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(12-15-2016, 04:25 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-...ed-2016-12

Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat and bury 'fake news'

Yeah, but Facefuck is still an aggregater  of its users personal information. You see, if some product, like , yes Facefuck is free of charge for those who choose to use it, then it's the users who are the product. It's simple because there are rarely free lunches in this universe.  Next, a lot of folks can sort of have a free lunch on Zuckerberg by trying thisP:
Description here :  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/classaction/facebook.asp
More here.
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/fr...settlement

So, I did get said $15.00 check , compliments of Zuckerberg which is how I did in fact obtain a free lunch.

Nextly, even though Facefuck promises to use Snopes.com to weed out "fake news", there are still problems.
First, of course is obvious.  One should never, ever "like" random stuff on the interwebs bacause that infromation goes into Facefuck's database about Y'ALL. Nextly, one's Facefuck actual account is a roach trap where users give out all sorts of personal information . And... if you click on any Facefuck ads, you're telling Facefuck, exactly which sorts of products that you as Facefucks product like. That means that essentially the business model of Facefuck is the linkages of products as:

1. The users are product 1, set
2. There are lots of product 2, a set of products provided by those who buy ads on Facefuck proper.

Then of course, Twitter is exactly like Facefuck.

Now, the Lamestream Media operate on a slightly different business model.  If you don't have pay TeeVee,  then it's just the stupid commercials one has to endure. This is a time =money. You waste your time watching stupid ads in exchange for free TeeVee. Pay Teevee is way, way, way worse. You pay of course to have some number of channels sent to a cable/satellite box [which you may also pay rent on] . Next, I really don't think anyone actually watches every channel. 150 channels does not work that way. Besides a lot of said channels are trashy, trashy, stuff like reality TeeVee, shopping channels, ESPN for some of us since things like the NFL feature spoiled players and spoiled managers.  Then here's where some "fake news" happens a lot as well, which make the signal to noise ratio very low and devalues the actual worth of pay TeeVee even more. Then of course for Rags, well Rags has lots of mind meds which have priority over essentially trashy TeeVee. And... Rags is certainly part of the working poor and works with selfsame. The younger ones are still with parents because , well their Millies and  are stuck between a rock and a hard place. You either gamble with a college degree which makes you a debt serf or you just go off and work minimum wage. That's the reality here in flyover country. Then of course the Lamestream Media never gets why lots of folks think theres no recovery. The fact is there has been no recovery in fly over country. I guess the bi coastal bubble zones got a recovery, but none is to be seen where I live. That means when the Lamestream Media says how wonderful the economy is, well from here they look like idiots spouting bullshit because they never bothered with some exception of a few stops in battleground states, just reported on election related stuff.  So, stupid, stupid stupid journalism has happened. The newscasters never got the hint of how much stuff sux here. And of course, obviously, we have stupid here unto ourselves. Essentially, if you live in fly over country, you need to turn off Limbaugh because he's a culture warrior and says zip about the economy. Limbaugh is just exactly like special snowflake SJW's, just he's a red variant with his own agenda. There's nothing, I mean nothing different between flyover country Jesus freaks and SJW's. A pox on both houses, for sure. It's the economy stupids, not culture war crap. Rags just wants his Social Security and Medicare in the future to be in place.  Speaking of which, yes, playwrite is absolutely correct when it comes to Xer's like Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is a social darwin sort of Xer. He and Xer's who like him are stupid, stupid, stupid because really, Paul Ryan wants to take YOUR Medicare and Social Security away. The place where Playwrite is correct is "long term thinking is not one of GenX's strong suits", well paraphrased because Rags is too lazy to go off and find the relevant post.
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long post, weird. Lack of sleep last night has Rags feeling sorta strange. Now, wrt GenX, some GenX here are physical , some not so much. Rags thinks joining assorted physical aligned groups is not a smart thing for GenX either. GenX is middle aged and can , never, never , ever keep up with a subset of fit Millies. YO! Some GenX guys especially need to look in the mirror. You're middle aged! That means we're going downhill. Just look for gray hair, lost hair, and well perhaps belly button fuzz ' cause the belly button hole deepens with age for the most part. If GenX guys have that stuff and GenX ladies have droopy boob, again, YO! We're middle aged now. I fail to see a clash with younger/fitter subset of Millies working out. It's In fact, I see that situation as a major fail. Because you see, in just 10 short years, we're gonna yell at kids to get off the lawn if we own lawns. We're also gonna be grouchy old men/women. So yes, I can close with a well known muppet from younger days.

So what was old will be new again.   Oscar's the one in green fur.  Oscar is our [GenX] emblem and he will become even more cogent as back aches and arthritis kick in.  In just 1 decade, the US will face a bunch of old grouches.