Choose Your Own Custom Reality
Added 2023-06-25 13:37:33 +0000 UTCRed and blue pills are so 20th century - The pills now come in an endless assortment of colors! Choose whatever reality you like - and the internet will provide you with all the incontrovertible proof you need to support your reality, no matter what you believe. Do your own research! On TikTok and Reddit! So now everything is true - even the stuff no one has thought of yet. Enjoy!
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I try to be optimistic and hope the best is going to come for these young folks. Their world looks so much darker than mine did as a kid, thanks to invasive tech, climate change, and the continued breakdown in public education. It's easy to imagine a perfect storm of cynicism leading to embracing whatever solace the magic rectangle provides. My optimism comes from the message in a bottle, and the hope that someone finds it. Could be in a week, a month, a year, or a century, but if someone finds the message, it can change things- even for a moment. Hopefully the messages reach the folks with power to actually make a difference. Even if that power is just over oneself.
Veronica Explains
2023-06-26 19:23:52 +0000 UTCUntil it doesn't. How to Use ChatGPT to Ruin Your Legal Career https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSYljRYDEM It couldn't distinguish real legal cases from false ones and then MADE THEM UP.
lohphat
2023-06-26 18:25:36 +0000 UTCActually they do. Virus aren't floating alone, they're contained in larger moisture droplets from the lungs. Those masks DO reduce transmission. Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47t9qLc9I4 The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdanPfQdCA How Well Do Masks Work? (Schlieren Imaging In Slow Motion!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tp0zB904Mc
lohphat
2023-06-26 15:17:55 +0000 UTCSpot on Fran - In the future, we will again make catastrophic decisions- unless sitting back to let AI do it. At least AI uses history that has to be true not based on conspiracies.
Donald J Arndt
2023-06-26 01:09:07 +0000 UTCYeah, Idiocracy was definitely a scary look into a very possible future. "Brawndo, it's what plants crave." We already have people paying $250K for a wasteful "burial at sea" in a capsule guided by a $45 game controller. I'm the same age as you and I watch the world around me very carefully. Because I live alone, and don't really socialize out of work, I go everyplace by myself and never have anyone distracting me from my surroundings. I have a "smart phone" but I don't use it, or its "smarts" if I can avoid it. I sit without a phone in the waiting area of a haircut place, restaurant, doctor's office, etc. and look carefully at everyone and everything around me. No one notices me because they are all glued to their phones. It's like people are zombified with these things. After I take it all in, I shut my eyes until my food is brought to me or my name is called. I process in my own mind what I just saw and imagine a day before all that stuff was "mandatory" for everyone to have. I feel bad for them. I can close my eyes and visually dream about anything I want with the imagination I was born with. I don't need constant stimulus coming at me from some small screen. I don't understand how anyone can be introspective and process their own thoughts with constant input coming in. Even couples in public areas talk to each other with their heads locked on the phones. Critical thinking is somehow linked with what web browser someone uses. I see pretty young girls with faces full of metal shrapnel like they stepped in front of a fragmentation grenade. All the "ink" I see on people just distracts me from the person as my mind tries to decode what the "message" is in the permanent markings they put all over their skin. If it was important enough to permanently mark themselves with, then I instinctively look for the message. I don't think these people are "bad" or "stupid". I just cannot connect with whatever messages they're trying to send. The new engineers at work who were born after 9/11 are still very smart and I can have "intelligent" conversations with them. So the next generation isn't "destroyed". At least not yet. But as I see the very latest in jet fighter displays and human interfaces being developed at work, they just don't have the "wow" factor the older geared, electromechanical analog computers of the 60s and 70s have. Unlike the touch-screen displays, the old stuff is "tangible" and it still exists when there is no power applied and figuring out how they made something "calculate" complex data before digital computers will always be fascinating to me. Yes, the new displays and human interfaces are infinitely better than the the old analog stuff. Yes, it's amazing how real-time imagery of terrain, targets, weather, FLIR and other systems are flawlessly fluid and work in any order the pilot wants. Yes it makes the weapons far more accurate. But pull the power and all that is visible is a total void. I am amazed at how the digital military avionics made during the cold war are full of gold screens, seals, filters and conductive surfaces to protect the equipment from EMP. I don't see that any longer. I see it only in the most expensive jet fighters. So, if a large enough nuclear explosion detonated at an extremely high altitude over the the US, the infrastructure, and the smart phones themselves, will not tolerate the EMP. Everything is so fast and efficient at transferring data. But it's fragile as hell from threats we already know about. Or whatever twisted reality I live in. Sorry to rant on your site. Too much time watching.
Matt Wietlispach
2023-06-26 00:48:26 +0000 UTCThe current generation will probably teach their kids that a thin piece of cloth will stop a virus!
Leslie Deana
2023-06-26 00:27:18 +0000 UTCMy favorite part ... at our age, we have to take our hands off the wheel.
ChrissiX
2023-06-25 21:18:15 +0000 UTCJust reading the statistics about the present and projecting them forward.
Fran Blanche
2023-06-25 19:42:20 +0000 UTCThe line from that movie is of course meant to be dystopian satire like don't look up or Woody Allen's sleeper. "Life" no longer imitates art it has become farce. The reason people joke about Ideocracy is exactly what you are talking about. Younger people not getting smarter they are getting dumber. An average intelligent person taken to a future with this present trend continuing would resemble a world not unlike Ideocracy only tragic not funny.
Bart de Boisblanc
2023-06-25 14:44:52 +0000 UTCEh, I don't like falling into generational stereotypes, especially with younger generations. There tends to be too much of a moral panic about the youngest generation, and it's usually overstated. Honestly, some of the most thoughtful, introspective and educated youtubers I watch are gen z.
Strawberry Puptart
2023-06-25 14:33:50 +0000 UTC
