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Yes that is intentional

It depends who I'm talking to. Conspiracy-oriented people tend to be receptive to it, while the kinds of people who generally trust the narrative presented in mainsteam discourse and free-speech types tend to react with horror at the suggestion that some beliefs should be suppressed because they endanger humanity.

Not the form of entertainment itself, but the majority of the industry thereof.

So a possibly feasible explanation is that there has been a bunch of animal testing by foreign defence initiatives that has crashed on US soil?

"They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of Science, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain statistics out of it, however little meaning those statistics conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching an instrument, however unimportant, or of hearing new Scientific revelation, however superflous.

"The Science," they exclaimed, "feeds us and protects us and elevates us; with it we speak to one another, with it we teach one another, in it is the totality of being. The Science is the friend of rationality and the enemy of superstition: the Science is omniscient, unquestioned; blessed is the Science." And before long this allocution was printed on the first page of the Book, and in subsequent editions the ritual swelled into a complicated system of praise and prayer." - A parody of The Machine Stops

Oh you've misunderstood, I'm not a socialist.

I do not support writers and creatives who profit from intellectual 'property', they are themselves a part of the problem. I reject the notion that workers are free from blame for their participation in the system.

A good first step to solving much of society's problems, including this is to nuke the financial sector from orbit, companies like Netflix and Universal will then go bankrupt and their employees will be forced to do something that is more beneficial for society, instead of contributing to the useless glut of for-profit entertainment.

Furthermore, transhumanists should be persecuted for their anti-human beliefs especially for creating human likeness, until their beliefs are erradicated.

None of these are easy solutions, but if solutions were easy we would not have reached this point.

i must've been too busy looking at decompiler output

i don't think a little syndicalism is going to cut it this time, because it's about a lot more than labor now

...you guys are paying for games?

I remember my mom taking my White iBook G3 to the repair store and them upgrading me from Panther to Leopard in 2010. Completely blew my mind and I'm still in love with the UI.

it's already beyond my comprehension, i've not lived very long but in the time i have i've never seen any technology develop so rapidly and at such a rapidly increasing pace. I assume this is what it must have felt like during the dawn of the age of computing.

I'm not really interested in whether or not I'm welcome.

One time a guy said disabled people should kill themselves for the good of the gene pool so I told him eugenicists should be publicly flogged and I got banned for inciting violence, and then I got IP banned when I told the moderator there's no point banning me because it's trivial for me to just use another account (in more colorful language). I'm also pretty homophobic & transphobic so I've caught a number of bans for that sort of thing before. My current account is on 1 warning atm cus I said something about feminism, I don't recall what it was.

I'm not sure why you would think being banned should prompt self-reflection? It's not like any of my reasons for believing the things I do has changed, and it's not like being banned from Reddit really has any negative consequences for me.

I don't even need to delete my account, I'd be suprised if I didn't get resuspended eventually for like the 16th time at some point this month either when they find out I'm still ban evading or when I inevitably say something the moderation doesn't like again

Theoretically, but in the situation it's hard to percieve the threat level of your perpetrator and it can affect your education long term. Often bullies will be satisfied with only mild violence or insults, and trying but failing to defend yourself can often worsen matters and more permanent solutions are off the table thanks to criminal law.

it is also worth pointing out that there is an nascent increase in guns in addition to knives now. Plus fighting back often leads to academic consequences even in cases of self defence. I was placed into a behavioural management program the one time I fought back.

I would be very happy if all of these services finally shut down instead of continuing to eat everything thanks to infinite funding

Time is not 'running out', time 'ran out'.

This analysis is silly because it neglects the fact that the poor are disproportionally reliant on polluting infrastructure that does not have any safe and affordable alternative, while also being those most affected by its dangers. Big corporations have ways to make lots of money from so called 'green technology' and they have the capital to diversify into it and they do, poor people do not.

People want to act like there's a simple solution but anyone whose analysed the situation closely enough realizes that climate change is already locked in and renewable technology is not a good enough replacement given the power output and resource wastage. There is no way to even reduce energy demand since any reduction from one entity will be made up for by another entity, nobody has any desire for meaningful degrowth. Now that we have AI just watch us spin up nuclear reactor after reactor, drinking the ocean, and leaving every beach bare for the sake of 'progress'.

Society is already collapsing into violence and BOE is a couple years away if we're lucky. There is a reason I don't bother investing in retirement. It's a tragedy and people are in denial.

Characterizing it as 'misunderstanding' is disingenous, we just don't believe it stands up to scrutiny. Any inquiries into the nature of the trinity result in the trinitarian doing one of two things: collapsing into obvious polytheism, or claiming their doctrine is incomprehensible and therefore inscruitable, neither of which are satisfying answers. Many Catholics in particular will in fact fall into what their church considers various heresies in trying to wrap their heads around what they claim to believe.