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Here’s another one, if it didn’t autoplay for you after “#Tyler is Q anon.”

#Tyler - Proof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zY63l_n9OQ

Little admission here. I played with some simple bots with IRC back in the ‘90s. Only polite bots with unsuspecting others, though, and didn’t keep any of them going for long. Wrote a simple mailbot to use with a listserver only for experimentation.

Twitter, BTW, is still bot city. Write something to keep ‘em out, and they’ll be upgraded or replaced with more complicated packages.

Also, some might want to look up information on gaslighting.

Part of my personal philosophy is to take a few moments to focus on what is most real—both the elements of the issue and the whole. For example, old question of what really is a network. Visualize the real physical part of it. The discussion board is not a room. It is not even a discussion board.

It is a combination of hardware, codes and signals that facilitates communication between real people and often storage for electronic representations of documents, images,...or something like that.

I tend to avoid fiction most of the time and do avoid thinking about fiction as though it were real. But then look at my tagline. Even that came from fiction. It only relates with exaggeration to some matters of reality, for example, a symptom of feminism, romanticism, judicial opportunism, lust and the long divorce/cohabitation trend. Metaphorically speaking (unrealistic way of speaking), it screams for attention.

For an example of learning to perceive politics realistically, how do we obtain and share resources? Many young people fail to see past the first unrealistic remedy. Many older people tend to speak and act in such ways as to confirm the complaints of younger people (e.g., a volunteer fire department fire chief in a rural, very sparsely populated area taking a salary well in excess of $200,000 per year without saving houses or lives because of distances involved).

More terms: artificial scarcity, planned obsolescence, subsidies, group medical insurance, tax deductions for residential PV solar energy, local planning regulations, socialism.

Two more phrases...nonpolitical politics, collapse of the Soviet Union.

Maybe taking more time out from using the Internet would be good.