Anyway, is the "Metaverse" a fictional universe devoted to the works of Trinidad-born pianist, composer, poet, playwright and cultural activist Meta Davis Cumberbatch? If not, it should be.
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which might be appropriate, if Zuckerberg is going all in on flat-earth conspiracy theories. Nothing would surprise me at this stage.
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On the other hand I can see Libra becoming ZuckBucks
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That'll be $5 million please
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the entity getting a name change is the corporation that owns facebook, whatsapp, Better Than Life, OCP, Skynet, etc.
My suggestion:
Corporate Unified Network Technologies
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Because the marketing types are all cunts. iCunts.
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so Whore-iZone
Still better than ZuckerSpace
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It'll be something wanky like 'new horizons'
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If we're guessing seriously I think it will be a wanky corporate portmanteau, or an incomplete word, like Holoport or CongeneAI, or, IDK, Extraverse.
God I hate myself for thinking of those names. I couldn't be an ad man.
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Alright then, Simulated Horizons Integrated Technology Systems.
They can have that one for free.
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I've never seen any news or politics, fascist or otherwise, on Facebook, just nice interesting people and friends who live abroad. Am I doing it wrong?
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In fact, I'm in a Dad's Army appreciation group that had posts removed by facebook because they mentioned Hitler, nazis or swastikas.
I've muted and unfriended some of my US 'friends' as they turned out to be avid Trump supporters. Another one, a seemingly normal nice guy, recently outed himself as an antivaxxer.
You just never can tell, can you.
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E.g. supporting Donald Trump, a fascist, makes you a supporter of fascism. Just going by the dictionary, that makes Donald Trump supporters real fascists.
Anti-vaxxers are fighting a simultaneously strong and weak, ingenious and stupid, complicated and simple nebulous enemy. That's at least the mechanics of real fascism.
I suspect the facebook algorithm needs more than just a mention of Hitler to get a post removed. People were able to organise an actual genocide of the Rohingya people on facebook, after all.
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and if you're a dickwit who doesn't trust mainstream news, this bubble will become your source of 'truth', which is worrying. I use it like yourself, a handy way to keep in some touch with people I'm now distanced from, though there's few on it under the age of 30 I've noticed. but I did make the error of once clicking on a trouser ad, and now half my feed is trouser ads given it's the only thing its algorithm tells it I've shown an interest in
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Mark probably still thinks the users of his company's products are dumb fucks (Zuckerberg, 2003). It's a good enough reason to avoid Facebook, Inc and its ethos
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPJf-wKTd0
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Humanist thinking about death - with that nice Stephen Fry.
Cause my daft old EMC & RF colleague died the other week. He had a few years of retirement, pottering about in his shed with his ham radio.
Firm believer in ghosts, he was, but never so much that he'd use the massive collection of highly sensitive equipment at his disposal to test any spooky theories.
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I can sympathise, lost my old cat (16yrs) and a partner of over 20yrs in the same week in June.
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but I'd contend that self-affirming concepts like meaning and purpose are just as much hollow constructs of wishful thinking as belief in an afterlife
sorry to hear about your mate
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Meaning is attributed not intrinsic.
We die and are forgotten.
Death of a valued individual requires the survivor(s) to accommodate the change internally and externally.
Whatever you do or feel, they have gone.
There is no point.
Have a nice day.
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I tend to agree, and think it's a bummer no matter which way you slice it, if it's someone (or some cat) you'd rather were still around
It's more about the pretensions to rationality of the video, and with quite a few people I've encountered who seem to think their atheism conveys some sort of intellectual gravitas on themselves. Putting deism to one side, I commonly find they still seem to accept a lot of other nebulous concepts with likewise little evidence to commend them other than it would be comforting if they were true
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Many people will accept almost any explanation that relieves them of the burden of loss.
too pissed to be this profound
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And in relation to our species (see yesterday's silly headline)
Also in the video they suggest we should find solace in the thought that our atoms are going to end up in trees, birds and butterflies. But our atoms might end up posthumously in the haemorrhoids of some fat cunt.
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I think his credibility is in tatters, given that he was previously telling us that things can only get better. Which is it, Cox? Make up your bloody mind
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All that matters is what gets you through, if developing some kind of spirituality gets you through. Whatever works, the only thing that matters is our state of mind.
If there is no point, stfu =)
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and why I might do any particular behaviour whilst still acknowledging its fundamental pointlessness, but given your valediction I'm guessing you're not feeling receptive to such a discussion
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They have their own agenda
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It's a construct of course. But lots of people feel like there is no meaning without some sort of religious input. I posted this to remind myself to look for meaning for myself.
Me me me, soz.
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they could have put their own view on dealing with death and loss without making an attack on alternatives and claiming rational superiority
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when it sounded like you and feralcatman had recent shitty news and were thinking about your loss. probably the wrong time for my metaphysical wankery, is what Im trying to say. We all have shitty weeks and tragedies, and I'll support my b3tan brothers when they need it
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But I do remember watching that and Bullseye at the weekends. (yes I am that old)
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However i reckon that if the contestants were annoying they would use the vagueness of the clues to just not give them the prize.
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321 always completely mystified me, to the point I found it utterly unwatchable, and I was fairly light entertainment indiscriminate. Bullseye was a firm favourite though. My mother did not approve of my fondness for Bullseye. I think it somehow offended her bourgeois sensibilities, or perhaps having fled the north she couldn’t understand why I’d enjoy such a northern show. Who knows? Whatever, she still let me watch it.
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If you use a computer for work, you're entitled to get your employer to pay for an eyesight test, and potentially a pair of specs - if you need 'em.
Not a very exciting link, I know, but maybe relevent to some folks here.
I saw it mentioned on some godawful daytime TV magazine show, just now.

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And this was it. Splendid dubbing work.
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But that was 20 years ago so now I can watch this kind of thing with glee. Just.
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Not pressing play on this because the guy in the preview looks scary.
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Is none other than Jimmy Saville O.B.E.
There's something else...
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I regulary walk past the place where Sutcliffe killed Jean Jordan. Someone still puts flowers there.
It was his first murder in Manc, and particularly gruesome... she was a prostitute; he'd paid her £5 from his wage packet, before doing her in. After leaving, he was worried the note would be traceable, so he went back. When he couldn't find it, he got angry, and took it out on her corpse.
Her body was discovered by future Les Battersby off Coronation Street, who was in the neighbouring allotments.
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They've recently cleared that patch of wasteland where he killed her, to expand the Southern Cemetery.
Due to Covid, demand is overwhelming.
S Cem is massive. Biggest in Europe, allegedly. Morrisey liked it, hence "meet you at the cemetery gates", etc. Tony Wilson is in there, and Matt Busby, and Lowry, along with many others.
There's a new mural of Tony Wilson just up the road.[1]
I should start doing walking tours...
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I was reading about Sutcliffe's mate Trevor. He'd personally witnessed Sutcliffe hunting prostitutes armed with a stone in a sock. Trevor was about to inform police that Sutcliffe might be the Ripper, but then the hoax cassette appeared with the Wearside accent, and Trevor thought, "Nah, it can't be him"
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I was hoping it'd be all the way up one side of Beetham Tower...
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The mention of the non-carcinized frog crab made me look them up - there don't seem to be any videos of frog crabs that don't also involve a frying pan, butter, chilli or garlic. I guess that tasting great isn't an ideal evolutionary trait.
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A fictional British 1980s Nuclear Attack TV warning, showing events if the fears of the cold war actually happened.
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The 4-minute warning takes 3:55 to deliver. :S
I remember finding the Protect and Survive leaflet in the letterbox one morning. My parents were furious. I think I thought it was kind of exciting.
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www.ebay.com/itm/The-Nuclear-Survival-Handbook-Living-Through-an-by-Popkess-Barry-0099245108/391916082090
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Promoting "The Shark is Broken" a play based on his dad's diaries during the filming of Jaws
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Good 'ol country stylee track.
The Getty background images are a nice touch.
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she did a cool guest vocal with sleafords too
youtu.be/xhdGipqrKNY
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Surprising me with music is a tough job, but this one does the trick!
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Auto translate struggling a little or the commentator had brought something unexpected with him in the helicopter
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Lick of paint, tickle with a duster here and there.
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The stains on the beds really are the finishing touch.
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I wonder, did the owner shit the bed then die, or die and then shit the bed?
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Often happens in childbirth too; they don't show that part on the telly very often.
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Though, as is often pointed out, I often assume people are a lot less ignorant than they really are.
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still, you can get mexican cleaners pretty cheap in the states. but you'd probably need to hire a skip by the looks of it. we bought an apartment in brixton that stunk of shit in the kitchen, christ knows why. I didn't care. I took one look and thought Id rip the whole thing out anyway, and the shit smell lowered the asking price
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Having removed a couple of bad ones myself in the past, the aroma is quite something. Dead body in a hot wheely bin gets pretty close. All that lovely meaty fatty slurry building up and displacing the water that's meant to sit in the trap and prevent odours coming up from the soil pipe. Lovely.
Back on topic, I'd put money on it being mental illness. Looks like a hoarder to me.
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but this was a strong human shit smell from the benchtops and cabinets. my guess would be baby changing by some slob or junkie mum, but there are worse alternatives it could have been
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surprising in many ways
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Got to admit I have only ever heard Love Plus One and Fantastic Day by them.
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Pearoast '07.

Is a Jaffa cake a biscuit?
Who gives a fuck.
Have a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
Just don't put the fucking milk in first.
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That fanfare at 23 seconds. I'd like that to play whenever someone came into the house. I'd soon tire of it but the first few times would be amazing
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Not pressing play on this because the guy in the preview looks scary.
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