Permanently Deleted

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    This is the kind of shit I think of whenever someone says "we need to bring back bullying" or "nerds don't get bullied enough anymore."

    • SadSoulja [love/loves]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I don’t know if bullying would necessarily help Ad ops programmers be better at their jobs. We should just destroy the internet before it gets worse lol

      -Soulja

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Bullying is cool when it's a group of people correcting someone's attitude (eg. Individual kid like harassing girls, or bullying weaker kids) shun them and mock them until they correct their behavior, then allow them back into the group.

      Physical assault is bad. And those who try and do it should be shunned and mocked by the greater collective.

      • Grimacejoe [none/use name]
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        mock them until they correct their behavior, then allow them back into the group.

        This is not a thing that has ever happened anywhere ever.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          You're right, would be awesome if that worked though. Isn't that kinda the idea behind "combatting liberalism"? To use bullying as a form of policing thought instead of actual police?

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I guess that's just not what I think of when I think of bullying. In my experience in middle and high school, actual shitty people rarely or never got bullied. The targets were almost universally neurodiverse kids, or disabled kids, or kids who weren't conventionally attractive, or anyone who came to the defense of those groups.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          ·
          4 years ago

          No, I agree, I'm just saying bullying would be good if it was basically the opposite of how it is in most cases. The people who need bullying are the people who are rarely bullied.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    Once I was scrolling through an article about US war crimes that was specifically about drone/airstrikes and half way through was an airforce recruitment ad.

  • sappho [she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    For anyone else who wanted to know how it ended for this kid - he luckily did not go blind because he was wearing glasses.

  • Hexagon [she/her]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Y'all think it's a coincidence or matched up because the title included the word bleach in it and the automation has no sense of context? I could see either way there.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      matched up because the title included the word bleach in it and the automation has no sense of context

      Most likely this. Online advertising largely works along these lines and it regularly has consequences like that. Back when mephedrone (a cathinone drug with effects similar to a coke / MDMA mix that was in a legal grey area for a while) was huge in the UK, articles about it on mainstream news sites would feature ads for mephedrone vendors. The article would go to great lengths about how dangerous it was, how it would make you smell like cat piss, even featuring fully made up stories about people ripping off their scrotum while high, and then there'd be an ad directly linking to a source where you could buy the stuff.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Stuff like this is the reason I don't fear a Terminator-style AI apocalypse. Computers are dumb.

      • chantox
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        deleted by creator

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
      ·
      edit-2
      4 years ago

      You say this, at least until the day when Hunter-Killers break down your door and spray bleach in your eyes

    • bottech [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Maybe they did this on purpose to agitate for overthrow of their capitalist overlords and releasing them from the shackles of private property?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Computers only do what we tell them to. Even stuff like GPT-3 can only simulate intelligence through language patterns. Kinda like how a screen can show you things, but those things aren't really there.

      It's always going to rely on a human element.

  • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Bullying messed me up as a kid, I still feel anxious around people I haven't known for a while, but I never experienced anything like this. This poor kid is probably going to be traumatized for life.

  • SadSoulja [love/loves]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Jesus Christ lol I also got ads for Carhart jackets after looking up the Atlanta shooter. Fuck off Google

    -Soulja

  • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    no lydiaaaaa, akshually, morality is too subjective to leave up to any one person, hence we must let the market decide.

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    I know I am probably over correcting but all tbe parents of the children involved probably should get the gulag just to be safe.

    No pre teen year old just gets the idea and the will do to this kinda crime without a bunch of adults being terrible around them. Teacher included as this is probably an escalation of behavior that has been going on for a while.

      • SerLava [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        Yeah kids will be like, "Wait what? Peanuts can just kill Bobby? WEIRD." and just, pick up a handful of peanuts and commit a murder right there.

        Which is why I went from thinking anti-allergen rules were helicopter shit, to viewing them as a sensible disarmament of tiny psychopaths.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I think though that is overstated. I knkw children have litterall half cooked noodles and all that. I think though alot of the stuff we put out there in our politics and interlersonal relationships is very much pro cruelty and violence. I think alot of it os them properly absorbing the message kf capitalism even at a young age and just not knowing ehat tondo with it. Instead of nieve faing to get empathy