Badenoch's (Lack Of) Vision Quest

[Rusty Nails]

And it's 100x than Instagram, which is all about scrolling through pointless videos and torrents of adverts. I suffered it for over 3 months during my FB exile, but it's just like a really really shit version of Facebook, with a tenth of the functionality and ten times the intrusion of crap.

I spent 6 hours in hospital waiting rooms with my wife last Saturday. For about 1 1/2 hours I sat next to a woman probably in her early 40s. She spent the whole time scrolling through what I assume were sites like tiktok etc. She spent virtually no time looking at anything in detail just constantly scroll/glance/scroll.

I find I actually prefer sometimes talking to people, sometimes just thinking about stuff, sometimes almost meditating and other times just people-watching.

Everybody seems to want diversion/distraction online rather than just living in their environment.

 

[Pblakeney]

Everybody seems to want diversion/distraction online rather than just living in their environment.

I suspect (without any qualifications) that the root cause of a lot of depression/mental health issues these days is people comparing their very real lives with the highlight reels of others.

 

[briantrumpet]

I spent 6 hours in hospital waiting rooms with my wife last Saturday. For about 1 1/2 hours I sat next to a woman probably in her early 40s. She spent the whole time scrolling through what I assume were sites like tiktok etc. She spent virtually no time looking at anything in detail just constantly scroll/glance/scroll.

I find Instagram worse for that than FB, which is why I guess Meta push it so much. For me, both are tools, and IG is so much worse, both for getting snapshots of friends' thoughts and stuff they've been up to, and for publishing too, FB being that much more adaptable to needs (e.g. being able to label individual photos in an album).

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

That's exactly it, I think. X is particularly to blame for that: full of bots, the 'engagement' stats pile up, but mostly they are not genuine, or just trolls spreading hate. I suspect most politicians don't even look at the comments, let alone respond, as responses that are even mildly non-fascist only provoke a pile-on. You can see why MPs are hesitant about leaving a high follower count, but they won't grasp the nettle that the count doesn't translate into meaningful or constructive engagement, and meanwhile skews their perception of what normal people are thinking, rather than the nutters.

I guess as the quote up thread from the MP's Son telling them it was "playing well on X" would confirm that, they perhaps don't understand the mechanics of it, and are happy to take it at face value that it does all add up to an enhanced profile.

 

[BoldonLad]

I spent 6 hours in hospital waiting rooms with my wife last Saturday. For about 1 1/2 hours I sat next to a woman probably in her early 40s. She spent the whole time scrolling through what I assume were sites like tiktok etc. She spent virtually no time looking at anything in detail just constantly scroll/glance/scroll.

I find I actually prefer sometimes talking to people, sometimes just thinking about stuff, sometimes almost meditating and other times just people-watching.

Everybody seems to want diversion/distraction online rather than just living in their environment.

I am so pleased you said “sometimes”, makes just a bit odd, rather than certifiable 😂

 

[Rusty Nails]

I am so pleased you said “sometimes”, makes just a bit odd, rather than certifiable 😂

What is normal these days? Statistically speaking I suppose perpetual scrolling might be.

 

[TailWindHome]

 

[First Aspect]

If you read the article it's actually worse. At the level of cutting the bottom off fire doors to aid ventilation worse.

She seems to think that if you see a cruise missile you shoot it down, and figure out where it came from and shoot them as well.

Several issues here. No warp signature. No ion trail. Also. The term "cruise" means that Newtonian physics not helpful in calculating the trajectory of the "arrow".

Also, ironically she hasn't had the intelligence...that there are many many archers each with a small number or arrows.

 

[secretsqirrel]

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Is that U turn?
No, just fibbing cos she can’t admit she was wrong.

 

[secretsqirrel]

And another thing…..
Has she apologised to the RAF yet?

 

[Pblakeney]

And another thing…..
Has she apologised to the RAF yet?

I have it on good account that Navy pilots are getting pissed off at being referred to as RAF.

 

[secretsqirrel]

I have it on good account that Navy pilots are getting pissed off at being referred to as RAF.

Oh buggar

Sorry Navy, sorry RAF.

 

[briantrumpet]

"Yebbut how's it going to play on X?"

 

[First Aspect]

One of her aides decided to go in hard about petrol prices today, because farmers or something.

Starmer and Reeves have said the September (6 months away) will be kept under review.

She kept asking why labour were increasing fuel prices and he kept saying it was under review. Clearly the first answer wasn't expected and therefore the second third and fourth repetition on the same point was rendered moot.

When Starmer pointed out she'd made a bit of an error suggesting we should participate in the US/IL war, she countered brilliantly with "fuel prices".

 

[Beebo]

One of her aides decided to go in hard about petrol prices today, because farmers or something.

Starmer and Reeves have said the September (6 months away) will be kept under review.

She kept asking why labour were increasing fuel prices and he kept saying it was under review. Clearly the first answer wasn't expected and therefore the second third and fourth repetition on the same point was rendered moot.

When Starmer pointed out she'd made a bit of an error suggesting we should participate in the US/IL war, she countered brilliantly with "fuel prices".

Also. She wanted the war, and it was clearly going to impact oil prices.

Total delusion.