Elon Musk

[Gemmill 44626]

Oh dear. 

[Gemmill 44626]

@Tdansmithentirely up to you obviously, but I would strongly recommend coming off twitter. If you don't, it's overwhelmingly likely that Musk's algorithm will do its job and melt your brain. He has it in for this government and this country at the minute, and his algorithm is literally designed to stoke division and hatred. You can let it do its job on you, or you can opt out. 

 

Like I say it's up to you, but that website is clearly doing its job at the minute. It won't make you a happier person to stay on there, it'll turn you into a ball of hatred, and a lot of the stuff you'll be wound up about will either be completely untrue or a very one-sided interpretation of the facts. Some of it will be batshit insane propaganda and conspiracy, but the drip drip of more believable stuff will eventually lead you to wonder "well if they did that other stuff, is this really that mental?!". 

 

Anyway. My advice. Take it or leave it, but good luck if you decide to stay on there. 

[Gemmill 44626]

I'd add: If you use twitter to talk about Newcastle and don't want to lose that, join Bluesky and ask Kev Lawson to add you to his starter pack. You'll very quickly have hundreds of followers and hundreds of NUFC people in your feed to get your NUFC fix, minus all the bots and blueticks.

 

And most importantly, there's no algorithm on there feeding you one very fucked up man's outlook on the world. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Gemmill

[Gemmill 44626]

Meanwhile I don't need an algorithm. I implanted the little two note melodic line from Gorillaz' "On Melancholy Hill" into my lass's head just before bed last night and she's woken up today feeling like she's going mad. 

 

I just keep dropping in the odd reminder every now and again this morning to keep it fresh for her. 

[strawb 4226]

Well, there’s another whopper for the ignore list

[Toonpack 9345]

8 hours ago, Tdansmith said:

So, 6 month for manslaughter is ok ?  

 

Probably.

 

Manslaughter is defined as: the unlawful killing of a person without intent to kill or cause serious harm.

 

If you're out on the piss and some scrote gets in your face for no apparent reason and won't pack it in, you lose your temper and lamp him, he falls and cracks his head on the pavement and dies - how long should you get ??

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Toonpack

[Toonpack 9345]

8 hours ago, Tdansmith said:

That is just your opinion is it not ? I actually can't take it up with the Tories..

I just see what was posted, I honestly don't know what is true or not these days, however if someone can get 6 month in jail for manslaughter and someone else can get two years for posting some bad words on the internet that is just wrong IMO. 

 

 

No-one has been banged up for the non-existent offence of "bad words on the internet", incitement to violence though, different story, quite rightly.

[ewerk 30461]

Fair play to Rayvin for trying but that was a textbook exercise in futility.

[Toonpack 9345]

As for Musk

 

His own AI has identified him as one the main spreaders of misinformation on Twatter.

 

https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGkGkNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXLRsf-9gKDswLQ73FDXip8z5w9hdo81ijtmG0pHgdX_SjGUfI_XFnOceQ_aem_NkZfOIdAeJsYVVs0ACMaCQ

 

[Alex 35000]

Take no notice of TDS, if he had his way Grainger Town would now look like Killy flats 

[Rayvin 5203]

1 hour ago, ewerk said:

Fair play to Rayvin for trying but that was a textbook exercise in futility.

 

Normally I don't think I'd bother but I didn't have TDS down as this sort of poster - and I felt that maybe it was an honest enquiry and that perhaps some resistance to Musk's bullshit might be all that was needed. I fail to appreciate of course that everyone already has their opinion set in stone before anything is said.

 

I was kind of interested myself in why it had happened though.

[ewerk 30461]

6 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

Normally I don't think I'd bother but I didn't have TDS down as this sort of poster - and I felt that maybe it was an honest enquiry and that perhaps some resistance to Musk's bullshit might be all that was needed. I fail to appreciate of course that everyone already has their opinion set in stone before anything is said.

 

I was kind of interested myself in why it had happened though.

So he wasn’t ’just asking questions’?

 

[PaddockLad 17200]

Keep all this in mind and you’ll not go far wrong on Musk and the other wankers who inhabit this particular vile sphere of humanity

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

 

[PaddockLad 17200]

And this bottom tweet might well be important for this country. Sarah Kendzior says the same. Nearly two decades of digital work by people actually trying to tell the truth is currently being destroyed by those in whose interests the truth is a huge inconvenience 

 

 

[Monkeys Fist 42264]

Nowt to do with Musk, but in a somewhat related topic to the earlier posts, I found out while I was away on this trip that the cunt who killed my brother is now in open prison, and will be eligible for likely release in a year or so. 
 

Will have done 17yrs if that’s the case, for going armed with knives and a cleaver and attacking him from behind. 
 

I’m sure 17yrs in Durham is no party, but the news brings back all the emotions from back then, with added bitterness from the reality of his absence in our lives. 
 

It brings up a conflict between what I believe prison should be- punishment and rehabilitation, and my actual, gut-punch feelings of “this cunt has no right to be getting out this soon”. 
 

No point in whining about it mind, there’s fuck-all I can do about it. 
 

As the family of the victim, we got to have a statement read out to the parole board at his hearing. 

He had the option of listening to it or not. 

We don’t have the right to know if he did or not, nor for that matter,anything at all about his behaviour/progress inside. 
 

One thing where we felt we had a smattering of agency in the whole process was requesting an exclusion zone in our locality upon his eventual release ( which they agreed on, and then some- it’s basically a three mile radius from my Mam’s house). 
 

 

Anyway, rights or wrongs, principles or realities, it felt like a proper kick in the bollocks, but, I’ll get over it. 
 

God help the fat cunt if me or my older brother ever see him mind 

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3867]

11 hours ago, Tdansmith said:

Ok, fair comment. You've successfully baffled me with lawyer crap you've looked up.

 

So, 6 month for manslaughter.

Two years for posting about it..

I couldn't give a fuck if it's labour or conservative .

Do you think that is fair ? yes or no ? 

 

I think you should be locked up for 3 years for being thick

[Tdansmith 3259]

16 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

 

Anyway. My advice. Take it or leave it, but good luck if you decide to stay on there. 

When I first read  "good luck if you decide to stay on here" I wasn't sure what you meant.  I do now 😂🤣

I wasn't expecting the pile on but I understand now why my opinion caused that, I didn't think I deserved the insults however, but that's life I guess. 

Thanks Rayvin for being reasonable. 

So, I'll take the hint Gemmill and leave this site.  It's a damn shame as I really liked posting and reading here.  Never-mind.

 

Best of luck and good health to all who post here, even the ones who insulted me 😂 And nee hard feelings.

 

Hopefully, sooner rather than later we end that trophy drought and bring a cup home, I'm convinced we will.  🤞

 

 

[Kid Dynamite 7014]

[RobinRobin 11221]

3 hours ago, Tdansmith said:

When I first read  "good luck if you decide to stay on here" I wasn't sure what you meant.  I do now 😂🤣

I wasn't expecting the pile on but I understand now why my opinion caused that, I didn't think I deserved the insults however, but that's life I guess. 

Thanks Rayvin for being reasonable. 

So, I'll take the hint Gemmill and leave this site.  It's a damn shame as I really liked posting and reading here.  Never-mind.

 

Best of luck and good health to all who post here, even the ones who insulted me 😂 And nee hard feelings.

 

Hopefully, sooner rather than later we end that trophy drought and bring a cup home, I'm convinced we will.  🤞

 

 

Not sure that was Gemmill's advice but all the best choosing Twatter over our erudite postings and MF's bawdy humour. Oh, and CT's hobbies. 👍 

[Rayvin 5203]

3 hours ago, Tdansmith said:

When I first read  "good luck if you decide to stay on here" I wasn't sure what you meant.  I do now 😂🤣

I wasn't expecting the pile on but I understand now why my opinion caused that, I didn't think I deserved the insults however, but that's life I guess. 

Thanks Rayvin for being reasonable. 

So, I'll take the hint Gemmill and leave this site.  It's a damn shame as I really liked posting and reading here.  Never-mind.

 

Best of luck and good health to all who post here, even the ones who insulted me 😂 And nee hard feelings.

 

Hopefully, sooner rather than later we end that trophy drought and bring a cup home, I'm convinced we will.  🤞

 

 

 

I'd prefer you didn't go mate, if that's worth anything. Even I get piled on in politics chat sometimes - that said, it's worth understanding that most of this forum is made up of lefties who are fucking angry at the world. Whether you agree or not, our vision of how things are is intensely bleak and getting worse by the day.