• @[email protected]
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    This is my reaction anytime I Google virtually anything. Stop fucking recommending videos, Google. We’re not fucking interested.

    • @[email protected]
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      You are not fucking interested. We, as Google’s customer base, want everything in video format because we are allergic to reading. If it pisses off 1% of users (which is ten of millions of people), so be it, still profit.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m with you. This shift over the last decade or so to everything being in video essay format is infuriating. Especially when I’m trying to look up instructions for something that could just be a five item bulleted list or a single image but instead is stretched out into a ten minute video.

      There have actually been a few times I’ve given up on finding some piece of information or instructions I wanted because I could only find video sources.

  • Sabata
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    56 hours ago

    Did we just discover a fundamental force of the internet?

  • @kaffiene
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    57 hours ago

    Oh hell yes! I also feel that people who can’t summarise their argument likely don’t understand it

  • @[email protected]
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    5215 hours ago

    This shit happens far too often. Between the YouTube links that “prove” their bullshit, to the thousand-word copypasta essay that doesn’t contain a single original thought.

    Yeah. I’m not doing that.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      Your loss, you would just have to educate yourself on basic shit, here’s a short one for your attention span.

      • @[email protected]
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        You know links are shown in thumbnails, right?

        EDIT: oh shit I get the joke. Man, that’s some meta stuff! You got me there, bud.

        Just not in the obvious way

        Well done. Only you forgot the /s

      • @MimicJar
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        Only video that’s ever made sense to me.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.

      • @barsquid
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        I see we have all independently encountered the same individuals.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        I’ve had people link articles to me for their argument that actually substantiated mine.

    • @TrickDacy
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      Yeah that’s right, disregard the rock solid evidence they laid out!! /s

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        I watched/listened to her rant about some Star Wars hotel that I didn’t know existed, while it existed, for 4 hours! Wish I had gone to Disneyland while she was a guide.

        She and Milo Rossi need to figure out a crossover topic for them to just go full ham on.

        • @smort
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          She has a video on the lore of some church’s series of musical theater performances. Highly recommend

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    Sometimes I back up my argument with entire books lmao. Its not usually for the person I am arguing with. Its for the people who see the argument and are curious

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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      Einstein said if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.

      Also drag likes your name.

      • @chonglibloodsport
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        I would’ve loved to hear him explain general relativity to an elementary school kid. No bowling ball on trampoline nonsense either!

        • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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          There’s no such thing as absolute speed in the universe. But there is relative speed. That’s how fast something is going, from something else’s point of view. The speedometer on your car measures your speed relative to the road. But another car on the road next to you would say your speed is 0, because from their point of view you aren’t moving. That is to say, you’re going the same speed.

          We used to think relative speeds just added or subtracted together normally. The same rules you learned in math class. But Einstein figured out that isn’t true. See, Einstein and many others knew that the relative speed of light is always the same. No matter how fast you’re going, light is faster. And always by the same amount. You can never get closer to the speed of light. It didn’t make sense to anyone until Einstein figured it out.

          Einstein realised that the faster you’re going, the slower time passes. So even if you’re going at a million miles an hour, you just slow down, and now from your fast/slow point of view, light is still beating your speed by the same amount. You don’t experience time as slower, but anyone looking at you would see you moving in slow motion.

          That’s how drag’s high school physics teacher explained it to drag. Drag oversimplified a bit, but all the important bits are there, and anyone could figure out the rest if they spent the time thinking about it. Anyone who thinks relativity is hard to explain doesn’t understand it. That’s what Einstein was saying.

      • @kaffiene
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        57 hours ago

        Agree with that 100 % I have a degree in Philosophy and that’s a reoccurring dynamic I saw with people trying to baffle with bullshit rather than make a cogent argument

    • @[email protected]OP
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      You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.

      • queermunist she/her
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        Yeah, you need to take specific portions of the book to support your argument. I won’t just say “read Fanon” but will give a a specific example from the book in addition to the more general example of the entire work, plus encourage them to read more.

  • @db2
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    That’s brutal.

  • @someguy3
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    I got a YouTube link to a 30 minute mumbler.