That’s exactly right; the policies that your government is putting forward only hurts middle and lower class on both sides of the border.

Honestly, the only way to overthrow a dictatorship is to roll heads. They’re not going to be voted out, that’s for sure.

This all just seems incredibly sad to me. As a nation, it sounds like the fight has been completely beaten out of you all, so much so that you’re afraid of even a little pain, vote based on empty promises and sound bites, and blame each other instead of yourselves.

You all traded your freedom for convenience. You’re like flowers, opened wide, waiting for rain rather than vines that seek.

Best of luck to you all. We have to prepare ourselves, as members of the global economy, for this economic fallout. I’m prepared to fight and suffer, if I have to protect my own way of life.

I disagree. If people are comfortable, they won’t want to change the status quo.

Unsure about that in terms of business pages but I suppose you can if you try hard enough: side bar for standard info, posts for events and communication. The only thing it lacks is the followers portion that acts as soft advertisement, e.g. if your friend follows something, you can see it.

Isn’t there a protection where there may not be any new Japanese births by 2050? That they’ll essentially cease to be (pure Japanese)?

But we don’t have an 80hr work week as the norm and we can piss off straight after work without feeling the need to have a beer with our colleagues or bosses.

Perhaps dismantling the social media oligarchy by ensuring that companies cannot expand to sizes where they can influence policies? I’m open to ideas. Social media has become a huge psyop tool.

Before the rise of corporate social media, yes. It was easy to speak with people who had different opinions on things because of their life experience.

Now, absolutely not because everyone is in some way connected to a stream of misinformation that is social media, which dictates the news cycle and determines what the talking points are for the day. But if society weaned itself off this social media drug, there is a better chance for improvement. At the very least, rage bait would be a lot less effective.

Getting back to what the discussion is though: you don’t want censorship of certain ideologies because you believe that’s a form of control that society doesn’t need. You want a ‘free’ flow of information to allow the user to decide for themselves.

But that information isn’t free flow. It’s controlled by corporate interests. And removing fascist content and ideology on Tiktok and X from the general uninformed public? Hell yeah. If they want to look it up, they can read it in a history book and see what has actually happened under fascist regimes, then decide for themselves if they want that.

That’s was the original intent of social media but it doesn’t function that way now. It’s also filled with bots and you’ve got no idea if you’re actually talking to a human being. The only way to be sure is to touch grass so you’re actually outside the sphere of influence of misinformation and those that control the algorithm.

Let’s go back to the topic at hand, which is whether or not we should remove fascist content from social media like Tiktok and X. These platforms are not a gateway to that library you linked to and you have to go out of your way, i.e. purposely search for it, to access it. Tiktok and X are full of sound bites that do more harm than good; posts with links to your library, for example, would not get the same exposure as, say, a sound bite promoting fascism. Case in point: the article.

The generation that has grown up with 24/7 access to the Internet have no idea what it feels like to not have information streaming into your brain everywhere you look. When information is fed and available to you 24/7, you can’t learn to tell the difference between what’s bullshit and what’s not because the 24/7 stream is so overwhelming, all you have left is the will to scroll for sound bites. The only way to counter that is to step out of that stream and slow down the incoming information so you can process it and critically analyse it. Our brains can only process a maximum amount of information that is far below what an algorithm can do.

And that library link, what are you reading on there right now? Are you researching talking points against fascism? Are you looking at the history of previous fascist regimes and how they came to be?

And social media is not a library. Tiktok and X is not a library. It’s a collection of thoughts of humanity and bots controlled by an algorithm where it’s purpose is to manipulate you to consume. The Internet is not a library but it can give you access to libraries. The Internet is also now colonised for the purpose of manipulating people to consume.

Right now, we are not debating. You’re telling me your opinion and I’m telling you mine. You want to be informed? Touch grass. Engage in human communication. Go. To. A. Library.

My counterpoint to that would be that social media is a psychological drug with negative effects and if people want to be informed, they should go to a library and read.

That’s the thing though! I’m specifying well priced lighting that has good support from the supplier, warranties that last 10 years, good colour temperature and degradation rates etc. And the alternatives are nowhere near the same quality and have a dodgy warranty! I’ll put the alternatives through it they’re truly like for like, but it never is.

Architectural lighting designer. I love it and hate it. Love the complexity and endless learning about science and tech, and how to apply it creatively. Hate the contractors who put forward alternates and mess up the entire design intent only to pocket the difference.

Currently studying to change careers to be a game dev as a generalist for indie games.

There was this experiment with a rat city that showed behavioral changes in large populations. Coupled with lack of child and aged care in China, completely unsurprising that this would happen.

Additionally, when you have digital boyfriends like Love and Deepspace, who can blame the ladies for wanting something low effort and convenient?

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Surely, I just get so hopped up on my own farts from being an influencer, I start living the ‘high life’ and piss someone off to the point where they’ll send a hit on me where they succeed and my public downward spiral ends up on CoffeehouseCrime YT as a case.

No, but it’s easy to predict given that the trends of the last several decades can show where we’d be in the next and the trend is: global temperatures are fluctuating more violently than the year before and occurrences of extreme weather are increasing. Additionally, nothing has been done during that time to reduce the impacts globally.

It’s scary but, let’s face it: we’re a virus that’s killing our host.

The whole process was rigged. There was no national call for dancers and Holy Molly was objectively better in the qualifiers, though not as good as other B-girls around the country.

Raygun was an absolute embarrassment and shouldn’t have been sent over. There’s a time and place to practice new moves and the Olympics is not the place.

It makes me wonder if the result of this ban in Australia will see a rise in forums and chat rooms.

Unfortunately, our local council doesn’t allow having roosters because of the crowing. Hens only.

Been trying for 6 years. Not desperately, but it would be nice. Thinking about getting chickens.