They’ve been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

Just ask an AI to fix it.

YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.

Easy

“Federal judges deserve a salary hike whose amount is the salary is twice that of a job unemployed people wish they had.”

We need to launch missile strikes against rich asshole’s private jets each time an article like this is published.

It will pass eventually. Seeing the way EU countries are going, the right to far right will get voted in, and they will end up voting for these sort of bullshit measures they can Orwellianly exploit.

It’s corporate controlled, it’s a way to manipulate our perception, it’s all appearance no substance, it’s an excuse to hide incompetence under an algorithm, it’s cloud service orientated, it’s output is highly unreliable yet hard to argue against to the uninformed. Seems about right.

Instead of building sidewalks, they arrest working moms, amazing.

Don’t bother, just nuke them a few times and let the heat do the work.

Because it shifts from country to country no matter the scales you use. You could put dots on whatever imaginary axis you choose, and they would be unidentifiable across countries - about the only thing it could identify are the people who don’t have a clue about political environments elsewhere but think they do.

Your definition isn’t even correct, there are many “left” parties that want to concentrate power and even the most infamously “right” government of them all, that of the GQP in the US, have claimed things like wanting to “distribute” power from federal to state government. About the only universal single axial distinction between parties are those willing to operate and respect a system of governance, and those that only want to game it and change it to what they want, and even that is constantly shifting.

Right now a lot of our governments are democracies being divided up into the people who want to continue to operate within them being increasingly outnumbered by the people being hoodwinked into transitioning and increasingly operating outside of them. But even that isn’t left of right, and it is very dependent on the type of government it is being manifested in the first place - someone might want to play within the system in a high democracy high trust society yet would be willing to support those living in a dictatorship who work to game and change it.

Left and right is highly psychological. Venezuela’s dictator Maduro is placed in the “left” by those that like to criticize their own left parties, while Mile’s is “right” while Bukele, who has close links to Milei and Maduro, is not identified by either, having called himself a “man of the left” while increasingly prospering within the “right”. Why? Optics and psychology. “Left” and “right” is very easy to manipulate into a bipartisanship, and a bipartisanship can be worn down into an autocracy. The US is a prime example of this.

A party can be identified by two things: the ideology they say they will represent, of which things like “left”/“right” is the vaguest yet safest thing they can claim and easiest thing to divide society on, and what they actually can and will do, and to define either of these, you need far more labels than different ends of an axis. But people think the creation of the universe is detailed in a pocket book called the Bible, so it’s no surprise they think “left” and “right” is sufficient connotation.

I’d certainly guillotine anyone who thought that a 200 year old reference merited relevance and was anything other than proof at how bullshit out of touch the labels are. Then again, people being as ignorant as they were 200 years ago seems on cue.

It’s almost like left and right are bullshit labels, sort of like conservative obviously was to MAGA after Trump was voted in.

What’s a joke is thinking you are going to get there when you haven’t even seen what’s going to happen during the midterms, or that there is still over a year to get to even that.

When you want to create the shiniest honeypot, you need high power consumption.

They could be copright trolls who are trying to force Steam to do just what they did so they can claim damages for lost revenue on delays on actually legitimate claims. It might be a bet on how well they think they will be able to defend against perjury from the people actually able to sue. Mods aren’t like YouTube channels, a lot of them aren’t getting a decent revenue stream that they claim they lost or to help them in their defense.

I’m sorry, but your mental gymnastics are just embarrassing. If you are going to be snarky, have better, more relevant arguments. Gotta love how you put “all the time” in italics, as if that’s some specially strong point. Hopefully no one takes it to heart and tries to cross them when the traffic lights don’t allow them to.

The whole point of crosswalks is that their use isn’t supposed to overlap between pedestrians and cars. You will literally fail your driving exam if your “automobile operates in the same space as pedestrians” on a crosswalk. I feel silly just pointing out the obvious.

Imagine someone trying to claim to be pro-pedestrian and fuck-cars and yet claiming crosswalks are “pedestrian spaces”. What are you, a car company lobbyists? Not just one, but two, lol

“Sure, we believe in pedestrian spaces” - proceeds to slap white stripes on an eight car lane street with narrow one meter sidewalks.

Although I do love to hate on a lot of the single-mindedness of this sub, I’ll do the guys in it a favor and assume this argument is an outlier. Otherwise, it’s just embarrassing.

Monopolies becoming more of a monopolies while the US is weaponized to protect them.

You make it sound like cars are driving over the sidewalk at the same propensity and speed that they are driving on the road.

In other words, they want to hook up users and companies, make them dependent, and then rise up the prices severely while finding ways to process and incorporate all of the data they’ve gathered in ways that will probably involve automating the jobs of the users themselves.