Internet is dead (and a couple of HCB pictures)

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Pan Giannakis
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I don't know if you are aware of a game that was popular a decade ago on Flickr (maybe it still is). You were posting a picture in a group for feedback and they were telling you whether to keep it or bin it. Someone was cheeky enough to post the following picture by HCB and the feedback he got was hilarious.

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The original link was here but unfortunately looks like the thread is deleted. If you search for "Flickr Mario's bike" you might find something. Anyway, a lot of that initial feedback was deleted but it still made a funny read.

Recently I deleted the fb app and now I am accessing it via DuckDuckGo and VPN, looks like it struggles to identify where I am signing in from and suggests pages that Americans would find them interesting (I.e. NFL etc). Also, for some reason, the following picture of HCB seems to be rather popular - of course, it has political connotations and can act as hate/click-bait. The problem is the amount of people reading too much in this picture.

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Granted, whoever colorized it had poor taste. I felt I had some sort of duty to restore the truth. I even signposted them to the two issues of Life (found here and here) them make such a nice read.

All to no avail. I was just spreading propaganda, this picture is AI, or in the best of cases staged. I left feeling defeated.

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What happened to the belief that instant access to information will make us more intelligent as a species?

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It's great commentary on how impractical the modern idea of musclebound manhood looks. You don't get those kind of muscles from doing real work, they're distributed much differently if you're not at the gym!
 
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There's instant access to facts. There's instant access to opinions. There's instant access to letting anyone and everyone see what the tails side of a Dunning-Kruger coin looks like.
 
I can't comment on Chinese, Indian and Arabian internet.
I don't know the languages.

I'm finding equal amount of idiots on Russian web and on the English speaking as well.
Some one told what Internet is full of fools.
Again, I knew nothing about the rest of the World.
But I think, it is much more less of whose who are smart and respectful in general.

Too many on the West lost basics.
Western democracy has failures, which contributes to mass noise from idiots.
Like wasn't it the rule in this Flickr game to post your onw pictures?
If so, it wasn't cheeky, but act of intellectual property stealing ass(.).
Act like an idiot, get ready to be surrounded by the same.

Workers photo has been pushed on FB at me a lot, recently.
AI, which is main engine on FB, is scanning what you have looked more than five seconds and pushing accordingly.
I'm looking at USSR pictures since it is in my past. Maybe OP is into workout.
I'm watching some workout videos to try on myself.
 
Erik van Straten said:
The color picture above by Henri is in the book "Vive la France", but then in b+w. Not one of his best.
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From his biography:

1968-69: Spends a year travelling around France for Reader’s Digest and publishes a book, Vive la France, to accompany the exhibition “En France” at the Grand Palais in 1970

The pic of the russian worker and his boss is from:

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