thegrim33

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3 dagen geledendiscuss

It's so interesting. We all now that in X months from now the propaganda campaigns will switch to the new hot topic and we'll never hear about data centers or their "water usage" ever again. In X months from now everyone will deny that it was a thing or that anyone cared about it. People will forget that it was ever even a discussion. Everyone will just be switched over onto whatever the latest and greatest propaganda campaign is, at the drop of a hat, with zero reflection. Wonder if there's a way to graph it, something like google trends, but over social media, to chart whether there's a specific day/week that all discussion about it just ends.

3 dagen geledendiscuss

Well yeah, that's the point. They want to enshitify cars and make driving as expensive and as annoying as possible to force people out of cars. They know they can't just ban cars outright, so they enshitify this little thing this year, mandate this other thing the next year, add a new tax/fee the next year, add a new restriction the next year, reduce speed limits the next year, etc., etc., all in the name of safety / "save the kids", until decades later they finally get to where they want to be.

4 dagen geledendiscuss

From their profile, this person makes a living selling AI programming products, by the way. Who could have guessed. There's a pattern to be noticed, even.

5 dagen geledendiscuss

It makes sense, but it's probably pretty far down on the list of "what could we put money towards in order to increase birthrate". Could probably get a lot more result for the money by funding efforts to pair people together, make them want to have kids, make them more financially equipped to have kids, etc.

6 dagen geledendiscuss

Looking at the long list of the things you had to do to get this working .. and you couldn't "find" the energy to write some text for the landing page yourself? For a project you want people to buy from you? You supposedly put in all that effort, and built these sites around it, and building a business around it, and you couldn't deal with writing descriptions of it yourself? Seriously?

7 dagen geledendiscuss

Half the traffic on this site are real, intelligent humans (among whom opinion is split different ways on the AI topic), a quarter of the traffic is propagandists trying to destroy western tech/infrastructure/society (notice how China apparently doesn't have to stop AI development or datacenter development, only the West does), and the remaining quarter is real humans who have been utterly consumed by the previously mentioned propagandists and are parroting the same messaging.

8 dagen geledendiscuss

Do you really think these companies are spending billions of dollars on such systems without doing any research as to whether a market for it exists?

"Starlink is SpaceX's primary revenue driver, generating $11.39 billion in 2025 and accounting for roughly 61% of the company's total sales. The satellite connectivity unit is the only highly profitable division of the company, generating an operating income of $4.42 billion"

9 dagen geledendiscuss

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9 dagen geledendiscuss

SPCX opened at $160.95. It's now at $158.63.

S&P 500 one month ago was at $7,600. It's now at $7,500.

DJIA one month ago was at $51,078. It's now at $52,334.

These numbers are what this economy doomer porn article is based upon. Does that seem reasonable?

10 dagen geledendiscuss

>> The point is not the consumers of the Internet

A) They're not just "consumers"; people produce a huge percentage of the content, via facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc

B) The people of a society define its culture. When you change the people, you change the culture

10 dagen geledendiscuss

>> Facebook was ruining everything, and those were five to ten years before 2012

Facebook didn't even exist 10 years before 2012 ..

10 dagen geledendiscuss

The topic always feels like a typical propaganda push to me; the constant sensationalist articles, people constantly bemoaning it when in reality having to change your clocks by an hour twice a year is the most trivial, irrelevant thing to spend any energy/attention caring about, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the propaganda angle actually is. How does some group benefit from getting rid of it? Or is the negative messaging, creating an us-vs-them argument about even the most random of issues, increasing conflict/division in society, the angle, and they don't even care about getting rid of it?

11 dagen geledendiscuss

0.275% and 0.275 are two different things.

11 dagen geledendiscuss

Except everything in orbit is also moving at those same speeds, so the relative speed difference between any two objects is orders of magnitude smaller than that. (Of course, yes, there's outlier cases where that's not as true, but those are the rare exceptions to the rule; the constellations being discussed don't fall into the outlier cases).

11 dagen geledendiscuss

Devil's advocate - what's the nth-order effect of the current internet / social media setup that we currently have? How much damage is it causing? Who did the analysis on that and decided what ended up with today is the best setup?

12 dagen geledendiscuss

The first example given is someone who is "living out of their car and running out of money for gas".

Let's take a deep dive through that person's comment history and try to see where they might be going wrong. This is what I found within the last 5 days of their comment history.

- "Evil looks like fun at a family picnic. Going to work. Getting by." <- Believes that going to work is evil

- "Humans cooperating via corporations is evil. And until people grasp this, we're are fucked. " <- Believes that working for or even interacting with corporations is evil

- "We just need money. Give us money." <- Just wants people to give them money

- "Corporate culture needs to die and we all need to actively be killing it" <- Surely this person is interested in working a job and earning a living

- "The clouds are real. They're some kind of giant UFO camouflaged drone tech they're trying to perfect and it's scary AF" <- Sure seems solidly connected to reality

- "We need people to RECOGNIZE that this society isn't worth saving"

- "I'm approaching stand on the corner and beg after 20 years of successfulish Internet begging between jobs" <- Has spent the last 20 years just begging people for money on the internet rather than working

Looking through their post history, at all the vile extremist ideological stuff in there, if anything the system kind of has failed, failed the rest of us, because this person should have been forced into mental health treatment. They're unhinged and not able to function in society.

12 dagen geledendiscuss

>> And everyone agrees that social welfare services have been stretched to the limit—where they still exist at all.

US yearly spending on welfare systems: $1.80 Trillion

The entire GDP of England: $2.16 Trillion

The entire GDP of France: $3.60 Trillion

The entire GDP of Germany: $5.45 Trillion

The entire GDP of Spain: $2.09 Trillion

13 dagen geledendiscuss

When I was a kid the whole thing was "save the rainforests". Constant campaigns to stop chopping down trees, stop using wood, or else the amazon rainforest was going to no longer exist in X years. Constant fear mongering that we only had a few years to change course or else the rainforests were gone, and all the animals related to them would become extinct, etc.

The result of such campaigns was converting lots of everyday wood-based products, which were fully natural, fully renewable, to plastic-based, such as bags at grocery stores. It was celebrated and cheered. Then it turned out to be an absolute environmental disaster and now our planet and bodies are completely riddled with plastic.

It's interesting decades later to see the same people that created the plastic disaster in the first place finally coming full circle and trying to do something to (minimally) correct for the problems they caused. It's also a good example at how horrible we are at figuring out unknown unknowns, unintended consequences, etc. How easily so many people can get things so wrong after being so confident in their ideas.

13 dagen geledendiscuss

NASA intentionally completely gave up on trying to answer the Mars life question for multiple decades and only very recently has come back around to the idea of doing life finding missions.

14 dagen geledendiscuss

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