I can’t believe this isn’t the onion
Folks on Talk Radio and the Televangelical circuit have been doing dime-store prophecies about the Eclipse being the end of the fucking world for fucking months. I was honestly a bit surprised shit like this wasn’t more common.
Maybe Americans are building up a tolerance to the endless media hysteria.
If you go on YouTube and look up videos of the eclipse yesterday, you’ll see a ton of videos about why the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world. Just pure and total insanity or people taking advantage of that insanity. You might be surprised but you probably won’t be because you know in your heart that we’re just that far gone now.
This is why I literally groaned when I read another post on lemmy about LLMs using YouTube to learn from…
Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators? I can’t think of a worse data set to use than YouTube… Maybe 4chan, but I don’t doubt that’s already been scraped.
Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators?
Only if I can personally generate some kind of profit from it.
the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world
I mean, we gotta mark the Beginning of the End somewhere, right? Might as well be during an eclipse.
The ONLY way to Prevent this is if someone SHOOTS Her First!
Classic cause of Moon Madness.