I think it delayed the inevitable. By the 90s, right wing American extremism was on the rise. 9/11 put up a facade of unity (as long as you didn’t look middle eastern). The right wing movements went quiet for 15 years. America returned to trajectory in 2016.

Yes. Of course the big platforms actively seek to undermine competitors. There’s billions of dollars at stake. Something that really convinced me was reading about how Facebook ran VPN services to spy on traffic so they could spot budding competitor platforms.

We know reddit used bots at the beginning to generate activity to make the site look popular. Something I’m not convinced they ever stopped doing. I believe reddit corporate still bots their own site for whatever purpose they require in the moment. I absolutely believe they troll their own site. Remember spez is the guy who live edits the production database.

The account hasn’t been banned. From what I’ve seen in 10+ years redditing it’s extremely difficult to for right wing accounts to get banned. They incite violence or spread hate. Very rarely do the accounts get banned.

First and foremost reddit takes a long time to respond to reports. And then they rarely ever apply punitive action. So what you’ve seen here is pretty standard.

Criminals looking out for criminals. The Trumps are a crime family.

They were replaceable in the old Norelco shavers. It required soldering. If you’re 3D printing then soldering is on the same level of technical skill. There’s even a solder bridge to disconnect the battery.

People expect AI to be default feature. Image search was once what was “AI”. Photo recognition was once what was “AI”. Voice recognition was once what was “AI”. These all fall under the field of AI/ML. It’s until the next state of the art comes along. Then it’s no longer “AI” but a standard feature.

I have no idea why this phenomenon is but that’s the way it’s been. When the field of AI/ML makes its leap to the next frontier. The current “AI” which is LLMs will longer be “AI” but a standard feature.

Maybe because fictional media as set the goalpost at AGI. So nobody is expecting to be buying “AI” hardware until they are buying an AGI machine that is a conscious cybernetic lifeform. Otherwise practical AI as we know it is assumed to be just another software package that runs on any computer.

There isn’t a slippery slope. They are doing it. Do you need an executive order called “WE’RE DOING EUGENICS”…

I’m tired of the edging. The perpetual brink of disaster. It’s here. There are no more red lines. We passed them a long time ago. This is authoritarian America. They are doing the things. Enough with the edging.

I don’t know what you have in mind but the founders originally used bots to generate activity to make the site look popular. Which begs the question. What was really the root reddit cultures. Was it the bots following human activity to bolster it. Or were the humans merely following what the founders programmed the bots to post.

One things for sure, reddit has always been a platform of questionable integrity.

This is probably the most ethical you’ll ever see it. There are definitely organizations committing far worse experiments.

Over the years I’ve noticed replies that are far too on the nose. Probing just the right pressure points as if they dropped exactly the right breadcrumbs for me to respond to. I’ve learned to disengage at that point. It’s either they scrolled through my profile. Or as we now know it’s a literal psy-op bot. Already in the first case it’s not worth engaging with someone more invested than I am myself.

You’re a professional victim.

Point taken. Looks like the guy is standing pat with his full blown alternate reality narraive. And he’s still gotten more upvotes inspite of being so unabashedly in bad faith.

Ah well I wish mods would have nuked the whole comment chain.

A few years ago I got drive through that wasn’t put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.

McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.

I say let it stand as a testament. Incels bring out the big guns when you get too close to reality. I’ve noticed this pattern over the years.

The propaganda is something to behold. This is the kind of thing young men are being bombarded with.

This is the inevitable result of infinite growth. You aren’t getting a home in world class locations without being at the very top yourself. Sure other people lucked into the right place and the right time. Go buy lottery tickets. Or set down in location that is more affordable. With any luck you’ll be a multimillionaire when you’re elderly too. And the kids of the year 2060 will hate you for the dastardly plot you schemed up with your friends to ruin everything.

We’re all part of the rat race that is fucking us over. Nobody wants to flinch. So we continue to eat each other alive.

beat the shit out of people

It’s not literal. You seriously don’t know what social conditioning is???

gay bashing

I have no clue how you derived homophobia from this.

This is either a troll or poor reading comprehension.

edit: I just saw your other replies. You’re being deliberately obtuse to derail the thread.

The internet is raising them. They aren’t going outside and saying these things where at least one man would smack him upside the head in order to correct bad behavior. They aren’t going outside and trying this shit on women who will reject their bad behaviors. Or worse running to legal trouble for harassing or assaulting women. Whereby it used to be the guy would self reflect and realize he’s doing it wrong.

The internet is telling them stories about how these behaviors are what the “alpha” males are doing to successfully get all the women. What is the bullshit stat? Like 1% of top men get 99% of women or some stupid shit.

The internet lies to them, painting a dark twisted world. And then these guys go out to the real world to treat women in the way they think the world is some kind of dark world. They get extreme negative experiences. Which to them proves that the internet was right about everything.

It’s not very wild when you realize you’re talking to addicts. The whole world is addicted.

I don’t find very much interesting about this conversation anymore. If it can even be called that. American politics is like scripted television drama. It’s quite fitting. Except it’s so predictable. It’s the same script on loop.

I think the fun hasn’t even begun. The “market” or whatever. The collective mind hasn’t yet realized or the scale hasn’t quite tipped yet on how bad this all is. I think maybe too many people are silently making their financial move so as to not be the one to that sets it all off. Or they’re trying to tread carefully before the house of cards falls.

Like when Lehman went under in 2008. All those shit derivatives were plugging along. Some people knew it was rotten. The system kept going until suddenly didn’t anymore. Then all the red lights and alarm bells went off.

Even with current market downturn. I think it’s yet to go off the cliff. They keep bending the system and it’s bowing but it hasn’t really broken yet. When it does I think a greater than 50% drop in the SP500 is possible.

That’s not to say it’s going to all come crashing down in like a day or a week or even a month. I think the paradigm of the past 15 years is over. The one where’ there’s a relatively brief drop and then everyone buys “cheap stock” and then everything goes 20% higher.

I think we’re in for a long period of decline. Where people cannot simply dump money into investments and see gains every year. We could be in for a long haul where people put money into an SP500 fund and it loses every year. Maybe a 0%-1% gain on a good year due to sideways movement.

It’s kind of weird people are taking that literally.

Also just a weird is how the internet predominantly lays the blame solely on parents. And people love to absolve everyone else especially teachers of any childhood development responsibilities. LIke the saying goes, ‘it takes a village’. Teachers are as much parents as anyone else in the village. The aunts/uncles, neighbors, corner store clerk, mailman, police officer. When kids act up, the adults have to correct it.

Yet the internet generally just glares at the parents. Then again it stands to reason parents or broadly speaking people who actively engage in parenting roles aren’t chronically online. They’re actually raising children.

People wonder why things are the way they are. Maybe it’s because the village has absconded.

If I had kids I should damn well hope they get a beating at school when they step out of line. Figuratively of course. Because. The internet seems to have lost all reading comprehension. Maybe they weren’t beat enough at school either… Figuratively I mean.