Fun thought, but it would just get replaced by something equally or more toxic. And how to get rid of any social media that spreads bullshit without doing major overhaul of the Constitution? Can't. We're screwed. "Civilization" as we once believed it to be is gone and won't be coming back. Sometimes it's good to be old.
Smart money stays away from news, internet forums, reddit and such and just watches cute kitties and puppies on YouTube.
It'd do my blood pressure and anxiety level a favor.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
True that. Real story: back in maybe late 90's and my house was 30-45 minutes from my downtown office I took to listening to talk radio, thinking I was listening for my own entertainment. I drove and yelled at the radio, thinking it was all for fun. Went on for maybe 6-9 months before I got totally bored and went back to music or audio books. I noticed a difference almost immediately. I was more relaxed arriving home, felt less irritated at traffic or delays, and was way less tense. The hate and conflicts on talk radio were having a literal toxic effect onto my real life - and that's even when I thought it was entertainment. I don't even want to consider how toxic it is to believers. And back then, the toxicity was way lower than now.
The question was fucked up, too. It's amazing how many people laughing at the flub by an 18 year-old contestant believed a statistic provided by a 17 year-old actress. It was a 2006 Nat Geo poll of 18-24 year old Americans that were asked to point out the US on a world map. Hey Aimee Teegarden, 94% got it right!!!
Caitlin Upton from South Carolina took fourth place. She went on to a successful modeling career, graduated from App St, has a family and is selling real estate in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
True that. Real story: back in maybe late 90's and my house was 30-45 minutes from my downtown office I took to listening to talk radio, thinking I was listening for my own entertainment. I drove and yelled at the radio, thinking it was all for fun. Went on for maybe 6-9 months before I got totally bored and went back to music or audio books. I noticed a difference almost immediately. I was more relaxed arriving home, felt less irritated at traffic or delays, and was way less tense. The hate and conflicts on talk radio were having a literal toxic effect onto my real life - and that's even when I thought it was entertainment. I don't even want to consider how toxic it is to believers. And back then, the toxicity was way lower than now.
This is absolutely a thing.
I went through a phase where I'd prowl forums and Facebook shooting myself up with some outrage porn like a junkie. I was mad all the time. Luckily I had an epiphany and realized what was happening and stopped.
I've noticed the same in tons of other people. They don't realize what they're doing to themselves. You can't go through life constantly being angry about stuff you have no control over. It's miserable.
I'm not an active Facebook user, more like a lurker. What I have noticed is that politics has generally disappeared from my feed completely it has been gone for a while. My friends have generally stopped posting about politics because it was too toxic. I also never clickbait on the crapola so it doesn't generate that algorithm. I do get a lot of cats and dogs though.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
I've never joined NSAbook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc, though I've lurked some on each. Otoh, there's BRD and some other fora I've participated in.
True that. Real story: back in maybe late 90's and my house was 30-45 minutes from my downtown office I took to listening to talk radio, thinking I was listening for my own entertainment. I drove and yelled at the radio, thinking it was all for fun. Went on for maybe 6-9 months before I got totally bored and went back to music or audio books. I noticed a difference almost immediately. I was more relaxed arriving home, felt less irritated at traffic or delays, and was way less tense. The hate and conflicts on talk radio were having a literal toxic effect onto my real life - and that's even when I thought it was entertainment. I don't even want to consider how toxic it is to believers. And back then, the toxicity was way lower than now.
This is absolutely a thing.
I went through a phase where I'd prowl forums and Facebook shooting myself up with some outrage porn like a junkie. I was mad all the time. Luckily I had an epiphany and realized what was happening and stopped.
I've noticed the same in tons of other people. They don't realize what they're doing to themselves. You can't go through life constantly being angry about stuff you have no control over. It's miserable.
I also listened to hate radio back in the 90's, maybe for a year or so. 'Know the enemy' was my thinking. I was even a regular caller to local shows. I eventually quit, just not worth it as y'all say.
... His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.
“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”
“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”
Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on a GoFundMe page for household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.
In July, Caleb Wallace reportedly helped organize “The Freedom Rally,” an event that billed itself as a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.” He also founded “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” which hosted a rally last year to “end COVID tyranny.”
He wrote a letter in April to the San Angelo Independent School District and published by a local news outlet demanding that the school district “rescind ALL COVID-related policies immediately.” He falsely claimed that wearing masks had harmful effects on children and that there was “little evidence that masks worked for anyone.”
When he first felt symptoms on July 26, his wife told the Standard-Times, he refused to get tested or seek medical care. He instead began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely promoted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by conservative media. He was taken to the hospital on July 30....
Karma, and he was “free” to suck up massive healthcare resources and ruin his non- COVIDiot wife’s life. I wonder what his Freedom Rally cohorts think when they read this article, and whether any have the balls to publicly admit a change of opinion.
I've never joined NSAbook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc, though I've lurked some on each. Otoh, there's BRD and some other fora I've participated in.
True that. Real story: back in maybe late 90's and my house was 30-45 minutes from my downtown office I took to listening to talk radio, thinking I was listening for my own entertainment. I drove and yelled at the radio, thinking it was all for fun. Went on for maybe 6-9 months before I got totally bored and went back to music or audio books. I noticed a difference almost immediately. I was more relaxed arriving home, felt less irritated at traffic or delays, and was way less tense. The hate and conflicts on talk radio were having a literal toxic effect onto my real life - and that's even when I thought it was entertainment. I don't even want to consider how toxic it is to believers. And back then, the toxicity was way lower than now.
This is absolutely a thing.
I went through a phase where I'd prowl forums and Facebook shooting myself up with some outrage porn like a junkie. I was mad all the time. Luckily I had an epiphany and realized what was happening and stopped.
I've noticed the same in tons of other people. They don't realize what they're doing to themselves. You can't go through life constantly being angry about stuff you have no control over. It's miserable.
I also listened to hate radio back in the 90's, maybe for a year or so. 'Know the enemy' was my thinking. I was even a regular caller to local shows. I eventually quit, just not worth it as y'all say.
Friends use to give me flak for not using my real name on Facebook back when I had it. I've always used an alias and had it locked down so nothing was public. Not that it matters, FB still had all my data, but I was weirded out by the fact that anyone could look up name up and have an entire dossier on me. Most people don't seem to care. When I was dating I'd look people up to make sure they weren't batshit. Some people would have public posts and pictures going back years that anyone could read. Stupid.
... When I was dating I'd look people up to make sure they weren't batshit....
How did that work out for you?
You quit dating?
Oh man story time. A friend of mine was doing some internet sleuthing on a man she was seeing. She found out the dude actually lived an hour and a half away and was married and had children.
She promptly forwarded all of their convos to the dudes wife and now they're getting divorced. The wife thanked the girl for the heads up. Justice.
I don't know where the idea of taking Ivermectin for covid came from - I'm guessing somebody started advocating it on OAN or somewhere, probably as a joke that they didn't think anybody would be stupid enough to believe. But Ivermectin is a wormer. It's always been a wormer. It has no other purpose as far as I know, and after they've been wormed with it, horses often don't feel all that good. I can't imagine the effect of a horse-dose on a human. It's also used for dogs, mostly for heartworms, but a much smaller dose than horses. But hey, if somebody is stupid enough not to get a real free vaccine and to to pay $10 for a tube of horse wormer, hell go for it. More culling the herd.
... Both Steadman and her husband were unvaccinated against the disease.
"Both of us thought that [the vaccine] came out so fast. How could they have done so much testing on it? I was just cautious about it," she told the outlet. "It's not that I was against vaccines."
... Ronald told her that he was improving too, she said. Days before she was expected to leave the hospital, her husband stopped answering his phone - he said he was having problems with it, she told the Post. On one occasion when he didn't answer his phone, she called the local police for a wellness check.
Officers went to the home and confirmed that Ronald was okay, the Post reported. When her call went to his voicemail on August 10, she wasn't concerned, she told the outlet.
But when she returned home the following day, she couldn't find her husband. Eventually, she found him lying in their bed. She told the Post that it looked like her dogs had not been fed in days, and said her husband had already begun to decompose.
"I just went hysterical," Steadman told the Post. "It was like walking into a horror movie. That's what I see now when I think of him."
. Are their complaints including identifying info public record?
