BitwiseFool

Cynically, I know each time these platforms do such a thing the response will be less and less effective. The bad-faith actors in government pushing for this know that and have demonstrated that they just need to wait a little while between attempts before resistance diminishes enough to make its passage viable.

I think they counted on people in the comments section of every thread about BuzzFeed News bringing up the fact that they won a Pulitzer Prize once and that means it totally different from regular BuzzFeed.

I think Imgur tried to become a social network in its own right. It seems like the owners had ambitions beyond just serving advertisements.

Regrettably, I was unable to watch the launch live. I'm looking forward to seeing the footage and hearing about all the analysis that will go into understanding what happened.

Understandable. When I say compete with I mostly mean "be distinct from", or at the very least "not the same as" rather than viewership numbers. Unless they are specifically rebooting something, as you mentioned.

I'd also like to offer a meta explanation in addition to escapism being popular. With so much anime having been produced and made available on-demand to consumers there is a need to stand out and be novel - in both a creative and a business sense. Alternate world storylines seem perfectly suited for this.

Anime produced today needs to compete with all the anime produced over the last ~50 years. Whereas anime produced in the 90's only had to compete with ~30 years worth of anime before it. And even then, much less was produced by the industry as a whole back then.

That's our secret, we were working in production the whole time.

Expensive real estate is often overpriced for no good reason. However, cheap real estate is almost always underpriced for a very good reason.

My rule of thumb is that if something sounds completely evil and it exactly conforms to a political stereotype, there must be more to the story.

The article itself is somewhat thin on the details. Would anyone who knows more about the situation be able to give some nuance? I have a feeling this is brinkmanship at play.

It is unfortunate that no one has found a way to replicate or imitate the lifestyle of living on a college campus. I very much miss dormitory style living and the social aspect of it. While I'm happy to have my own living space that is much larger than any dorm room, I miss all the novelty and variety that the dorms brought to my life.

I know I'm not the target market for bars and nightclubs but I've always hated just how loud the DJ's play the music. What is the point of going to a social atmosphere when you can barely even talk to someone without shouting? Who actually enjoys ear splitting music?

I believe this is also due to a perception problem. Name recognition is important when it comes to college degrees and there is a stigma against community colleges.

>"I think the better question is why people go still along with it and keep using Windows."

I've been using Windows for almost 30 years now, and while I've given different distros of Linux and MacOS an honest try, I am never as comfortable or as fluent with them as I am with Windows. I know there is an extensive amount of customization that can be done with Linux to get it really close but it just isn't the same.

I'm also at the level where I am comfortable enough with gpedit and regedit that as long as there is a way to turn most of the annoying and onerous "features" off, I can keep on truckin'. For instance, disabling Cortana in the start menu.

It's a lot easier to switch browsers than it is to switch operating systems.

>"What was the negative impact of the printing press and how did it end society and our ability to pay attention to things?"

That's quite a leap from what I said. I took the stance that there is an element of truth, or at the very least a valid concern. Not that the printing press was going to end society. The tone of the linked article is definitely dismissive, something akin to "why be concerned, look at all these similar panics. We're doing just fine."

>"His warnings referred to the seemingly unmanageable flood of information unleashed by the printing press."

This is exactly what happened. The printing press was fundamental to the Catholic/Protestant schism, enabled political pamphleteering, and is what caused newspapers to come into existence. Yes, society survived this, but the concern was no doubt real and realized. As for "the doom and gloom never materialized", what is fake news and misinformation but an unmanageable flood of information?

>"or the fact you share the same fear actually would lead you to think that this time it's different and tiktok is the technology that'll ruin us?"

You're putting words in my mouth. I do not think TikTok is going to ruin society, but I do believe it is having a negative effect on many individuals within it. You had mentioned "doubling down on the same thing", but I think that is misplaced. Superficially the concern is the same, but the cause is different. There hasn't been anything like TikTok and algorithmic recommendation in the history of civilization, so it would be wrong to dismissively assume the panic will pass and concerns about its effects are unfounded and unwarranted because that's what happened with books, radio, television, and so on.

Given how popular TikTok and short form content is with the younger generations who are currently in school or just graduated from 20 something years of schooling, I don't think all that intention of improving their "thinking skills, analytical skills, memory and attention" is that effective at countering contemporary distractions. Have you seen the latest trend where Gen Z'ers zone out by watching a TikTok that has a family guy clip, some arts and crafts clip, and some gameplay footage all on the same screen? It is the epitome of distraction and it's catching on like wildfire because people watching these switch between each subject on screen just enough to hold their attention. The algorithm is rewarding that, so more and more TikToks have composite videos.

Going back to the subject of contemporary education, one could also speculate that ~20 years of schooling replacing ~20 years of apprenticeship and mastery of a single craft makes the ability to resist distraction worse. Perhaps teaching someone to make wagon wheels for 20 years makes them better able to focus on a single thing than teaching them to learn all sorts of different subjects for a few hours each day?

People like to look back at previous generation's moral panics, but I can't help but think there was an element of truth to many of them.

I'm sure this question is coming from an earnest place, but does it not stand to reason that the sheer amount of information we have almost ubiquitous access to, combined with personalized content recommendation, means that we are more distracted than a medieval person who had no exposure to such things? How would one even try to assert this empirically?

I read the Wikipedia article about Scansion and I still don't understand it.

The UK's only orbital rocket launched from Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

This was supposed to be in Kerbal Space Program 2, and you can see an early version of it in some of the promotional materials. Time will tell when it makes its way into the game.

I feel like the very concept of 'aggression' is being watered down and diluted. In an intellectual sense I can see how it could be considered aggression, but my sense of that word implies some a much more significant amount of force and intent.

I'm still not convinced, and I've definitely heard and examined the Karl Popper paradox you mentioned. There's some strong insinuations in your response, but the main point of contention I have is this notion that by merely letting an idea/stance exist there is culpability and support for 'eradication'.

>"That's fine - should you ever find yourself as part of a demographic that some other group wants eradicated." How do you know I'm not?

>"In fact, just out of principle, make sure they have access to as many platforms as they want" Just having a platform, or being on lots of platforms, does not guarantee an ideology will succeed or spread substantially.

>"Maybe even try to engage them in debate, despite the unequal power dynamic between truth and lies" Refuting lies is difficult, but it is still worth doing. I think its better than giving up and using force.

When there is a run on the bank selfishness becomes a virtue. Those that exercise restraint and take the high road of not contributing to the panic are often the ones who end up losing the most.

>"Tolerance for the intolerant only leads in the extermination of the tolerant."

This is awfully hyperbolic, I cannot take it seriously because it comes across as an indictment of tolerance and an endorsement of intolerance as a moral imperative. Granted, I'm sure the implication is that it would be a 'righteous' kind of intolerance, but it is rooted in absolutism nonetheless.

>"Are anecdotes really how we want to measure this?"

Anecdotes aren't always bad, or even inappropriate. We're on an internet forum having a casual discussion so my expectations for intellectual rigor are quite low.

From what I recall, it was studio meddling that forced the "humans as batteries" idea.

I'm not arguing for anything in particular, just relaying what I've heard about the situation. One of the compromises that allowed for the construction of several major toll roads decades ago was that they would eventually become public and toll-free. But, this can be delayed by implementing continual capital improvements and making sure the road is never fully paid off.

In Texas the state government does not want the toll roads to become public because the revenue collected from gasoline taxes and vehicle registration is not enough to pay for their upkeep.

>"having trouble identifying the subject and the verb"

In my experience English class was primarily about reading literature with the goal of teaching morals and values. There was very little information about the structure of the English language. I actually learned far more about grammar, syntax, articles, etc. through learning Spanish.

The challenge is compounded by the fact that you need to buy a whole host of new parts at the same time. A new motherboard to handle AM5, DDR5 memory, and most likely a new PSU given how power hungry CPUs and graphics cards have become.