That's like having a machine that detects which foods you find tastiest, and starts serving you only those things.
Educated guess, as I’ve no idea how these things work - videos I’m more likely to share will be recommended, bringing controversial content to the top
The jury is still out on that, even for the optimistic amongst us. Current events/culture/elections/social commentary beg to disagree...
https://stephenaroth.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/five-reasons-w...
Many of us hold the opposite opinion.
The basic premise that intelligence is purely driven by genes and that only dumb people will be left is practically hateful.
Given the current demographics related to birth rates, calling idiocracy a documentary is blatantly racist and classist.
Ironically, low intelligence people calling reality racist just serves to prove my point.
Worldwide, white people are at the bottom, excepting China due to the one child policy. Even in China, minority groups in rural locations were allowed more than one.
It is the steady decline of IQ, moral decay, and increasing shallowness of experience and atomization of society.
All of which is clearly more severe than when the movie was released.
None of which makes any implicit commentary on race, no matter what mechanism actually brought about above stated societal decline.
The decay of civilization in idiocracy was directly and exclusively due to two things:
- intelligence is genetic
- smart people bred themselves out of the gene pool
I have literally heard people be chastised when they tell others they chose not to have kids, because have you seen idiocracy?
The basic premise of the movie is so fundamentally flawed it is beyond offensive.
If you find our current understanding of reality offensive, that sounds like wonderful motivation to do a study of your own.
It must be sad to have so little sense of humor you get offended at the movie that features president commacho
(I don’t want to say it's “good, rational discourse” that journals promote, because that doesn’t seem to be exactly what comes out of journals; they do have their own incentive structures that bias "the conversation" in specific directions, even besides the ones that are extrinsically imposed upon them by academic hierarchy.)
I saw kids doing this on concrete recently. On concrete.
Tiktok is literally an at-scale sorority/fraternity, which means people are taking part in an at-scale hazing ritual - to fit in. The problem with this is the same problem that arises if you are 20 and watch Sesame Street every day still. There’s a time and place for this behavior and we are not setting any cut offs for when it’s time to stop the nonsense.
The milk crate challenge on concrete is hardly different to any other dangerous behavior engaged in by (principally) young men: i.e. what's the difference really between this and say, street racing? Which has been a thing pretty much since car's became affordable to 20 year olds.
You are free to Google milk-crate challenge death and see for yourself (how guilty am I for the thing that I condemn). They fall on their necks.
I certainly don’t have the answer, but this can’t be normalized, and sadly I think we are just at the beginning.
Kids abusing the medical system, disrespecting a disease, walking on shaky crates six feet off the ground. It’s hard for me to say it’s kids being kids, or the weak in natural selection being handled. Something is up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie...
People are not robots. Horrible mishabs happen. But 50 years ago, nobody was doing a global list of these. They ended up being a village story. We need to educate the young to make sensible decisions. It doesnt really matter if TikTok, FB, the foobar challenge, or something else is the current culprit. The world is full of crazy things. People need to navigate that anyway.