In January 2023 (see thread) I was looking for a new home after leaving dreaded Twitter. I got an invite to join Mastodon by a fellow X-Tweeter. She thought I’d enjoy Apobangpo, a server (what Mastodon refers to as an instance), because she and I shared a love of BTS. What the heck. I’ll give it a shot.
This is one of the latest videos I’m posting from YouTube regarding the overzealous and unfair treatment many YouTubers are getting, including one of my favorites, Rick Beato. What is so insane is that all his videos fall under the Fair Use Act, which makes the incessant emails from Universal, all the more incredible and irritating.
Doesn’t it seem that virtually everyone you know: your neighbor, co-worker, boss, bestie, and cousin, all have these conditions? But the big problem is, more than half of these haven’t been diagnosed by a professional, implementing exhaustive and conclusive testing. No, someone took a three-minute test on YT and now they’re assured that they have ailment X.
Learning to think critically and discern truth from lies is an important life skill, but many people don’t harness the ability, no take the time. They believe whatever they hear, see, and read because someone, somewhere, said so. While most of the time, it flies without harm, but many times it can be harmful or outright dangerous.
Last Sunday while watching an NFL game, the doorbell rang. Since we were expecting company, I anticipated seeing a tall, blonde man standing on my porch, instead it was a short, blonde woman, unknown to me. “Hi, I’m here about …
Don’t fall into the pit of catastrophic and polarizing thinking. What it does is make you ignore everything in the middle. It becomes right or wrong. Black or white. Good or bad. And sadly, I’m seeing a lot of this …
