Maybe the algo and stuff are different because of EU regulations? AFAIK TikTok Europe is still run from Singapore, it's not now owned by Larry Ellison et al like the US arm is.
It was always "owned" by the Chinese Bytedance, but the operation was split with most of the global operation run from Singapore and the Chinese operation run separately for regulation/censorship compliance. Now the US arm is also run separately for regulation/censorship compliance, but instead of getting the "no glorifying being rich" stuff we're getting "no talking about left of goebbels politics".
I'm partial to the idea that the uniquely American approach to University causes this through a combination of a) people with little interest in advanced education going through the motions because it's expected, b) people who might be interested in it were the circumstances different being pushed to a cynical view of it by our societal anti-intellectualism, and c) people who are very interested in it getting burned out by the often self defeating expectations and structure of the system.
In a better world, universities would be smaller, the students would be older, and most professions would train on the job. Tons of proffessions like software coding really don't need to be taught by colleges, but that's where everyone who wants to "learn to code" ends up because of the way we've bloated those institutions.
You, personally, might not lose anything because you're dying anyway - but IMO it's not worth staining your legacy with the implication that you were a coward who couldn't stand by your convictions.
Tineye's earliest index for this image is 2016, which is well before 2022 when image generators started getting popular. The earliest post for it credits it as: "Burning Steel - Rossiyan parade fanart by 惩戒营今天招到女仆了吗 in Weibo"
just learned that Scott Adams' last message was him doing Pascal's Wager unironically and then plugging his podcast, lmao.
edit: for the record, I choose to believe in trash isekai manga-style reincarnation, based on my own theory of "the other afterlifes sound boring so i hope it's like d&d and you get to choose which one you go to"
I think that's what they're trying to do with the Legends series, but they just aren't in step with the fans and/or they just aren't able to take the kind of risk they need to take. They need to farm the franchise out to AA devs like they did with the Colosseum games, keep game freak on the main franchise only but supplement that with a spin-off game with fresh ideas every couple of years.
the people whose ideology demands that they stuff all of their problems deep down and never address them report higher "satisfaction with their mental health," a completely nebulous concept that is up to the reader to decide the definition of
Saying this shit is not only ableist but also lets reactionary Americans off the hook. Like I can understand to a degree liberal Americans and Americans who default to liberalism because they've never really thought about it, but 99% of reactionary Americans are absolutely aware that the things they espouse are EVIL and they adopt whatever justifications or avoid looking at any evidence or simply pretend to believe whatever they need in order to resolve that dissonance.
note the 2001-style not-Flash intro. the fake captcha. the timecube-esque prattle about AI threatening humanity. “DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS”. the ASCII art cop finger in the footer of the main page. all of it. what in fuck is this.
The not-Flash intro and the ascii art are cool. I wish more websites did creative things like that.
edit: to be clear, I mean the loading screen that looks like a terminal window, the racoon video that rapidly flashes between different camera angles because AI video generators can't maintain coherence for more than a few seconds is bad
Harry Potter: depicts neoliberal hell, immensely popular among people who grew up in the 90s and 00s but fell off hard among people who don't have nostalgia for that exact specific era of life in the anglosphere
Pokemon: depicts socialist utopia, immensely popular across multiple generations and cultures with no signs of slowing even though the games have kinda sucked for a while
Maybe the algo and stuff are different because of EU regulations? AFAIK TikTok Europe is still run from Singapore, it's not now owned by Larry Ellison et al like the US arm is.