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Yep, I thoroughly agree.

Case in point: I have a throwaway Fb and apparently my clicks have beckoned the algo to push AI-written ragebait stories and intentionally dirty looking pics of what I'm sure are fake trans people.

Thing is, they're intermixed with seemingly genuine trans person posts (over time). But the tells are there.

Almost every fake one is a "digital creator" with links off site. No doubt they're fueled by foreign or domestic bot farms of some kind.

As to audience effectiveness, these posts simultaneously breed gentle support from our more accepting brethren but are just "icky and insane" enough to further piss off maga. It's super effective in promoting engagement and creating the illusion of "trans are everywhere" with over-saturation.

I know I fed the algo in this case, but manufactured bullshit is everywhere. Just wish there were effective strategies to combat it.

Do we know what these tests involved?

Realistically, do we think MK ever stopped?

In the renaissance of the snake oil salesman, it is but grift turtles all the way down.

Just an FYI, although they aren't physical products like this Roku, many apps and digital services have added the very same binding arbitration clauses recently.

The McDonald's app for one. I ended up deleting the app after it tried to force me into binding arbitration and I didn't want to go through to opt-out process for marginally cheaper, shitty food, so I just deleted the app altogether and haven't eaten there since November.

Watch out for it if you drive for doordash or ubereats as well. I opted out of both, although they claimed you couldn't opt out in an new contract when you didn't before (a bunch of BS, if the current contract you are about to sign says it supercedes all others, you can't make the lack of an opt-out on a previous contract hold up).

On-going services might make sense for these shitty enough clauses, but to be strong armed into it for physical product you bought free and clear ... Disgusting.

It's like all these companies are locking themselves down to minimize legal exposure because they know that their services and products are getting more awful or something.

The following was initially part of a reply to another person:

Maybe the simple, gentle, "everyday" language here is truly the point? There are so many things to attack about Trump, so many legitimate concerns for his fascist, racist, sexist, ad nauseum behaviors. We've heard it all before. But simply calling him weird could spark a little reflection in his supporters and would-be voters while obviously delivering a shock to Trump's vanity.

It's not something you can easily deny as a conspiracy theory or fake news or any other excuse about his words and behavior. The man is weird. And psychologically, I think it's harder to defend a person described that way, or at least makes a defender get a little self-conscious. Trump being deemed weird is really indefensible, and I think it could work in deflating the cult of personality around him.

Not everyone can identify maniacal dictator rhetoric for what it is, and the power dynamic is clearly alluring to Trump supporters. However, knowing a weird person or even being called weird at some point is something almost everyone has experience with.

It's uncomfortable. It makes you ask yourself what it is about a person that makes them weird and how you should deal with it. It prickles something very basic in the human psyche. So I think they're on to something here. It might give supporters pause and will most definitely give Trump a complex.

I feel like I'm stating the obvious here, but this seems so off-the-charts guaranteed to backfire on him. What even mild Swiftie isn't going to figure out (or hasn't already) just how fake this endorsement is? Of any celeb to fake, Taylor seems like a such a flamingly dumb choice in terms of the fandom's social media engagement.

With all these increasingly stupid moves... Is he really that detached and senile, or is there more behind his [team's] style of psycho-political warfare going on?

I don't think I've seen it pondered anywhere on social media, so I must ask: Does it not seem like Trump is purposely trying to throw the election at this point? If that's the case, I fear the heightened degree of nefarious intent for whatever guaranteed political unrest we will face in November. I don't think this is baseless conspiratorial thinking on my part, unfortunately.

Or ... Or ... Maybe his patently obvious mental decline has eroded away just enough of his super-sized ego to let in juuust enough reality for him to consciously recognize that he is going to die soon whether he likes it or not, and now he doesn't give a shit-a-minute if he wins anymore. Can you imagine?

Am I the only one who didn't realize the film Hillbilly Elegy was based on this particular guy's memoir? No wonder it left me with a bad taste in my brain.

I remember deciding to watch it back when it was promoted on Netflix (in 2020-21?), going in completely blind to its background and bent, but wooed by the branding of it being "nominated for awards" and the imagery of a frazzled-looking Glenn Close.

I'll try to reflect on what I thought of it then without reference to what I know now: The whole movie was uncomfortable, felt weirdly holier-than-thou, and made me question what was supposed to be so good about how this guy was "overcoming" traumatic circumstances. I don't think I finished it in one go, only doing so because Glenn Close and Amy Adams brought talent to these painfully stereotypified roles. (I had just finished Sharp Objects, so you can imagine how disappointed I was that Amy had to work with so little substance, no pun intended, in this role's storyline.)

I remember thinking I really disliked the actor who played JD Vance for having such flat personality and boring acting skills. As it turns out, the actor did a helluva job! Bravo!

Mofo ain't no Goebbels

He's absolutely without a doubt Adult Caillou

Ahem... Loosh dentshursh.

I had just opened my Max app for some Saturday night distraction when I saw CNN Newsroom suggested front and center, with the description "...the rally where President Trump was injured."

This is terrifying on so many levels. At this point, it doesn't matter who wins the election; the stage is completely set for violence come November.

I haven't found any active comment threads on this yet, and I don't even want to entertain the inevitable conspiracy theories and possible acts of retribution that will rise after this attempt, so I'll leave it at this: I would be utterly shocked if "Donnie Van Gogh" memes don't exist yet.

Knowing a lot of families are going to be affected by this, this a tragedy no matter who or what is to blame. This is scary as hell all things considered, but we (or at least I) have to remember that a vast majority of investigations following crashes like this implicate a series of tiny but compounding errors. Regardless, it will still take time to figure out.

My speculation based on the video that could point to human error: It appears the aircraft were possibly closing in on each other somewhat perpendicularly for an extended amount of time. With their relative speeds/distances to the crash point, the aircraft may have appeared as remaining at the same point in each other's respective windows, with nighttime glare and light pollution effects making scale and distance hard to judge.

However, just from a momentum and maneuverability standpoint, the aircraft with the "right of way" here was almost certainly the jet on course for landing, and it would have been the helicopter's responsibility to establish and maintain visuals.

But who knows at this point. All I know is I'm tired of tragedy in every form.

Christ, is this why anti-trans people are so focused on this shit? Because they can only think of people in terms of their fuckability through their own experiences? And through their tunnel vision, anyone with complex sex gene and hormone biology, and who present differently than the anti-trans person's gender or the gender they're typically attracted to, is automatically a filthy gender-bending subhuman??

"I am hot man. This is hot girl. These here are neither hot men like me nor hot girl like her. EX*CUTE THEM!!!"

Somewhat related note / PSA to all:

When typing on Android 16 using Gboard (with permissions and custom dictionary turned off), the words "pedophile," "pedophilia," and "pedophilic" do not show up in the suggested set of words or autocorrections. It doesn't say these are spelled wrong after you complete the word though. It simply offers no suggestions after "pedoph-" is typed and shows literally nothing when you put the cursor on the completed word, unlike any other word.

Out of curiosity, I tried a bunch of swear words and slurs. Gboard will gladly show the N word if typed correctly for example, but not pedophile. ("Cocksucker" is the only other word I can find that has this seeming lack of dictionary presence.)

The fuck?

I get mad Succession vibes reading all this.

L to the O, G...

Austrians right about now

Heck, Australians too

And maybe the aliens ^idk^

Policing is not just limited to police. Unfortunately, this is an example of quite literal corporate overlording. Soon they will be one in the same, a manifestation of the military-industrial complex, where corporations happily surveil in support of and in tandem with law enforcement.

As a reformed loiterer, I welcome our new Police, Inc. overlords. (/s)