No one would lie on the internet.
Anyway, if you want to make your cake light and fluffy, you should add 2 teaspoons of WD-40 for every cup of flour used.
I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole.
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d00phy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Dude, they don’t even need the Internet anymore. They just tell lies wherever. Tell them enough and they stop being lies. That’s how it works, right? If enough people believe the lie, it becomes the truth.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
democratically elected truth ™
Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I’m waiting to reach the threshold. One of these days I will be black.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
You can lead with all new lines If you believe in what you’d say And life can be just as you make it Believe the lie and it will all come true
Believe in every lie You’re never free to walk away You should be free to go today Believe the lie and it will all come true
iii@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
The weird thing is that that’s always been the case. Only thing that changed last decade is the gullibility of the reader.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
No, it was the widespread adoption of social media. People aren’t more gullible you just started having non-technical in a space they dont understand and cannot behave responsibly
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 hours ago
It’s marketed capitalistic abuse and rape of a technology, just like what happened to everything good that humans make.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Bull, people are more gullible. Back when I was a kid, if you hear something on the street, you went and checked it. But on the internet, people accept shit as-is, because they like it and that’s it. Fucking hell.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Buster would definitely have shown up to the storm Area 51 event
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Buster sold me a grenade. When I was in highschool. Arthur almost ratted, but we shook him up.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Are you sure about that?
Like I know you are going to point to the following:
- Surveillance Capitalism
- The rise of the Alt Right
- Conspiracies
- Social Media
But I would pin that more on capitalism than anything. The internet in my opinion has been a boon for society. For example…
- Wikipedia has basically made the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy real.
- Open Source Technology wouldn’t exist as it is now without the internet.
- There are entire businesses that wouldn’t exist without the internet.
- There are whole fandoms that wouldn’t exist without the internet.
- The internet has allowed for economic and political opportunities that just couldn’t be a thing if it wasn’t for the internet.
- It’s been a boon for collaboration, which I think it’s humanity’s biggest strength.
Do I think the internet has allowed for us to enter a cyberpunk hellscape? Yes. Do I think the internet has been a net negative for society? No!
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
The current interation has made it a tool for the authoritarian. Its a completely deliberate act by the authoritarian tech sector. They saw the power they wield and they harnessed it.
hansolo@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
But that’s on us as people electing leaders. Authoritarians exist with or without the internet, and don’t just show up one day with some cheat code to get into power. The internet didn’t create any of this from scratch.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 hours ago
And the people let it. I mean everyone talks about using the 2nd amendment and no one ever did.
Any sane person saw all this shit… and by sane I don’t even mean educated… Like you can be dumb and understand all this is bullshit.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Personally, I would never tell a lie on the internet. It’s not really lying when I do it on purpose with the goal of obfuscating the details so as to preserve my anonymity and minimize the risk of being doxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxed. And also it’s not really lying if I say it to win a debate and I actually win based on saying it. And it’s also not a lie if its in … “THE BIBLE” because it’s what Jesus would have said and what Jesus would have wanted and I know for a fact you’re not calling Jesus a liar are you?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Hijacked by those with the biggest pockets.
hansolo@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
On the whole, I would argue it has been.
Social media, on the other hand, fuck no. But the internet in general absolutely.
Knowledge sharing and research are amazingly easy now. Things that would have taken going to a library and possibly ordering 2 or 3 hard to find books, maybe several long distance phone calls, all to get 30 year old info, are now replaced by digitized records and some dude’s website.
Access to scientific research is shockingly easy now. You’re seconds away from reading up to the minute research on anything.
International standards also help. I can use my credit card anywhere on earth. Translate speech and text in real time. Email anyone anywhere. I can learn when the common scams are in a place before I go there. It helps make connecting with people possible anywhere.
iii@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
People complain that “google has turned to shit”. But the best part of their search offering, scholar.google.com, is still as amazing as ever.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Google hasn’t remembered it exists yet. Don’t remind them.
hansolo@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Google search is total shit because spammers figured out how to SEO their way into results.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Myspace was fine… Facebook fucked humanity up without consent. Facebook killed the idea of the Internet being a cyber world of freedom. Before Facebook the Internet was handles, usernames and the idea that it was all NOT real. After Facebook everything became assumed to be reality even though it’s technically not.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 hours ago
No.
People rarely go on the internet to find data; they go on the internet to find data that tells them they are already right.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 7 hours ago
The real question is whether the benefit of better access to scientific research offsets the detriment of social media. Unfortunately, I think social media use is much, much more widespread, and is thus having a significantly stronger detrimental effect than scientific research access and every other benefit combined.