Looking down on people for not changing their mind because you can find some argument to contradict them is just as silly as changing your outlook on life every time you watch a new TikTok video. The problem isn't how often you change and refine beliefs, but the question is why they do or don't change.
@silverpill@mitra.social Yeah that was at the start of the qubic thing. I thought it was interesting to see people rush in saying "we gotta switch to PoS ASAP!" in a way that seems to be astroturfed.
@sun@shitposter.world Prediction: the public is going to build up mental antibodies to woo predators the same way they did for prosperity gospel preachers and other charletans.
@raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest Yes! ...but you have to configure your reader software to connect via Tor, but I'm not sure which ones support it easily. The RSS reader I'm (slowly) building actually supports it already! I just use the Tor socks proxy, but I'm hoping to migrate to the arti client crate after I build out more UX & features.
@Ergo@shitposter.world In addition to this, having a catalogue of old threads (or long-running threads) created a form of memory across time that I think is being systematically eliminated from the surface web. @sun@shitposter.world
@frogzone@wizard.casa I2P sites are back online! Thanks for the heads up! (Unfortunately the Pi hosting them seems to just die (won't respond at all until I pull out the plug and plug it back in) hoping to address that soon. )
@sun@shitposter.world Professor Jiang argues that young people don't rebel because they are wired to respect and obey parents. I don't entirely agree with his big picture analysis, but I think he hits the notes of how the public will internalize these problems. But the 'rational optimists' will tell you that things just always get better. Humanity will always continue in some form, but the majority of the surviving descendants will be molded by the dominant regimes.
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