We still got years more of this shit ahead of us too!

STOP IT, WE GET IT, WE’RE ANCIENT

I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time before they banned then repeatedly shadowbanned me for no reason*, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.

* It was speaking out against genocide and using stern language talking to MAGA chuds I think

All of these companies only benefit from AI being employed to manufacture consent, alter reality and shape people’s social trends and habits. This is why they don’t want their data archived, they want to be able to use mobs of AI agents disguised as people to shape narrative and decide what people think is true.

It’s already in massive progress across Reddit because it’s so easy to disperse undercover AI instances and create conversations to influence people.

Even if you think yourself to be a critical thinker and reasonable, if you go into a huge, popular post and everyone in there is saying how the sky is green, and you ask what they’re talking about because you know the sky is blue, and then dozens of people pile on you, downvote you, call you names and insult you for believing in false facts and calling you naive and easily programmed, you’re really going to question reality and you may even go outside to take a second look at the sky.

Of course, they wouldn’t do anything this bold, they will instead make far more subtle forms of “common knowledge” sentiments, able to change the minds of people who are otherwise smart and logical, but like every person, everywhere, just wants to fit in. So if those people see constant messages like “Of course it’s not a genocide, that was obviously manufactured propaganda, I have a brother over there and he’s saying…” etc, etc. That will absolutely change public perception of events and issues. To a cataclysmic degree.

It’s already happening and it’s even happening here. Everyone needs to get a lot more skeptical and a lot less online.

Yah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.

about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.

All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.

“This isn’t letting us shape reality, that’s our entire business model, we are working tirelessly to shape people’s reality so this is definitely a no-go.”

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Good for them, I only wish that their letter of rejection was blunt instead of citing “scheduling conflicts.”

They could have gotten massive support if they just openly said “We aren’t going because the President and his administration are evil, stupid, cruel fuckwads and we would rather go in the woods and be eaten by bears than even be photographed in the same frame as the white house broadly. Someone please restore USAID because almost a million people have already died as a direct result of canceling that cheap program.”

Plus between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people around the world wherever USaid was providing medical care and food for people in bad conditions, like remote villages, refugees and subsistence farms impacted by weather and famine and so many more souls that we gave hope and health to for pennies a year.

Just the most absolute cruel and heartless people in the world.

Imagine the person you love the most in life, sick and needing medicine and suddenly the only source of this cheap care tells you one day “Nah, you’re on you’re own” and having to watch that person die because some politician somewhere decided to make a performative statement about “empathy and wokeness”

I don’t know about anyone else, but I would probably swear to burn the whole world down in revenge. The US is going to have massive problems that we fully deserve.

Honestly, the numbers thing is really bugging me. We are fixated on the dozens of people directly targeted by attacks, but when the toll becomes higher than a few hundred, suddenly it’s abstract and people don’t seem to care nearly as much when it’s the exact same intention and consequence as if someone went and shot these people.

I literally have PTSD from a decade of struggling in extreme poverty and can’t sleep most nights, I can’t look forward to anything and can’t enjoy anything because everything feels like it can be lost or taken away at any moment, and instead of enjoying good moments, I can only fixate on things that can go wrong and things that could help me if I lose everything. Again.

I’ve been in and out of therapy for this and for other issues, and have gotten a lot better but this is permanent scarring, if you’ve been harmed by society, that harm lasts as strong and as real as actual physical wounds.

Is there a position available anywhere in the world where I can simply take an assessment to identify my skills and capabilities

I’ve never seen a job do this in my entire life. Usually when you do see a job that offers this, they’re doing it just to make sure you’re intelligent enough to read so you can work in a stockroom or do call-center work. The military kind of works this way, but I have a feeling that’s not what you’re looking for.

am seeking a different type of work that doesn’t require returning to school, interaction with others, or leaving my home.

ngl, after many years in the corporate world, this is going to be very challenging to find, after the covid remote-work trend cooled down, these jobs became highly sought after and there is competition for this work.

I don’t mean to be too discouraging here, I just know how rough it is and the reality of trying to work with neurodivergence that makes certain kinds of work really unpleasant and the false promises of the corporate world. You may have to practice some level of radical adaptation to less-than-ideal conditions. Before that though, look for work in logistics, data analysis and auditing, they often have outsourced teams that do pretty quiet, tedious work from home and usually provide training since it’s their own company and custom software.

You could consider getting certified for things that don’t require schooling, tech certs and things like Salesforce specialization allow for a lot of personal freedom, but you will still have to talk to people a lot to get work and design systems to spec. A lot of these jobs might have limited futures though with AI.

In the end, getting the job you want is like getting a loan for a car or something. Just like you have to prove to your lender that you don’t need the loan, you have to prove to your hiring manager that you are in fact social and comfortable in any environment, the very last thing most managers of small remote teams want to deal with is the worry about someone with a health condition who may be unreliable.

Mask up, make calls, pad your resume out the wazoo and start dropping applications everywhere you can. Be aware there are a lot of scams going on where they offer you insane wages for working a few days from home and other too-good-to-be-true offers that are designed to suck in neurodivergent people, be very careful and if anyone, no matter how real and professional they seem, asks you to put up your own money for anything to start, drop everything and run.

trinitarian debate

It’s insane every time, like watching weebs argue about the protagonist of some new isekai or linux nerds about anything really.

The best success I had on a personal level was actually understanding and learning what the internet culture was like for young people and engaging with the children in my family on their level about the actual shit they were seeing, even friending them on their social media in case they ever wanted help.

Having casual and funny conversations about “the Redpill” and incels with my teenage nieces was massively helpful as the trend was rising, talking about the things they would encounter online and the things people say, and why they say it. Their parents had no idea what was going on with their internet lives, but I made a real effort to always be there and listen to their stories and give actual, actionable advice that wasn’t “Oh sweetie, the internet isn’t real, just turn it off when people act like that” like so many gen-X/millenial parents did, which made kids feel ashamed to talk about their emotional reactions to things they read and see online.

Of course they had problems with internet freaks, like all girls online, but they talked openly about it, they felt better about talking to an adult who understands the culture, and developed into very healthy adults with social lives (and tasers and pepper spray, each of 'em) but I really don’t know how to spread this as a “program” when so many parents lose track of youth culture because they’re too busy earning food and utility bills.

I love he was inventive enough to design a tank a couple centuries before anyone actually built one, but couldn’t piece together a better idea for aiming in any direction than “cannons pointed in every conceivable direction.”

I absolutely agree, we used to have movie theaters and arcades and skate parks and various kinds of stores that people would hang out at just because going out and shopping was what people did, so shopping areas were developed to make them more attractive.

With the advent of online shopping, places like malls died rapidly and with them also died outdoor activities and people just hanging out around other people in crowds, there was an energy to life that disappeared with malls and so many storefronts. There are still a few malls and pleasant shopping areas here and there, but they’re not places you want to spend time at, they’re more like showrooms for Amazon.

I don’t know if there’s a good answer for that though, I don’t know if you just started building things like arcades and youth bookstores and the like if you would actually get anyone going out to use them, because that original incentive is gone, the whole “going out and seeing what’s new” thing has disappeared, because again… we get all that from our algorithmic feeds.

What would make YOU excited to go out and hang out around other people? I feel that the entire premise is dying, and adults are equally crippled by this problem as kids, which is why I keep saying this isn’t just a “kids and social media” problem, this is all of us and our relationship with the internet.

any female born after 1983 can’t cook… all they know is leaf litter, curl they shells up, scuttling, lay eggs, eat rotten plant matter and lie

They look exactly like the kinds of people who would birth someone into a lifestyle of horrific social attitudes and a doctrine of aesthetics and appearances over substance.

They also look like they are literally struggling to keep the human flesh on their twisted, hellspawned bodies.

Racism AND capitalism.

The “single family home” was barely a concept before American development early last century. For the majority of human history, people dwelled together, raised families together, stayed together and supported each other their whole lives.

It was the housing industry making these “neighborhoods of the future” that started pushing the idea of moving out at 18 and getting a home on your steel-mill salary of $10 per week, and then it became shameful to still live with your family past a certain age. Forcing so many Americans into a role of being a sole-provider for an entire household as wages have dropped and house prices have soared, and we all still keep “investing” into homes in suburbia despite nobody feeling fulfilled in these cul-de-sac lives, and both parents of children having to work 6 days a week or more just to afford to sleep there.

Oddly enough, I have a strong feeling this will get marginally more support and a warmer reception than injectable vaccines.

Source: I’ve argued with dozens of people about vaccines in real life, and 90% of them were JUST scared of needles and injections and just built giant palaces of rationalization that consumed their whole lives to validate that fear. You know who doesn’t give a shit about vaccines even if they’re conservative? Diabetics who have to inject insulin every day.