Sunsofold @ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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Believing illusions is much older than photography. People went to plays and laughed and wept before anyone ever thought of how to capture it for replayabiliy. It seems to be an inbuilt function of human compassion or sympathy.

Taking a step back, one can also realise even the 'real' events are illusion. The Case Against Reality is a reminder the human mind doesn't have privileged view of reality, and never did. Existence monism, or the oneness of being, erases the lines we draw to make maps of reality. It's all just sensory data. ...But, that's a deeper rabbit hole than I feel like diving into just now.

It's a mix. The amount of information coming at people is vast, so much so as to be impossible to fully manage. It's also tainted in various ways to various degrees. Some forms of misinformation are simply caustic, destroying the individual as they ingest it. Some is ideologically carcinogenic, creating harmful lumps that slowly choke off the host. Some is intentional, taint added by malicious actors. Some is negligent, added by those who don't know or don't care that it does harm. Some is well-meaning, impurities added because the adder likes them, regardless of the other effects it might have. And some is just there from sources long dead, still circulating because the filters haven't caught it all. You can try to filter it but it's a firehose. It's nigh impossible.

No cups. Fire hose fed by pipes made of lead, rotting wood, and bisphenol plastic, and filtered through other people's kidneys.

'What, you don't think you're manly enough to pull it off?'

Old man general doesn't know that.

'They're using an army of catgirls, sir.'

'I was afraid it might come to this. Drop... Unleash the yarn balls.'

'Sir?'

'You heard me! Do it! sigh My wife was going to make our grandson a sweater.'

'Sir, do you know what a catgirl is?'

'Are you sure your character would do that? They know it's basically suicide.'

Close, but not quite the same. I used my fingers as the imaginary runner, leaping from thing to thing, riding wires, etc.

Bach - Seems obvious

Gojira - They don't have a bad song, only more and less great.

Lorn - The electronic sound of a plea for help

And this one band I've followed for years that keeps making all kinds of experimental stuff: Various Artists

So many people on lemmy seem to not be the types to hate based on nationality, except for this. The only nationalities I have seen attacked on here are Trumpicans and the French. Trumpicans at least are an ideology, but what is happening with the French that makes them the exception?

Warlock: I promised my soul in exchange for great power.

Rogue: To which great power?

Warlock: All of them. Let them fight over it when I am dead.

Misread woodworker as woodpecker. Amusingly surreal.

Visit the doctor and feel so ambushed you need to visit your psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, people like that are an outsized problem wherever they exist. The extremes are often the most visible parts of a group, especially in the world of algorithmic relevance. If you really want to see whatever your group is achieve cultural success, those people are counterproductive.

While I don't recommend buying an Amazon device these days, if you have an older one you want to use, you can send support an email telling them you bought an ad free one and it still has ads. They'll turn them off.

'Old enough' is a troublesome concept. I've met parents in their 40s who I wouldn't say met the mental competence minimum to be capable of informed consent, so age isn't really the measure.

If you want to give a kid the chance to learn tech but not be messed up by it, the best advice I've seen is to keep it isolated and user focused. The computer is a place they can go to when they demand its utility, not with them all the time and demanding their attention. The computer is a tool to let them do something else, not a way to cure 30 second windows of boredom with a stream of content. No internet or uncontrolled content, only curated software with no social aspect so they aren't open for exploitation. The internet is basically a 'no' for maintaining sanity and safety. They'll get access to all sorts of things as they get older/gain autonomy, so you won't have to worry about when it's appropriate to give them access.

Call? People still do that?

Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I've never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.

That's the difference shareholders make.