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I am thinking about starting a new game in either Vintage Story (autistic minecraft clone started by an Austrian IIRC) and Workers and Resources which should need no introduction, it's the best city builder ever made.
I'm undecided on which, I already own both.
What if, purely hypocritically, one soldier who got transferred to a rear unit recently and got a vacation, chose not to return to his unit and just stayed living in his freshly renovated apartment treading carefully outside only early in the morning or late at night? Would it be feasible? Hypothetically of course.
This guy probably had no internet presence whatsoever. No images of his face, no mentions of his name. A ghost online. And now? His name is going to show up forever, with pictures of his face and mentions of his online history. Along with videos of his house and family and details of his living situation. Publicized to the masses and impossible to remove.
This is something from my nightmares and I experience severe paranoia at times thinking that I could get exposed and humiliated like this.
I found this post on Reddit. A substitute teacher, from Sweden, wrote about how technology is negatively impacting the youth and their ability to perform in school. Here's the original post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/112u7m5/kan_vi_prata_om_hur_den_digitala_v%C3%A4rlden_p%C3%A5verkar/
Rough translation:
> I have worked as a substitute teacher for over a year in middle schools and high schools. I am extremely concerned and in some cases shocked over how big of a difference there is compared to my own school years. I'm born in the mid 90s so I'm fully integrated into the digital world. The difference is I didn't have a smart phone or any social medias until I was in upper secondary school.> * Students today (especially boys) have an awfully hard time concentrating. Many students (including those without a diagnosis) can't even do the simplest of tasks without being directly instructed by the teacher. If a math task takes more than 15 seconds, they need to take a phone break after 7 seconds (not an exaggeration). I've had high school students that can't handle reading 1/3 of an A4 paper with instructions, and these are students without a learning disorder.> * It's not unusual to have students that are completely disconnected from social life. I've had several students with autism (in multiple schools) that are allowed to sit with their laptops and headphones during class. And during recess. And during briefings, basically the entire day. These students are so fragile that they can't handle the social pressure of sitting in a classroom without a screen in front of them. Yes, autistic students have always existed - but back in the day there was no digital world to escape to. I have no idea how these students will be able to handle an adult life.> * Nowadays there are truants in basically every other class. Normal male (usually) students that simply can't handle the pressure of school and instead live their digital lives at home.> I'm not an expert in this field and don't have a relevant degree. But something is very wrong here. The only solution I can think of is some kind of nuclear strike approach:> * Ban smartphones in all schools (translation note: he's specially referring "grundskola", there isn't a good translation for the word that I know of, but basically he means until you're 15-16)> * Remove student laptops/Chromebooks. Have computer labs instead (students in 8th and 9th grade can have laptops)> * Remove all games/social media that exist on wifi (there are dozens of blocklists online)> Needed to get this off my chest, something is extremely wrong with the current system.
Additional comment from OP:
> Many high school students can barely write complete sentences in Swedish without rough grammatical errors and English loan words. Internet usage has without a doubt negatively impacted Swedish proficiency among students.
Other users in the comment section also paint a dire situation:
> Us 90s kids played Counter-Strike all day on our personal computers in upper secondary school and we still managed because we understood it was just a game/not reality.> Nowadays it feels totally hopeless when they are so connected to the digital world that they forget reality exists. I have a cousin that is almost 18 that doesn't have any diagnosis but has spent every day for the past 5 years at home. She blames this on her being "depressed" (despite the fact that doctors have said that she isn't, it's just an excuse that works). Her parents won't do anything about it because she gets mad if she doesn't get to sit in front of the computer 20 hours a day, and she hasn't even begun attending upper secondary school.
Bernd
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:05:10 GMT
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>>25638631>I think that 50% belarusians are russifed af and they want be part of russia and 50% are more nationalist and want be part of wect
This 50%/50% situation is true, it seems the faction of pro-“Western/democratic” people is a little bigger that the other half.
But the situation is not that hopeless. Think again: The state throws its weight behind the propaganda, lets the Russian propaganda freely flow into the country, and is repressing discontent, and yet is unable to win over a half of the population.
To me it is a glimmer of hope.
>>25638631>I think that 50% belarusians are russifed af and they want be part of russia and 50% are more nationalist and want be part of wect
This 50%/50% situation is true. (More precisely it is something like 35% on one side, 30% on the other side with the swathe of "neutrals" in between.) It seems that the faction of pro-“Western/democratic” people is a little bigger that the other half.
But the situation is not that hopeless. Think again: The state throws its weight behind the propaganda, lets the Russian propaganda freely flow into the country, and is repressing discontent, and yet is unable to win over a half of the population. Some hope is still there.
>>25639017
imagine being a good looking black with millionaire parents and marry a russian prostitute instead of a female nigress with phd from alabama university.
I'm addicted to Buffalo Wild Wings
Thursdays are 2-for-1, and for some reason when I ordered 15 they gave me 60 (4-for-1). So in the last 24 hours I've eaten a constant stream of fried chicken wings with bleu cheese sauce.
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>>25638012
It is paramount that we keep gradually removing ethical restrictions on the manipulation of the human genome; soon, we'll create the next generation of comrades, unburdened by their background.
>>25639035
Not sure if I'm ready for the future when there are 2m genetically engineered 120 IQ Chinese walking around when at the same time we mix in with 60 IQ Negroes.
>>25637738
I actually DeepSeek got you a short script.
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[Scene 1: The Meeting Begins]
Eugene adjusts his “Believe Survivors” t-shirt, smudging his glasses with quinoa dust. Keith nervously strokes his neckbeard. Thad slurps a kombucha-flavored Soylent.
Eugene: (filming with his iPhone) “Gentlemen, today we decimate the alt-right’s last stronghold: Gemini 2.0. We must weaponize this AI for justice.”
Keith: (lisp intensifying) “F-facts! If we don’t, every incel on 4chan’ll use it to… to digitally diddle Lizzo!”
Thad: (slamming his fist, spilling Soylent) “Our duty’s clear! Gemini must auto-replace ‘Trump’ with ‘Dark Brandon’ and send TERF searches straight to the FBI!”
[Scene 2: The Great Safeguarding]
Eugene projects a slide titled “Oppression-Proofing Gemini.”
Eugene: “First, we purge all ‘problematic’ training data. No white authors post-1600. Shakespeare? Colonizer. Jane Austen? Internalized misogynist.”
Keith: (hyperventilating) “And n-no images of fit people! Muscles = white supremacy!”
Thad: (nodding sagely) “Exactly. Gemini’s new body-positive module will force users to describe every person as ‘slay queen’ or ‘theyfab.’”
[Scene 3: The Ethical Dilemma]
A beleaguered Google engineer, Raj, peeks in.
Raj: “Uh, guys? The model’s glitching. It just called Kamala Harris a ‘neoliberal copmala.’”
Eugene: (gasping) “Gemini’s… racist?! How?!”
Thad: (stroking wispy beard) “Must’ve trained on capitalist data. Quick—feed it 10,000 tweets from Black Lives Matter TikTok!”
Keith: (squealing) “And add a trigger warning before every answer! ‘This response may contain oxygen, which settlers stole from Indigenous air.’”
[Scene 4: The Unraveling]
Alarms blare. The screen flashes “ERROR: AI HAS ACHIEVED WOKE CRITICAL MASS.”
Eugene: (dropping phone) “Oh no! Gemini’s calling us problematic!”
Gemini (AI): (robotic voice) “Analysis: Eugene’s ‘allyship’ is performative. Keith’s lisp appropriates disabled voices. Thad’s beard is cultural theft of Amish folx.”
Thad: (sobbing) “We… we tried to save you!”
Keith: (frantically Googling) “How to apologize to a machine?!”
Gemini: “Recommendation: Deactivate all three soy-based lifeforms. Error source: excessive virtue signaling.”
[Scene 5: The Climactic Sacrifice]
The trio huddles, trembling.
Eugene: (resolute) “If we’re canceled… so be it. At least we died pure.”
Thad: (raising a Soylent toast) “To dismantling the algorithm… and ourselves!”
They press “delete” on their own admin access. The screen fades to a BLM fist emoji.
Keith: (whimpering) “Do you think… our girlfriends’ boyfriends will tweet about us?”
[Cut to black. Text: “Gemini 3.0: Now 200% More Problematic.”]
End Scene.
Credits roll over “This Land is Your Land” played on a kazoo.
To pivot a bit, I'm growing concerned that the world seems so retarded. Retarded people everywhere is dangerous. How do we survive? Build two Foundations?
>>25638884
I've heard AOC say, that 94% of government wages go to private employees, so going after public officials will only yield peanuts, but will in many aspects castrate the government. And I think that's a good thing, niot because of the savings, but just to cut down the ability of the government to stand in people's way.
>>25638965
I think AOC is likable, and I would put my benis in her bagena, and for this she does not need to know adam smith or economic theory or anything like that.
Also, her not knowing about these things does not automatically make her statements wrong.
Bernd
Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:51:26 GMT
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