Being excited that for once you’re riding a NTW-JPT-2A instead of the more common NTW-JPT-2 is autistic.

:-/

I might spot you that failing to read the social queues when you want to regurgitate everything you know about a subject is the symptom. Also, the habit of ignoring the world around you in order to immerse yourself in reading materials or other non-social stimulus.

It isn’t the excitement at novelty or the peculiar fascination that classifies someone. It’s the refusal to make eye contact, the obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and the struggle with empathy.

I’ve been hearing this joke since Thunderdome.

People who have a higher level of Education and have to think for a living are less prone to fall for pure lies + strong displays of emotion

That’s simply not true. Education does not negate emotion. Nor does it negate the consequences of old age or the erosive effect of decades of propaganda. Hell, “education” in the abstract isn’t even well-defined. You get a degree from Liberty University and you’re not going to come out more Woke than some kid with a GED busting ass in the dockworker’s union or organizing Starbucks and Walmart workers.

I believe that has caused something else to emerge from it at a systemic level than what there was before since these people care even less about the possible destruction that their actions might cause since they themselves will never suffer from it.

Definitely not good to see people farther and farther removed from the ramifications of their actions. That said, this is right in line with the 19th century quackery and fly-by-night scams that plagued the laisse-faire economy of the era.

I wouldn’t say its creating a new ideology so much as resurrecting an old one.

It’s targetting mainly the MAGAs because they’re the less intellectually capable population

I’ve seen a flood of “I’m a Palestinian who is struggling to survive, please send me money” posts and PMs on BlueSky and Instagram and other liberal-leaning social media. Folks love to believe their team is the “smarties” and the opposition is the “dummies”. Nobody likes to believe they’d be ripe for exploitation.

Consequently, your refusal to believe in your own gullibility and bias opens you up to scammers.

I bet this whole phenomenon is mainly a “emergent property” of the rewards and access structures in place in Social Media and that the top-down organised ops from state actors are but a tiny fraction of this shit show.

Like everything else capitalist, it starts out as an independent venture and congeals into national industry as the rate of return grows. The modern era of internet scamming is just the latest in a long history of affinity scams and MLM schemes. People are drawn in out of fear, confusion, and desperation. And because the better scammers know to tip their political overclass, these scam factories tend to be insulated from any kind of regulation or public prosecution.

“People fall for it”

checks the accounts of people responding positively to the post

they’re all bots

Keep trying. You’ll figure it out

White guy avi

🙄

Was waiting in line to contest a ticket for dismal at one of the tiny micro-cities inside Houston. Kid you not, it was just a bunch of white folks walking out no-contest and another line of AAs getting filed up to actually try their cases.

I’m sure this was a coincidence. Also, the sheriff looking interchangeable with the Sheriff Rosco from Dukes of Hazzard, a pure coincidence.

This is what happens when you let the guys at Area 51 into the design team

Yas Queen.

The only correct controller.

In my experience, you almost never used the D-pad and C-stick.

That made it functionally in line with PS, and not terribly difficult to adapt into.

I do think the central A with surrounding B, X, and Y buttons was worse than the balanced design of PS/XBox. Just not enough to lose sleep over

Retvrn 2 Tradition

11D chess. You actually win if your oppenent queens their pawn and spends a turn dabbing on you.

This was a master class.

Heavy debate happening on the short bus of politics

What’s he going to do? Rebuild the twin towers so the Saudis can knock them back down again?

Okay but that was very useful and generally beneficial

What?

We are reliving 1998 with a twist

Thomas Jefferson Approved

I was dumb in many ways in my 20s.

You’re not really in your 20s if you aren’t doing a certain amount of stupid bullshit

I’ve seen this on Pornhub