New Year’s 2021: Times Square ball drop in NYC marks New Year
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The iconic Times Square New Year’s ball drop went off without a hitch, though a little more subdued than year’s past due to the coronavirus pandemic.The rela...
  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 years ago

    guys we should be thankful to kia without them there wouldn’t have been a 2021 this year :flushed face:

    edit: also which one of you is this?

    • TeethOrCoat@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 years ago

      Not the poster of that comment, but I’m surprised it happened on youtube of all places. That place is a fucking propaganda swamp. One left political video gets you 5 fucking fascist adjacents soon after in the recommends.

      • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 years ago

        I’ve seen a video, probably by Markiplier or other pewdite youtuber, where he cleared cookies and went on YouTube, and from a random frontpage video he ended up at Holocaust denial in a few clicks.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 years ago

      Yeah the smothering with advertisements is absolutely ridiculous. I actually never liked adverts but couldn’t articulate why. Much later (but before the turn to tankie town) I read this blog post which I agreed with mostly. This along with using uBlock Origin on the browser and not consuming stuff like movies, TV shows etc. now really makes me conscious of advertisements when I see them, even the covert ones. But most consumers are used to having a constant barrage of adverts being dumped on them. It blows my mind when I see my friends and family subject themselves to ads on YouTube and such. It takes some time to get out of that mentality.

      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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        4 years ago

        But most consumers are used to having a constant barrage of adverts being dumped on them. It blows my mind when I see my friends and family subject themselves to ads on YouTube and such. It takes some time to get out of that mentality.

        Same, I haven’t had cable TV for like 10+ years, and every time I go to my friends or fam’s houses, the barrage of ads is so gross and I have such a visceral reaction to them that I almost need to leave the room. Meanwhile they’ve become totally inured to it.

        Thx for that article, imma read that soon. If you haven’t I highly suggest reading Cialdini - The psychology of persuasion, there’s an audiobook for it on torrents. He’s a psych prof that went undercover for several years into various sales jobs, distilled nearly every sales tactic down to a few psychological tricks they use, and wrote a book on it. Once you learn them it becomes so transparent that every single ad you see, you be can easily tell which trick they’re using… rules 2 and 4, rule 1, etc.