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Thank you for that! I love Tobias and Michael in scenes together. I think I might do an AD rewatch, of the first 3 seasons anyway

There’s got to be a better way of saying that. I love Tobias, and Michael, and Arrested Development

I’d say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic “real users” using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool

Yeah, it’s just partially like that now lol. A few weeks ago there was a side-by-side reddit screenshot post on Lemmy. It showed the exact same reddit post, with the exact same tens of comments (all word for word, some in response to each other iirc), from different accounts less than a year apart. 100% fabrication. I’d never seen such extensive bot-masquerading as people behaviour; it was a realization moment for me

One of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen. I like mountains amid the human development too

If you are a ‘pro-lifer’ when it comes to abortion, you should be just as passionate about increasing funding for unprivileged children, housing the unhoused, feeding the hungry, etc. Otherwise, your position is inane nonsense

Holy @#% this is dystopian

The denial runs deep

We do live in plutocracies - I agree with you there.

I don’t think the problem with the average person is gullibility per se, I think it’s 1) how much strain/overhwhelm they face make a nice life for themselves (with the accelerated cost of living, lack of safety nets, impending climate change) and how marginalized rational concern about the climate change and growing wealth inequality is compared to how loudly trumpeted the lies used to maintain the status quo are that serve the billionaires.

For many, (and this example is a big issue in my country of Canada at the moment) it’s easier to direct anger towards a tax meant to curb climate change than it is to face reality and anger at larger and more influential factors like neoliberalism.

Anger lends itself to simplified reasoning. Billionaires and conservatives know this very well. If we want to open the average person’s eyes we need to be very strategic in our messaging, otherwise it won’t stick as well as the earworm crap the right uses.

As soon as wildfires start up in Canada again this season, the rise of ‘clean fossil fuel’ ads (i.e, propaganda saying “nothing to be concerned about, keep consuming”) will happen again. It is still possible to hear about Greta Thurnberg on the news or online - to use an example. That type of content might only be available on the dark web in a couple decades

The greatest barrier to reducing climate change is the ultra wealth financing denialism of climate change and the tight grip they have on what the average person thinks is real through immense lobbying, owning media outlets and controlling what they publish, and unlimited disinformation campaigns. Maybe it’s frowned upon to talk about those things at such a rich university, but if you’re not talking about those things are you really helping the situation or are you maintaining the delusional status quo of “we can get to it when we get to it”

Defunding biodiversity science at a time like this…

I’m used to seeing a small and hard to see Manage Preferences link in that banner that provides a button to reject optional cookies, but we might see different things based on region

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(Edit: I was wrong - today I learned after an Oxford dictionary search that casualty includes injury.)

Tens of thousands have already died in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, but I haven’t heard anything close to 100k. Here are quotes from the article

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 27,585 Palestinians have been killed, and 66,978 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 8,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

So cute!! :D

!birding@lemmy.world would love this

Thanks for the stunning photo. I’d love to get to The Rock one day

Right on, Indo! C’mon EU - nut up and get on the right side of history. This is not a war, this is a genocide

That was my best guess too but I didn’t want to assume. You said it really well

Thanks! Why do you share it?