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alekwithak

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  • My childhood right here

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  • I feel like every touring musician with a mostly youth audience at least up into the 2010s was taking advantage of their underage fans. It just wasn't as big of a deal, culturally. I graduated in 2009 and had plenty of friends and classmates dating older people, and I do think it's creepy now as an adult but the adults in our lives at the time certainly didn't seem that bothered. The fact that some artists have been crucified over relatively benign behavior while others are still revered despite their repeated flagrant abuse of minors I think speaks more to the fan bases of those musicians than anything else. MSI and Brand New fans are more the types to hold people accountable for their actions than RHCP fans, for example.

  • My childhood right here

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  • They used to be, but lately idk, I'm too old to be keeping up with all the kids.

  • My childhood right here

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  • As another big fan, I don't think there's a single surprising allegation against Jimmy. When people tell you, repeatedly, who they are you gotta believe them.

  • My childhood right here

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  • It's definitely missing Gir and the Blink-182 Self Titled album logo.

    Actually if we wanted to be pedantic, (and why else are we here?) we could argue this is too wide a spread and encompasses multiple mini-generations. For example I loved MSI and Foamy and Tenacious D, but I was already in high school when Pick of Destiny came out and likewise I hated Happy Tree Friends as I felt it was both awful and mostly for younger kids (who shouldn't have been watching it, but it beats rotten.com and some of the other early Internet stuff they missed the boat on, but I digress...) This covers a wide spread of the early and mid to late 2000s and that doesn't seem like much from an outside perspective but this was back when years felt a proper length.

  • My childhood right here

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  • I'm something of a man of culture myself.

    I'm having a hard time finding a good picture, but I had a whole wall of Frankenstein Girls lyrics written in silver sharpie.

  • SCOTUS says Trump can impose massive changes to mail voting before midterms

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  • Sharing information is a whole hell of a lot more useful than whatever it is you think you're doing.

  • Open up

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  • The biggest problem with therapists is that no one who should be a therapist would ever want to be a therapist and those that do become therapists should really be the ones on the couch so to speak, at least in my experience.

  • Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration

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  • Neurotypical?

  • Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia

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  • We get something from this one because it's his AI that he is constantly tweaking by training it on himself.

  • This seems very on-brand for Shatner.

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  • There are some original Trek scripts still around on the internet and this is how Kirk's dialogue was written from the very first. I don't see what else he was expected to do with it.

  • This seems very on-brand for Shatner.

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  • Aw I liked V, I think a lot of its issues were caused by the studio. "What does God need with a ship?" is easily the most Captain Kirk line in all of Trekdom.

  • Half of House Dems vote to end US aid to Israel

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  • Technically yes, but also no. We're talking about two different thresholds.

    I wouldn't call a history teacher an influencer just because they influence people. The definition is much narrower. Their influence must be online and at scale. If someone consistently posts content online and has an audience in at least the thousands, they're an influencer, regardless of whether they're obviously selling a product.

    The influence itself is the commodity. Advertising is only one way to monetize it. We've seen adversarial governments spend billions under the table paying popular Instagram and TikTok personalities to shape public opinion, and governments around the world are fighting over control of these platforms precisely because people with large online audiences can influence beliefs and behavior at scale. That's what makes them influencers. It isn't my definition, it's what the term commonly refers to. Thinking someone has to be in your face marketing to you to be an influencer only serves to make influencers more effective at shaping public opinion.

  • Your Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.

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  • Sorry, I can't continue or provide the next lyrics of a copyrighted song. If you'd like, I can summarize the song, explain the meaning of that line, or discuss why "rain on your wedding day" became such a famous example from Ironic.

  • Half of House Dems vote to end US aid to Israel

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  • I think your narrow definition is part of the problem. There's much more to sell than products and lifestyle crap. It's why two certain countries have been funneling billions of dollars to social media political commentators. Because they're influencers. It's why governments are fighting so hard to gain control over those platforms, because every single video on them is meant to influence.

    I don't know if you are familiar with Nick Powers but he is another leftist political commentator, but cites sources and had a site where you can see not only every source he uses for every video, but gobs of free spreadsheets that are completely transparent about their sources and allow anyone to keep track of both federal and state bills and who votes which way on each one. It is an amazing resource and he consistently uses it to debunk other influencers (emphasis on other) on both the left and the right. He is transparent about entities that try to pay him to speak on certain narratives or use certain soundbites and calls them out when used by others, and always asks viewers to do their own research despite the fact that his work is heavily sourced. And he is fully transparent about his position as an influencer. Anything less from any popular content creator should be seen as clear propagandizing. But yes I agree that Booker sucks, we just need to make sure we are basing him sucking on fact and not conjecture, you dig? If the majority were working for the people we wouldn't be in this shit show we are now, I completely agree. And by majority I include the people, who are constantly working against their own best interests.

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  • Yes, anyone making a video on social media is an influencer, especially if they make content meant to influence. Political influencers are influencers. Influencers you agree with are influencers. Anyway I didn't realize Booker was all Dems. Was he a guest at a Republican billionaires meeting at a hotel or something? You can't take a half-beat to confirm before accusing? This is exactly what I'm talking about; Second or third hand conjecture used to demonize an entire party that encompasses three fourths of voters rather than doing the legwork of looking at readily available information. Now think, who does this behavior benefit? And it's not just you, this is all political discourse at the moment. It's no wonder foreign state actors spend millions under the table on American influencers to control narratives.There are absolutely Dems who need to GTFO. We can look at their actual voting records, which are generally pretty consistent, to see who's controlled and who isn't. Anything less is counterproductive at best and the reason conservatives are actively dismantling are government and civic protections as we bicker over trivialities in actuality.

  • Half of House Dems vote to end US aid to Israel

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  • You can see for yourself who voted for what. Or you can believe an 'influencer.'

  • Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

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  • Nope, that happened. If the institution spying on you in your home sees you naked, in your own home where you foolishly expect privacy, you're a criminal.

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • Dennis the doughnut boy??

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Kirk did this dude so dirty lol

    loops.video /v/dRLhLrkl5x
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Donald Trump Has 'Obligations' to Those Who Brought Him To Power - Nikolai Patrushev

    www.newsweek.com /vladimir-putin-nikolai-patrushev-donald-trump-russia-1984360
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Russia Issues Ominous Warning About Undersea Internet Cables

    www.newsweek.com /russia-pipeline-gas-patrushev-putin-1984215