Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me

[Gandalf]

Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area

A concern for the environment is hardly a left right issue. If it is then you have finally admitted to being the Tory boy you always claimed not to be. Now you are blaming an imaginary lack of treed on immigration. I can see plenty of trees from my window and that is on the council estate side of the road. You just invent stuff to moan about

I am inventing nothing. Look at the data. I always encourage people to look at the data. Lack of trees is because of the endless thirst for land and food and economic growth. A concern for the environment is a human issue and there are too many people. You might see a few trees, but 10% tree coverage is inexcusable.

[Gandalf]

More trees and less migrants would be a fair correction. Not a Tory position. Tories keep borders open.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-tree-planting

[X]

It's true that England has less trees than perhaps it should. It is a small, densely populated and largely urban and industrialised country.

Wales and Scotland are very different, and there is quite a bit of genuine wilderness there

[Beanz]

It's true that England has less trees than perhaps it should. It is a small, densely populated and largely urban and industrialised country.

Wales and Scotland are very different, and there is quite a bit of genuine wilderness there

No it isn't. It is just an oft repeated myth. England is not a lot more urban than Wales and Scotland at all. Urban landscape in England? have a guess...about 10%. 93% of the UK is not urban. Proportion of English landscape that is built on?... about 3%.

There is hell of a lot more of enclosed farmland than anything else in England and there is plenty of room despite the rubbish people repeat to pretend it is full to bursting point. Crazy stuff

[X]

I meant 'urbane', obviously

[walrus]

The power these companies hold is amazing. Google has 75% of internet searches. Facebook has well over a billion users. I hear people say I don’t use Facebook anymore I banned them I use instsgram. Well Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_by_Facebook

[El Kabong]

The power these companies hold is amazing. Google has 75% of internet searches. Facebook has well over a billion users. I hear people say I don’t use Facebook anymore I banned them I use instsgram. Well Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_by_Facebook

And there are forces at work (in the company and on the platform) that utilize those platforms to silence dissent and browbeat any and all people into conformity.


In '1984' Winston Smith is a records editor at the Ministry of Truth where he rewrites and sanitizes history for the benefit of INGSOC and Oceania....this corporate fascism paired with outrage culture and the nanny state is part of how we wind up there. Another part is when beliefs become larger than people and the humanity you see in someone fades away thereby giving life to endless possibilities of the horrors that could occur without anyone stepping up and challenging those who demand you be offended or demand someone be deplatformed.


I've divorced myself from these social media giants. There's little if any good about them. Twitter is a hellscape worthy of it's own horror movie. There are bubbles in twitter and they lie in wait for anyone to disturb them. They contain wasp nests of victimhood and they'll nail you if you disturb them and at the end of the day they don't want an apology, they don't want to kiss and make up, they don't want a handshake and 'no hard feelings' they want to ruin you, ruin your life, ruin your job, ruin your company, shun you from society......it's wicked and sadistic.


I wonder when or if we will find out the SPLC are giving these techies some leads on "hateful content" ?