Your entire premise of making it the same as QAnon or not the same as QAnon is full of murky definitions and ultimately pointless. If you have a critique of this video’s contents, then by all means make it with substance. QAnon is a rich topic and you can no doubt point to many similarities and I can point to many differences. Ultimately: so what?

It sounds like you are here to say “leftists are full of shit just as much as anyone” and were 99% of the way to congratulating yourself on successfully proving this from the moment the post was made.

I really only have one question about all that. Are you 14?

QAnon was entirely based on a supposed mole in the government releasing inside information.

The reaction to tech shown here is completely based on their own statements and behavior, which is all in the open, and the belief that business interests will prioritize their own profits (which is not difficult to believe).

Hardly tin foil time.

Trump won’t let a little poultry disease be a bother. Hell he basically ignored an entire pandemic.

Yeah man vegetarianism is dangerous!

It’s also very clear that you’ve let half a dozen upvotes go to your head and are now just flinging insults at anyone who engages your dull views. If you had any point to make you’ve done nothing but undermine it.

Oh you say the thirty three thousand kilometer per hour winds are impactful on the weather patterns, eh? Gosh I would never have guessed!

Yep, agree. What makes this more complex is that movie culture has relentlessly programmed all of us to think this way for decades. I don’t think it’s just a case of genetic predisposition toward solipsism, though that is surely in there as well.

Virtually all blockbuster movies and many smaller ones are about some kind of chosen hero who shatters a corrupt system, often with a single act of redemptive violence (killing the bad guy, destroying the evil machine, etc).

From Star Wars: A New Hope to The Matrix to The Hunger Games this formula has been virtually the same. It’s so relentless and consistent, and people grow up on it from an early age. Is it any surprise, with this kind of programming, that people grow up lacking the will to dedicate themselves to making a small contribution toward incremental change? No. They need shattering upheaval that saves the world, and everything less is complicity in the evil of the system.

As Zizek said: you never get to see what the hero does the day after shattering the machine. How do they rebuild a better society? Okay, redemptive violence, then what? Popular culture has no answer to this. In real life it’s about compromise, hard work, incremental improvement. But we have generations of people who’ve been fed compelling narratives about everything but that.

Yes and there is one other aspect. When they get into this conspiracy shit, there is a whole community of people ready to welcome them. They are congratulated for seeing the light and joining the movement. This fulfills a social need for a lot of these people, who are lonely or in some cases estranged from family.

This process of feeling like you’ve drawn back the curtain on life, and, in the same stroke found “your people” is incredibly exhilarating to them. It’s like a whole new day in their lives. And THAT’S why they’ll defend their crap beliefs to the death. Because giving them up means going back to the humdrum world where they are just a nobody again.

Established car makers have businesses that are easier to predict. They’ve been operating for a long time and you have a pretty good idea what “doing well” or “doing poorly” would look like for them. A much newer company like Tesla, which is based on emerging technology, does not have so well-understood of a future. There’s a lot more unknown about how big it might become.

Most times, this is seen as big unknowns and risk, therefore investors are wary. But Tesla has had enough real world success to be encouraging, yet is still new enough to enjoy “we don’t know how big this thing will get” speculation. Basically a lot of people think it’s a reasonable bet that Tesla will be huge in the future. Therefore their stock has high demand.

These people are addicted to this feeling that they have discovered some secret that destroys conventional wisdom and sheds a whole new light on everything. They are addicted to this feeling that they’ve found a big lie everyone’s swallowed and they’re going to spit it out.

Every part of their worldview has to have that quality or they can’t hold onto it with their brains. There’s a great deal of straightforward, plain-as-day information that’s totally missing from their worldview because it doesn’t contain the drug their brain is addicted to.

Do not put hydrogen peroxide into a cool mist humidifier and then turn it on. These operate by very rapidly vibrating a metal ring submerged in liquid. This physically atomizes whatever liquid is in there. You don’t want to breathe hydrogen peroxide.

You’re supposed to wipe these with vinegar daily and then rinse them and put them back into service.

I believe that our media are actively stoking outrage and shock.

People have a built-in tendency to pay more attention to danger than opportunity: if you fail to notice some berries on a bush you won’t necessarily die but if you fail to notice a scorpion on the path you may very well die. So people react strongly to negative information.

This strong reaction registers as “engagement” and media think they must be offering info that people want. In the digital age, engagement can be counted and tracked, which allows you to quickly adapt and do more of whatever creates that engagement.

We’ve been experiencing that optimization loop for the last 20 years and it is now at a deafening roar. We don’t have problems in the world, we have existential crises. We don’t have political disagreements, we have mortal enemies. We don’t have a venal buffoon for a president, we have a fascist dictator murdering rapist psychopath.

This isn’t the only factor but it is significant and it is also new. Yes, there has been sensationalism in the last but it is new to be able to track media consumption like this and adapt on the fly, automatically. It’s taken us to a whole new level.

I’m also gen-x. Calling it dystopia when a show-yourself-naked website has unreasonable entry requirements for voluntary participation is not a function of age but rather privilege. And I thought I had soft hands and an easy life.

Okay. You have a rather low bar for dystopia.

I find it hard to believe that all the GenZ ladies there have extensive Facebook accounts.

Well, I did think of a reason and it’s not for selling your data. This was in the back of my mind but I didn’t know how to put it into words.

From your perspective, you’re a private individual who wants to display a little ass for coin, all on the up and up. And how dare they ask invasive questions.

But you do have to remember that ANY community driven site has abuse problems all the time, let alone one where sex workers are plying their trade. So in my mind, they are asking for FB so they can say “keep it real - we know who you are.”

On the one hand this is dumb and implies a threat. On other hand their site would immediately fly downhill and get shut down if everything there could be done with total anonymity.

I agree I can’t think of any good reason to require Facebook account. But it seems pretty easy to just tell them you never had an account before and create a dummy one. That’s probably what a lot of people have to anyway since no one uses FB anymore.

If it turns you off, I get it. If you want to protect your privacy better, I get that too, though OF doesn’t seem like a vehicle for increasing one’s privacy under any circumstances. The whole “dystopian” thing was a bit much though.

I stopped worrying about this one. Pathogens tend to track closely to their host, and are ill adapted to environments even slightly unlike their chosen host. You can’t share most sicknesses with your pets because your body temps are a few degrees apart, for example. So the chances of anything from millions of years before us being well suited enough to represent a threat to us seem minuscule ESPECIALLY compared to the world we wake up to each morning: where nine billion organisms just like us are out there breeding new potential threats.

Okay you actually spent more words on ID and real identity than socials so that did seem to be an objection.

Privacy is the concern you cited. If so, why would you be worried about Facebook and not be worried about real ID?

I’m just trying to understand this clearly - setting aside hyperbole words like dystopian and questions about what I find normal.

You’ve probably provided ID at every job you’ve ever had. This is to establish legal residency and that you are of working age. I know OF is not a 9 to 5 job but money is exchanged and I don’t see why this is so dystopian, especially given the extra sensitivity around age.