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Yep, that is just a small part of the article. I deserve a medal for reading the whole thing .............

Yes, I bought that screen from a French company, i've got the original somewhere as well. I used to use it on my DR350 .........

The Internet may be for porn, but social media has also made it exceptionally good for promoting wackadoo theories and linking the far-flung people who believe them. This is hardly news at this point, but Weill outlines how Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms very, very rapidly funneled viewers toward extreme, incendiary, radicalizing content. It’s done just so viewers will stay online longer and so Facebook and YouTube would rake in the resultant ad revenue. “Flat Earth was algorithm gold,” Weill notes. Even Globe Earthers (in case you were wondering what the opposite of Flat Earthers are called) made Flat Earth videos as a sure way to make a quick buck. (In January 2019, YouTube changed its algorithm, so watching a NASA video no longer automatically leads you to a Flat Earth video as it used to.) Then, against the backdrop of the president of the United States spouting conspiracy theories daily, the pandemic locked everyone at home glued to their screens all day as their only connection to the (very troubling and scary) world outside. It was at this point that Facebook exposed unprecedented numbers of lonely, isolated, vulnerable people to conspiracy theories online. And unprecedented numbers believed. “Conspiratorial thinking is not a weird pathology,” Weill writes. Our brains’ propensity for seeing patterns even when there are none and creating narratives to explain events we find hard to understand means that many people are susceptible. Constantly bombarding people with misinformation feeds into this tendency. Cult leaders know this; totalitarian regimes know it, too. And as Weill delved into this ultimate case study of fringe subcultures to learn how people can believe strange things, she said what she ended up learning is that “people can believe anything they want to.”

snow can pitch on the ground

It looks very nice Ray, I have a spare headlamp cowl if you ever need one

What's the deal with 'pitching'

It's starting to melt now but we're due for another lot this afternoon

Snowing here , luckily it's not pitching on the roads.

I love the old A38 @Clive , I'd much rather use it than the M5. Back in the day it used to be dodgy between Bristol and Gloucester though as it used to be a 3-lane road with overtaking allowed in either direction

My mate in Brittany is complaining that fuel is running short as the protestors are blocking the refineries .

They used to have a place out on the A38 near Stroud, I remember it as I always thought it was an odd location for such a business .

Oh joy I’ve diagnosed seized up cable to the push button might as well just replace the whole flush valve, it will be easier

You mean my bucket in the garage

Feckin toilet flush stopped working properly last night, guess what i'll be doing today

No, I meant Weston-Super-Mud Dave. I go through Weston Village (Bath) quite a lot, it's only about 10 miles from me and is a good route to save passing through Bath itself.

There are no gravel traps that I can think of between Bristol and Weston so perhaps @Slowlycatchymonkey didn't think it was worth taking her camera

Got out this morning on Miss USA , I was looking forward to see how she would run after deleting the side stand switch. I rode up the A46 towards Stroud and gave it soome beans when it was clear, smooth acceleration all the way up to 80mph so all good there. Later I took it down the rough Fosseway section with the whoops and again it was fine, no coughing, bamging or cutting out. On reflection I think that switch had been going bad for over a year but I was mis-diagnosing it as a carb problem, anyway all good now My destination at Stroud was Capels Mill, a fascinating place and well worth a visit.

My nephew is wearing a black arm band

Obviously a cat with no taste, who doesn't like a nice crisp Ben Sherman

She's very good as she always goes in her litter tray but some are feckers and will just do it anywhere.

That looks very nice but i'd have to remove all that onion.

You have no idea, dogs have some integrity. Cats don't give a f*ck and will shit and piss anywhere they like . I'm a cat owner and they're not always as cute as this ..................

Nice one Fred, I think I might struggle to get my CRF over that log . How did the mirror mount work out ?