Today I learned +

[Scribe]

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity. The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017

Seems about right.

 

[payn]

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to intentionally manipulate the population and minimize organic human activity. The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017

Seems about right.

 

[Scribe]

 

[CleverNickName]

Look, we're starting to lose sight of the bigger, and most important issue: GETTING PEOPLE TO INVEST IN MY NEW STUFF. We gotta stop getting bogged down in all this minutiae of "is it ethical?" or "does it harm the environment?" or "will it literally destroy peoples' lives?" I'm trying to get rich over here!

 

[Scribe]

Look, we're starting to lose sight of the bigger, and most important issue: GETTING PEOPLE TO INVEST IN MY NEW STUFF. We gotta stop getting bogged down in all this minutiae of "is it ethical?" or "does it harm the environment" or "will it literally destroy peoples' lives," I'm trying to get rich over here!

This is a fairly accurate reflection of the north american ideal.

 

[Ryujin]

Love that stuff.

 

[trappedslider]

TIL about this

 

[trappedslider]

NEW DINO!

New species of titanosaur identified amid group of ancient skeletons found in Spain

A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The discovery was made at the Lo Hueco fossil site near Cuenca, a mountainous town in central Spain. The site...

www.yahoo.com

 

[DrunkonDuty]

NEW DINO!

New species of titanosaur identified amid group of ancient skeletons found in Spain

A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The discovery was made at the Lo Hueco fossil site near Cuenca, a mountainous town in central Spain. The site...

www.yahoo.com

Yay!

 

[Maxperson]

Today I learned that the reason that the numbers 6 and 9 are not in the Sorry game is because they think people are too dumb to tell the difference.