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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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This, in the last few months - has grown, well, there are no words.
Occasionally I click on this tab, a clip from a movie I remember, or on an actor I like, but there's a whole tab devoted to it.
So, wasting time - and - wasting is a term that has never been better used. Facebook - social media - the news - they're the hoover, the sucking up of lost and wasted dreams.
So, scrolling, looking for treasure hunting videos to Troll Chris with.
Now that Ken's "employed" I'm trolling Chris with our mutual passions.
People unearthing bogus treasure chests or prospecting bogus gold nuggets or ...
Well, it's it's own rabbit-hole. And it's all bullshit. Anyways, in lieu of Ken I've started sending it all to Chris. Who's in on the joke.
So, scrolling, looking, and all the videos, they're porn-wanna-be's or porn-promotions. Girl jiggling tits in front of camera. Girl getting stuck in sofa cushions, head first, ass up. Girl getting stuck in washer. Dryer. Ibid. "Hit like and subscribe" or "Visit my only-fans for more...".
And ridiculously inane hooks, pause on your scroll and "the hook" is set. "You won't believe...." followed by "what I found....what's in this chest....what happened to me...".
Low production "staged" videos designed to elicit a "reaction" - usually a response to having wasted 30 seconds/a minute/4 minutes of your life watching this Bullshit, with the appropriate number of laugh/thumbs up emojis. It seems these are the only ones allowed, there's no emoji for "WTF?" or "I want a refund on my life...", they're generated by "Content-Farms", people doing inane things - and then, if you should have paused to see it through to it's conclusion, you'll be fed a thousand more videos of different people doing the same thing, exactly the same thing.
Neither content or amusement and proof positive that we're being terminally distracted while the world is hastily ending...
Reddit - Karma Farm
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I've been lurking on reddit a couple of years, not saying nothing, merely doing the endless doom scroll.
It's getting a little repetitive.
So I've started responding to posts - /whatisthisrock and /antiques and I'm building up my "Karma". WTF. Anyways, it's good to help people out when I know the answer.
I'm already up to, like, almost 50 Karma for just answering PM's and identifying rocks. Is there way to cash-in or translate this Karma?
Anyways, I comment on a reddit post - /highstrangeness - about perfectly spherical rocks. And I identify a lot of them as concretions;
And all of the sudden I'm a Karma Farm. Up to 500 Karma in 3, 4 days. Like bloody hell. And the worst thing is, I'm somewhat intrigued, how can I play this for more?
And Karma, it's worth nothing, in Reddit at least. There's no cashing out, I don't even know how to spend it. And I'm not sure I care enough to enquire how I should use it.
anyways, life as of late...
Jordan Peterson
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And so, as of late, I've been listening to a few of Jordan Peterson's interviews.
I've avoided him, largely because of his far-right fanbase. And his appearing on Joe Rogan. Who I'm sure is a nice guy, but...just don't want to be seen in that "intellectual" hood.
But listening to him, I can see his appeal. He's a modern-day Messiah, and nothing he says in the least bit controversial. The fact that he's somehow perceived as controversial is more a commentary on the "Woke" Culture we live in. TO say that people need meaning in their lives and to strive for self improvement and to somehow turn off the vacuity of the news and social media - well, this is all fucking common sense. To disregard, dismiss the 100's of "preferred pronouns" is - at worst - fucking overdue and common sense.
And, as he's largely offending liberal sensibilities - his rational and common sense approach to sexuality and mental illness have made him a big target - (believe it or not, you can be too liberal...) - his appeal to the far right is largely that he's making sense and offering hopeful strategies for coping with what are - and will soon to be very difficult times.
In fact, a few podcasts in and I'm liking the guy more and more. His voice, a little shrill and anxious, it's the sound of a man being crucified for common sense, for speaking basic - not eternal - truths to power. So - oversized rap for being a bad-ass when it's just a reasonably smart (and educated) guy speaking his mind.
North Sentinel Islanders
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File this under: "The Most Interesting People You Will Probably Never Meet".
There's been a few articles on them - not here, but - given my reading as of late I'd thought I'd give them a shout-out.
Wikipedia on The North Sentinel Islanders (Sentinelese): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
I find it commendable that they continue to shun and refute all outside attempts at contact.
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