Imagine If I worked for Kellogs and I hired a guy to follow you and yell about how good corn flakes are every time you look at your phone, every time your TV shows go on a break, and every time you pass a billboard in your car, or a marquee on a building. Even if we assume that person does nothing else illegal somehow, that could easily still be harassment, which is definitely not free speech.
Ads are probably closer to brainwashing than they are to legitimate free speech. Things that are legal can also be problems.
I maintain that anyone dumb enough to sleep with Elon probably shouldn’t be working on brain implants.
The US DOC sometimes rotates high influence criminals through different facilities for reletively short stays to prevent then from getting a foothold in the prison or among the COs.
I don’t know how many times industries are going to be tricked by tech bros middlemaning to insert their ‘brand new’ ideas into already functioning systems with the claim that if you buy it its gonna conpletely revolutionize the process. But I know it’s gonna happen again at least once more. So much of it is digital snake oil.
There was a while where as a fighting game player the best way to learn obscure tech or situational high damage combos was to sift through discords looking for info and it was BALLS. Lately I feel like everyone more committed to the fan wikis and maybe twitter for that stuff but oh man.
You can also edit all your high scoring comments with bizarre misinformation so the next AI scrape gets dumber.
Advertising may be your problem, but I know the government’s not taking the “we dont allow kids to be served ads”, so then what, they’re mad it’s the Chinese in the lead? The Kids aren’t gonna be better off playing COD and watching action movies both of which are lightly disguised military recruitment propaganda aimed at them. You may be mad about it but based on their actions it’s not the fact kids are getting exploited that made the Surgeon General speak out, it’s that’s kids are getting exploited and someone else is benefiting.
The mental health isn’t going to get better even if social media didn’t exist in general. People would just find a different outlet to develop maladaptive coping strategies with. Treating the symptoms isn’t gonna cure the root issue, but the root issue is expensive so we all know they’re not going to touch that.
Probably yeah. The modern world is designed to hurt your mental health. Is that the fault of social media or simply the price of being aware? If I learned that many groups of people are being genocided from reading Wikipedia and that makes me depressed would you say Wikipedia causes mental issues?
Disney Land and theme parks in particular aren’t for me but it would be very silly for me to claim I don’t understand why other people enjoy them. Especially someone not from America.
Like one time a few months ago and thats it.
Youre going to buy poor QC american made giant electric monstrosities and you’re gonna like it.
At this point it may as well be a ritual sacrifice of money
A show called ‘The Good Place’. Good show imo.
We can do it the old fashioned way
‘oh no youtube cant make advertisers money while putting kids in a far right conspiracy rabbit hole how scary’
They dont like this one but its real. Democracy doesn’t work if people vote according to falsehoods they believe. Or rather Democracy doesn’t care if they vote like that. Vote stupid, get stupid.
I quit all non anonymous social media a while back and it’s lonely as fuck. If I wasn’t a low level autist with a small very online friend group I’d miss out on a lot. When people make plans for parties, get togethers, anything like that, they do it on social media and if I dont somehow hear about it and ask, I don’t get an invite. This works for me as many of those people and parties are things that I don’t wanna do, but if I had a kid in school I could not imagine the massive social gap it would create for them to not have social media.
For kids it really seems like a pick your poison situation, social media and all that comes eith it, or being left out of a lot of social activities at the most social time of your life.
Nintendo is just cheap Japanese Disney for gamers. They’re every bit the corporate monster the mouse is, they’re simply just not as powerful yet.
I’ve long know I wouldn’t make a good lawyer because you can’t say things like “Listen here you little shit” even when you’re right.