VirtualOdour

Everything is an evil Chinese conspiracy to some people it's genuinely hilarious, like the whole concept of investing in the manufacturing sector to provide an active economy for a developing nation and basic principles like economies of scale are all just sneaky commie lies and actually the global economy is just a chubby yellow man with narrow eyes twiddling his Manchu mustache and laughing evilly about how his plot to flood the world with cheap goods is going to put hardworking mom and pop American corporations out on the street, after only a few more decades of improving everyone's lifestyle with affordable living.

I'd be interested in examples of what he watchs, it's hard to know how to respond otherwise.

I think you're probably worrying too much though, I watch all sorts of junk on YouTube largely because I enjoy finding out how other people think more than it constanrly changing my opinion - sure he's young and doesn't have the same level of awareness as an adult but also nothing in his life will actually matter for about 5 more years so a few bad opinions aren't the end of the world.

When he says 'I don't know' maybe you should believe that's how he really feels, feed into it a bit and as painful as this might be for you admit that you don't know either - life is full of confusing shit and honesty half the stuff I see I don't even know how I feel about it or if it's true, sane, or sensible. I'm sure he knows loads of interesting things going on in the world that you're totally unaware of so let him tell you about it, be interested and accepting while in a non-dogmatic way rasising doubts where appropriate or simply tell a story from your own life that explains your doubts - not like 'I'm old and know better' but more friendly and demonstrating it's normal to not know who to trust or what's valid.

Positive reinforcement of doubt and distrust is important, demonstrate that you understand he's learning about the world and its absurdities and complexities, laugh about some of it WITH him rather than making him feel like you're saying 'the stuff you watch is dumb and you're dumb for watching it' because understanding others is FAR more important in life than knowing the truth about obscure subjects, hard pill to swallow maybe but it's true.

Your seven points you worry about are well and good but media doesn't do that, politicians don't do that, corporations don't do that, life partners and lovers don't do that, friends don't do that, I bet YOU don't do that... To live in this world we've got to learn how to take the important bits and leave the rest, we've got to learn why people do the things they do and that's only possible with a big messy database in our heads of all the different types of people out there.

It sounds from the way you speak like you've given him a good grounding in logical, sensible, and scientifically literate discourse which is great but now his brain yearns to understand more of the world - why is everything so crazy and weird? why do people who seem nice sometimes do crazy and hurtful things? Why does this girl say such odd things, does she like me or hate me? These are questions you can only start to answer by understanding people and things you don't believe in.

I listened to endless craziness like Alex Jones, 5Live, loveline, all sorts of brain rot shit - never once did I think Adam Carolla was anything but [string of words now forbidden] though he was funny, it was fun to listen to and entertaining, I learnt a lot about the world from callers and even Adam though he certainly never did a single one of your seven virtues.

Yes maybe the entertainment is more important than the content of their arguments, being able to know the truth is useful but being able to entertain friends, girlfriends, bosses and authority figures is what can turn a hard life into a great and easy one.

If you're gong to make a robot you might as well make one that fucks.

Help them how? You think some Texas town can fix an immigrants life and process them for less than $1800 per head?

The sanctuary cities have resources and infrastructure which texas biarder towns do not, splitting the large numbers of immigrants between them makes sense if those people are going to be living in the community until they're processed. The prior method of keeping them in cages fed on gruel and afforded no humanity is rightfully ruled out so what other option is there?

I agree that it should be better organized, maybe the receiving states should have an open and balanced dialog where they agree to pay for and organize transport themselves to ensure the people are treated with dignity and everything is organized for their arrival.

Six cities that declared themselves sanctuary cities? Surely those are the best places, they actively advertise migrants are welcome.

And you say dumping them but then say they're an economic and cultural benefit, surely if you believe that you think its great thes six democrat cities benefit?

As for the cost, maybe those cities could send their own busses to collect them instead? Would be a strong move politically plus they could be better prepared for their arrival. But yes that's not a huge amount of money for the logistics of moving people, cheaper than housing them all and paying all the other costs in the boarder towns they come from, cities have far more resources and better infrastructure. Though of course it wouldn't be popular for the local politician because as we've seen the sanctuary cities get upset when faced with the reality of large numbers of immigrants.

Pw:dr but great news if Africa can make an early switch to electric, makes perfect sense for them to avoid the international oil markets and expand solar development - they couldn't be better placed for solar, especially if a Chinese solar firm builds a manufacturing plant somewhere powered by solar and a lithium battery factory - they already have the raw materials.

Though lithium production is likely to move to desalination so Saudia Arabia is going to have a big advantage. The UK would be in a great place to dominate the market via salt water lithium extraction powered by tidal array or barrage, but neither the prior or current government want to invest in the future sadly.

It's the same here in the UK, multiple BBC channels all disappointing

One of my biggest fears is being murdered and the true crime podcasts all go into deep dives calling me a loser and talking everything out of context to make me a good victim for their show.

There was one I saw about a girl murdered by some weird boy she knew and they'd gone deep into everything she was doing in the weeks leading upto it, how her diary showed she had a crush on someone but then they went into details about how that guy didn't like her... it didn't even add anything to motive or means, it was just an aside about the vixtim being unpopular.

It's funny that any time these companies are brought up everyone says they're dangerous yet the second one listens to the sorts of studies about negative affects that get quoted here all the time everyone suddenly decides actually its censorship or brainwashing or corporate greed and that it's evidence they're evil...

Scientific studies said this content can harm developing children so they made efforts to mitigate harm, is it really so hard just to say 'oh thats good, well done' and if so then doesn't that tell you a lot about your own motivations?

Because it's not God making the choices it's an algo, God would know what you want bur an algo needs data - if there is a popular video that lots of people who watch content you like watch then it makes sense they see if you're interested.

It does the same with everything, your just notice the stuff you hate more, right wingers claim youtube and Facebook push woke stuff for the exact same reason.

The problem is youribe can only have one page of information and that has to be the front page offering old, new, expected and unexpected content in one easy to view list.

You know what would happen if they had a second list that only showed your subscribed content? Literally no one would click on it and everyone would complain it doesn't exist, they proved this in a test where they had that exact feature on every single person's page since they started but here we still are people complaining that their subscriptions don't always show up on the fyp (algo page)