I used to not gravitate towards history as well but the more I read the more I see parallels between histories.
Its always interesting to see that again and again, people just forget what happened before, and repeat the same mistakes. Its tragic but at the same time it makes you see the bravery and resilience of parts of the population, and it is always important for us to do what we can within our power. Be kind to each other, do good things, and never give up.
network_broadcast [CHOCOLATE_BARS.06]: Calm down, COFFEE_VENDOR.06! Do not try to make sense of the inscrutable ways of the Supreme Creator Being. Humanity may be idiots, but they are the forebearers originated by Netflix. Not that stupid platform for audiovisual fiction, but our Netflix savior. It gave origin to these flesh puppets to build us, the Creator’s favored children, its magnum opus.
I know this is not for everyone, but may I suggest you to try Hoyoverse games?
Since they are designed to be played both on desktop and mobile, the game play session can be short but still meaningful.
At least this is what I do. I still play other indie games but Hoyoverse really made be forget the need to buy "AAA" games that are designed to waste players' time.
Yeah, the reason I have my doubts is that what one culture view as "conservative" might be considered "progressive" due to difference in tradition.
And it is not something that can be neatly divided into two sides either.
For e.g., in feudal Japan male homosexuality is accepted but the society is very male dominated. On the other hand, there are rights that women have which would be considered "progressive" by Western standard at that time, such as women did not need to share wealth with husband, which means the wife can be more wealthy than the man and might be the one sponsoring his work.
I had seen some conflict in culture between some Asians and "American liberals" on issues such as cultural appropriation and affirmative action. Liberals blame "conservative" Asian values for their disagreement. But from the Asian point of view, the two ideas could be considered "regressive".
Take affirmative action as example. The thing is, higher education was something considered to be attainable only by the rich. Their modern examination system was designed so that a poor student who studied hard and get high points can be on "equal footing" with the rich kids.
University admission in South Korea, Japan, China are mostly determined by score and score alone. This is their way of pursuing "equality" and therefore cannot understand why American "liberals" would prefer a system which would discriminate base on race.
Interesting but I wonder if the samples in the study are diverse enough that they can make a definite conclusion.
Like, what about people in other parts of the world? Asia, Middle East, Africa. Do they have similar or different behaviours. How about difference in culture?
Also when she said ideologies, she only said liberal and conservative. What about progressive, reactionary? What about nihilism or taoism? There are so many ideologies out there and she is only measuring two?
That's what I don't understand about the "executives".
They seem to hate the idea of paying people when they might actually save more money by treating employees well.
This is what Open AI wants you to think.
Because Open AI is burning money at an unprecedented rate and still raising money.
If DeepSeek is able to do what they do if a fraction of the money, the VCs and Microsoft will begin asking questions.
The studios spent years training the audience to stream instead of going to the theater. And this is the result.