gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de

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oh you are so mistaken. propaganda, which is essentially advertisement for political stances, takes a toll on us all. you just don't notice it because modern propaganda is targeted towards the subconscious more than towards the conscious, as many people have poorer defenses around their subconsciousness than around their consciousness.

On top of that, you're vastly underestimating how very pliable the human mind mostly is. When presented with one credible idea, an infestation takes place similar to a virus infestation which can make that idea grow exponentially, up to a target size.

Yet you are right that we must not give up confronting ourselves with these kind of messages, in order to find truth. Dialogue is the essential foundation of democracy. Only dialogue can reveal the truth.

First of all it doesn't matter whether you think that AI can replace human workers. It only matter whether company think that AI can replace human workers.

Secondly, you're assuming that humans typically understand the question at stake. You've clearly never met, or been, an under-paid, over-worked employee who doesn't give a flying fuck about the daily bullshit.

We could use public libraries to do some kind of "are you a human" confirmation. I.e. you get a digitally signed token proving that you are a human, that you can use on the internet to show that you are human. Only the library has to be trusted by the public ...

Ok, so let me try to make sense of this:

Around the year 2010-2020, i and many other vehemently warned against the issue of rising national debt. Yet "experts" said "it's fine, we can make as much debt as we want to, nothing bad is going to happen because of it lol".

Starting in the last 5 years or so, lots of experts say "oh no, the national debt is way to high, that's a disaster, that's a catastrophe, we can't let that happen, who put us into this situation?" Just let me appreciate the irony for a bit. I fucking called it. I said this was going to happen. I was called insane. This feels really validating to me.

Anyways, since now lots of people, including economists, are angry that the debt is too high, people want it lowered. The obvious and straightforward solution would of course be to introduce a wealth tax (i.e. a tax on millionaires and billionaires).

In the beginning of 2025, Musk and Trump both agreed (at least in public) that the debt has to be lowered. Musk's attempt was to cut the federal government. Well, the federal government spends money for two things, mostly: subsidies (social security, medical bill assistance, ...) and data-processing (i.e., enforcing regulations, tax collection agency, ...). The first one costs most of the money, but reducing it gets the public angry (understandably) and is therefore a political suicide. The second one doesn't really cost that much, yet that is the one that Musk attempted to reduce to the point of dysfunctionality. Since it didn't cost much to begin with, reducing it didn't save a lot of money. In May 2025, Trump says "was Musk's DOGE all a hoax?" and the feud begins. Musk realizes that Trump is against increasing taxes for the rich and publicly accuses Trump of having no actual intention of lowering the national debt. This is where we are now.

Now i have an image of Trump in a peach dress in my head. Thanks for that :/

Is this real?

Since when has "left" politics started to care about seemingly everything except economic factors? As a medium-interested person in US politics, it easily seems that lots of issues were brought up, but the one central issue, which is to tax the rich and give handouts to the people, fell short. That's the one thing that i actually care for, goddamnit.

Low birth rates are only a crisis for the capitalists (and actually not even that, see below). They increase wages and improve living standards for the population.

We're gonna hit an unemployment crisis in 10-15 years, partially due to AI replacing white-collar workers. If we have a lot of unemployed people, capitalists are gonna complain about how much unemployment money costs. It's actually better to have lower birthrates for capitalists as well, they only didn't realize it yet.

Also, it increases wages because wages are determined through supply and demand of human labor. If there's less supply, prices for labor (wages) are higher.

It's good that people are complaining what Israel is doing. I don't think that it will make Israel change its stance on things; but it's still good that people are complaining.

This is actually great timing, i'd say. Just now most of the northern hemisphere is starting into summer. At least i deeply feel it on a personal level that summer is arriving. I take this as a gift from the universe that directs me towards touching grass, and going swimming. Enjoy your summer, you all! Connect with your local community, if you can.

Just FYI,

1% of US citizens have $10 million or more.

Windows only in a VM.

Yeah, there has to be a point when they’re going to realize that they’re hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.

I think you're underestimating the level of intelligence that world-wide corpos have. they do have statisticians and mathematicians, and i guarantee you they do the calculations about these things already.

i think for a lot of people it's more FOMO (fear of missing out) instead of actual interest in the internet.

people spend time on instagram because everyone else does it as well, not because anybody actually cares about the content that's shared on instagram.

this is exactly what i said to a friend today

actually, in a few years, maybe the young people won't spend their time on instagram, because it's all bots anyways. maybe then the young people will enjoy living outside of their screen-devices again, and physical life could get a revival.

Company's aren't some kind of "world conspiracy". They don't work together much besides what they have to to make more money.

Company A doesn't care whether company B suffers because people don't have enough money to buy company B's products because company A doesn't pay their employees properly.

Company A only thinks for itself, and if paying employees less is saving it money, then that's what it will do.

Walmarts and such are actually a special case because their employees will typically spend their money back at the very same company. But that's the exception, not the rule. And also we're talking about white-collar labor being automated, not so much cashiers and such.

i'm gonna counter that with

hey ^^ time to listen to some brony music :) i totally forgot that exists 😂👍

It's not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.

The alternative, btw, would be to fry everything in butter or some plant oil, i believe. That's what they're opposing.

oh come on. this is the most harmless behavior of the year. people make a big story out of anything.

instead of focusing on actual problems, such as Musk tried to cut social spending, people talk about this.

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