Oh look, the 1643rd time I’ve seen this headline. Call me when the angry mobs start forming.

What a time to be a snake oil sales person.

As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that’s not at all. We’re all now familiar with the trope of “Fox News ate my parents’ brains”.

This isn’t a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit’s just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.

It’s not a rhetorical problem. It’s a propaganda problem. People aren’t being reasoned into right wing politics. It’s being beaten into their heads day and night by talk radio, cable news, local news, and YouTube; and this has been going on very deliberately for decades. The right wing powers-that-be have been busily, patiently, creating a massive, pervasive propaganda machine for a long time while the left sat on their hands. We’re now seeing the results: a world where the right can do and say literally anything they want without consequence. Their base is very literally brainwashed through brute force repeated messaging that nobody can compete with.

We needed the Democrats to do something about this propaganda machine before it became unstoppable. They already didn’t do that.

The best thing any of us can do is try to steer kids away from the propaganda before they get sucked in.

Back when I practiced law, I thought the same thing about services like LegalZoom. Thing is, laypeople are terrible at evaluating risk in a professional way. All they see are prices and marketing. Nobody cares about cybersecurity until they get ransomwared AND have a financial motive for preventing it. And most attacked companies now just shrug and hand out a year of credit monitoring from a company no one’s heard of.

Doubtful. The oligarch class only needs a handful of good developers to make working code for rich people use. The rest of us are being stuck with half-assed AI slop. They’re trying to carve 99% of us out of the economy (the parts that pertain to them) and relegate us to backbreaking wage slavery. Killing middle class jobs is the point, they think.

Not saying it’s a good plan, but it sure looks like what they’re trying to do.

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Yes, it’s common. My understanding is it’s actually more common in Europe and elsewhere, and on the rise globally. It’s getting crowded on this planet, and people want easy answers.

I’m still on Reddit for certain communities. But most of r/all and r/popular is just manufactured slop with bot-driven voting. It’s an outrage machine, like Facebook now.

When we all have green text bubbles, nobody does

Rest of the world, in their best Joe Pesci voice: “you were serious about that?”

Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.

I would say that he probably doesn’t want to open the door to calling credibility into question based on past history of misrepresentation, but who am I kidding, obviously nothing has actually mattered for years now.

Meanwhile, entry level workers are being rejected after interview number five and a full proctology exam.

We’ve all seen it too. “C’mon Vladimir, stop it! 😭”

Demonrats are bad. I am not going to argue against that.

Well that’s good, because nobody said that.

The language of wherever you want to spend substantial time. Probably not Russian I would think, but you do you

Their hubris and inaction while they had the chance to do something is a big reason we’re in this mess.

Hey now, don’t become monsters yourselves

Here you go: https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/

I recalled incorrectly, it was 2 billion deaths at 2C, and 4 billion at 3C.