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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
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    10 days ago

    I mean, I watch YouTube all the time, way more than TV these days. Some of that involves politics yes, but mostly it’s just pretty innocuous. Science, technology, books, comics, gaming, D&D, sketch comedy, standup, animation, movie reviews, food, cooking, history, etc. By far the most political thing I watch on YouTube is Some More News, and it’s admittedly pretty rage inducing sometimes. But most of my viewing is just wholesome, nerdy, and/or makes me hungry. I don’t really live by the algorithm though. I primarily watch people I’ve specifically subscribed to.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Prediction markets are a national security threat
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    11 days ago

    Any country even slightly in the crosshairs of Trump’s regime would be wise to monitor these sites very closely.

    People in the know are enriching themselves off of privileged information and tragedy. They are placing massive bets on military actions hours or even minutes before those actions take place with little or no betting history on those accounts. It’s not luck, it’s war profiteering.

    If there is any way to track whom is making what bets, particularly if they can actually ID individuals who may have insider info, they would almost certainly be waiting for those amoral disaster capitalists to attempt to profit off of human suffering and use what forewarning they can get to protect themselves, minimize casualties, and maybe even make a preemptive offensive. It’s moronic that the Trump Government wouldn’t see that risk and shut that betting shit down. But what about them isn’t moronic?

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands
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    12 days ago

    Then come the “saviors” of the internet that blame it on illegal aliens, women having rights etc because according to their logic we had it good in the 70s so we must reverse everything back to the way it was in 70s.

    The problem isnt just the “saviors” and their message. Those people have always existed, always had the same blaming strategy. The problem is that the internet has made it easier for those messages to reach a global audience, has made the messenger faceless and unaccountable and given the presumption of legitimacy, has made it easier to get absorbed into isolated communities saturated in this kind of messaging, and made it easier to warp the worldview of the community to something antithetical to reality. If you run into a dude saying wacky shit in a bar, and he just seems to be some drunk asshole, you’re not likely to give him much credence against all of the other messaging around you. But if you find an entire community saying the things he says, and they welcome you in, and you get a sense of comradery and purpose from it, that same messaging holds a lot of sway over you.

    Isolation has always been the secret sauce to radicalization. Exposure is the antidote. Humans have always had cultural feedback loops that reinforce a specific worldview. And meeting with other cultures often causes conflicts when those worldview collide. The promise of the internet was a more global culture wherein we have a shared reinforced world view. But that didn’t really happen for everyone. What we are seeing now is that same feedback loop phenomenon in a digital space, but often with dramatically different worldviews, even within the same local physical space. That still causes conflict when those communities collide, both online and in the real world, but now that conflict happens everywhere, even in your own household sometimes.

    We’re losing physical communities, friends and family for our online echo chamber communities. People are definitely driven more into those digital communities as their physical life is more of a struggle financially, socially, etc. Relieving those struggles would certainly go a long way in remediating the problem, but it won’t go away.