This shit happens far too often. Between the YouTube links that “prove” their bullshit, to the thousand-word copypasta essay that doesn’t contain a single original thought.
Yeah. I’m not doing that.
Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.
I’ve had people link articles to me for their argument that actually substantiated mine.
I see we have all independently encountered the same individuals.
Your loss, you would just have to educate yourself on basic shit, here’s a short one for your attention span.
You know links are shown in thumbnails, right?
EDIT: oh shit I get the joke. Man, that’s some meta stuff! You got me there, bud.
Just not in the obvious way
Well done. Only you forgot the /s
The /s would have given it away more easily
Only video that’s ever made sense to me.
Yeah that’s right, disregard the rock solid evidence they laid out!! /s
Professional whinging is so hard
plot twist: it’s a Jenny Nicholson video
Fuck it, I’m in!
I watched/listened to her rant about some Star Wars hotel that I didn’t know existed, while it existed, for 4 hours! Wish I had gone to Disneyland while she was a guide.
She and Milo Rossi need to figure out a crossover topic for them to just go full ham on.
I liked the Brony one.
She has a video on the lore of some church’s series of musical theater performances. Highly recommend
I saw that one already, she’s really quite talented at making video essays
This is my reaction anytime I Google virtually anything. Stop fucking recommending videos, Google. We’re not fucking interested.
You are not fucking interested. We, as Google’s customer base, want everything in video format because we are allergic to reading. If it pisses off 1% of users (which is ten of millions of people), so be it, still profit.
If only there were a way to search specifically for videos. That would be convenient.
Have you met the average user? Have of them are dumber than that.
I’m with you. This shift over the last decade or so to everything being in video essay format is infuriating. Especially when I’m trying to look up instructions for something that could just be a five item bulleted list or a single image but instead is stretched out into a ten minute video.
There have actually been a few times I’ve given up on finding some piece of information or instructions I wanted because I could only find video sources.
There are also the SEO sites, you search for how to write a file in python and you get 20 pages about file writing and why that is used, the history of python and more until you, maybe, get the simple one liner you forgot about.
And I use an ad blocker.
I know it’s so google thinks I’m enjoying myself on that site because I stay there “longer”, and thus thinks it’s a good site, but would it be so hard to have a search engine just straight out exclude large sites? I mean it does clearly not work well.
Fuck, exclude all “dynamic” ones too. Back to pure html! 😺
I use a firefox extension called uBlacklist. It blocks any site you hate from appearing in google search results. No more facebook, instagram, youtube, tiktok etc.
Oh hell yes! I also feel that people who can’t summarise their argument likely don’t understand it
Amen. That’s often what I say to them: if you can’t describe the argument you didn’t understand it.
A reference should contain a timestamp or a page number. That’s always been the standard for citations. You don’t just reference a book.
Also, whatever claim from the original material supports your argument should be quoted or paraphrased by you in your argument.
Citations aren’t the same as bibliography. A citation is just in case a person doesn’t trust your claim that “A said X”; they can follow your citation to check if that’s true.
Bibliography is further reading, if a person wants to know more about what you’re saying.
Did we just discover a fundamental force of the internet?
That’s brutal.
Been there. Skimmed four fucking Youtube links. Reported back to explain in detail why the other guy was wrong about all of them. Didn’t work.
This is why enforced civility is a failure of moderation. People need the ability to say, “fuck off.” Not just “I strongly disagree and question your motives and blah blah blah.” We must be able to communicate: this is stupid, you’re being an asshole, polite consideration would be lending undue legitimacy.
Otherwise any stupid asshole can blather on about whatever and demand to be treated like they have a point. Mods who don’t remove those people pre-emptively don’t understand their role. Mods who actively protect those people are bastards.
me when people say i’m not allowed to exist in a leftist space unless i’ve read all of these five books on theory cover to cover
As someone who has read those 5 books, and the next 5, and the next 5 and so on, those people never go away. There’s always 5 more books. I still recommend those books but in my experience they’re almost always in-group signalling and not coming up with a new synthesis of the material as understood through their own unique experiences as a worker. Actually those people will be the first to tell you that experience doesn’t matter its actually their experience reading books that matters. If you haven’t read them and agree, then that’s fine; if you have read them and disagree then you haven’t read them good enough, or read these other books for the appropriate context.
“The traditions of dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.” is as true for the left as it is any other tradition.
Perfect response.
I got a YouTube link to a 30 minute mumbler.
I love everthing about this.
