Considering they don't pay moderators, I don't think they do.

My brother, we are in that Renaissance right now. Lethal Company, Palworld, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive, Go Mecha Ball, etc. And we're only 2 months in, let alone the insane amount of gold in 2023, and upcoming games like Hades 2 in 2024.

Not news. Kids are pressured to buy things their friends have, regardless of medium. Duh.

They're forced to work 12+ hours a day, every day, if they want to get anywhere. I wonder where the time to find a partner and have children is supposed to come from?

Population decreases are already happening in modernized, wealthy countries, no need to do anything there. The poorer ones will end up starving as the climate collapses, so that's basically taken care of too. Population collapse isn't always good, though, somebody has to buy the goods and services.

We are quite certainly in the beginning-ish of WW3.

Because they want to replace the complexities and pitfalls of human relationships with something compliant that they can fuck without it asking for anything in return.

Hah good username.

Nah, California is pretty great. I'd say it would be the place I'd move to if money weren't an issue. As long as you can afford it, CA is an amazing place to live with widely varied culture, fantastic weather, and an incredible number of things to explore and experience.

You can find every biome across the state, and you can literally go surfing in the morning, drive up the Pacific Coast Highway and through beautiful, lush valleys, in perfect 72 and sunny weather, on your way to snowboard in the mountains for the afternoon, into a nice chilly overnight at the lodge, and back down the coast the next day, because the weather is perfect again.

That's just one of the countless things to do in California. You'll also get clean air, a comprehensive interstate highway system, better public services, a near infinite variety of food, and generally better quality of life than many other places.

CA isn't perfect, but I can't think of anywhere else that could ever match it for me.

Yep, and a lot of reddit is thinly veiled shitposts, bots, and uncredited karma whoring reposts of stolen content (the commercial AI companies should feel right at home here). Some of them are to anger the self righteous redditors who come to PC police anyone who dares speak against the far left zeitgeist. But most importantly, so, so many of them are just for the lols.

The scariest part is that those drawn out, apparently accurate but actual nonsense posts/comments, is how many of them end up near the top, with massive numbers of votes from those who think "well that sounds reasonable," but know nothing of the subject itself.

Semi-related: I really loved the shitposts where the guy would tell an elaborate story, and end it with his dad beating the shit out of him with jumper cables. Now that's quality reddit content.

There are many, many, many things posted as fact over the years on reddit that are not only untrue, but dangerous or even deadly in the case of some of the most idiotic advice given. I wish good luck telling them all apart to the poor 3rd world contractors the big commercial AI companies exploituse to "train" their stochastic parrots.

Since half or more of reddit is now bots and shills, I don't imagine the training data is going to be great. That's fine, Gemini already sucks, so it'll be hard to make it worse.

If it breaks, you can just sell them more 🤷‍♂️

The staggering irony of them doing the very same thing the Nazis did to them to them less than 100 years ago, and then calling an allied country holding them to account for it Nazis, is mind blowing. There are still people alive today who were hunted by Nazis, what do they think, I wonder?

Based on his actions, not his empty words, he has made it quite clear there is no distinction between Hamas and women + children, they're effectively the same at this point.

with a smokescreen

I wouldn't say it's a smokescreen, they're pretty open about genocide, e.g. Netanyahu's call to "finish the job". I'd say that's everything short of a direct call for literal genocide, given the context.

Surprisingly? Not sure.

Man, if they're admonishing us... Hoo boy.

by a different name

It's literally just genocide, cut and dry. (I do understand your point, just emphasizing my view).

I mean... I don't know?