You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
They are the same people who have real tangible stakes in the media, the media is just them also. They are the media.
I am upset that there are absolutely no regulations and checks on corporate expansion or rules about neutrality in informative media.
Wait, a man’s laughter is illegal? I THOUGHT THEY MADE COMEDY LEGAL AGAIN
It’s also illegal to rape kids, but here we are in 2025.
Having delved a little into that lore myself out of the same curiosity I learned that it’s actually a very appealing temptation in the warhammer 40k lore, it’s a promise of painless immortality and a perpetual celebration of the cycle of life and death. You don’t mind that you become a rotten, bloated monster filled with bugs… because you feel great and feel the warm embrace of a divine being that you know you will become a part of one day. It’s like distilled religion, with all the body-horror that goes with religion amped up to eleven.
Also, the people who are convinced to pledge their perpetual loyalty are usually victims of Nurgle’s own plagues and horrific diseases so the people who succumb are a bit “motivated” to make the pain and suffering end.
As with everything in the franchise, there is a direct allegory here to the way religions or imperialist ideologies spread, cause direct, targeted harm to the people, and then forces those people to either be consumed by the movement that is harming them or be killed.
And it will go in history studies the same was as the civil rights pictures. We are seeing history happening and tend to forget it because so much of it is SO dumb.
Every neurodivergent in Lemmy wants to chime in with correct biological facts despite it completely undermining the context of the message.
Context.
Same with hollywood too.
When you’re trying to just make a predictable amount of money over a set amount of time, you have very precise formulas for what kind of product you can publish to get that number. You can publish a clone of Call of Duty every year and make a very predictable amount of profit on the license, but if you take the chance on an “experimental” game with unproven mechanics or other things that haven’t been market-tested, it has a much higher chance of deviating from that predictable profit curve, or flopping entirely.
When you have more than a hundred people working in a company, you absolutely have to secure regular profit levels to sustain the company, and this turns most creative works into slop-grinding and number-crunching.
With movies it’s the same, you can push out a hot video-game license movie with all the same standard jokes and action scenes and big-name stars or the same kind of action movie formula with the same explosions and same bad guys and so on, and you will make a predictable amount of money for your costs.
Even if the finished product is utterly mid and unoriginal, enough people can be pulled in with marketing and manufactured hype to guarantee a certain amount of return.
These studios also tend to gobble up rights for smaller licenses and either throws those licenses in the shredder despite being successful, or sits on them for decades to avoid having to compete with them, but also do not want to invest in those titles, because again, they simply have already done the math and know that such titles won’t hit those target profits the same way a new fifa or battlefield game will make.
I have been out of touch but I really hope he has a gofundme or something to get public help with legal support. I’m sure he could at least take monetary worries off his plate if he advertised that he was using this entire case to push back on the administration.
I know it’s been horrific for him, but he has real opportunity here to shine a lot of light on himself and the administration if he plays it right, he has the “underdog narrative” power behind him and a lot of people really cared about him and his case.
I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.
All of these companies only benefit from AI being employed to manufacture consent, alter reality and shape people’s social trends and habits. This is why they don’t want their data archived, they want to be able to use mobs of AI agents disguised as people to shape narrative and decide what people think is true.
It’s already in massive progress across Reddit because it’s so easy to disperse undercover AI instances and create conversations to influence people.
Yah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.
about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.
All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.
“This isn’t letting us shape reality, that’s our entire business model, we are working tirelessly to shape people’s reality so this is definitely a no-go.”
Good for them, I only wish that their letter of rejection was blunt instead of citing “scheduling conflicts.”
They could have gotten massive support if they just openly said “We aren’t going because the President and his administration are evil, stupid fuckwads and we would rather go in the woods and be eaten by bears than even be photographed in the same frame as the white house broadly.”
Plus between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people around the world wherever USaid was providing medical care and food for people in bad conditions, like remote villages, refugees and subsistence farms impacted by weather and famine and so many more souls that we gave hope and health to for pennies a year.
Just the most absolute cruel and heartless people in the world.
Imagine the person you love the most in life, sick and needing medicine and suddenly the only source of this cheap care tells you one day “Nah, you’re on you’re own” and having to watch that person die because some politician somewhere decided to make a performative statement about “empathy.”
I don’t know about anyone else, but I would probably swear to burn the whole world down in revenge. The US is going to have massive problems that we fully deserve.
The best success I had on a personal level was actually understanding and learning what the internet culture was like for young people and engaging with the children in my family on their level about the actual shit they were seeing, even friending them on their social media in case they ever wanted help.
Having casual and funny conversations about “the Redpill” and incels with my teenage nieces was massively helpful as the trend was rising, talking about the things they would encounter online and the things people say, and why they say it. Their parents had no idea what was going on with their internet lives, but I made a real effort to always be there and listen to their stories and give actual, actionable advice that wasn’t “Oh sweetie, the internet isn’t real, just turn it off when people act like that” like so many gen-X/millenial parents did, which made kids feel ashamed to talk about their emotional reactions to things they read and see online.
Of course they had problems with internet freaks, like all girls online, but they talked openly about it, they felt better about talking to an adult who understands the culture, and developed into very healthy adults with social lives (and tasers and pepper spray, each of 'em) but I really don’t know how to spread this as a “program” when so many parents lose track of youth culture because they’re too busy earning food and utility bills.
I absolutely agree, we used to have movie theaters and arcades and skate parks and various kinds of stores that people would hang out at just because going out and shopping was what people did, so shopping areas were developed to make them more attractive.
With the advent of online shopping, places like malls died rapidly and with them also died outdoor activities and people just hanging out around other people in crowds, there was an energy to life that disappeared with malls and so many storefronts.
I don’t know if there’s a good answer for that though, I don’t know if you just started building things like arcades and youth bookstores and the like if you would actually get anyone going out to use them, because that original incentive is gone, the whole “going out and seeing what’s new” thing has disappeared, because again… we get all that from our algorithmic feeds.
What would make YOU excited to go out and hang out around other people? I feel that the entire premise is dying, and adults are equally crippled by this problem as kids, which is why I keep saying this isn’t just a “kids and social media” problem, this is all of us and our relationship with the internet.
Smartphones have been worse for people by a thousand miles.
At least lead can be taken out of the system with enough advocacy and effort. How do you get people to stop wanting to see interesting things? How do you get people to regrow their attention spans?