That’s been my thought the whole time–this is really just a play to get Project 2025 off the ground and Vance is one of “their guys”
It’s so fucking stupid but in this timeline it has to be as mind-numbingly stupid as possible. Attorney General Gaetz anyone? 🤣
So far. I’ll be interested to see if she pens any follow-ups to this tale.
Well, what do you need then?
Any chance you have any suggestions for any “buy it for life” items from your own experience?
No prob! Just here to not help
He’s gonna age really gracefully, somehow i can see it already lol
Holy shit I’m 1000% with you, my jaw dropped when it was confirmed by the report of an inmate being “beaten to the point of full body paralysis” 😶
Nobody can stop him–if that’s his desire, he will have it that way. We’re about to see how eccentric a billionaire can get, we’re probably not even scratching the surface yet. $35 mill seems like chicken scratch though, with his kind of wealth I’d drop $5 billion and see what kind of compound that gets ya lol
Tbh goes both ways
Lol, i thought you were about to say Tyson was also about to fight a living legend 🤣
At least the guy knows how to order donuts for large group
He’s truly a rare breed. The first (and only) politician to get a sign in my yard once upon a time
Funny how none of that ever gets even close to reality though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It used to be maddening, now it’s just disappointing
They’re still gonna die under trump though, i don’t get your point
Looking at the bright side:
-no more vaccines (never liked needles anyway) -no more fluoride in the water (who likes nice teeth anyway, plus you can get fakes installed) -never need to vote for president again (think about how much time that’ll save) -no jan 6th revolt in 2025 (maybe they will just for fun though, who knows) -perhaps Trump can fill the remaining seats of the supreme court and get a properly conservative suite of justices -Elon Musk will be our super-cool tech daddy
No matter! He said the thing so he’s absolved, that’s just CEO rules ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Surely everyone has the means THEY have!
And if they don’t–fuck em. They obviously don’t work hard enough while spending their few shekels on fancy toast and bubble tea or some shit
He’s not the only conservative paragon of virtue that’s having a hissy-fit over it either:
Fox News host Jesse Watters said on the air last week that if his wife did the same as the women in the ad, it would violate “the sanctity of our marriage.”
“If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Watters said, a remark that prompted many online to call him out for his marital affair, which he admitted to in 2018.
Duly noted, i appreciate the feedback 👍
That’s certainly a possibility. I’ll have to ask around my friends and see if anyone else is getting similar results from their feeds.
I’m glad i ran into this article, because it spells out something I’ve been suspecting for some time. Back in 2016 i got a sour taste from Facebook, mostly because it helped expose how shitty a disappointing amount of my acquaintances were.
In addition to that though, i was finding less of my feed was posts from friends and were more from ‘Liked’ groups and suggested groups etc. I gradually found myself stopping there less and less and eventually stopped going at all. Years later, i finally decided to come back and see what I’ve been missing and it’s an absolute shitshow now.
Just the other day i went on and started scrolling on my Facebook feed and after several pages, it occurred to me that i hadn’t seen a single post by any of the friends. I don’t have a lot of friends/family/acquaintances on there to begin with (~150 i think) so it wouldn’t surprise me if they aren’t sharing that much anyway. Still, I became determined to see how many posts i would have to scroll past before they inject one of my friends posts into the feed. It was the first time i reached the ‘end’ of my feed–I actually reached 250 posts (given my count was correct) when it told me i reached the end…and by that point i didn’t see a single post or anything pertaining to any of my friends in that session…just liked groups and suggested groups.
So when i read this article, i perked up when I caught this particular part.
"And then we went into this era where we added in creator content too, where now a very large percent of the content on Instagram and Facebook is not from your friends. It may not even be from people that you’re following directly. It could just be recommended content from creators that we can algorithmically determine is going to be interesting and engaging and valuable to you.”
Unsurprisingly, Facebook is trying to do what every social media company is trying to do these days–create an endless feed of content… They’re just trying to make it “curated” by AI so that the user has to do little/nothing to find stuff that’s speaks directly to them, get hooked and begin endlessly scrolling (sounds like paradise, right?)…
It gets worse though! Many of the groups i was suggested (and some I had chosen to follow) were simply posting AI-generated garbage. One thing i kept seeing is Art-focused groups misattributing works to famous artists. How many times I’ve seen a work supposedly by Monet and it was stupidly obvious that it wasn’t. The comments will be in the hundreds or even thousands, and 99% of them will be one-word praises like “beautiful” or “wow” or other useless stuff like that, and the 1% remaining are people appalled that their favorite artist is being mis-credited and that the group should know better being dedicated to that very artist.
Don’t even get me started on the AI-artists suddenly becoming Facebook-famous like “Juan Brufal” who i strongly suspect isn’t even a person at all, but a company/schemer/who tf knows. Bonus points to that fucker for posting their works captioned with something to the effect of “Juan Brufal 1976” as though that’s when it was painted (surprise! it’s not a real painting)… After a bit of googling it turns out 1976 is when the AI “artist” was born. None of that is openly shared though, and the name/year format is the same as many others use when attributing other artists works, so it’s easy to convolute the meaning. Hardly anyone even send to care though, and the few that do are drowned out by the “beautiful” comments flooding every post. You can’t even avoid some of these fuckers because Juan Brufal et al are in all the popular art groups – and in many of the groups that the algorithm is going to recommend to me as well. Can’t avoid these assholes, so the play is not to go there anymore—which is all the easier knowing I’m not likely to see anything my friends are posting there in the first place. Maybe they’re already as tired of this shit as i am ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The bottom of the barrel is a distant memory at this point, Facebook is becoming shit on a primordial level lol
They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.