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= May 28 =

Vaccine videos receiving dislikes
I am noticing a trend with COVID-19 vaccine videos on YouTube. They all have a rather high proportion of dislikes. The vaccine is meant to be a good thing, so why are they receiving dislikes? -322UbnBr2 (Talk &#124; Contributions &#124; Actions) 01:57, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe they don't like seeing needles being pushed into arms? I avert my eyes whenever these things show up on the nightly news - which is like every night. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:56, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've searched up other needle-related videos and they've all had positive ratings. I don't think it has to do with needles. -322UbnBr2 (Talk &#124; Contributions &#124; Actions) 04:07, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Then it's probably political. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:18, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Blame the culture of conspiracism and cynicism for that, considering how the anti-vaccination movement has made great strides towards pushing their own agenda. /s Blake Gripling (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Anti vax nutters. Fgf10 (talk) 09:51, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Do not forget the specific COVID-19 conspiracy theory about nano-RFID chips in the vaccines. --Lambiam 11:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah I've been told of that over at Facebook by someone who bought into the Satanic panic canard about them vaccines lately. Blake Gripling (talk) 12:59, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Really, I hope this won't happen again. -_-|| -322UbnBr2 (Talk &#124; Contributions &#124; Actions) 01:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * They're also usually categorized into one section on the YouTube home page, so it's pretty easy for someone to click through and dislike all of them DrawWikiped(talk) 23:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It's not just vaccine videos. Biden in mainstream media, pandemic news, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin or Q-Anon are hard at work. Imagine Reason (talk) 00:37, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Facebook fails
So I use Adblock Plus, which is brilliant most of the time. Then maybe nine months ago on my Facebook feed I started to see adverts and daft videos of animals, big trucks, and people's various stupid antics. These actually outnumbered posts from my friends. I got so tired of these I contemplated leaving Facebook, which I don't use much anyway. I tagged most of them as unwanted, but stiil kept seeing similar rubbish. Then suddenly about two weeks ago they all stopped and once again all I see is posts from my friends. Did something change with Facebook, or with Adblock Plus? Have others found this? Just curious.--Shantavira|feed me 10:49, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I don't use Facebook and so have no idea what happened (probably obscure changes to algorithmic sorting, if I had to guess), but two immediate suggestions for what you could do come to my mind:
 * You could try only watching a chronological feed (tricks for doing so are here, here, and here). Hopefully ads and daft videos are rarer near the top when posts are in chronological order.
 * You could just stop using Facebook; I fare perfectly well without it, and since you don't use it much anyways I don't think you'd miss it very much as well.
 * Duckmather (talk) 00:43, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

iPhone 5S screen problem
The screen of my iPhone 5S is starting to split from the metal. The bottom edge is fine, but the glass has deviated a few millimeters from the metal on the top edge. Is this a known issue? Can it harm? I don't want my cell phone exploding in my pocket. Thank you. Hevesli (talk) 16:01, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the battery is swelling up and pushing the screen off. If that is the situation, get the battery replaced. This may cost $40-70 in a phone repair shop, so may be more than the value of the phone. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:13, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Affirmation to Graeme Bartlett. – Had same issue with an aftermarket battery into my LG G3 about a year ago. As I kept the original battery (which had lost some capacity) I could put this in temporarily. Another original replacement-battery was a matter of a few days and a few €. --87.147.178.173 (talk) 08:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * You should take it to your nearest Apple store before the phone starts a fire somewhere. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:14, 29 May 2021 (UTC)


 * https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/What_to_do_with_a_swollen_battery .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 22:00, 30 May 2021 (UTC)