You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
An omen that we can't fight water.
When water rises, we cannot fight it, there will be mass migrations as coastal cities become unlivable with constant storm surges and rising sea levels in the coming decades.
They know there's going to be pushback and people hollering and shouting how out of touch they are for printing it.
They don't care, they're just seeding the public narrative, trying to get people used to seeing the message in media that they should expect less and be content without things.
It's not how we feel about the article today, it's about the kids and young people growing up seeing this message as normal.
The secret is, you can make a population incredibly unhappy just by saying stuff on feeds that they read. It doesn't even have to make sense, just appeal to whatever frustration the target demographic is feeling that day.
This is how millions of Obama voters and other liberals and even progressives decided "lets give this Trump guy a shot" despite him having served a term already that was terrible.
Overpopulated schools with underpaid teachers and a broad culture of "radical individualism" and a school system designed more to occupy children with preparing for work instead of teaching them anything, along with rampant, petty lawsuits from families of children over utter nonsense have led to the US having an abysmal, almost prison-like aesthetic for public education.
Combine all this with a culture that revolves around violence as a glorified solution to problems while also reinforcing division between people and everything's a hotbed for tension and hate and shootings.
We could probably legitimately solve a LOT of America's problems if we used our schools for actual teaching and paid the staff and teachers properly so kids could get actual knowledge, free meals and a sense of safety, but that's not what the corporations want - they want us dumb, numb and isolated from each other.
I mean, we're all raging at this presidential administration for ending USAID which supplied food and medicine to developing nations and poverty-stricken regions without infrastructure, it will lead to the deaths of millions, for no other reason than they don't have access and resources in many of the places the program served.
if populations collapse in too many industrialized nations too rapidly, many industries and shipping lanes and distribution channels will start to slow down and possibly even eventually close entirely, leading to much greater problems than even the absence of USAID or other programs. A lot of our modern infrastructure we depend on functions on a scale dependent on a certain level of production and labor.
A lowered population would absolutely help us with a lot of issues with scarcity and pollution, but we can't get to those lowered population levels rapidly or that's the same as any other apocalyptic event that will cause vast amounts of suffering.
It's just hate for non-whites, it's that simple, it's never been more complicated than that.
Along with a host of other foreign and domestic donors paying our representatives to represent corporations and investment bankers and the like.
Yep, basically anything that delivers new "things" to you that requires a level of updating and re-engagement over and over with a sense of looking for something that's interesting to you, especially including anything that supplants socializing with comments on the internet by random strangers.
I feel like it was different in the days when we just read a morning newspaper, because it wasn't all interesting or relevant to us, it was just informative and you got "today's concerns" and then set it down and used it for kindling or bird cage lining later. There was no need to pick it up again and see if anything changed.
Here we train our brains to feel like they're going to get "interesting stuff" on demand, and it creates an expectation for that dopamine reward over and over, so whatever you read that doesn't give you that feeling becomes less interesting. This is why so many of us can't finish a book or sit through a movie, it's just conditioning.
If you're going to adopt violence, you have to target the exact right people or you just plunge yourself into a long, dumb spiral of public outrage until whatever the organization originally meant to accomplish is lost in the news cycle of violence. People won't remember what you represented, only what you did. And you can't fix that with messaging, it's just not how it works.
I can name a dozen different iconic seditious or rebellious groups in recent history and for every name read, you will see in your mind's eye terrorism and bombings and violence, not what that group wanted to accomplish or what their goals were.
I get gnashing teeth reminding people of this fact, but Mussolini was not defeated by a plucky band of rebels who dragged him out of his bunker, he was arrested by his own king and government and handed over the opposition. We still need political action or we're just embracing mindless chaos, we will need politics to both secure an actual victory and we will need politics to deal with the millions of people who didn't vote for any of your actions but will still live next to us after.
It's a facetious, ironic reply from someone opposing OP.
You can just stop using content-aggregation websites like reddit, youtube or twitter.
Seriously, it's hard at first because you have no idea how addicted your brain is for content and information about the world, but after a few weeks you will settle back into how you were in the before times, and may even have a desire to sit and watch a whole TV show or movie without scrolling, or you might even read a "book."
(Books are these things that have "content" encoded in text on sheets of pressed wood cellulose, ask your grandparents about them. Side effects include enhanced imagination, retention of knowledge, images and ideas forming spontaneously in your mind, and simulated experiences that create actual emotional responses.)
You won't miss out on anything, I promise. Our species has existed for thousands of years without you knowing what's going on, we will continue to exist for millennia without you knowing what's going on, just read up on your local political candidates when election season rolls around and you're golden.
I can't believe they're putting chips in my cheese dip.
If the universe is infinite in size, then statistically there are an infinite number of empires in far away galaxies. Not sure about the FTL drives though.
Welcome to a preview of our new slop-future, where nothing works right and nobody has any answers for how to fix it, because nobody with any training or knowledge was actually involved in its design.
In one very short generation, there is going to be a sharp social divide where young people who only know short-paths through AI are going to have a growing movement blaming "code-boomers" for all their problems, if we just didn't complain and let the AI's do their thing, everything would be perfect. 🙄
The bigger problem is making the fusion in the first place. As close as we are, we still haven't made a self-sustaining reaction that boils water and generates more energy than we're putting in.
"We just have to use everything we possibly can as fuel, once it's all gone, we will figure out something else to burn."
Glances outside
"Looks like it might rain today, bring a coat and umbrella."
BAM problem solved, immense problem overcome.
I put a lot of time into trying to get a premium AI to help me with data analysis, and never got close to what a freshly trained human can do after 30 minutes of instruction.
It helped me make a couple of new tools I can use, and showed a great grasp of the problems, but gave me nothing useful in regards to solutions to the problems, just the same AI-generated pabulum and suggestions that are way off the mark or demonstrate a lack of actual understanding what the issues are.
I'm sure with enough training I can get it to actually do some tasks, but since it's so unreliable that I have to check over the results thoroughly, it's still costing me more time than saving me, so it's still going to be a long time before this replaces myself and others who have data-related jobs requiring more than repetitive clicking.
I had to double check that they weren't just recycling stories, but who would have thought that erosion and geology is still happening even as humans exist and oppose it!