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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Why censor truth when you can flood the comm channels with tons of misleading, fabricated, utterly bonkers conspiracy theory bullshit? If 99% is fake news, chances are the people won't belive that remaining 1%.

That's why Donny et all keeps yelling "freedom of speech" at the top of their lungs in Europe's general direction. That's what's at stake. If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap. Lying to get the power actually works. If Donnie gets his way, Brexit will in retrospect be a mere appetiser.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

Yeah honestly I feel that's the universal problem the world in general has.

What's worse, our "vetted" sources have all been compromised. Mainstream news is corrupt as hell... all owned by a tiny portion of rich assholes. As trust in them wanes, the focus moves to the "independent" creators on youtube, and instagram influencers, podcastors etc...

Of which many of them are actually getting paid by the same billionares, as scandal after scandal shows, and of course rich monstrocities like Meta, Google, Musk... have the power to signal boost the ones they want to, and to minimize the growth of ones they don't.