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Id say you might be able to land there from the top of the towers, with a favorable breeze.
 
CDsDontBurn said:
My friend just sent me this. So sad to see such a low number for such a great example 😒

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I wouldn’t say it’s a great example, it’s a bit hodgepodge with XR7 turbine wheels painted wrong and aftermarket badges. Plus the headlights are yellow. It’s a nice car but for the collectors throwing around money it’s not an original car.
 
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Derphound01 said:
Quoting from the meme thread over here.

If you knew anything about the current state of Memphis, war would probably be a preferable state. Really wouldn't be any worse.
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Sent you a PM to stay within forum rules.
 
Sooooo......

I love dark humor so much that IG's algorithm apparently thinks that I have a high probability of a self-induced forever nap. It sent me some ads telling me that I may need help.

Is there a line somewhere between having that desire and just liking that type of humor? 🤔
 
CDsDontBurn said:
Sooooo......

I love dark humor so much that IG's algorithm apparently thinks that I have a high probability of a self-induced forever nap. It sent me some ads telling me that I may need help.

Is there a line somewhere between having that desire and just liking that type of humor? 🤔
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I think spending any extended amount of time on there should merit that disclaimer, IG is a depression factory
 
IG's behavioral algorithms and ability to respect user commands are fucking off-the-charts stupid.

I see idiotic AI slop. I tell it to not show me any more crap from that account. Then it continues to show me that crap on refresh. I then report that slop on principle because a commercial airliner taking off into a tsunami was one of the dumbest fake things I've ever seen, but I interacted with it, so now I get even more of it. Now I have to click through those stupid posts to go to the account, and then block the account. IG takes that as a cue to recommend me similar accounts because I interacted with the account that I just blocked. Rinse and repeat with far-right slop as well. Even when I try to deliberately alter the algorithm's recommendations, it doesn't seem to work, so no amount of watching ridiculous BeamNG.drive gameplay with exploding Teslas is getting bootlicking propaganda off my feed.

That and the occasional possible suspicious activity detected warnings and even a useless 1-day suspension over the weekend from being allowed to run multiple concurrent sessions, probably because I looked at it while on VPN.
 
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Irv said:
IG's behavioral algorithms and ability to respect user commands are fucking off-the-charts stupid.

I see idiotic AI slop. I tell it to not show me any more crap from that account. Then it continues to show me that crap on refresh. I then report that slop on principle because a commercial airliner taking off into a tsunami was one of the dumbest fake things I've ever seen, but I interacted with it, so now I get even more of it. Now I have to click through those stupid posts to go to the account, and then block the account. IG takes that as a cue to recommend me similar accounts because I interacted with the account that I just blocked. Rinse and repeat with far-right slop as well. Even when I try to deliberately alter the algorithm's recommendations, it doesn't seem to work, so no amount of watching ridiculous BeamNG.drive gameplay with exploding Teslas is getting bootlicking propaganda off my feed.

That and the occasional possible suspicious activity detected warnings and even a useless 1-day suspension over the weekend from being allowed to run multiple concurrent sessions, probably because I looked at it while on VPN.
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I haven’t logged into mine in over a year and I cannot imagine how bad the AI slop has gotten. I see some of it in my FB feed when I occasionally check it so it must be tenfold on my IG by now.

YouTube is similar, all autoplays get counted as watched so if you scroll slow enough, every single thing you scrolled past will be in your history and your entire feed will be littered with crap your not interested in. Luckily you can mostly fix it manually deleting the watch history there.
 
At least with Facebook and YouTube, I have ways to get a cleaner experience. For Facebook, there's FB Purity and I don't use social media apps on mobile anymore. As for YouTube, my watch history is disabled and I have ReVanced on mobile and extensions on all my desktop browsers so I always have a completely blank home page feed. The only places where I see any recommendations are in the right rail of the comment section or the end cards of the currently playing video, both of which I could also disable if I wanted to.

I used to hold IG in higher regard, but Meta really enshittified it over the last few years. You can't sort search results by date anymore and the results are broken as they often partially repeat on lazy load.
 
Irv said:
At least with Facebook and YouTube, I have ways to get a cleaner experience. For Facebook, there's FB Purity and I don't use social media apps on mobile anymore. As for YouTube, my watch history is disabled and I have ReVanced on mobile and extensions on all my desktop browsers so I always have a completely blank home page feed. The only places where I see any recommendations are in the right rail of the comment section or the end cards of the currently playing video, both of which I could also disable if I wanted to.

I used to hold IG in higher regard, but Meta really enshittified it over the last few years. You can't sort search results by date anymore and the results are broken as they often partially repeat on lazy load.
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I actually don’t mind my YouTube feed when it isn’t corrupted by bogus history, only because I stay on top of pruning history and the “don’t recommend channel” button that’s been invaluable keeping out the political grifters. I just wish I didn’t HAVE to do that to enjoy the platform. Likewise I like video previews to get a quick idea of what I’m in for, which the terrible cookie cutter 😱 thumbnails every creator there is forced to use to get views doesn’t remotely do the job of, but they shouldn’t be shoehorned into my watch history and ergo recommendations when I ultimately keep scrolling(I kept scrolling for a reason!!!!).

History in and of itself is useful for finding stuff I know I’ve watched but can’t find searching because there is so….much….junk…. Ironically enough one of my habits due to wanting to avoid meticulously cleaning out my history is opening an incognito window to search YouTube for something out of the box or a tutorial. I went through that yesterday uploading the pic with my new head unit’s open screen, I found an excellent straight to the point video on pixel size, file name etc a month ago to do it but I must have instinctively found it looking it in incognito (so my feed isn’t just stereo installs forever. I spent 20 minutes finding ONE okayish tutorial on the subject but it was awful and I ended up writing down the info in my old Cougar project notebook like a common caveman! Ridiculous!
 
After marking more US right-wing political junk with "Not interested" in this never-ending game of whack-a-mole, now my IG feed is entirely in Portuguese covering Brazilian business and finance.

You know what? I'll take it.

Stupid-ass algorithm.
 
Turn off targeted ads and ad tracking if you haven't already. Then go search for something in IG completely unrelated that is obscenely expensive and hard to buy, like Rolex watches or fine art. Like a few posts. Do this a few times and you'll start seeing fan and collector pages for those items since there isn't really a retail website to buy them from.

It's not perfect, but it at least isn't politics or religion or cam girls.
 
Derphound01 said:
Also works. My feed is mostly vintage racing clips and my "Explore" tab is nothing but Rolex watches.
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Mine is full of Porsche type videos, car builds, F1, IMSA, "It's not fun if it can't kill you", varying levels of dark humor, and various Pendejadas that make me go LOL in real life 😀.
 
There is a way to reset the algorithm on the mobile app, but I don't want to install IG on my phone. I could also install the app in an Android sandbox on my desktop PC, but that's more work than I care to put in right now.

Since I got the Brazilian Portuguese content, I ran with that idea since it was only temporary. Liking videos of picanha and coxinhas seems to have done the job.
 
I've been on the internet too long to consider looking those up, lol, any more than goatse, lol.
 
97 30th said:
What's this Instagram you speak of? 😁
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I mean quite frankly you take the cam girls out of the equation what on earth are you doing there???? Watching some rich dudes wearing Rolexes drive Porsche Carrara GTs badly? 😆
 
Grog6 said:
I've been on the internet too long to consider looking those up, lol, any more than goatse, lol.
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Googling the terms would have been perfectly fine. Just two of the greatest foods ever, both from Brazil.

The last time I baited people into something stupid (i.e. lemon party, which has thankfully mostly been scrubbed or relegated in popularity by a Canadian political party that predated the shock site by decades, and an unrelated podcast with that name as one word) was back in my 20s.



XR7-4.6 said:
I mean quite frankly you take the cam girls out of the equation what on earth are you doing there???? Watching some rich dudes wearing Rolexes drive Porsche Carrara GTs badly? 😆
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Occasionally catching up with friends and checking out local businesses in your feed, scrolling to the point where IG says you're caught up (which is where you stop if you're smart or too busy), and then for no good reason, scrolling past that point so it starts recommending you shit.

Once upon a time, rumors suggest that it was a photo-sharing app. :ROFLMAO:
 
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