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  #3325966 29-Dec-2024 15:28
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freitasm:

 

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For someone who only knows a hammer and has never been freely elected as a politician, every ‘problem’ looks like a nail sickle.

 

 

Fixed that for you.

 

 

No matter whether you are beaten to death or mowed down ... the result is the same in the end. In any case, the thinking of the KGB structures was able to survive the chaos of the 1990s and by remembering his ‘family’, this someone in the Kremlin put his buddies in the right places later ‘to secure himself’ - the same thing Trump is doing/already did. Unfortunately, they tend to fall out of the window or have short, lightning-like illnesses if they don't fulfil the upstart's expectations. That's the way it is when you fill positions not with expertise but with ‘cousins’ or „business partners“ who can't help but tell you what you want to hear and not what's really going on.

 

Has anyone ever witnessed a humanitarian gesture and truly credible gesture from this someone in the Kremlin that was not backed by some political agenda, financial or strategic advantage? The war in Ukraine will therefore ‘occupy’ us much more and longer than people (on all sides) initially thought. One dreams of MAGA, the other of MRGA. One uses money, the other fear and terror. Adolf Hitler had dreamed of nothing else back then with his thousand-year lasting „III. Reich.“ After only 12 years, it was already over. These guys come out of the same basket and their ego costs many lives. 

 

 





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  #3325974 29-Dec-2024 16:46
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When you're waterblasting and you're sure you're covering every square millimetre and there's still a dozen spots that have been missed once it's dried.





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  #3325976 29-Dec-2024 16:48
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freitasm:

 

You know the KGB doesn't exist anymore, right?

 

 

Russia will always have a KGB, they just change the name over the doorway every decade or two.


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  #3326120 30-Dec-2024 09:42
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Woolworths have hot cross buns and Easter eggs before New Year??????


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  #3326138 30-Dec-2024 10:30
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Something I have been noticing more of recently are AI-narrated YouTube videos promising to inform about some shocking new discovery that then go on to describe a long litany of known facts for 20 minutes or so before finally ending with nothing at all about the shocking new discovery. Basically these are just high school classes which may or may not be of some value, but have nothing at all to do with anything shocking or new. The most recent example of this is a series of videos claiming that Brian Cox just announced a groundbreaking theory of time. The couple of videos I looked at had nothing about Brian Cox at all. They are just using his name to garner interest. Presumably the goal here is to make money by roping people into viewing these videos. I hope Cox sues the a**holes doing this.
  





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  #3326139 30-Dec-2024 10:33
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The 10K



Or scammers.




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  #3326140 30-Dec-2024 10:35
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@Rikkitic search for people reading obituaries...




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  #3326142 30-Dec-2024 10:46
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freitasm: @Rikkitic search for people reading obituaries...

 

I must lead a sheltered life. I knew nothing about this. If this is an escalating trend the days of the World Wide Web are probably numbered. I imagine real information will be buried by the avalanche of crap, or at least impossible to separate from it. Why don't the people who do this just beg for spare change on the street instead?

 

 

 

 





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  #3326144 30-Dec-2024 10:52
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When you ask someone a question and they make an assumption about why you’re asking it.

Q:What colour is the sky?
A: Nah it’s not raining.

I didn’t ask if it’s raining you numbnuts




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  #3326146 30-Dec-2024 10:54
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Rikkitic:

Something I have been noticing more of recently are AI-narrated YouTube videos promising to inform about some shocking new discovery that then go on to describe a long litany of known facts for 20 minutes or so before finally ending with nothing at all about the shocking new discovery. Basically these are just high school classes which may or may not be of some value, but have nothing at all to do with anything shocking or new. The most recent example of this is a series of videos claiming that Brian Cox just announced a groundbreaking theory of time. The couple of videos I looked at had nothing about Brian Cox at all. They are just using his name to garner interest. Presumably the goal here is to make money by roping people into viewing these videos. I hope Cox sues the a**holes doing this.
  

Every Ukraine video on YouTube of late.




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  #3326150 30-Dec-2024 11:21
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Rikkitic:

freitasm: @Rikkitic search for people reading obituaries...


I must lead a sheltered life. I knew nothing about this. If this is an escalating trend the days of the World Wide Web are probably numbered. I imagine real information will be buried by the avalanche of crap, or at least impossible to separate from it. Why don't the people who do this just beg for spare change on the street instead?


 


 



I didn't know either until a few months back I read an article on Wired about these guys. They make peanuts from monetising these obituaries. You can barely understand what they are reading. It is just bizarre.




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  #3326269 30-Dec-2024 15:52
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Rikkitic: Something I have been noticing more of recently are AI-narrated YouTube videos promising to inform about some shocking new discovery that then go on to describe a long litany of known facts for 20 minutes or so before finally ending with nothing at all about the shocking new discovery.

 

I try and stick to known presenters in order to avoid this, but occasionally get sidetracked into something that looks interesting but which, 30 seconds in, reveals itself as another lot of stock images with AI-slop narration cribbed from Wikipedia.


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  #3326270 30-Dec-2024 15:56
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Rikkitic:

 

freitasm: @Rikkitic search for people reading obituaries...

 

I must lead a sheltered life. I knew nothing about this. If this is an escalating trend the days of the World Wide Web are probably numbered. I imagine real information will be buried by the avalanche of crap, or at least impossible to separate from it. Why don't the people who do this just beg for spare change on the street instead?

 

 

Here's the article: The Bizarre Cottage Industry of YouTube Obituary Pirates | WIRED





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  #3326299 30-Dec-2024 16:48
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Starting 2025 on a diet because I have had too much of my wife's good cooking over Christmas and put on weight.


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  #3326305 30-Dec-2024 17:15
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Rikkitic:

 

freitasm: @Rikkitic search for people reading obituaries...

 

I must lead a sheltered life. I knew nothing about this. If this is an escalating trend the days of the World Wide Web are probably numbered. I imagine real information will be buried by the avalanche of crap, or at least impossible to separate from it. Why don't the people who do this just beg for spare change on the street instead?

 

 

It's like gold. That which lay shiny on the surface of the earth was first ‘found away.’ Then you had to dig in the ground more and more to find it. 

 

 





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