DMBFFF

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Hypothetical: You have to walk 10 miles, >95% of it on sidewalks, through the bad part(s) of a dangerous American city starting at 9:00 PM on a Saturday night. Who of the following (in the body of this post) would you rather have as de facto bodyguards?

1a. Those randomly chosen consent and will collectively get $10 000 if you make through safely.

2b. No one in these choices is armed: at least not when you all begin your walk.

3c. 6 oz of alcohol is 100% and can be in the form of 12 oz of 100 proof booze, 48 oz of 25 proof wine, 192 oz of 6.25 proof beer, etc.

4d. The Roman, Chinese, and Zulu groups each have a middle age female translator.

16 randomly chosen female Americans, 25 to 35

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35, 4'9" to 5'3"

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35, each who has drunk 6 oz of alcohol in the past 30 minutes

12 randomly chosen male Americans, 55 to 70

24 randomly chosen Americans, 65 to 80

8 randomly chosen male Americans, 25 to 35

1 random person who's been in the US Marines for over 10 years, but is under 35

6 Roman soldiers (circa 100 AD)

8 Chinese soldiers (circa 100 AD)

4 Zulu warriors (circa 1600 AD)

1 T-800 terminator in the same condition as the one in T-2 just before it got dipped in the molten metal

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why would you starve?

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Homicide: Life on the Streets apparently had something similar in S3 E16.

I'd link a video, but the producers of the series has apparently done a lot of IP trolling on YouTube, and as shitty as YouTube is, DailyMotion is shittier.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6twq3q

≈27:11

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you need this device for?

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Isn't 4chan an alt-right Nazi shithole?

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

"I'm on my side."

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

means you can’t actually use your device your way.

Then don't use the device.

(I myself can wait longer than many of their shareholders.)

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No: the bad guys will build another one.

However if 250 million Americans each spent 400 hours less on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the next 12 months, the shareholders might have the heads of many members of those corporate boards on pikes.

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If we are going to wait for the right legislation, then we are probably going to wait a very long time.

You're not on Facebook and Twitter? Good. It's entry-level stance, but nonetheless a good one, particularly if you are under 40 years of age.

YouTube is more difficult as it is, for me at least, mostly a replacement for television, videotape, and DVDs. My search for alternatives haven't been too fruitful, but I often go to Vimeo, Archives, niconoco (they're back in service starting early August), occasionally RuTube and vk (I support Ukraine in the war, but I'm not going to hate Russia), for a while the Chinese sites (though there seems to be less selection these days, too many ads, and some of it is YouTube embeds), Jamendo, and WikiCommons, and yes PeerTube (I suppose searching in time will get easier). (I'm also thinking of going back to P2P a bit.)

FWIW, I have this https://lemmy.world/c/musicnoytnosnofbnoff on Lemmy, and so far I might be the only contributor. The one I have on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/musicNoYTNoSNoFBNoFF/ I can no longer access as the account I used to create it has been suspended (and yes, suspended for no good reason). I could be the sole contributor for the next few years and I won't give up.

Yes, many Americans, many people, are stuck in shitty jobs that take too much of their time, and a lot of it is nonessential. However, over a trillion hours (e.g. say over 250 million people x over 4000 hours in less than 10 years) have been spent on FB, Twitter, and YouTube. If 1% of that time was spent on alternatives, choices could improve dramatically. But they might not, it might be that they probably won't, at least not for most of the Fox and CNN viewership. No matter: the search for alternatives continue and if people like us remain a small minority for years, maybe decades, to come, then we will nonetheless continue. We will be our own 1%ers.

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I could boycott all of them easily: most I haven't had, and the rest I have very rarely.

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"EEHHx-cellent."

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Starting out with small groups shouldn't be too difficult.

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