Media Sensationalism

A lot, actually. Tons of money is being poured into raising up popular propagandists because it works. Russia was caught doing it just recently.

It’s complicated, but no, I don’t.

The nearest bus stop is an hour away, and it’s for interstate transit. 🤷

The place I’m planning to buy a home is so remote that I’m considering a backup car.

I learned how to repair my own vehicles after I was quoted $2,600 to install a $40 part. I could’ve also had an entire rebuilt engine shipped and swapped it in myself for about half that, but I ultimately decided to go with the $40 + basic tools.

Instead of posting a screenshot and a link, they posted a broken Instagram embed instead. Come on.

FreeBSD went from 0.01% to 0% last month. 🪦

So they want to ban handguns, right?

Soap’s not the best for that sort of thing.

I’ve been studying the propaganda of Tim Pool for years and years. The content focus shift from the alarmist “we’re all progressives, but these progressives have taken it too far and we need to reel it in” to “Democrats are all evil incarnate and we need to vote Republican to save the world” was a deliberate and calculated long-term conversion campaign beyond what I’d expect someone with Tim Pool’s resources should have been able to strategize and execute.

It won’t surprise me if the DOJ decides to push charges for unregistered foreign agents, but it could also backfire with such high profile figures by playing into censorship rhetoric. Election season would be the worst time for it, if at all.

If I haven’t heard of it, then the average Windows user definitely hasn’t heard of it.

The issue starts at the fact that it’s difficult to find a computer sold by a common major distributor with Linux already installed, nor does Linux have any marketing aside from word of mouth to compete with the aggressive Microsoft/Apple duopoly.

The threshold to entry begins at simply having the technical prowess to install an alternative operating system on one’s computer, which I don’t believe a good majority of people are even capable of. Before that, people also need an incentive to transition in the first place. They’ve probably been using their current OS for a good portion of their life and are more than comfortable with it without putting themselves through another learning curve.

The average person isn’t considering an alternative to what they’re already using, and if they are, it usually isn’t Linux. The biggest problem isn’t appeal or ease of use; it’s exposure and immediate accessibility.

That said, performance and simplicity would be an excellent selling point for Linux. It would be absolutely worth banking on the open-source nature of it to appeal to a growing demographic of people interested in privacy-oriented tech as well.

Bots don’t upvote. There’s so much voting activity here as a ratio to actual contributions that my first impression was that the votes might be faked.

Couch fucker voters will most certainly not hold him accountable. That’s one demographic J.D. has in the bag.

I hear that the average conservative militia has trained extensively in the military art of marching in formation marching walking down the street. Some of them even bought a box of green tip right off the store shelf.

Oh, he’s into it this time.

The wiki article that covers the events of that night is a excellent resource.

I wouldn’t bother. If it’s legitimate cancer, the body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

The photo could have been mirrored for stylistic purposes, but you’d think the photographer would have come out and said something by now.