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Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by dhosek »

winternett wrote: post #33

I'm very proud of my history of never clicking a Facebook ad in over 10 years... Most of them are really just shills for capturing targeting data to associate with my profile anyway. This also explains why Facebook shows me wildly random ads for Viagra alternatives, yoga pants, conservative news, and better kitty litter than my current brand... All things which have no relevance to me, yet quite often triggering my u…

I deleted facebook and twitter in January and it's been a measurable improvement in my quality of life. Before I did, I made a point of clicking every ad for a while to f-ck the algorithm. It took only about a day of that for every ad to be personal injury lawyers.

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by hluska »

motohagiography wrote: post #57
hluska wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey bud, I made a reply on this thread and now feel guilty about it. I’ve got nothing against you and you’re a wickedly smart person. Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay??? I have strong opinions about some of the cats who publish these ideas. Those opinions in no way inform…

I consider it a supreme privilege to have these thoughts read by anyone at all, so really, thank you, no issues here at all, even if someone (else) takes shots. This is public discouse, and sometimes it gets bumptuous. :)

Seriously friend, I don’t want to take shots at you. You’re cool and I have precisely zero reasons to take shots at you. You’re (likely) good in my books - I only wrote about David Icke.

If you feel I took a shot at you, I apologize. That was not my intent, but I behaved like a brute. That was completely wrong and I’m sorry. I have no excuses only sorrow. :(

Edit - Sorry, I forgot to mention that I really dig your attitude. I was a dick and I’m sorry.

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by dhosek »

8bitsrule wrote: post #11

>My assistant suggested we first try the “wood-knock” technique. According to expert Bigfootologists, the creatures are said to communicate with one another by hitting tree trunks with thick branches... Sounds like Tamlin's 'assistant, a lawyer' is an id^H^H^H^H hasn't spent much time in the bush. BIG NOISE generally means: run fast and hide deep.

I'm old enough to remember terminal speeds slow enough that you could see “is an id” spelled out and then the cursor back up and the replacement text appear.

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

hackingthelema wrote: post #37
selestify wrote: post #25

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> The genius of it is that it is a note for note send up of ideologies of every kind, literally, the logic of an idea, where when you project it on something, the reflection doesn't illuminate the object so much as reinforce the underlying idea itself as a lens. Could you expound on this? I’m afraid I don’t quite understand what you are saying

In Discordianism, there is something called the Law of Fives[1], which says, 'all things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5.' There is also a memo from one founder to another quoted which says, 'I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.' Robert Anton Wilson has some interesting personal experiments about t…

Interestingly, we had a thread not all that long ago about illusions and their relationship to the brain's prediction systems. It seems plausible that things like this are related.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254496

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by saltyfamiliar »

hluska wrote: post #50
motohagiography wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So called "ancient astronaut theory," is an ideology. The premise is the hypothetical that earth was once inhabited by extraterrestrials, and then when you view archeology and history through that lens, and provide explanations for any outstanding questions or uncertainties using this underlying assumption as a premise (could it be aliens? ancient astronaut theorists say yes!), you have a complete and very accessible…

Hey bud, I made a reply on this thread and now feel guilty about it. I’ve got nothing against you and you’re a wickedly smart person. Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay??? I have strong opinions about some of the cats who publish these ideas. Those opinions in no way inform…

> Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay???

Why do you sound like you just found out motohagiography has high-level connections to the mob? Honestly this entire thread is starting to trigger my schizoid tendencies because I have no idea what half the people in it are talking about.

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by pstuart »

hluska wrote: post #52
pstuart wrote: post #46

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I googled him. It took 3 seconds to realize I wanted my 3 seconds back.

Shitballs. Sorry bud - I edited the original post to suggest that people don’t google him. I’m sorry you went through that. :(

Thanx, but I was braced based on your advice ;-)

It's still in the same general territory as QAnon and the fact that 1/5 Americans drinks that kool-aid fills me with despair (and fear).

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/study-finds-...

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by catillac »

sushsjsuauahab wrote: post #44
winternett wrote: post #33

I'm very proud of my history of never clicking a Facebook ad in over 10 years... Most of them are really just shills for capturing targeting data to associate with my profile anyway. This also explains why Facebook shows me wildly random ads for Viagra alternatives, yoga pants, conservative news, and better kitty litter than my current brand... All things which have no relevance to me, yet quite often triggering my u…

Well, with regard to conservative news, there's about a 50% chance that you would be interested, not necessarily enough to click though

Significantly less given that they’re on HN, but I suppose there’s no way FB would know that this person posts on HN.

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by hluska »

saltyfamiliar wrote: post #66
hluska wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey bud, I made a reply on this thread and now feel guilty about it. I’ve got nothing against you and you’re a wickedly smart person. Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay??? I have strong opinions about some of the cats who publish these ideas. Those opinions in no way inform…

> Please please please don’t think I was mocking you or anything you believe. You’re a wickedly smart person and a talented writer. Those are the only opinions I have about you. Okay??? Why do you sound like you just found out motohagiography has high-level connections to the mob? Honestly this entire thread is starting to trigger my schizoid tendencies because I have no idea what half the people in it are talking ab…

The simplest answer is that I was an asshole. Someone posted an idea and someone else asked for clarification. Rather than act like an adult, I put on my dickbag hat and shit all over the idea. My issue is with David Icke yet for some incomprehensible reason, I jumped into a thread that didn’t involve me and added my own personal shit.

I injected David Icke rather than give Motohagiography the chance to explain their own words. At best, I was a bully.

It was wrong of me and I fucked up. I could have behaved like an adult and made a difference. Instead I acted like a brute and made a spectacle. What the fuck was the point of any of that???

Edit - I have a better way to describe it. I acted like a racist! I saw signs of David Icke and turned dick. A more adult adult would have shut the fuck up…alas, I’m bad at that.

Edit 2 - If I was writing about someone else, I would have used the words “complete fucking asshole”. Let me restate. The simplest answer is that I was a complete fucking asshole. :)

Thanks for calling me out bud! :)

Re: Facebook ads told me to become a certified cryptozoologist, so I did

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Post by treeman79 »

dhosek wrote: post #61
winternett wrote: post #33

I'm very proud of my history of never clicking a Facebook ad in over 10 years... Most of them are really just shills for capturing targeting data to associate with my profile anyway. This also explains why Facebook shows me wildly random ads for Viagra alternatives, yoga pants, conservative news, and better kitty litter than my current brand... All things which have no relevance to me, yet quite often triggering my u…

I deleted facebook and twitter in January and it's been a measurable improvement in my quality of life. Before I did, I made a point of clicking every ad for a while to f-ck the algorithm. It took only about a day of that for every ad to be personal injury lawyers.

Life is better without Twitter.

Grandparents had a fit over me cutting FB. Grandkid pictures are a serious matter.

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