Right? Like the person who was insisting he was always bald due to some weird blind hatred. Like the guy use to just be a dumb stand up comedian/actor. As far as I remember he wasn’t outspoken in the 90’s like he is now.

Exactly but I’ve been crucified in conversation for bringing the show up because he was on there.

My week just started cause I work Mon-Fri and I’m super nervous for tomorrow cause I have a project I have to do with someone I am not use to working with.

I’m gonna go get an edible after work though and hopefully I run into my crush.

Seinfeld made a joke about how car rental companies don’t understand what a “reservation” actually is nearly thirty fucking years ago and jack fucking shit has changed

Not only that but holy shit if a lot of customer service interactions aren’t just like that now. They use doublespeak to get around customers and look for ways to give people indirect answers so no one ever gets any real help.

Newsradio was a fantastic show. You think it was filled with bad acting? How much of it did you watch?

Remember that fucking jackass, Ben Shapiro that he had on all the time?

I think it was Tony Hitchcliff who’s a stand up who was on Rogans show fucking begging him to not have stupid ass Shapiro on anymore and Rogan kept defending the guy and Tony was just like, dude… that guy is a fucking dork who makes you look bad. Stop having him on.

Honestly one of the funniest interactions I heard on the podcast where his actual friend is begging him to stop this nonsense and he just won’t do it.

You know, I once tried to explain to someone on reddit that Joe Rogan wasn’t always bald and there is evidence of this when he was on Newsradio and he had a full head of hair back then.

Idiot on reddit just kept arguing that he was always bald and didn’t even care that video evidence was being posted because it was more important to hate Rogan than to accept factual evidence of something so incredibly minimal on the scale of things.

Like why would it be important if he was bald or not? And why would hating him be more important than something being a fact?

Anyway, I asked cause I love Newsradio but often can’t talk about it because people will either figure out that Joe Rogan was on there, or they already know and then think I’m a psychotic alt right idiot.

All because I watch a show that existed before that guy was ever doing a podcast.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about in regards to what I was saying?

Some people do things like this under the idea that you should keep your enemies close. Like you should always know your enemy and in order to do that, you have to be right there, listening to what the enemy is saying.

i meant that the person i know is not qanon

Part of this is bad phrasing because you are unaware of the movement but no one knows who Qanon is.

What people are talking about in this thread are people who follow the movement, and not who Qanon is. Of course your friend isn’t Qanon. That would be absurd.

But how do you know they aren’t posting on 4chan and following the movement? Is that what you are trying to say, that they don’t follow that sort of thing because you think its a movement that solely rooted in American politics?

i don’t think we have those kind of people here in asia

qanon is a 4chan/8chan thing that is part of www - that includes people posting from Asian countries. There are definitely Asians on there. There were definitely Asians who went along with that movement.

I’m Asian too. Has nothing to do with the qanon movement.

Wow… Maher on Rogan.

Can we pause and talk about how Maher is wearing a fucking Family Guy Star Wars shirt.

I immediately assume that once someone brings up Joe Rogan they are easily susceptible to authoritarian propaganda and should be avoided.

What if they’re just talking about his previous acting career?

I’ve been using Lemmy.today and have yet to experience a downtime issue.

I’m aware of this and do this but its annoying when it could just open a new link away from Lemmy because so much of being on a lemmy instance for some reason involves me keeping Lemmy in one tab so I stay logged in… because if I leave… then I have to sign back in again.

looks great!

I’m constantly having to block porn shit on tumblr and all the stupid bots that come with it.

I just grew as a person I guess. I’m not the same person I was 10 years ago and I’m sure I’ll be different in the next 10 years if I’m still around.

I also cut a lot of people out of my life and cut a lot of certain interactions out of my life. Like for example, I got of 4chan in 2020. I use to be a troll - the kind of person OPs post is complaining about - and now I’m very against it. I always prefer to be honest online instead of just saying whatever to get a response.

I try to have more good faith discussions now instead of antagonizing people.

But I said I sounded like you 10 years ago cause I remember hanging out with people in person, at their houses and at parties and on the streets… I felt like an observer. It felt like I knew a lot about other people cause I was always listening in.

What changed is that I stopped listening in on those people. Went out of my way to go meet other people instead. Now I’m not seeing those patterns I use to see among the previous groups I hung out in.

I have some faith in humanity but only because I sit around theorizing how to make things better. It’s just a theory though. So I know its possible but to make it happen, would take the kind of work and time I don’t have and I have no reach.

Right? Every now and then I find someone who remembers but most people don’t remember the forums. I was super active on the forums there back in the day.

Why are we so shitty to each other indeed.

For whatever reason, people like to be better than others. It’s something I’ve never understood and I always try my best to be humble because of it and don’t really get off on being competitive like a lot of people do.