Current Affairs Culture wars & The rise of grifting

[Jebus_lives]

 

[Amw79]

There's something in this, its becoming more apparent that a lot of people feel lost, and are snared by easy answers and hate that lines up with their respective certain views. Its for another thread. I'll add, 'blame culture' to that equation. Grim.

Defo. The mediums of podcasts, YouTube and live streaming are pretty unique, and do give the listener/viewer a real sense of community. In my case it’s channels about movies and guitars, and you do genuinely feel part of a community with similar interests and all that. But others seem to naturally gravitate to the culture war side of things.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Haha...There has been so much projectile vomiting when those six neurons get to firing that I couldn't keep up with all his posts. I missed the "we are still hunter-gatherers" bit, which is an old trope of internet logic-bros who have read a bastardized version of human evolution by a non-expert, and then think we should all be consuming only wild boar and tubers.

YouTubers?

 

[Oddball]

I'm still laughing at the daft comment that we are for all intents and purposes hunter gatherers.
I can't think of the last time I went out foraging or hunting Woolly Mammoths with the lads.
The advancements in medical science and computing technology alone has been completely transformative from my grandparents generation to now and as such we live very different lives.
@verreauxi is in your head

For "all intents and purposes" we are. its not very hard to understand.

Do you believe human evolution has peaked?
Is the sum of all human achievement the manufacturing of 60inch televisions?

Even a 3yr old can use an i-phone, we just have the engineering/technology to make them.

its not rocket science!

edit- @verreauxi ? thanks for reminding me.

 

[verreauxi]

One of the most successful grifts in recent times is that big oil has convinced a bunch of angry, bitter old men who attend "YouTube University" to do their dirty work for them and make unsupported claims across the internet about how anthropogenic climate change is fake (e.g., "Here's a video saying the hockey stick graph is debunked...I am very very clever").

When you are arguing on behalf of big oil CEOs that anthropogenic climate change is a myth you are the dumbest, saddest, sucker online.

Behind the Scenes of FRONTLINE’s The Power of Big Oil

FRONTLINE’s new three-part series premiering this month, The Power of Big Oil, is a deeply researched investigation of what scientists, corporations, politicians and the public have known about climate change for decades and the many missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.

www.wgbh.org

 

[coollino]

For "all intents and purposes" we are. its not very hard to understand.

Do you believe human evolution has peaked?
Is the sum of all human achievement the manufacturing of 60inch televisions?

Even a 3yr old can use an i-phone, we just have the engineering/technology to make them.

its not rocket science!

edit- @verreauxi ? thanks for reminding me.

Did you snort some of the pesticide when tending your plants?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

One of the most successful grifts in recent times is that big oil has convinced a bunch of angry, bitter old men who attend "YouTube University" to do their dirty work for them and make unsupported claims across the internet about how anthropogenic climate change is fake (e.g., "Here's a video saying the hockey stick graph is debunked...I am very very clever").

When you are arguing on behalf of big oil CEOs that anthropogenic climate change is a myth you are the dumbest, saddest, sucker online.

Behind the Scenes of FRONTLINE’s The Power of Big Oil

FRONTLINE’s new three-part series premiering this month, The Power of Big Oil, is a deeply researched investigation of what scientists, corporations, politicians and the public have known about climate change for decades and the many missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.

www.wgbh.org

Yeah makes me fume. The free thinkers parroting big oil.

 

[Goat]

I reckon soil has a higher IQ.

Actual painful reading.

 

[verreauxi]

I reckon soil has a higher IQ.

Actual painful reading.

Indeed, really cringey sad stuff.

 

[Goat]

Indeed, really cringey sad stuff.

These people live in a fog.

They do not see the world like real people.

100% hes sitting there thinking "Why are all these people wrong, how can they not see im highly intelligent", meanwhile hes drawing pictures of cows across the screen.

Very painful viewing.

 

[coollino]

These people live in a fog.

They do not see the world like real people.

100% hes sitting there thinking "Why are all these people wrong, how can they not see im highly intelligent", meanwhile hes drawing pictures of cows across the screen.

Very painful viewing.

/Get supported by their parents who are waiting for them to leave

 

[Goat]

/Get supported by their parents who are waiting for them to leave

He cant afford his own home cos of those empty planes!

 

[coollino]

He cant afford his own home cos of those empty planes!

Imagine how stressful it must be seeing a taxi or a driving instructor, I see why he doesn't leave the house tbh

 

[verreauxi]

Perhaps we could ask the mods to set up an auto-correct so that "empty planes" gets changed to "vacant aircraft" so as to prevent more trigger-spillage.

 

[coollino]

Perhaps we could ask the mods to set up an auto-correct so that "empty planes" gets changed to "vacant aircraft" so as to prevent more trigger-spillage.

I flyyy like paper get hiiiigh on empty planes