Paging Dr @Brisktheaardwolf@beehaw.org

In fact, I downloaded a Rimac Nevera just yesterday.

For Cyberpunk 2077, but still. Would, could, did.

OF a potato. Common grammatical mistake 🤷

Gender?

Sex at birth?

Are you trans?

Are you gay? Bi?

Ever been depressed?

Abuse alcohol? Drugs?

Ever been arrested?

Ever been in the military?

Well what about your spouse?

Ever work for the government?

That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?

I’m just trying to get an egg loan! There’s people in line behind me!

Fallout 5

That’s what she…said…? 🤷

I’m honored 😄🫶

The Residents of the United States of America

1 Pilots

Teach Boys

Net Shop Boys

Poundgarden

Måneskind

Temple of the Log

4 Nun Blondes

0 Unlimited

Simply Rod

The Sax Pistols

Space Girls

Procul Warum

The Orfspring

Damn, a LOT of really old and/or bad bands there 😄

And that is why it’s called a checking account. It’s only there for checking.

Which is of course itself an example of how effective the “propaganda only works on stupid people” messaging is at isolating victims of misinformation from any arguments pointing out misinformation.

It’s maddening, and the only remedy is more effective messaging about verifiably true information.

Which is in turn made more difficult by the truth tending to be much more complicated than plausible lies made into slogans and sound bites.

Example:

“Transfer municipal funds to other professionals better equipped to handle certain tasks in an effective and nonlethal manner than police officers are” is much more unambiguous about what most people want than “defund the police”, but good luck fitting that on a sign or getting to say that on the news before being interrupted!

Being dumb or not is completely irrelevant here

Especially when you factor in that propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.

You don’t have to be an idiot or insane to be fooled by effective messaging and messaging doesn’t have to make sense in order to be effective.

Otherwise, the fascist Republican party would have no chance of getting CLOSE to winning any major elections, let alone the presidency.

Instructions unclear, lost phone to water damage.

Related fact: the original surname of Peter Thiel is Cockathiel

One of the few things they have in common with elephants