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[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

yeah, the information age hit us before we could come up with an education age

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

We made it way too easy for morons to get online. Folks who don't even know what a "packet" is can livestream their anus on TikTok, and capitalism is fine with that because it's "monetized".

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

nobody wants to adopt my "everybody gets arch only" platform

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No. Everyone gets Temple OS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

"No apps; just Arch!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You mean a data packet? What should people know that?

[–] unconsciousvoidling 4 points 3 weeks ago

Less packet loss equals clearer anal shots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's important to have a basic understanding of how magic internet-box works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

We made it too easy for morons to find each other and unite.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure future historians are gonna end up calling this the "Misinformation Age" instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

i like it, because it's kind of ironic. the term used by the us govt is "disinformation". so calling it the "misinformation age" tracks perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like it because it implies the good guys do EVENTUALLY win and set this shit right.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Misinformation and disinformation are not the same (in German at least?).

Misinformation is when information is wrong on purpose, to misinform someone. Disinformation is when information is just wrong, like when someone said something by accident that wasn't correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In English I look at it the opposite way:

Misinformation = MIStake or accident

Disinformation = “dissing” of information, or intentionally putting it down/lying about it

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was called “The Enlightenment,” but then we forgor….

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

"The Age of forgor" has a good vibe to it

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It really sometimes depresses me to think how far along those utopian futures we could be if we as a species didn't have to spend so much of our lives and potential counteracting bad faith sociopathic saboteurs to progress.

Maybe history is just 75% of the people mostly at a stalemate with 25% whose empathy-deficient mental illnesses give them an edge in obtaining power and resources.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

The fact that this is considered a political meme :(

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The future does suck. I think that's mainly because all progress we made in productivity goes straight to the ultra rich.

Just think about what these billions of dollars could have done to our lives... We could have eradicated hunger and poverty, have a new golden age for humanity and science. Instead we have popstars in space and oligarchs controlling the politics.

Without a new 'French Revolution' that gets rid of the parasites, oligarchs, 1%, billionaires we will never get to a good future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Man when i was a kid and i stared to see these assembly robot arms, i was like: woah, when i'm like 30, people probably don't work anymore, because that's what the robots do.

When i was 30 rich people crashed the economy and shrugged, and now ultra rich still try to get even richer, and kill the planet, because they don't live that long anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not only that but setting up the institutions of our society to prevent it happening again

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid's relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World's Fair.

I'll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I'll happen to be there, but it'll be hard to maintain any real optimism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Id love if they cared about sources, what

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Technology made us regress

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

On point 😂😭

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We came so close to having the beginning of back to the future part 2. But instead, we have the second half of back to the future part 2 where Biff steals the sports almanac and Marty is unsuccessful to take it back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I believe when they made back to the future that the character of Biff was meant to be trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

We don't have to worry about flat Earthers anymore, they all joined Q-Anon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

sauce??? checkmate dumbass

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The little angry meme man makes me happy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Bots and bad actors; bots and bad actors.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I always daydreamed life would someday look like the cover of Somewhere in time by Iron Maiden:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.

The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can't trust sources, especially official sources of course.

And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it's very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.

PS: earth is definitely round, I'm not trying the defend their theory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

We can build the above picture but why would we, you're creating tunnels where they aren't necessary.

You are robbing the people going through these tunnels from the nature and daylight around it

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