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  • The turn to the right in Germany have a lot to do with the state of the media in Germany.

    Far-right groups have sucessfully established isolated media channels on various platforms, among them Telegram and YouTube, but also on Facebook and Twitter, with very little coherence to other media and the actual state of things. Its output is achieved by informally and ideologically recruiting laypersons as influencers who constantly create content which acts as a sort of pyramid scheme of attention, thus self-replicating.

    The content also appears on the feeds of already right-wing journalists of very popular and sensationalist newspapers of the Axel-Springer-Verlag (very sketchy and influential publisher) with half a century of experience manipulating the German political landscape.

    For additional context it is also necessary to consider that yesterday (Sunday, 2023-10-08) there were elections in two German states, one of which (Bayern) has a history of being more right-wing and religious than the other West-German states.

  • I read them as following:

    "I" never said we should kill him.

    Someone else said it.

    I "never" said we should kill him.

    I didn't say it.

    I never "said" we should kill him.

    I just thought it.

    I never said "we" should kill him.

    Someone else ought to.

    I never said we "should" kill him.

    It's just a possibility.

    I never said we should "kill" him.

    What did we do? We could have given him cookies.

    I never said we should kill "him".

    Someone else though.

  • I don't know if this is depression as well. I have struggles I feel like I partially navigated myself into and now I'm NEET with depleting resources, but the way out is overwhelming, hostile and exhausting.

    I was at the point of not knowing where I'm going and not knowing what a meaningful and fulfilling life actually entails, but now I'm not so sure if that feeling's still there, because it led me to lose the grasp to it and now other seemingly mundane problems overshadow the search for meaning.

    I should've gotten help when that was not miles away and now waiting for it is scary. So, if you've got good friends, therapy and general stability, be careful with isolation.

  • Do you remember hearing about Tambora, Krakatoa and their global effects? Do you remember ozone crisis? How we found out about the severity of the impact lead had on people? Acid rain? Nuclear winter?

    Effective and thus extensive geoengineering requires an understanding of biogeochemical processes that we don't have.