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  • Pretty much ALL of Hbomb’s substantive examples from the video are from CTRL-ALT-DEL which is like … the worst example imaginable.

    Because it’s a video specifically about CAD (that’s why the video is literally titled “Ctrl + Alt + Del”) not webcomics in general. There are some references to other gaming comics and what they generally don’t do well but it’s preamble for why CAD is the worst. The whole point of this video is to be about Ctrl + Alt + Del and the guy behind it.

    And as an aside, really Harris, web comic artists as targets?

    No, it’s specifically about the CAD guy. He doesn’t talk about the other webcomic artists.

    These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox “oof” sound effect.

    I’m curious what other “takes” you think he has if you didn’t even realize why the video called CAD primarily talks about CAD.







  • It’s not the fact that they’re on the internet, it’s the fact that being on the internet doesn’t inherently make them good.

    Of course a boy subconsciously looking for guidance will find these guys and feel inspired or compelled by them. But maturity is the concept of learning from experience and challenging your own understanding in order to be a more balanced and level-headed person tomorrow. You know, exactly what these guys try to stop.

    So the only thing these kids can do is embrace growing up, becoming mature, and finding role model figures that champion that instead of ones that peddle the arrested development that these charlatans do.


  • stillwater@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlSearch engines compared
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    This started with pointing out the author is a rabid conspiracy crank. His judgement for censorship was that these search engines didn’t show the “truth” of his crazy conspiracies about the moon landing and vaccines, and he flat out called actual science and knowledge false.

    This isn’t a matter of censorship at large and what it means for society. This is simply a crazy conspiracy moron getting mad that his preferred false information is no longer being disseminated and he’s mad that actual science is instead.

    This guy straight up suggested that he would prefer not seeing science and would instead prefer to see his falsities instead. This isn’t a matter of censorship, this is a matter of willful anti-intelligence.

    You can claim “but I’m an adult, I can figure things out for myself” but you have to remember: so is everyone else, including all the anti-science, anti-vaxx, MAGA types. They have actively been causing harm for years now and this stops them in their tracks. It’s not censorship to throw out junk data and keep proper data. That’s just good information hygiene at a certain point. You can still find articles that cover these conspiracy theories on these search engines but you won’t get fake news sites purporting lies as truth because the availability of these things has caused more harm to our current, modern society than any amount of censorship has ever come close to.

    The idea of the democratization of information has proven to be an abject failure. Unfortunately information does need to be gatekept by arbiters, and we have only proved over and over again for the past decade.

    Relying on a single place for all information is also a complete mistake. There’s a good reason why every academic study or decent journalism always insists on multiple sources. You can’t trust that you’ll ever get the picture from one place.

    Should search engines not have to do this? Yes. In an ideal world. But we don’t live in one, and now we’re likening these types of anti-science cranks to the scientific victims of anti-science cranks in the past. What we really learned from the Enlightenment is that those who pursue true knowledge should not be censored and those that reject it should be quieted.

    And yes, finding the right people to be arbiters is hard. Yet this fucking guy should absolutely not be the arbiter of deciding what is and isn’t censorship.










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    The guy complaining about how common it is doesn’t seem to live in any of those regions though. Most seafood is not consumed live, even in those places. It’s weird that that’s the major complaint with seafood.

    Many people go their entire seafood eating lives while never eating from a live creature.