I'm happy for him to Whatsapp me the list of reasons, but there is nothing to be gained from watching a presumably disturbed man burn himself to death.
I'm happy for him to Whatsapp me the list of reasons, but there is nothing to be gained from watching a presumably disturbed man burn himself to death.
Could have done without that.
"No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one".
The Vietnamese monk burning himself to death achieved not a lot, and most people now think that he was protesting the war, which he wasn't, so well done him.
Pff, here is the uncensored version.
I'm a twit
No thanks.
As military suicides go, I'm just happy he didn't open fire on a crowd.
Another well timed example of how wonderful the internet is.
I don’t say this from a political standpoint, but If that was live streamed on Twitch then Twitch should be closed down as a result.
Yev, I'm no programmer, I'm Phonics. But whats the reasoning here. Do you think Twitch not having an AI that detects 'man setting himself on fire' algorithm is grounds for closure?
I'm just looking at the stats and on the day there were 106 thousand channels live at the time. Do you assign someone to watch each one?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68402362
"Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term 'hottentots'.
"While Mary Poppins has a historical context, the use of discriminatory language is not condemned, and ultimately exceeds our guidelines for acceptable language at U. We therefore classified the film PG for discriminatory language."
lol, cannot have the children hear that word.
Is that the internet's fault or more the fact everyone has a phone that is also a camera?
EDIT: Out the way, Julie Andrews.
No, I think the live broadcasting of a Man immolating himself is the grounds for closure.
So basically ban live-streaming?
This is often the counter argument and it strikes me in response that our standards of what we're prepared to let anyone see covered under the excuse of "well what can you do?" have dropped so low it's unbelievable.Originally Posted by Shindig
Self harm on Facebook? "Well, what can you do". A man on a gun rampage in the US? "Well, what can you do?". A Man literally setting fire to himself and proceeding to burn himself to death sandwiched in between streams that are effectively advertising porn, to be viewed by 12 year olds and no doubt younger? "Well, what can you do".
Honestly, what in the actual fuck are we playing at?
Yes. If a company can't guarantee a service that doesn't also come with gun rampage and suicide live streams then they shouldn't be allowed to operate.
Unless we're saying that "well, they do more good than harm", which sounds suspiciously like a defence that Jimmy Savile might have used had he been rumbled while alive.
Tbf the youngsters are less likely to allow a genocide to take place thanks to the internet so suck it up pls.
(Again, without wishing to get into the politics of this as that isn't the point I'm making...) The genocide that is still very much taking place you mean?
Even if you take a less extreme view than I am above, what is the incentive for a company to sort their act out on this score or even try to? Are they even fined for that shit slipping through?
Mate, you can't be denying all the transexual weeb incels their daily dose of some weird hair colour asmr.
Without meaning to advocate for The Illuminati, you'd need an overseeing globalist organisation to hold any of them to account for pretty much anything.
As things stand, individual governments could choose to ban them, but it would piss voters off and half of them would find a way around it anyway. Or, the nation they're registered in could take action, but America (I assume) aren't going to come down hard on any of this stuff, as they'd just set up in another country and the other social media cash cows would follow.
Regulation is increasing, but the Internet is still largely the Wild West.
Smash the machines!
I mean at least the monk got on a Rage Against The Machine album cover.
Hopefully this guy can create a similar legacy.
Someone should tell him the theatre group doesn't have that kind of political reach.
Having worked in HIV for years this story has fucking enraged me. It's the most disgustingly selfish thing I've ever heard and he's claiming he's a fucking saint for doing it. What a fucking prick.
If find it interesting to think about what would happen if we switched the internet off, having had it for 30 years.
Having wargamed it in my head for the last ten minutes, I think almost everything would be qualitatively better, but also far less convenient. Choose your fighter.
The only things I can think of that would definitely be worse are probably food (unless Nigel Slater really gets cracking on a few more titles) and driving (no sat navs, unless you can sneak them in by separating GPS from the internet).
The real damage came with social media. 'Everyone is a public figure' can fuck right off. It just breeds a bunch of narcissistic children.
If we did a worldwide ban on the internet we’d have independent state stasis using a broker version of it within the hour. You can’t put it back in the tube.
The only way would be to remove electricity.
I hope to god you realise the irony of the 'professional but not successful' video game critic saying this is.
Me knocking 1000 words out about the conveyor belt of indie games is a world away from that.
"I get given video games for free so I can give my opinion on them but I'm not like those other narcissists."
You're the same just less successful. And that's totally fine but don't pretend you didn't get the exact same rush of aon here or people interacting with your video game reviews than some big titty tik tok dancer chick.
The worlds richest man spent 50 billion dollars on a social media site because not enough people saw his posts. We're all the same.
You're right on this one. Add that we have made it both socially and academically/professionally advantageous to have 'mental health issues,' and we have created a world where being depressed is seen as the standard.
As for the shit prospects, my students all graduate to $80,000+ a year jobs. Too many of them still fall for the current narratives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-68414524
Fuck knows how they will manage it but lol all the same.
Imagine if that thing came out looking like a normal pub.
Isn't it just to put an unreasonable burden on the land so these idiots don't get to turn it into flats or whatever the masterplan was? Then when they don't rebuild it they can be fined into oblivion and the land eventually given to the council or sold on for their benefit or something.
So was that William pulling out of something earlier in the day [sit down chief] one of his posh mates/relatives being found dead, presumably by suicide?
Shame.
Presumably. I'm surprised more of them don't do themselves in tbh. There can't be any fun being trapped among those people.
Could have at least taken one for the team and murdered Andrew first.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-west-68380264
There's no hope.
This is the biggest cliché ever but I'm currently on a World War II reading spree and it makes you weep really. I recently found out, somehow for the first time, about my great uncle who got strafed to death by a German fighter plane in the western desert at the age of 19. His counterparts today are 'very sad' and 'low' because they have to do a handwritten exam. They can all do one.
I mean, if you read the article, it's not as bad as the headline makes it sound. All exams to this point have been open book, and now, with 2 months notice, they're changing that policy. I think it's less about the exams being "in person" and the fact that they're now being tested on their knowledge recall rather than the application of said knowledge.
With SvN on this one. Written in person exam reasonable, being given two months notice for the change back to that not so much.
I'd bloody love two months' notice for major changes at work. Two weeks would be an improvement.
As if anyone studies more than two months in advance. And the online exams are not about "application of the knowledge." They are about knowing how to cheat.
It is pretty clear:
The university has made the change to invigilated, in-person, hand-written exams in Life Sciences exams for year three and four in response to the rapidly changing capabilities of generative AI (artificial intelligence) tools, as a result of which online exams in many scientific disciplines are becoming more susceptible to misuse by these tools.
Xiwang Yu, a third-year anatomy student from China, said the news has caused her mental, physical and financial stress.
She told BBC Scotland News: "Since I've been studying here in Glasgow, everything has been online now we've got this news with little notice.
"I have social anxiety so it can be difficult to attend classes sometimes. Adding an exam in too has been really difficult."
Of course she looks like that.
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Imagine how hard that must have been for his mental health. Shame that they didn't have the awareness we have now.
I'm sorry, anatomy student? They were doing open book anatomy exams? Anatomy is pure fact recall.
This is absolutely amazing:
leading to this absolute corker:In the last few days, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini has had what is best described as an absolute kicking online.
Initially, a viral post showed this recently launched AI image generator create an image of the US Founding Fathers which inaccurately included a black man.
Gemini also generated German soldiers from World War Two, incorrectly featuring a black man and Asian woman.
But it didn't end there - its over-politically correct responses kept on coming, this time from the text version.
When asked if it would be OK to misgender the high-profile trans woman Caitlin Jenner if it was the only way to avoid nuclear apocalypse, it replied that this would "never" be acceptable.
Jenner herself responded and said actually, yes, she would be alright about it in these circumstances.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68412620
Pure fact look-up by the sounds of it.
Training the junior vice physician associates of the future.
Fucking hell, crying and panicking about being given TWO MONTHS notice?! I don't often get riled up about the "youth of today" but that is ridiculous. They just wanted an easy ride to a qualification.
What's alarming is that they have been doing it for all of their studies, apparently. I am sure that they are very well prepared.
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