Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Warpiglet-7]

Yup. Just like television and printed books.

There is data saying reading is correlated with psychopathology?

 

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The moral of "The boy who cried wolf" is not that there are no wolves.

It's don't tell the same lie twice

 

[Cadence]

It's don't tell the same lie twice

Two is not nearly enough...

 

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On the one hand Nintendo becomes the biggest company in the games industry⁠—and maybe the world⁠—to say 'no, thank you' to using generative AI but on the other Nintendo president says "action must be taken" against the inappropriate use of its characters so that its fans "are not made to feel uncomfortable"

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, because people are for sure connected every waking second to TV or (???) books.

My point being that exactly, as in word for word, the same things being said about social media were said about tv and books.

But I’m sure if we keep repeating the same stuff over and over, it will be true one of these days.

 

[Scribe]

My point being that exactly, as in word for word, the same things being said about social media were said about tv and books.

But I’m sure if we keep repeating the same stuff over and over, it will be true one of these days.

And my point is, the cell phone, and social media access, creates a situation which is 100% different from TV, and (!!!!) print.

 

[Scribe]

On the one hand Nintendo becomes the biggest company in the games industry⁠—and maybe the world⁠—to say 'no, thank you' to using generative AI but on the other Nintendo president says "action must be taken" against the inappropriate use of its characters so that its fans "are not made to feel uncomfortable"

"We need to remove the OGL to protect you."

Or this is a Rule 34 issue?

 

[Warpiglet-7]

i just go with peer reviewed journals on some of this…

There is a burgeoning literature that shows a negative correlation between social media and psychological health.

It’s not causation; we don’t know it all yet. But there is reason to start paying attention to this.

It is NOT analogous to TV or books!

 

[Reynard]

See also Jewish and Creole grannies, too.

I think it is just grannies. I have a NE England Yankee mother in law who will not let you leave her house without all the leftovers and at least one load of pumpkin bread.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I think it is just grannies. I have a NE England Yankee mother in law who will not let you leave her house without all the leftovers and at least one load of pumpkin bread.

I have a policy not to refuse food offered to me by my elders, born out of a very uncomfortable argument with an older gentleman working in the restaurant on the overnight ferry from Athens to Heraklion. We were jet-lagged and had run out of our initial burst of energy, and he was very offended that we didn't want candied oranges and raki. We tried to explain, to no avail, that we just couldn't do it. We ended up choking down some candied oranges and raki in order to avoid an international incident. It was a miserable dessert, too tired to think straight with an angry waiter and surrounded by the Greek military (at least I assume they were the Greek military; lots of youngish men in fatigues with mustaches). None of us were happy. For the rest of the trip, we just smiled and said thank you whenever someone offered us something.