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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.
The first assignment was modest: $50 in cryptocurrency for putting up anti-NATO stickers in Brussels.
But over time, the orders over the Telegram app became more serious – and involved sabotage of waterworks.
“I know the phenomenon, we call it consumption agents,” says Fredrik Hallström, chief of operations at Säpo.
“We have prepared a first task for you”
That is the message to a Belgian journalist on the TV channel VRT NWS who had infiltrated a pro-Russian chat group.
The reporter responds and a week later an envelope with stickers with anti-NATO propaganda arrives to be put up in the EU quarters.
He goes out into the city and sees that similar stickers are already in several places in Brussels – he never puts up any himself.
Wanted to hack waterworks
The journalist who infiltrated the group was actually part of a journalist network that mapped Russia's hybrid warfare in Europe – after a while he was let into a closed part of the chat forum where hackers brag about their chosen targets.
The forum had a request to assist in a hacker attack on a Lithuanian water treatment plant – an instructional video appears – and later it emerges that there has actually been an attempt to hack the water plant.
– We know that Russia and other adversaries are acting precisely to recruit resources that could carry out these things, says Thomas Nilsson, head of the Military Intelligence and Security Service, Must.
Säpo is also following the phenomenon.
– We call it consumption agents, that is, trying to persuade someone to do something against something. And that is something we are vigilant about, says operations manager Fredrik Hallström.
Journalists targeted
The journalist at VRT NWS testifies that he first went through a kind of “employment process” where the reporter was interviewed about his views on Russia.
According to screenshots from the group, orders were also placed that involved targeting both journalists and pro-Ukrainian users on the Russian equivalent of Facebook, VK.
“Collect 30 email addresses of Belgian journalists,” read one of the assignments.
At the same time, there are several other suspected cases around Europe where the planning went further, for example when a man earlier this year tried to set fire to a paint factory in Poland for $4,000 – he was arrested at the last minute. In Germany, individuals were paid to sabotage cars by filling exhaust systems with construction foam.
“The assignments range from information gathering and propaganda to military reconnaissance missions and sabotage,” writes the Belgian intelligence service in its latest report.
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>“Collect 30 email addresses of Belgian journalists,” read one of the assignments.
a hahahahaha, they can never resist to stress how important they are
>>25634156
Really? It's the first time I hear about this, has Russia decreased exports of fertilisers?
>>25634198>>25634200
I imagine only a small amount of people give a damn about those.
>>25637759
Yes, the only reason our midwest became an agricultural powerhouse is because the state agricultural R&D agency created by the military found out which types of soil correction and such were needed in the region. Naturally it is not fertile at all.
Northern normies have this dumb idea that hot = fertile
Ukraine has much better soil than 99% of Brazil, in latam only Argentina is comparable
>>25636261
That is perceived reasons. Not actual reasons which for example are not building enough houses because you have commodified housing and use it for profit instead of housing people
>>25638181
don't listen to him op
shit threads always attact the most attention
i have a tip for you: post big booba post and ask something about trump in the content
How about one of your side projects just making enough money for you to live from it?
Much more realistic goal than wanting to become a millionaire from it.
is this (minus furries and fags) the only decent social media left? you can even customize it better than myspace
t. had something there before the porn purge
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>>25637272>you can even customize it better than myspace
thasts probably the best part, and also allowing you to keep separate blogs
but its too dead now
I would like to master bate but I know there's no porn content that's novel to me anymore and everything is just boring
each session is 30 minutes of searching first
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>>25638132>there's no porn content that's novel to me anymore and everything is just boring
Time to move to child pornography. At least that's what I've heard.
But before going down that path, maybe stop masturbating.
>>25638160
last time i stopped masturbating, i ended up being able to masturbate to pictures of fully clothed women like i was 12 or something. it was crazy.
>>25638172
it does indeed work like that
3 weeks of a pause and all I need is to touch the penis for 20 seconds
also it feels good to enter simpcity and see 40 unread threads