I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time before they banned then repeatedly shadowbanned me for no reason*, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.

* It was speaking out against genocide and using stern language talking to MAGA chuds I think

All of these companies only benefit from AI being employed to manufacture consent, alter reality and shape people’s social trends and habits. This is why they don’t want their data archived, they want to be able to use mobs of AI agents disguised as people to shape narrative and decide what people think is true.

It’s already in massive progress across Reddit because it’s so easy to disperse undercover AI instances and create conversations to influence people.

Even if you think yourself to be a critical thinker and reasonable, if you go into a huge, popular post and everyone in there is saying how the sky is green, and you ask what they’re talking about because you know the sky is blue, and then dozens of people pile on you, downvote you, call you names and insult you for believing in false facts and calling you naive and easily programmed, you’re really going to question reality and you may even go outside to take a second look at the sky.

Of course, they wouldn’t do anything this bold, they will instead make far more subtle forms of “common knowledge” sentiments, able to change the minds of people who are otherwise smart and logical, but like every person, everywhere, just wants to fit in. So if those people see constant messages like “Of course it’s not a genocide, that was obviously manufactured propaganda, I have a brother over there and he’s saying…” etc, etc. That will absolutely change public perception of events and issues. To a cataclysmic degree.

It’s already happening and it’s even happening here. Everyone needs to get a lot more skeptical and a lot less online.

Yah it’s a problem for their agenda of manufacturing culture, social discourse and consent for hundreds of millions of people.

about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.

All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.

“This isn’t letting us shape reality, that’s our entire business model, we are working tirelessly to shape people’s reality so this is definitely a no-go.”

Plus between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people around the world wherever USaid was providing medical care and food for people in bad conditions, like remote villages, refugees and subsistence farms impacted by weather and famine and so many more souls that we gave hope and health to for pennies a year.

Just the most absolute cruel and heartless people in the world.

Imagine the person you love the most in life, sick and needing medicine and suddenly the only source of this cheap care tells you one day “Nah, you’re on you’re own” and having to watch that person die because some politician somewhere decided to make a performative statement about “empathy and wokeness”

I don’t know about anyone else, but I would probably swear to burn the whole world down in revenge. The US is going to have massive problems that we fully deserve.

Honestly, the numbers thing is really bugging me. We are fixated on the dozens of people directly targeted by attacks, but when the toll becomes higher than a few hundred, suddenly it’s abstract and people don’t seem to care nearly as much when it’s the exact same intention and consequence as if someone went and shot these people.

Is there a position available anywhere in the world where I can simply take an assessment to identify my skills and capabilities

I’ve never seen a job do this in my entire life. Usually when you do see a job that offers this, they’re doing it just to make sure you’re intelligent enough to read so you can work in a stockroom or do call-center work. The military kind of works this way, but I have a feeling that’s not what you’re looking for.

am seeking a different type of work that doesn’t require returning to school, interaction with others, or leaving my home.

ngl, after many years in the corporate world, this is going to be very challenging to find, after the covid remote-work trend cooled down, these jobs became highly sought after and there is competition for this work.

I don’t mean to be too discouraging here, I just know how rough it is and the reality of trying to work with neurodivergence that makes certain kinds of work really unpleasant and the false promises of the corporate world. You may have to practice some level of radical adaptation to less-than-ideal conditions. Before that though, look for work in logistics, data analysis and auditing, they often have outsourced teams that do pretty quiet, tedious work from home and usually provide training since it’s their own company and custom software.

You could consider getting certified for things that don’t require schooling, tech certs and things like Salesforce specialization allow for a lot of personal freedom, but you will still have to talk to people a lot to get work and design systems to spec. A lot of these jobs might have limited futures though with AI.

In the end, getting the job you want is like getting a loan for a car or something. Just like you have to prove to your lender that you don’t need the loan, you have to prove to your hiring manager that you are in fact social and comfortable in any environment, the very last thing most managers of small remote teams want to deal with is the worry about someone with a health condition who may be unreliable.

Mask up, make calls, pad your resume out the wazoo and start dropping applications everywhere you can. Be aware there are a lot of scams going on where they offer you insane wages for working a few days from home and other too-good-to-be-true offers that are designed to suck in neurodivergent people, be very careful and if anyone, no matter how real and professional they seem, asks you to put up your own money for anything to start, drop everything and run.

The whole thing reads like just another “side story” to keep media from being able to keep up with any one story and/or to feed various sides what will trigger them to continue to create distracting stories without actual investment.

The Trump “dynasty” attracts the most mentally unwell people in the whole country. If we’re all this stressed and wishing someone would “do something” about it, imagine someone who is losing touch with reality.

No more McDonald’s, Burger King

If I wanted to spend $40 - $50 on lunch for two I would go to a regular diner that makes fresh food. Are we boycotting or just… surviving?

Traditionally the State of the Union has been a yearly “all sides come together to get on the same page” kind of affair, it’s supposed to highlight the importance of country over politics, and it’s where the whole country gets the president’s agenda going forward so we can decide what to support or oppose. It was originally a stately and important moment in our country. Whether you liked or hated the president, when I was a child here families would gather around their televisions and tune in just to know what’s going on.

This tradition has had some drama and wild swings in the past but I can’t remember in my decades here if there’s been a sizeable number of legislators and representatives actually protesting the entire thing, people usually go there even if it’s just to “boo” and make a scene and get their clips in on social media.

Honestly it’s completely nothing and pointless right now. The State of the Union means nothing in this administration, the protesting by not attending means nothing. Trump could get up there and scream at the country that we’re going to start mining for chocolate on the moon and people are broadly going to shrug because next week he’ll be screaming that we need to start bombing wind-farms.

“Just because your brain gives you loading screen tips, doesn’t mean those tips are accurate, sometimes your brain lies to you! Learn to analyze your thoughts and feelings before charging into a mission!”

Good people:

• Take time to listen to others even if it’s something they don’t agree with, they want to understand the other person before they want to performatively argue.

• Treat others with kindness, and everyone equally, no matter their age, race or social standing.

• Make sure people are treated fairly by others even if it’s very small gestures like noticing if someone said something nobody heard, or if someone is being talked-over, and calling attention to it.

• Care about how they make other people feel. I mean, it should be obvious but apparently a LOT of people took all the wrong lessons from their saturday morning cartoons and care more about being emotionally vindicated and somehow still think they’re the good ones, a tendency that covers every side of every population or group.

• Have values and principles that they stay consistent with, which is very different than having something like a political ideology. (Those things can change, based on your value system.)

Honestly, fuck yeah. I feel bad for the countless residents who depend on tourism, but gambling is a scourge upon the Earth and needs to die already, that money doesn’t help anyone but casino owners who are, once again, giant corporate whales who soak up money and never return it to the system.

Vegas may be dying but something has to kill the online sites also.

People aren’t even drinking anymore.

How scary does shit have to be for a population to look at the cheap alcohol on shelves everywhere and say “Nah, I better save and stay healthy.”

No possible way it could be maintained. Youtube allows anyone with an email address to make a channel, and AI tools are cheap or free, and people can make bank by getting their shitty AI-narrated fake documentaries in front of enough people, so there are thousands popping up and getting suggested on people’s feeds every single day. Most originate in other countries and most don’t even succeed so it’s just millions of dead channels with a few shitty AI clips, with fresh new ones popping up all the time.

I also don’t know how you could prevent abuse of such an app from users reporting channels that just talk about AI or even completely bogus campaigning from hateful groups.

You can’t, however you frame this issue there’s going to be a sacrifice. We have to all digest this.

The best kind of sacrifice you can make though for the best outcome is to limit your child’s screen-time, AND ALSO YOUR OWN. Spend more time together, practice what you preach, you are also a child being harmed by social media.

Actually sure, if we’re going to be earnest I do recommend some tactics for beating addictive behavior.

The most important thing you will ever learn about yourself and reality itself is the sheer amount of delusion your brain puts you in, no matter who you are or how smart you think you are.

We think of our brains as logical, calculating machines inside our heads where all our will and thoughts and ideas come from, but this is an illusion, you are not your brain, you’re not even your language center. Your brain’s primary and only job is to assemble your feelings into a narrative story. That story doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to connect things so your feeling makes sense.

What this means for addictive behavior is that you can find the point where your brain starts reasoning things out that it wants, and cut it off because you know it’s not you, it’s another entity inside your head trying to get a thing it wants. Drugs fire off unnatural pleasure associations which your brain will make up a lot of excuses to keep getting, so learning to identify the stories your brain tells you to engage in behavior you don’t want is key to reducing that behavior.

A huge part of this is preparing ahead of time for when you get worn out trying to argue with yourself and setting specific boundaries for your future-self. Get rid of the stuff you want to quit taking, make sure there’s none in the house. Lock your money and credit card in a timed safe after a certain part of the day, because you will have a harder time resisting the “reasoning attack” as it gets later and later in the day, and resist the urge to think about tomorrow or how miserable you’re going to feel as the night, week and year go on. This is why they say “one day at a time” because your brain will wear you the fuck down with debate and “ideas” and bargaining, and if you anticipate that lasting on and on, you will break easier.

All of this requires being very honest with yourself and examining the habit you want to quit, such as looking up the actual risks, the actual data about dangers and the actual amount of money you’re spending on it, and all that stuff your brain really doesn’t like incorporating into it’s mental story-telling.

Understanding your brain isn’t you and it will actually be your worst enemy and will childishly sabotage your whole life to get what it wants, and that it talks to you in your own internal voice so it’s hard to resist, these ideas will be your best mental strategy for quitting because at least you have your actual enemy identified.

I don’t know what any of this means, but I can think of a much more effective solution for smokers.

My lungs have a self-cleaning feature, and my PC doesn’t.

😂

Ending addictive behavior starts with admitting to yourself where your brain is lying to you about your habits and how gullible you are to accept those stories it sends you. You are not your brain.