TheFogan

It's true... but with all things it's a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal... IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

Plus, it's far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no "need to know" what these robots do when they leave your office

So yeah that solves one fraction of the problem... IE bigger one being, a single mistake at one point in life, basically wrecks your ability to reform and become a productive citizen.

Suppression I can give you, gerrymandering doesn't have a play in the federal election... and as shitty as the electoral college is, we can blame 2016 on it, but not 2024 (due to the popular vote).

IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc.... are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc....

However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc... We're probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

Yeah I would say more accurately, if you asked 100 people specifically about "have you ever heard of Mastadon, or Lemmy" you'll get 99% "huh".

if you ask the same people about crypto.. I'd expect closer to 80-90% to have at least heard of crypto... Especially now that we have a president about to lead a crypto scam.

Exactly my thought... Tate's U a scam, duh obviously... But god damn... that many suckers.

I mean, in terms of use... Name all the decentralized networks that the general public is aware of? Mastadon roughly 1 million active users, at a time when musk has let Xitter shit the bed to drop... to like 200 million users.

Meanwhile there's a bitcoin option on every ATM I go to in every gas station. Fact is if you ask around the table at thanksgiving, unless you have a very nerdy family.. odds are no one will be familiar with any web 3 items you name, other than crypto... and largely crypto will mostly only be known for it's worse applications. A speculative gambling investment that is popular to use to buy illegal goods with.

as much as this guy sounds like an asshole should ownership not mean u can modify your own property as u see fit?

That's kind of what emission standards are, is rules of that. You can modify your legally purchased firearm as you see fit, but if your modifications make it shoot in random directions, you can't use it in a shooting range.

Never said exclusively... a group warning of health risks etc... should be using every avenue they can.

Well I mean it's a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don't switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So... if the job is to warn people about serious shit... it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.

Well I have to say, off the bat, it needs to be not just leftist/marxist. It would need to have large non offensive use in general discourse.

Again my example of pepe for general discord moderation. It's not trolls that show up in say political discussion groups. It's trolls that show up in random game discords or other non-pollitical locations. IE as a moderator I'd also be auto banning someone bringing up random arguements on how we need wealth re-distribution, not because I disagree with them, but because people are just there to talk about a game, and not have political arguement.

and in short that's generally the thing, IMO Pepe isn't... really that overwhelmingly good of a meme where it's just a universal funny to outside groups. But the alt right is the only ones bringing it into more general average Joe locations, along with their hateful rhetoric.

In short for pepe to be recovered it needs... major mainstream Apolitical usage, which quite frankly I don't see often.

doesn’t matter what anyone likes to argue, people are going to die and the only way to stop is to negotiate

OK agreed there, but question, what if the only negotiation the other side offers is "We take all your stuff and you serve us".