this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
203 points (82.6% liked)

News

23082 readers
4212 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

“Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.

Purely theoretical question. Just how big a catapult would you have to build to actually launch an average sized human male into the sun?

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.

The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

Well I'm not seeing any obvious downsides and it is at least reusable, which would likely come in very handy over the next few years.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

Oh my God, it's that little cretin too.

His parents are the worst, and they have created one of the worst humans on the planet.

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago
[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 45 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Sits with phone in hand while driving super car in the overtake lane in the rain.

Crashes car

Online commentators criticized Doherty for appearing to be more concerned about his wrecked car than his injured friend.

Not a person i'd want others to be influenced by really. I hope sponsors eventually realise

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago
[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 76 points 13 hours ago

Stop making stupid people famous.

this guy is a real prick appearently, he got famous by assaulting people (calling it pranks).

The world doent need people like him.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 20 points 11 hours ago
[–] foggy@lemmy.world 111 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

If y'all don't know how big of a piece of shit this kid is, it runs deep.

There's a period of time where he would just taunt strangers to get into a confrontation, and then his bodyguard would step in.

Well, his bodyguard punched someone in the face and he's getting sued like fuck.

He also is basically an only fans pimp. He gets 18-year-old girls drunk on yachts and gets them to sign contracts where they'll do only fans content for a set fee per month while he takes all.

It's truly amazing how big of a scumbag this kid is at such a young age.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Isnt signing a contract while being under the effects of alcohol make the contract invalid?

If not, why not? It feels like such an obvious thing so people dont sign contracts against their will

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And now you need to prove that you were intoxicated out in international waters on this kids boat. Then you need to take him and his MacLaren money to court.

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

No wonder kid needs a body guard, he's gotta have one of the most punchable faces in the world. I give it 3 months until he catches a stray round to the dome for being a twat and the world can go back to not being aware of his existence.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 14 hours ago

When will media stop with the "formerly Twitter"?
They're trying to increase the relevancy of their "source" on X by saying it's basically the same as Twitter once was.
But it isn't. It's a rotting zombie feasting on Twitter's long-dead corpse.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 70 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

"influencer" I truly hate this word. It's way overused. Like what is he influencing, markers flipping?

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He influences his followers to buy products. An influencer is like a freelance marketer.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago

If you make your purchasing decisions on an "influencer's" opinion, then man, do I have so many things to say about you.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

They influence people who lack the attention span to make decisions for themselves.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 165 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (11 children)

"Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11"

Who cares?

And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.

It's like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 31 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

In their defense, it's way easier than doing actual journalism.

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Global News is a terrible sensationalist rag. I'm sorry it's managed to fester outside of Canada.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] CrunkBy@lemmy.world 92 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Influencer Culture is a cancer on society

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 46 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Influencer.

That's what he does.

We have failed.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 31 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

You are aware that the majority of kids aspire to be social influencers as a desired life/career path, yes?

https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/gen-z-interest-influencer-marketing

The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians... they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.

Because that's what they see. All the time. A constant super, uber version of a reality tv show of wealthy idiot assholes doing and saying whatever they want and almost never facing any consequences.

And to some extent, who can blame them?

Every other career path has exceptional upfront costs of time and money, involves much, much more challenging work (either physical, mental or both) and are seen as basically just as risky in terms of actually working out.

Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 42 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

The majority of current US children do not want to be doctors or professors or plumbers or coders or truck drivers or electricians... they want to pursue a career path that has something like a one in a million odds of making them stupidly wealthy.

I, too, had dreams of being a rock star when I was a kid.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck it. YOLO. Only got 10 or 20 years until the water wars or WW3 or climate change breaks everything anyway.

psst.... don't look now, but it's less than ten years.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pssst, we all wish, this shit is going to circle the drain for decades. Think it's bad now? Just wait.

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

No, I get what you mean. It just depends on what we mean by "breaks everything". I'm not saying we're looking at human extinction in ten years, or the complete loss of advanced industrial civilization in ten years. But I do expect in that time span massive and permanent decreases in the average standard of living and the availability of goods, services, and information.

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Newsflash: Egypt is already threatening sudan with war if they don’t get rid of the damn

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 17 points 17 hours ago

And to some extent, who can blame them?

I agree with your entire comment, but from this point on, you really nailed it.

Who knows what my attitude would be if I was in my teens or early twenties? I would be old enough to understand that I have almost no chance of building a “good” life. Everything’s fucked. Political systems, the labor market, and worst of all, the environment. Might as well earn money by being an idiot. At least then I’d be my own boss.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›