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FishOwl 🐟🦉Oct 13, 2023

Murf nails it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2023/oct/14/peter-dutton-is-australias-figurehead-of-fear-and-fake-news-like-trump-but-without-charisma

Peter Dutton is Australia’s figurehead of fear and fake news, like Trump but without charisma

From geopolitics to the voice the Liberal leader is a political fabulist, dishing up provocations to get voters’ attention and using a deadly crisis to monster foesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

The Guardian

FishOwl 🐟🦉Oct 9, 2023

I was surprised in a visit to Canada when settling a #restaurant #bill that the staff would commonly ask if we’d like to split the bill, then impressed that it was no trouble at all and they had each diner’s orders ready to total.
Why is it that asking for a restaurant to split a bill in #Australia is such a hassle and menus often state ‘no split bills’?

FishOwl 🐟🦉Oct 4, 2023

Why do the likes of YouTube etc list subscriber numbers and ‘like’ and view counts that are bought from services selling these?
Do they double dip by owning the companies selling the subs/likes/views and then benefit from inflated advertising stats?
What point is there for a publisher to buy views, likes and subs?
#youtube #google #advertising #scam #subscribers #meta #instagram #facebook #linkedin #fakesubscribers #fakeviews

FishOwl 🐟🦉Mar 2, 2023

Sometimes you are just too tired to get up and go to bed. #sleep