Mackie The Staggie Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 The commentators curse in full effect. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 On the Chinese lads in the casino. I was in once playing a fiver a hand at black jack. So was the rest of the table. lazy chilled out. The guy a couple away from me was doing well, winning often. A Chinese man then walked up behind him and started betting on his hand behind him. Stacks of chips. The boy seemed unfazed but the Chinese lad was betting hundreds on this guy. I'd have shit my pants. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugna Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 On 21/10/2022 at 17:45, invergowrie arab said: Nothing in these threads would be anything to the Chinese lads in the casino who treat poker like flipping a coin. Just call everything and maybe they have best hand maybe they don't. I don't think they even look at their hole cards I would agree they're probably strangers to their hole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, Busta Nut said: On the Chinese lads in the casino. I was in once playing a fiver a hand at black jack. So was the rest of the table. lazy chilled out. The guy a couple away from me was doing well, winning often. A Chinese man then walked up behind him and started betting on his hand behind him. Stacks of chips. The boy seemed unfazed but the Chinese lad was betting hundreds on this guy. I'd have shit my pants. That's one way to get him away from behind you. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendot Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, greendot said: Thats a fake one from 2018 m9............................... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Ah, Fox. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 The boy is a fruit loop. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbaxters Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 30 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: The boy is a fruit loop. Maybe, but he hasn't said a lot wrong in that section. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodhull Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 14 minutes ago, jimbaxters said: Maybe, but he hasn't said a lot wrong in that section. For the most part except that there aren't really any far-left echo chambers that I can think of. Unless you go by the Republican definition where they accuse Biden of being a socialist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=show+me+your+tits 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, BudBudBud said: The Musketeer is bringing back free speech, which is great to see. Outlets to be able to say what you like on the internet are draconianly policed, says man on 100th alias. Edited October 28, 2022 by carpetmonster 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 The fucking arrogance dripping off Musk is absolutely cosmic in scale. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Modern big tech (and small tech) create echo chambers and controversy by the nature of the algorithms that they use. To use one of the oldest of these as an example: Amazon use a sort of pattern matching algorithm to recommend books to you. Say you choose to buy Lord of the Rings the book, it will then recommend books others who bought that also bought so perhaps Game of Thrones. This is all very 2001. But the algorithms became more and more elaborate so they would take into account your age, race, sex etc. So it may start recommending Margaret Atwood to an older women and perhaps Star Wars to a younger man. All very wholesome and obvious. But the same farming of data and presenting of choices happens on things like youtube, facebook, twitter etc. But these are now presenting you news stories. So if you generally follow some pro Indyref channels and upvote SNP content you are going to see the same world view as others from that milieu. Most are vaguely aware of this but then that is not that much more than simply always buying newspapers that give one side of the news. In and off itself though that level of bias will have an impact on how people see the world if they only ever hear that Biden is awful or that the country is being over run with immigrants. For some the real problem is dopamine and how it forms memories and behaviours. You pull the arm of a slot machine and you feel a rush of excitement. That rush includes dopamine that is in part making you feel good but also in part making memories and habits. Dopamine has a powerful role in signalling where to to lay down neural connections. So your pulling of the arm becomes something your body craves for you to repeat. Or drinking alcohol, smoking and now tweeting about politics. The companies do not give a f**k what your politics is, its about "dwell time". Encouraging you to stay on app longer and longer. More and more dopamine. What gets people to dwell on facebook, youtube or twitter longer? Being angry and sharing the validation of being angry with other people who agree with you. Some of the strongest emotions that drive people habitually to watch videos and interact with web pages for longer and longer. Musk is not going to fix this, god alone knows what he thinks he is going to fix because the entire online ecology is built around feeding people to be emotional not rational, to be angry not thoughtful and to be dutiful consumers. And it will not take more than a couple of seconds to realise how many come onto Pie and Bovril to indulge in self congratulatory, angry politics. This does not even have an algorithm and people get addicted. Still people gleefully outsourced censorship to tech companies with smug "no one has the right to a platform" etc etc. Now you might find out what happens when those tech companies values no longer align with your own. (We shall see what Musk actually does, I suspect its more of a case of a dog finally catching the car and not really knowing what comes next). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 There is a very old fashioned part of my brain that cannot comprehend a guy paying 44 billion dollars for a company that doesn't make anything. It's just a platform, and one in decline. The new Bebo, MySpace, Friends reunited. Surely he won't make money off this deal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 20 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Surely he won't make money off this deal. Does he really need to though? It’s all just a dick swinging game to these people. Money means absolutely nothing to somebody like him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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