NutWrench

Ever wonder why websites that use Captchas prefer pictures of cars, busses, crosswalks, stop signs, bicycles, motorcycles and stairs?

They’re using YOU to train their AI models.

Musk: “Don’t advertise.”

Advertisers:

This is what bland, AI generated crap looks like, folks. But you can still make your own entertainment library. Buy an external hard drive and start a collection of your favorite movies/series (while you still can).

Same here. If I’m watching a biography about Nathaniel Hawthorne, then why would I want to see an ad where someone is twerking their ass in my face?

“Anti-fa” literally means anti-fascist. The allies storming the beaches of Normandy were “anti-fa.” The only thing “anti-fa” wants these days is for cops to stop murdering them. Needless to say, I support that position.

Some idiot put that in the list for purely political reasons.

Musk is always looking for his next high. He desperately wants that bong hit of attention that getting his name in the news brings to him. He’s an attention whore, who can afford to burn through billions of dollars. I’m surprised he didn’t buy Reddit years ago.

Agreed. Also, it’s not YouTube’s content to sell. YouTube doesn’t create content. It only exists because we (the users) upload the content to make that possible.

I haven’t turned off ad-blocking in 20 years. That’s because I “don’t allow” companies to use my home and my computer as their place of business.

I would gladly go back to 1990s Internet if it meant not having to deal with Google and data mining. I haven’t turned off ad-blocking in 20 years.

Danerys going crazy should have been set up YEARS in advance. She spends the first 7 seasons doing everything she can to avoid needless suffering and talking about how she’s going to “break the wheel.”

Then, over the course of only 3-4 episodes in Season 8, D & D flip her switch from “good” to “evil” like the Krusty the Clown doll and she slaughters an entire city. This is not “character growth.” This contradicts everything we’ve been shown about her character.

Here’s something that I “don’t allow” Google:

Letting corporations use MY computer equipment and MY Internet connect to conduct their business. I’ll block whatever I want and if Google and YouTube don’t like it, they can take their advertising machine, roll it up real tight and cram it.

The data collection is just for the ad-supported version.

Your “class” is determined by the whims of billionaires. YOU get no say in it at all. They own you. You are welcome to call yourself whatever you want but that doesn’t make it true. This isn’t some intellectual exercise. The lives and potentials of real people have been wasted for centuries because a bunch of rich bastards think they have a divine right to keep 99% of the wealth.

The workers don’t control the means of production and they never have.

How?

Most of the disinformation we’re exposed to comes from billionaires, whose goal is to keep the lower and middle classes fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money.

Do the same thing with phones that have non-replaceable batteries, too.

This. People need to stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.

I would gladly go back to 1990s Internet, if I could avoid all the ads, tracking and spam.