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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
EEVblog:
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--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 03:40:36 am ---Oh yeah, Twitter Subscriptions. Right up there with Tucker Carlson. Birds of a feather...
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Dumbest take ever. Go find and subscribe to someone you like then. Twitter is just a platform.
I've signed up for twitter subscriptions, will offer it once it's approved. Been three weeks now though...
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If that's where you want to be... guess you gotta make money.
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Seriously? Just because I'm on Twitter? WTF.
I've been on Twitter for 14 years and have 58k followers. Of course I'm going to try the new subscription program. And I'm also now posting my videos natively there too, I'd be a fool not too. And it's going well BTW, thanks for asking.
Your head might explode if you know my videos are also on Odysee, Bitchute, and Rumble.
--- Quote ---Please, just make sure that you don't follow the Scott Adams trajectory in other respects: Once liked for a unique take on the office landscape, or electronics as the case may be. Then becoming increasingly convinced that he needs to (and has the calibre to) fix the world. I found that embarrassing and annoying to watch.
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Seriously, chill out.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on May 12, 2023, 10:13:05 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2023, 09:39:08 am ---But the explainations of things can be interesting.
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This.
I don't read what others write or listen to what others say because of their opinions, I do that to see what they see and base their opinions on.
I've found there are two kinds of people: the kind that demands others agree because they are the authority on a subject (or because their opinion by itself ought to have sufficient weight/value/importance), and the kind that explains their reasoning and basis. Surprisingly many of the popular newspeople/pundits/commentators/politicians are in the former group, when you start really listening.
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To me the worst kind of people are those that judge you and criticise you because you watch someones stuff, or follow them on Twitter, or worst of all I think, use some platform that has people they don't like on it.
Pathetic is the word I'm looking for I think.
.RC.:
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 10:28:22 am --- Once liked for a unique take on the office landscape, or electronics as the case may be. Then becoming increasingly convinced that he needs to (and has the calibre to) fix the world. I found that embarrassing and annoying to watch.
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At the end of the day, are the comics still not funny though? I do not mind someone saying something that might be thought provoking or threaten my view of the world and make me question my beliefs to make sure I still think they are accurate.
I know people who think trump is a great person and are not afraid to tell you, I know people who think he is a crook and are not afraid to tell you. They are all still decent people though and I am not about to cancel them because of one opinion they have. I will listen to them and make up my own mind. If they go out and start clubbing baby platypus while singing the Taliban national anthem, yea well maybe I will re-access my interactions with them but otherwise...
I did not go out and buy a 4ch oscilloscope just because "someone" said to in this day and age. I took that advice onboard and made my own mind up and if I did not agree with that "someone", I would hardly cancel them.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ebastler on May 12, 2023, 10:28:22 am ---Please, just make sure that you don't follow the Scott Adams trajectory in other respects: Once liked for a unique take on the office landscape, or electronics as the case may be. Then becoming increasingly convinced that he needs to (and has the calibre to) fix the world. I found that embarrassing and annoying to watch.
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What's wrong with wanting to help people and/or shape the world? Sounds more like you are maybe a tad jelous because you don't have the skills or influence to do that perhaps?
He has over 100k followers on Locals, 145k Youtube subs, and almost 1M twitter followers. Not to mention his self help books are massively popular. Like New York Times best selling popular. Must be doing something people are interested in.
For what it's worth, I've taken him to task on several BS claims he's made, and he even admitted he was wrong and corrected his opinion on one of his shows because of me. He does it all the time actually.
ebastler:
--- Quote from: .RC. on May 12, 2023, 11:13:45 am ---At the end of the day, are the comics still not funny though?
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When they were still accessible on the dilbert.com site, I saw few that I found funny. It increasingly felt like Adams did not want to share funny or absurd observations, but make a point.
--- Quote ---I did not go out and buy a 4ch oscilloscope just because "someone" said to in this day and age. I took that advice onboard and made my own mind up and if I did not agree with that "someone", I would hardly cancel them.
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Sure, same here. But if a video I am watching to learn about oscilloscopes were to suddenly branch out into some political agenda, I would find that annoying and probably stop watching that video. (And, if this experience repeats regularly, stop watching that channel.) That was my point above.
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