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Easy-X
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PostPosted: 01:28 - 07 Aug 2022    Post subject: Dangerous Memes Reply with quote
"Reuters are a trustworthy source of information!"

Are we talking about the Reuters that fact checked a meme?

https://nypost.com/2022/08/01/reuters-mocked-for-fact-checking-video-of-biden-following-ice-cream-truck/

And the original article:

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-biden-icecream/fact-check-video-does-not-show-biden-being-distracted-by-music-from-an-ice-cream-truck-idUSL1N2ZC0CA
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PostPosted: 13:11 - 07 Aug 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
When you die, all the substance that makes you up will still exist, so nothing is dangerous beyond your own little reality, which is inconsequential Smile
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PostPosted: 20:26 - 07 Aug 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Many social users were incredulous that Reuters published a serious fact check of the mock video.

I’d bet many more social media users fell for it though.
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”One of the main news organizations in the world has fact checked a meme. lol,” a fourth person tweeted.

Still it’s an odd thing that a news agency supposedly just punting out apolitical reports to whichever news broadcaster wants to publish verbatim (all of them) should react in this way. Was it even their video?
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PostPosted: 08:32 - 16 Aug 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
The original with Brandon wandering about like a lost sheep
was funny on its own.
Adding the ice cream truck audio just made it funnier.
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PostPosted: 11:48 - 16 Aug 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm watching a YouTube series where a guy just starts from scratch: Ep1 - Flint Knapping, Ep2 - cold working float copper, etc.

The striking thing is at each stage, each jump in new technology, the time taken gets less and less. For example: splitting a log for kindling >15mins with a flint hand axe, <5 mins with a copper axe, <1 min with a modern steel axe. It goes back to the concept of technology = device for maximising leisure time. And yet here we are in the 21st Century and we just seem to be making work for ourselves! "Dangerous Memes?" nice, we can set up a whole journalistic team to pick them apart Rolling Eyes

A spreadsheet saves me breaking out a pen, paper and maybe a calculator. Social media? Well it could be a deluxe version of email or text messaging for communication but really it's just a time sink as if the whole thing's turned into an anti-technology Thinking
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