Social media people only get paid €100 a month? I doubt that.

I have some bad news for you, I think the poisoning might be poisoning you.

You have to scroll up some, it goes that far over because of the word wormhole

Lol, part of me thought this may have been posted by him

I can’t remember, are bone spurs a disability?

It’s funny, I’ve been thinking a lot about people’s acknowledgement of faults or shortcomings and choosing to ignore them, whether it’s because they agree, don’t care, or think it doesn’t matter. Or don’t agree and there’s no better alternative, or it’s the least bad alternative. I dunno.

In the public internet spaces like Facebook, discord, the others, I’ve been seeing a lot of this happening recently with Linkin Park’s new singer. Some are happy and ignorant, some know and don’t care, some know and are saddened. There is a lot of vitrol between the people who know and are saddened and the people who don’t know/don’t care. This is just one example from this week, but it happens every week to every story. It can be, probably, literally applied to anything. People’s level of information heavily biases them from their predisposed beliefs (as in, if they already have an opinion, chances are that the opinion will not change when presented with new information).

In our spaces I see it with Brave. I see it with Kagi. We all saw it with Unity en masse and something actually happened about that, but even so people are still using Unity today, albeit I would guess out of necessity, or now ignorance since time has passed (not saying ignorance here is a fault). Before then we saw it with Audacity. Can’t forget Reddit, where a significant chunk of users are now participating here instead. And… yet… Reddit still exists, nearly in full.

It’s such a crazy phenomena with how opinions are formed from emotional judgements based on the level of information they have, and due to our current state of informational sharing there are microcosms of willful ignorance. And some aren’t ignorant, it just doesn’t matter to them.

Also, I’m reminded of the actual voter fraud that corporations like AT&T and people like Ajit Pai have accomplished, such as when net neutrality had thousands of dead people voting in support of corporations.

I think as long as we don’t give them thumbs we should be okay, right?

I would support compulsory voting, however it would need to be very, very safeguarded against Jim Crow laws. Simply put, compulsory voting needs to be rooted in uplifting communities and from a place of education.

I would say something like a one week voting period during which time American’s learn about their local candidates, policies, and anything else about the platform. It should be treated like career day, where the entirety of the time is spent learning about things that we don’t see in our day to day lives.

However, even that I know would fail. Just looking at Trump rallies should be enough to prove that it is still flawed, because inherently it being a group of people with an ideology of hatred will come up with the worst possible {gestures at something all encompassing} imaginable.

That said, I do think having some ~40% of American’s actually voting is far, far too low. Increasing this through citizen engagement is probably how it would be best accomplished, but again, you have 63% of American’s voting for Christian policies, not for American policies. So ultimately, we are in a stage where Democracy is mathematically at odds with the base of voters, with two parties that only represent a small portion of their constituents (R’s with persecution through religious corporatocracy and D’s with corporatocracy) all while the rest of us are just trying to vote to get some local changes that will have a positive effect.

All in all, while I support a form of 100% voting, I do think it’s a multifaceted problem ranging from the issues others have mentioned, to including everyone in the vote means we also get the entirety of places like Utah and Idaho who do not want people like you or I to even exist. Not to say I want to exclude them, but I do not want policies based on anti-humanitarian agendas or hatred – that is incompatible with and antithetical to the progress and betterment of humanity.

In our current state, any form of compulsory voting will be primarily anti-humanitarian because that’s what religious voting necessitates. For compulsory voting to be viable, we would need to bolster education for both emotional and critical intelligence, and I would consider a more than single day period of voting.

Or a crocodile

Not economically viable until the regular sugar is not longer subsidized.

If the cocoa was subsidized then it probably would be, lol

I hate the puzzle piece ones, they never actually load the site for me.

Today is gonna be the day

You mean cable packages, which have been on the comeback

If you were from California you probably knew he was full of shit because he duped the state out of a bullet train, promising the Hyperloop like from Futurama.

Of course the Hyperloop got voted for and nothing ever came of it because if it is possible, Elon would not be part of finding that out.

Twice impeached nonce not removed.

Oh definitely, there’s that tipping point that will force change haha. I wonder once people our age and younger generations start getting into politics, if we will fall to the same fates of corruption or if we will finally start making strides to reform it. Or, well, if it’s too late for any of that regardless, but I wouldn’t say that’s a reason to succumb to evil.

The issue right now for American governments, and I assume others, is that we are so heavily tied to corporations. Corporations fund the government and the individual politicians, corporations are legal entities and it’s just clear that it’s an oligarchical corporatocracy and the sheer fact that a company that owns 300 companies which all own 300 companies are all legal entities which can buy in to lobby for more power than any American individual… To get corporations out of politics seems dauntingly inseparable.

That said, to sustain nearly 350million people on an already failing infrastructure designed to funnel food into deserts while the cost of producing wheat and corn products goes down all while raising the prices (presumably because funneling food 1,500 to 10,000+ miles is expensive)… It seems obvious to switch to more sustainable solutions. Why are we trucking food and boating food instead of having more local farming operations, as one of a hundred thousand other things we can pretty feasibly accomplish.

Our biggest hassle here is the one we are already facing – food deserts and living in inhospitable places. Southern California gets all of its water from Northern California and the goes and farms, or fulfils contracts for water to Universities that are making green grass. In the desert. Utah is 2 cities surrounded by desert (I’m exaggerating, but am I?). Oregon is a series of forests, grasslands (due to human destruction) and now a few concrete jungles (our major cities). Every town on the outskirts of these are struggling because they do not produce what the community needs, so many of them struggling are farmers supporting the alt-right. Meanwhile, Oregon is the number one U.S. producer of blackberries, hazelnuts, peppermint, cranberries, rhubarb, grass seed, florist azaleas and Christmas trees, and 80% of our agriculture is exported with half of it being to foreign countries (which is fine to me IDC). Meanwhile, we also have the highest number of ghost towns where towns and cities have lost their industry and now no longer exist or have literally 15 or less people living there. I imagine that this is less of an issue in the E.U. since it’s so small by comparison (in terms of ~3 of our larger states is equal to ~1 country).

It just seems odd that our priorities are so focused on exporting when our local towns could really benefit from having farms that produce food that go to them and then having an industry to work in. Since they currently don’t have either…

I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but it is so interconnected, I mean just 100,000 tons of hazelnuts are needed for the demand of Nutella alone and that’s fulfilled by multiple different countries from a company based in Italy and they utilize satellites to view palm oil deforestation damage…

That’s the kind of world we live in. Satellites for chocolate spread. Oil fracking to get gasoline for chocolate milk from Nestle. I just don’t know how we get not only the U.S. government on board (although realistically we are the primary problem – the E.U. is far better in so many ways) but it being a global issue… Like, it’s a byproduct of our globalization and so how do we fully reintegrate local production when people will kill for Nutella, or do kill for some burgers.

I just hope we figure out how to move forward. We’ve sort of done worse than stay the course, we’ve somehow put out even more power consumption and pollution in the last decade.

looks at subsidiaries

Well if things like Nestle aren’t…

Yup, this is why I didn’t pay for REAPER until the check for my first audiobook came through!

I’m still waiting for that check from the author, but you best believe $60 of it is going to the software that made that job possible!

Honestly, internet feuding has been the inception of the cyberpunk culture, it’s just evolved from internet forums to omegle to vines to tiktok.

It’s always just been kids on the internet amidst adults on the internet and the only difference from the early days is that it’s all recorded now. There’s a large part of society that is running on social media, without some sort of societal shift this will only continue. Honestly, it’s only society that is using it, it’s the corporations that are making it. People will find what is easily available and use that, it’s why we’re in this mess. It’s why we have cars as a primary transportation system, it’s why we have social media’s specifically for feet pics, and it’s probably why none of that will probably ever change.