OctopusNemeses

It's pointless anymore to try infoposting on reddit.

Take for example the soldering subreddit. The info on that sub is that you must slather everything in flux in order to solder properly. A guy posted yesterday citing 40 years of experience, saying that's not how he's done it. The comments are a mess.

Another post today, someone asks about air filtering the solder smoke. The consensus in the comments is it's not a big deal. You can literally measure the particulate matter yourself to see how bad it is. Basically an average residential room size, say 100-200 sq/ft. You'll basically hotbox yourself with smoke.

Another one that's seen less often but the false idea persists. It's that capacitors never short and burn out. I don't know how or why that false idea floats around, but I've seen it over the years. I've replaced tons of caps that spontaneously combusted. Both electrolytic and SMD caps. Sometimes they just fail and short. No other fault.

Reddit is full of bad info. It's site that relies on word of mouth and popularity contest. You do not build a knoweldge base of technical information this way. You're getting an entropic game of telephone. That's all reddit ever was and ever will be. It's flawed paradigm by default.

A paradigm that lemmy is built off. So don't you all be getting the idea that good knowledge is going to be getting sourced from here either.

Those regular White House COVID press conferences were like a fever dream.

Something has been lost over the past 15-20 years. It's like nobody has the mindset anymore of the world wide web era. Where's the curiosity. Where's the discovery. Where's the malleability to find something new to you and try it. Inertia has locked them into subservience.

The internet flipped upside down. It was new frontier for you to explore. Now you lay there as it spoon feeds you.

People have been quantified into units. So they can be packaged and sold as datasets. They're boxed into what the ad industry categorizes them as. This person is an Apple News user, reddit user, and Youtube watcher. That user is on Twitter and Facebook. Much more fine grained than just what platforms they use of course. They told the system what they like and the system built a reinforced box around them. And then charge them for an air tube for good measure.

We are far gone from the days where a user would be so excited to post a wall of text about using a thing that another user doesn't know about. These days the reaction is more likely to be,"Who are? Who sent you?!? What's your real motive???" Skepticism. Distrust. Paranoia.

Often these days, outright indifference. People know these platforms fuck with their minds. With public conscious. They mould the world we live in. People don't care. The world chose to be Cypher. They wanted to be plugged into the Matrix.

Though that's not really a good analogy because outside the system isn't a desolate landscape. The outside world is still normal.

Your qualifiers are obtuse.

Tech devoured everything as it does. Put some funding back in shop class, arts, home ec., etc. That was the issue around here going back decades.

They defunded all those things here. Back then my high school got a ton of fancy Apple computers. Those went unused except for the IT guys fucking around with them and never actually deploying them for some reason. Only the aging Windows PCs were used by students. That was the only funding being spent anymore.

The world is more than just the big tech industry. It's no wonder so many trades professions are aging out into oblivion. We listened to techbros who are converting the world into digital zombies.

Give the kids things to do again other than screen time. The rest of the entire curriculum has long ago been gutted down to pure theory. Of course they're bored to death, and searching for stimulation on their screens.

Have you seen how it is lately? It's a glorified tabloid. It's largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it's slop, and they don't care. They use it anyways.

Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it's current incarnation it's an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That's what they're selling. And it does sell.

I'm not talking about the physical paper.

Look at the headline text. It's gibberish.

Compare the text to the level of detail on the player's face. Compare it to the level of clarity of the lines on his shirt.

The third line of text on the headline is the worst. Not even close to the correct words.

The corner of the player photo is curved too. Since when do news papers print that way? That's also suspicious, but not a definitive tell.

Was that listed in her platform?

The conspiracy to destroy American institutions happened in broad daylight.

That's a marker of the upwardly mobile. At some point they reach a threshold of wealth where they can be paying other people for their time.

Those who stay poor might look at them like they're spending money recklessly to pay for the help. They don't realize the financial crossover that's happening.