Darnton

We know why it is happening. We also know the solution, and it is not peaceful.

The thing is in most cases they aren’t doing the opposite of what users want. A disappointing high number of users are perfectly fine with subscriptions and microtransactions. The most popular games are all riddled with that shit.

Because the powers pulling in the negative direction has a much easier job than the powers pulling in a positive direction. The negative powers just has to play to peoples stupidity, fear and hatred. Simple black and white “solutions” (ie. just fault the outgroups for everything).

The positive powers have to stick to complex and often longterm solutions which requires effort and thought for people to understand the benefits of.

ITT: Lots of people who doesn’t know which community they are commenting in.

I don’t think it has plateaued, the reasons they give for why it should have done so makes no sense. The main problem being their metholodigy of spotting AI created content which is highly dubious. The more straightforward explanation is that AI created content has become more difficult to spot, especially for the tool that the researchers used.

No, the things that are happening in the US right now is not really comparable to things happening in any other Western democracy. All countries have their issues, but this blatant fascist takeover occurring in the US right now is quite unique.

The added bonus is that you also know it isn’t AI generated music.

Because they control the stream of disinformation to their voters. Their voters don’t actually live in the real world, but in a fantasy scenario dreamed up by Republican talking heads.

I’m pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don’t really care about this at all.

GDP is an incredible useless way to measure average wealth.