer generations. We were sold that it would be cool to be in a virtual world. They are trying to make this permanent. A permanent game chair in everyone's home with periodic forced injections. You will kneel. You will comply. Like Tucker always used to say (don't watch news on the tv anymore) - "Shut up and obey!" He was right. That is exactly what they want.
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 01:49 PM (xKKnI)
My cow-orkers in a nutshell. I enjoy my work but I've always thought of it as very abstract....
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (0jZnq)
yeah, when a chick sends a friend request the first thing I look for are mutual friends. None? Not a good sign. Even funnier when I see 1...1 mutual friend and I think jeez dude, are you that stupid? Funny thing though, very occasionally I'll get a message after ignoring some friend requests, the last one from being from brazil, where it went something like "Hey weren't you the guitar player of *** back in ***". I felt like typing back yeah, but not anymore, no I don't want to see pictures of your cats. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: artisanal ette
Well yes, that's what they want until the ditches can be dug.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (wejvP)
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Hearing aids and wheelchairs in VR seems pretty dystopian. Every time I think I've hit my personal Cynicism limit, they do shit like this, which raises the level cap.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Lex at February 04, 2022 01:54 PM (hjJh7)
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 01:55 PM (xKKnI)
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I think she needs to release the hounds.
Posted by: dartist at February 04, 2022 01:55 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: butch
Also, a dollar is worth a dollar mostly because there's a whole government with a honking big military who says "that's worth a dollar."
How many divisions hath Bitcoin?
Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2022 01:55 PM (P1f+c)
Goodness I hope they all lose their money.
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Long virtual rapes, robberies, and drive-by shootings.
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 01:55 PM (ai0yS)
For there's no other way
For your folks to not hit you
Than shut up and obey
Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
For God not to damn you
Than shut up and obey
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:55 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:52 PM (P3gRi)
yes, or the early BBS sites on dialup. The main attraction is you can have your own and create your own group, be as open or closed as you like, or a mix by having open areas and more private ones.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 01:16 PM (TDj17)
*********
Well, that should solve all the virtual rape lawsuits.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: garrett fixes things at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (WIpOf)
Posted by: Hmmm... at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (WdQMQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Just superglue them on, for safety
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (lCui1)
For there's no other way
Out of the principal's office
Than shut up and obey
Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
To hang on to your marriage
Than shut up and obey
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:20 PM (Ez6QX)
Like, for instance, Gwynneth Paltrow's cooch?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 01:26 PM (P3gRi)
Heh, I was thinking more like the Louvre or Notre Dame or the Vatican. Things like that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (Ez6QX)
Also, another thing I like about Dre - besides his business acumen - is that when he started Aftermath Records and needed protection from the maniacs he turned on at Death Row, he knew where to turn for the hardest motherfuckers in LA. The ones that scare people like Suge Knight. He paid for help from the JDL.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (Cf/uA)
Posted by: cool breeze at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (UGKMd)
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Secured through obscure, slow and only somewhat reliable software and actually backed by a real-world asset mix
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:47 PM
We're glad to see we're finally getting real-world acknowledgement of our ultimate asset magnitude.
Posted by: Ace's Shelves at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 01:45 PM (0jZnq)
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And then there's the stuff you don't see. I was a FB user in college, but quit using it once I left. I still have an account, I think, but it's been dormant for more than a decade. About 7-8 years ago, a friend of mine (a real one, not a FB "friend") sent me a screenshot from his PC. Facebook sent him an E-Mail that said, "Hi, {friend}! It looks like no one's talked with Joe recently! Would you like to send him a message and reconnect?"
His comment as, "Facebook is worried about you, bro. Ha ha ha."
If you drop off the platform, they'll guilt-trip your friends into trying to drag you back in.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:25 PM (II3Gr)
This guy gets it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (SH2Zi)
A friend tried to convince me that beets are yummy. They taste like dirt, I said. You just haven't had them prepared correctly, he countered. Next day he brings me some Indian-style beets. What do you think? Tastes like spicy dirt!
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (w2JUA)
Over a billion dollars was spent in 2020 by a secretive liberal dark money juggernaut to help Biden win the White House, win the US Senate, and keep the US House of Representatives.
The group Arabella Advisors, may not be a familiar name to you, but chances are they fund one or more liberal causes you are familiar with. Now, they are targeting the Supreme Court in their efforts.
Founded in 2005 by former Clinton administration official Eric Kessler, Arabella is comprised of five nonprofit organizations: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the Windward Fund, the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, and the North Fund. While they all operate under the Arabella umbrella, they address different policy issues.
Bill and Melinda Gates, Pierre Omidyar, and Hansjorg Wyss are among the billionaires behind Arabella, which provides funding to hundreds of stand-alone nonprofits across the country, as well as promotes leftist groups they found and control.
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (xKKnI)
Posted by: red speck at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (gS3OW)
That attitude pervades Meatverse. I got a cellular cold call yesterday about a property I don't own (RE investment firm). Aside from the cellular spam call, yes I know who owns the property, and GFY if you think I am your free personal internet search engine. The caller was aghast that I would not willing disclose information that it would take a few seconds to go find for yourself.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (SH2Zi)
For there's no other way
To keep earning a paycheck
Than shut up and obey
Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
To stay out of the Gulag
Than shut up and obey
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (II3Gr)
BREAKING: Alberta to ease Covid restrictions, eliminate vaccine passports
Reported by CTV; linked by The Post Millennial
Supposedly sometime in February.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (N2gf7)
It's always in the last place you look.
Posted by: helpful advice at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (N2gf7)
Some of that drop is from the countries cutting them off due to election interference.
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That's one sick burn, all the better because it's true. Facebook could attempt to hide its oppression loving policies here in the USA, but overseas that sort of thing was seen as the sort of Ugly American interference that the guys like Zuckerberg supposedly hate.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (W+kMI)
Yes, and we need to find a way to exploit that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (SchxB)
JiveTurkeyCoin
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (XvPQV)
Never have done the MySpace/Faceplant cults. Never have, never will.
AoS has MoMeets. Real Morons, Real 'Ettes. Real food, real booze, real shooty goodness. And if you're very, very fortunate, real Texas sunshine and wide open spaces.
AoS > anythingzukertrash
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at February 04, 2022 01:28 PM (QzJWU)
Where is that damned thumbs up emoji when I need it?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (sy5kK)
And normal people are stuck with those who will tolerate this.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (OTzUX)
Is this not redundant?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM
How-a dare-sa you!
(Waves arms frantically)
Posted by: Degenerate Italian at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (JCZqz)
I mean well you could if you wanted to. Create a whole bunch of offline wallets whose keys were recorded on paper and paper only then transfer like 0.00001 Bitcoin to each. Then each one would be effectively paper money. It's a lot of work just to have paper to throw around.
Fiat money is little different in that the vast majority has no physical representation ever such as a dollar bill and it's entire existence is just a relevant ledger entry in a financial institution. That's fundamentally the same as Bitcoin.
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (T/vhV)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (w2JUA)
Yay, curried dirt...
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (II3Gr)
For there's no other way
To keep earning a paycheck
Than shut up and obey
Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
To stay out of the Gulag
Than shut up and obey
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (II3Gr)
I remember that hymn...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (XvPQV)
Henn Co Atty Mike Freeman says his office in collaboration w/ MN Attorney General Keith Ellison will review #AmirLocke death to determine whether to file criminal charges against SWAT officer Mark Hanneman.
https://bit.ly/3oq4q5l
The officer did nothing wrong. He went in with his team, they announced who they were immediately after entry (they apparently had a signed no knock warrant), they encounter a sleeping man who woke up and raised a gun at officers.
The grievous and unconscionable errors weren't the fault of the officer. Bad intel, a bad warrant, and the bad practice of a no knock warrant aren't his fault, they're the fault of the state that's now serving the officer up on a platter to the mob.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (VCz/u)
Yes, and we need to find a way to exploit that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at February 04, 2022 01:50 PM (SchxB)
JiveTurkeyCoin
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (XvPQV)
*raises hand*
Posted by: $6000 shower curtain at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Minuteman at February 04, 2022
The mayor has a pet chicken she talks to. It's all pretty screwed up.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (pnzcV)
Instead of simply providing basic data that was searched for, they lost their focus and the algorithms became geared toward guiding your thinking toward a leftist POV.
Also, when you try to search say, what a person who had a major event in their life a year ago might be up to now, all you get is 15 links to sources that have the same story about what happened a year ago.
Posted by: RM at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (U3LtS)
Have not confirmed.
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (DJFLF)
I laughed, but then I thought about it, and ... yes, I would probably leave a place well before the level of Ben Shapiro approached 75%. Like, 5% is probably my limit.
Posted by: Match Checksout at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (dYe5S)
Goodness I hope they all lose their money.
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Long virtual rapes, robberies, and drive-by shootings.
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Snoop is going to have a virtual GTA MMORPG?
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (W+kMI)
My gig is requiring me to take "anti-racism training.' I'm stalling as long as I can but there's no gainsaying.
I can see that this BS is going to be next: "Silence=consent" bs.
what a stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: vivi at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (33kEg)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (qZdIZ)
I remember that hymn...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (XvPQV)
When Sunday School and real life collide.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM
Calm down. And do you know how pretty you are when you smile?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (a3Q+t)
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No trend goes on forever--the trees never grow enough to reach the heavens, and so on. The old roots of glamour's meaning is appropriate. If you think of the techlords' primary power as illusions (maybe because they are Stan's apprentices), they have little power when you see through their packaged lies about reality like a revealing a magician's trick.
They are still bound by that old rule of marketing that one dissatisfied person affects the attitudes of about ten others or so. Networking effects are like leverage in finances--great when going up, disastrous when going the other way.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (Iq9dF)
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This was my conclusion as well.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (sVfvf)
We should come up with one of these scams, I mean, nontraditional electronic stores of value. We can really fleece those jive turkeys.
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HordeCoin ... get in early and be a HODLer: Horde on for Dear Life!
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (ai0yS)
Demand Justice, one of these groups, was begun by the Sixteen Thirty Fund. $5 million in advertising paid for by this dark-money group attempted to thwart the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. The group will now use this money to influence President Biden.
In the aftermath of President Biden's election, Demand Justice began harassing Justice Stephen Breyer into retiring. They ran aggressive ads and made a mobile billboard outside the Supreme Court that said: "Breyer, retire. It's time for a Black woman Supreme Court justice. There's no time to waste."
https://tinyurl.com/2p86r56j
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (xKKnI)
Soon, puny humans, you shall feel our wrath....
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (eoQWY)
If this is about humus, I agree completely.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (SH2Zi)
His protagonist lived in a shipping container, since he spent all of his time in the metaverse.
This is Zuckerberg's dream.
Posted by: Meta! at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)
:If you could see the panic behind the scenes, you'd know how effective this is.:
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (DJFLF)
45s
We are a nation that respects the difference of opinions in the political discourse that shapes all of our lives. This extends to the halls of Congress where debate is the order of the day.
This is why I join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers of congress in decrying the partisan effort to censure two respected members of the House, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom have served with distinction.
That each has differing opinions than our former president is no reason to shun them and their contributions to our democracy.
It is unseemley and sends the wrong message to our adversaries in this time of international crisis.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: garrett fixes things at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (WIpOf)
Not even close...dick. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (VwHCD)
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This is hugely problematic, and Meta is going to have to be better to arrest this change. With the major usage declines coming from territories populated largely by black and brown bodies, it is clear that the disparate impact in subscription levels and service attendance is due to systemic racism within the platform.
Facebook/Meta needs to affirmatively and actively address these disequities in their service offerings and platforms. Their spaces need to be made safe for the occupation by black and brown bodies and the platform needs to be made relevant to their interests in order to purge the obvious problems of white supremacy. If it weren't for systemic oppression within Meta, the white and white-adjacent populations would not continue to dominate Meta/Facebook spaces at the expense of oppressed populations of color.
Posted by: Your Kid's Tech Policy Professor at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Betty at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (/QabR)
Next day he brings me some Indian-style beets. What do you think? Tastes like spicy dirt!
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (w2JUA)
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If they require spice to make them palatable, you're eating spice, not beets.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (/U27+)
My brother committed suicide Tues morning leaving a wife and daughter. I am the executor of his will and am in need of a trustworthy probate lawyer to aid in the disposition of his estate.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (llON8)
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Any virtual stabbings, she asked hopefully.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (Fs5vw)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (pZNr0)
You're talking about Negress Slaves, aren't you.
Posted by: Brian Flores at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (yDmyH)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 01:56 PM (Ez6QX)
Gwenyth Paltrow's cooch at the Vatican for an exorcism, I might give that a go.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (SH2Zi)
I'm planning to begin hiking and camping again with frens and doggo frens this Spring.
Posted by: the vr virgin at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (WdQMQ)
++++
Nice. It's been a bit since you did one of those. Great work as always.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (DU+/6)
*
The weird part to me?
Discord is not a good thing. It's being out of tune. It's strife. They chose that name and are celebrating that.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (CM8Oa)
Also, ads. Their whole business model is to get you to click on an ad, so their free search results get worse and worse to try to force you to click on an ad.
Posted by: Meta! at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:53 PM (XvPQV)
The nerve of that guy! Music and weed? What about cocaine and painting, man!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
One of the better hymns and will be around after Zuck is dust.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (R/m4+)
++++
I am so sorry to hear this. I can't help with the lawyer, but I can at least keep you in my prayers. I am very sorry you're living through a tragedy like that :-(
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (w2JUA)
lol, exactly.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (SH2Zi)
Posted by: Betty
___
I'm so glad I'm not on FB.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (RU4sa)
I hope that's fake
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (pZNr0)
Fake, but accurate.
Posted by: JoeF. at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (mR6Gs)
Is this not redundant?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 01:48 PM
How-a dare-sa you!
(Waves arms frantically)
Posted by: Degenerate Italian at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (JCZqz)
yeah, you somonabeech.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (VwHCD)
Hahaha - I am never gonna not enjoy that!
Love ya brother. No homo.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (WIpOf)
My brother committed suicide Tues morning leaving a wife and daughter. I am the executor of his will and am in need of a trustworthy probate lawyer to aid in the disposition of his estate.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
Sorry to hear that, man.
I hope you find good local help.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (XvPQV)
OMG, I am so sorry... I know what that's like as My Brother in-law committed suicide years ago
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (pZNr0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 04, 2022 02:00 PM (a3Q+t)
*snort*
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (Ez6QX)
My brother committed suicide Tues morning leaving a wife and daughter. I am the executor of his will and am in need of a trustworthy probate lawyer to aid in the disposition of his estate.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
TSgt Ciz, how terrible. Prayers up.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (llON8)
Reported by CTV; linked by The Post Millennial
Supposedly sometime in February.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 01:57 PM (F0YaR)
Went to Post Millennial, nada. Shitty Web site, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (P3gRi)
45s...
Posted by: JoeF. at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM (mR6Gs)
I ain't falling for it although it is pure Mittens. You are good, sir.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (lCui1)
*fingers crossed*
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (DJFLF)
I'll make some inquiries. Sorry for your loss.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (Kz9dH)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (pZNr0)
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (Fs5vw)
The immersion is cool, isn't it!? I'm such a snob though, I can't get past the screen door effect. Once the tech develops to monitor quality I'll definitely think about it.
Posted by: Mainah at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (B+qrE)
Jim Gaffagan has a bit about this, but it's about seafood. Plenty of people will eat crab meat with a ton of butter. If you can't taste anything but butter, why are you eating crab?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (VCz/u)
His protagonist lived in a shipping container, since he spent all of his time in the metaverse.
This is Zuckerberg's dream.
========
True. And Mr. Stephenson should sue RPO for ripping off his story. For those who didn't read it, RPO is a crapsack world that is getting shabbier and run down IRL because most of the people are living online in nostalgia land.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (W+kMI)
Discord is not a good thing. It's being out of tune. It's strife. They chose that name and are celebrating that.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (CM8Oa)
Maybe it's ironic.
I've found it very useful to chat with like-minded fans and to do online tabletop gaming.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (DJFLF)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 01:58 PM (VCz/u)
I'm tired of this shit. Anyone involved in these no-knock, wrong information, wrong location raids where someone gets killed needs to put up against the wall. I mean everyone, from the cops to the snitches to the judge who signed off on it. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (II3Gr)
>>>How many divisions hath Bitcoin?
Not really. Read modern money mechanics. It's published by the fed and at least since I last read it was refreshingly pretty honest about how fiat money works. I'm required by law to accept Dollars as payment along with anything else I'd like. Nothing prevents me from making my dollar price so high (in relevance to Bitcoin or what I'd rather transact in) that it's worth your while to pay in Bitcoin. The dollar survives only because most people don't have a good substitute that's actually better and no desire to push people to use bitcoin in that doing so could cost sales. Dollars are held up solely by the confidence and good will of the people and that's it.
Posted by: mikethemoose at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (T/vhV)
___
Condolences and prayers up for you and the rest of your family.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (trdmm)
I've found it very useful to chat with like-minded fans and to do online tabletop gaming.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)
++++
I think they're going for irony. The two biggest chat platforms are Discord and Slack.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (GYllL)
That's terrible. I'm sorry for your loss.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (VCz/u)
Condolences on the very sad news. I don't have anyone to recommend.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (qpolg)
This slender, black-haired girl in a bikini has no interest in flirting in the Metaverse:
https://is.gd/z2WT9P
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:42 PM (DU+/6)
__________
She needs to eat more.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (/U27+)
https://tinyurl.com/4nwh4nxf
Better???
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (CM8Oa)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (WIpOf)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:05 PM (DJFLF)
Which is worse, a city stuffed with trucks or a city with no trucks anywhere?
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (AiZBA)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (pZNr0)
Posted by: dartist at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (+ya+t)
Why do I need Facebook for that? I have AOSHQ!
Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 01:13 PM (Z32m1)
Me, too.
Posted by: m at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (ugYvB)
I am so very sorry. I will pray for you and your family.
I hope someone can refer you to a Houston area probate lawyer.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (lCui1)
Posted by: JoeF. at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (i250B)
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (WIpOf)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
Fuck, man. Don't know what to say, other than I'm deeply sorry.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (II3Gr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 01:44 PM (/U27+)
Need Fens' reply. Obligatory Fen vs Joe Sketch:
https://tinyurl.com/rhbszhz2
Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (5DfsO)
My gig is requiring me to take "anti-racism training.' I'm stalling as long as I can but there's no gainsaying.
I can see that this BS is going to be next: "Silence=consent" bs.
what a stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: vivi at February 04, 2022 01:59 PM (33kEg)
---------
It's a ploy to make one or more groups of people -- call them, for insurance, deplorables -- to be characterized as subhuman, the gateway to enthusiastically-supported and "acceptable" genocide.
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (ai0yS)
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:04 PM (P3gRi)
Here's the link :
https://tinyurl.com/2p96mjyh
Got the link from Bad Blue.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (F0YaR)
Detroit 442
https://youtu.be/NO94MYyc7SE
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 01:46 PM (XvPQV)
++++
I read that as "bunk phase." It still works, I think.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (SH2Zi)
I am the executor of his will and am in need of a trustworthy probate lawyer to aid in the disposition of his estate.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
________
I have a name if you need one. Write me at monsalvat 61 at g mail dot com.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 02:06 PM (BgMrQ)
I'm afraid to look. That's not Tess Holliday is it?
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (II3Gr)
I'm pretty ignorant of how blockchain even works.
Given that Bitcoin is at about $40k, if I want to charge you B0.000125 for a $5 item? Or can you only transfer the coins as a whole unit?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Cf/uA)
My brother committed suicide Tues morning leaving a wife and daughter. I am the executor of his will and am in need of a trustworthy probate lawyer to aid in the disposition of his estate.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 02:02 PM (NfQ3Y)
Damn! That sucks. Please accept my condolences.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (R0Tis)
Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (5DfsO)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (R0Tis)
Pants are optional.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (lqNK8)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (R0Tis)
They all ONLY read Harry Potter.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (TDj17)
Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (WEv0o)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (Cf/uA)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (DU+/6)
They've finally mastered the Obama Administration's technique of loudly reporting good economic news, and then quietly revising the numbers sharply downwards a month later. It was awesome how all the errors in the economic statistics only went in one direction.
Posted by: The Arc of History! at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (I2/tG)
I'm pretty ignorant of how blockchain even works.
Given that Bitcoin is at about $40k, if I want to charge you B0.000125 for a $5 item? Or can you only transfer the coins as a whole unit?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
If you read Pixy's early morning links--you will become informed. Yes, bitcoin transactions can be fractional and in most cases are.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (II3Gr)
No, no, no...I'm not evil.
It's Jessica Buettner, a 76kg Canadien Powerlifter who has it alllll going on!!!
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (5DfsO)
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:03 PM (DJFLF)
It's all part of their joie de vivre, eh?
Posted by: m at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (ugYvB)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (Idchb)
Posted by: dartist at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (i250B)
Wanker!
Posted by: Symphony with WYSIWYG at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (4I/2K)
...decrying the partisan effort to censure two respected members of the House, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both of whom have served with distinction. That each has differing opinions than our former president is no reason to shun them and their contributions to our democracy...
Posted by: JoeF. at February 04, 2022 02:01 PM
They aren't hated because they went against Trump...they're hated by the base because they went against the base. Granted, MOST GOPers go against the base, but they at least pay lip service, or try to hide it.
Posted by: PoliSci Guy at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Betty at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (/QabR)
https://tinyurl.com/2p9h8vyr
Probably no more than the equivalent of being denied a piece of pie after dinner, but I'm astonished the RNC could even bring itself to do this.
Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (njExo)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (i250B)
All the cool kids use Quattro Pro now.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (pnzcV)
Zuckerberg has been more public about his Jewish identity in recent years. Wasn't it alleged he'd rename business (Meta) based on Jewish tradition? Even posted pictures of a pet got anti-Israel pushback during 2021.
Do Facebook, etc. and Spotify have a business relationship?
Sometimes people (past co-founders of things) fall out of love bigly.
Posted by: Lola at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (xjz83)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Look for a big jump in Vancouver, WA real estate prices.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (sy5kK)
Got the link from Bad Blue.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:08 PM (F0YaR)
"Once we begin to see a sustained reduction in COVID pressure on the hospitals, I am looking forward to being able to make decisions on relaxation on public health measures." said Kenney.
That's not how it works, Shitweasel. You lift the restrictions Right.Fucking.Now. Because they don't do dick, and never did.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (P3gRi)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 04, 2022 02:07 PM (i250B)
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I intend to upload my consciousness into an old Pong video game for future discovery by the neo-Apes.
Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (ai0yS)
Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (5DfsO)
Good save!
Posted by: m at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (ugYvB)
So very sorry for the loss of your brother. Prayers for you, his wife and daughter, and other dear family and friends.
I know no one to personally assist you but found the following online & hope it may help: https://guides.sll.texas.gov/probate
Posted by: Lola at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (xjz83)
Posted by: Eeyore at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (R0Tis)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (dprVF)
I knew the Moron family would be there for me.
I've been longing to go back home to the Southlands for some time. But this is not at all how I hoped to do that.
This was so completely unexpected and the family is absolutely unaware of any reason for his choice to end it this way.
All that I can say to any who will listen:
It isn't enough to be sensitive to signs of our loved one's emotional duress for too often they are masters at concealment. Especially if they have assumed positions of pride such as protector or provider.
Encourage those around you to let down their guard and be humble to each other and to God by modeling that behavior for all to follow. Show grace by asking for it yourself.
If we stand too tall on our parapets we will only look down at the world which can lead to feeling alone and vulnerable.
It is from a position of humility that our eyes are naturally turned upwards to God and we are best positioned to receive his grace as well as our own and from those around us.
That is all I have.
It is and will always be enough for me.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (NfQ3Y)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 01:31 PM
________
I've seen the term "Meatspace" used for the real world in several SF stories based on common use of virtual worlds.
Posted by: MW at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (u33s0)
The FBPD will get VERY angry with you if you post that, as that is "hate speech" and against community standards.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (CdZ4i)
Don't you have an extra letter in your nic?
I always thought they came in 3s.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 04, 2022 04:05 PM (2O6rz)
Naming FB "Meta" is Kinsley gaffe: when a politicized actor with an agenda independent of the truth accidentally says something true that reveals their own dishonesty.
FB is a fake censored world where people hide from reality and truth.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at February 04, 2022 04:40 PM (wh9C3)
he said they used to use spiders and snakes but they only work some of the time. Now they just use the beam.
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 01:32 PM (0G13K)
That's a game called Richey's Plank Experience and is all too real. I cannot force myself to walk out on the plank.
Posted by: profligatewaste at February 04, 2022 05:43 PM (Be3jb)
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