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I watched Dodgeball A True Underdog Story on Netflix, sadly I noticed they had edited some of the lines out, so I checked it on Comedy Central on Now TV here in the UK, ironically they happened to be airing it at the same time, I rewound it and saw they also had edited some lines out.

Very sad, it is making me think I should invest in a blue ray player and start a collection of physical films as opposed to digital ones?
 
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Apple fanboy said:
My Dad is unfortunately one of them. But his choice of source for the news is well known to be BS.

Sometimes I think the news is reported with such bias (either way), because the companies know people will engage.

That’s not true!
Yes it is!

So they get what they want out of it. More engagement (reposting and hits to their site) as people rush in to say it’s wrong or support it.

Such a polarised world these days. Not everything is black and white. Some things are grey.

Here it’s 6am on a Saturday morning. No idea why I’m awake so early. Been awake a while. I miss being young and the ability to sleep in at the weekends!
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😅 Some of my family members from both side of the families do the same. It is quite common these days, but what is most surprising to me is that a lot of more mature people like myself believe that every news published or spoken of, regardless of where it comes from, is the truth. I would think that as one matures, one should at least become, for better words, a little skeptical, or perhaps raise some questions about its accuracy.
 
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😅 Some of my family members from both side of the families do the same. It is quite common these days, but what is most surprising to me is that a lot of more mature people like myself believe that every news published or spoken of, regardless of where it comes from, is the truth. I would think that as one matures, one should at least become, for better words, a little skeptical, or perhaps raise some questions about its accuracy.
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You’d think. But I’m afraid not. It’s probably the thing we talk about the most outside of football.
 
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In the Southern Hemisphere, 44°C (111.2°F) predicted for tomorrow in Melbourne, where I am! 🥵🌞 Even higher in the rural areas of Victoria. Second 40° day here for this year.
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Just pop up to Sydney for the day. 28°C here. But, they have promised us hotter weather later in the week...
 
AlaskaMoose said:
😅 Some of my family members from both side of the families do the same. It is quite common these days, but what is most surprising to me is that a lot of more mature people like myself believe that every news published or spoken of, regardless of where it comes from, is the truth. I would think that as one matures, one should at least become, for better words, a little skeptical, or perhaps raise some questions about its accuracy.
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An attitude which probably dates from the time that news organisations prided themselves on on their reputations, and engaged in rigorous fact-checking and confirmation prior to publication; hence, one felt that one could trust the source re reported facts, even if one disagreed with their particular perspective or specific analysis.
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You’d think. But I’m afraid not. It’s probably the thing we talk about the most outside of football.
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Ah, yes.

This is all too true, alas.
 
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An attitude which probably dates from the time that news organisations prided themselves on on their reputations, and engaged in rigorous fact-checking and confirmation prior to publication; hence, one felt that one could trust the source re reported facts, even if one disagreed with their particular perspective or specific analysis.

Ah, yes.

This is all too true, alas.
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Well our football chat this morning was a lot more pleasant than it has been of late!
 
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Humans really love anthropomorphizing nature and animals - there are tons of videos. One example is somehow a clip from a film by Werner Herzog from almost two decades ago in the Antarctic is blowing up. A penguin that gets disoriented and heads away from its colony to mountains 70 km away, with something really wrong as it would turn back to the muntians even if it is placed back by the reseachers. The comments drawing big life lessons or philosophy are hilarious. Yes some of them are actually interesting but it's a penguin with a tiny brain (no offence). It has possibly a medical problem or something and likely died.

 
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I've always found piano-bass duos (just me and a bassist) to be one of the hardest groups to play in. I think it all stems pretty much from one VERY bad experience I had playing with one particular bassist a few years ago. I think that was maybe the one time I've cried after a gig, it was awful. So I then worry that all subsequent piano-bass gigs will go equally badly. Thankfully, that hasn't ever been the case. Just thinking about that as I have one coming up with a bassist friend of mine. I'm sure it will go wonderfully, but I think that one show a couple years ago really cemented that in me.
 
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Humans really love anthropomorphizing nature and animals - there are tons of videos. One example is somehow a clip from a film by Werner Herzog from almost two decades ago in the Antarctic is blowing up. A penguin that gets disoriented and heads away from its colony to mountains 70 km away, with something really wrong as it would turn back to the muntians even if it is placed back by the reseachers. The comments drawing big life lessons or philosophy are hilarious. Yes some of them are actually interesting but it's a penguin with a tiny brain (no offence). It has possibly a medical problem or something and likely died.

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"At the Mountains of Madness" by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Antarctica: check
- Remote mountains: check
- Bizarre penguin behavior: check
- Shoggoths: maybe
- Elder Things: hope not
 
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I think I've developed an anxiety around making friends online, I won't go into the the triggering event, but it did make me realize how spread out I made myself in an attempt to socialize online and how I tend up having deep anxiety of ignoring people online or creating misunderstandings.

I don't think I really enjoy communicating by text in general, actually. But it really sucks because I don't have a car and I don't really have a bus nearby (walking distance) to get around to socialize face to face.

I'm on the edge of mostly getting away from online spaces between that and issues like AI everywhere and how everything online is more about making money than anything else. This thread isn't too bad since it's more like a bunch of people in a library or bar just talking for a bit then going away for a bit. I don't know, it's just a lot of stuff I should talk with my therapist more about.
 
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Fully agree with this. I've really begun to prioritize face-to-face connection. This year, most of my friend group in college graduated because they were two years ahead of me, so I lost a lot of friends (I'm still in touch with them via text, but it's not the same). So I'm in need of new friends and I've gotten to know a few of the new first-year students—so slowly but surely, I'm getting it back in a different form.

It's also helped that I've joined the classical piano studio this semester, which has a very strong community (we often all have dinner together after our studio class). And I'm grateful to have been welcomed into the classical space (for reference, I'm not a classically-trained pianist). I'm pretty much the main jazz pianist on campus, so I've been in that circle the whole time.
 
People you talk to online are not the same as friends in most cases. It’s not impossible to make online real friends (and I’d say I have to a certain degree), but the real world is where you should put your focus.

The rise of social media has done very little for the general state of people’s tolerance of one another or mental wellbeing.

At work recently they decided to create a Teams channel for social chit chat and organising social activities. You know the sort of stuff people used to just do organically. Anyway it quickly deteriorated into people posting memes and pet photos.
So I just quit the team as I really have enough work related pings on my Mac as it is.
 
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