MathGrunt

I don’t know anything about Lemmy.world.

This video is 25 minutes long and worth the watch. If your ADHD gets to you, try watching it at 1.5 speed. Totally worth the 16 minutes of your life.

Quick summary of what you’ll see: A quick overview of attention spans and if (and how) doom-scrolling may be affecting it.

I hope you’re right, but my cynicism has doubts.

Pencils. The ones where you need a pencil sharpener to sharpen them every so often. Mechanical pencils just aren’t the same.

You are absolutely correct. The unfortunate fact is that propaganda works. Even if you know it is propaganda, it still works.

A bit like a placebo in that regard.

I would really like an open-source alternative to Facebook. The connection idea with friends via a social network platform I like, the bots and ads and force fed (propaganda) news I really don’t like.

Plus, an open source Facebook would really hurt Zuck and that’s also a win.

Thank you for trying to get ahead of the spam influx. Trying to beat the spambots is a thankless task, but thank you anyhouw.

Thank you for the article OP.

While this doesn’t surprise me, I can’t help but wonder how many other parallel situations there are where an industry of many separate entities distort, hide and otherwise lie to the public to maintain the publicly harmful gravy train.