mayormcskeeze t1_jeacav5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:56 PM

Reply to TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01

Howard Huge

mayormcskeeze t1_je6pwtd wrote on March 29, 2023 at 8:20 PM

Reply to 11 current and former East Cleveland police officers indicted after ‘appalling’ behavior caught on video, prosecutor says by AudibleNod

I hope the local prosecutor is serious.

In many cases, they're not, and they complete support the police behind closed doors.

mayormcskeeze t1_j6jylgy wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:31 PM

Reply to The internet has become essentially 5 giants sites all sharing screen shots of each other and not much else. by DominosFan4Life69

It really is a shame how completely useless the internet has become.

In just a few years "googling" something has gone from a sure fire way to find valuable information to a complete waste of time because everything has been choked out by garbage pages probably written by AI.

Edit: getting a lot of pushback on this comment. Obviously I was being hyperbolic calling the internet "useless." Its obviously useful and there amazing things happening on/with it.

So let me expand on what I meant in a less sarcastic way. While there is awesome stuff from personal communication to science breakthroughs to amazing open source projects that provide a wealth of utility and information, for many of us our basic day-to-day experience with the internet has gotten shittier and shittier.

Yes, you can pop over to r/internetisbeautiful and see some mindblowing applications, but wanna find a recipe? Fuck you it's all garbage. Email? Endless spam and bullshit. Social media? "Influencers" shoving products at you. YouTube? Dominated by the gutter trash that pushes the algorithm. Retail? Good luck finding something decent in the cesspool of fake shit that is Amazon. Customer service? Complete scam.

Do any of these obstacles ruin the underlying application? No. You can eventually sift through the crap and get to the recipe. You eventually sift through the crap and find the bedsheets you want. You can eventually sift through the crap and find your real emails.

But for those of us who grew up pre-internet and experienced a short period before all of thr ads, the data theft, the spam, the scams, the crap, and ENDLESS oppressive monetization, this version of the internet feels very disappointing.

mayormcskeeze t1_j036q9l wrote on December 13, 2022 at 7:23 PM

Reply to About 3% of Americans suffer from binge-eating disorder; of those 8 out of 10 survived some sort of childhood abuse, neglect, or other trauma. New study shows how early life trauma may change the brain to increase the risk of binge eating. by mtoddh

What's the medical definition?

I wonder if I do this.

I mean, I definitely binge eat, and stress eat, and stress-binge eat by my own definition, but I wonder if I do it to the point that it's a medical eating disorder.