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While there were many, exceptions are not the rule this is why we only really remember these sorts of kings they were different. On average they didn't. And leading an army, is not the same thing as actually fighting on the front lines. This extends to even the nobles, many of them would fight, but they had class protections, through ransoms. They were not at the same risk as normal people.

I attribute this to the same "nickelodeon" (Dan Schneider) effect that hit the younger population of men with the feet fixations. More goths in children shows (Sam-Danny Phantom, Hex Girls-Scooby Doo, Raven-Teen Titans, Gaz-Invader Zim. etc. ) and in general media, you see subsects who were exposed to these things when young drawn to them when older.

The water thing is a bit overblown, everything is still closed loop for the most part, its not like they have constantly flowing water running from outside in. The copyrighted work part is a big sticker for many. But I think there is a deeper fear, and it has to do with the "Slop" at one point the slop will become indistinguishable from real art or writings. This will effectively remove a large part of creators from the industry overall, only those truly different and skilled enough will rise to be seen, and that will take a lot more effort than it ever has. As no offense to anyone, but most of us lacked the things needed to be seen before, when the ecosystem is flooded with things far greater than the majority on average, you may never get seen again.

@hthieblot Im going with app. @ParallelKingdom by @perblue Made by a group of HS kids released in 2008, real world map gps based game, that was completely player driven. 1 million players, sadly they took the game down a decade ago, and no one really has made anything close sense.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. But I also understand the misplaced anger from men online, especially the younger guys. There's been a massive disconnect on men's issues for decades, while female issues have been championed across every form of media and every level of government. That symmetry deficit leads men who grew up in this system to hate the system itself. The easiest target becomes the movement that coincided with dropping wages and lowered worker power overall. We doubled the workforce and got lowered wages, automation, outsourcing, and mass immigration in return. Workers were no longer unified. There was this massive new group with heavy funding (Rockefellers, Ford Foundation, etc.) that was laser focused on benefiting women. That split distracted from the real underlying economic issues, things men had been complaining and striking over for years. But because the feminist movement received that level of institutional backing, those concerns got ignored. Men end up blaming women for it, when in reality women are being used by corporations as a tool to slowly consolidate power and juice returns.

This is like saying we should cripple the healthy because their blood work looks better than the sick patients in the ward. We're all dealing with the same economic disorder. Punishing the few who managed to rise above it doesn't make the rest of us more likely to succeed, it just makes everyone worse off.

@dystopiangf Those who championed the sexual revolution never envisioned the self fragilizing world that would result from capitalism's dopamine economy, the endless hits and crashes served up by Instagram and its ilk. We are all the product now.

That... isn't really a solution, is it? This just props up welfare programs so they don't collapse. It's the entire nation taking a massive bet, forcing 50% equity from a few AI companies and hoping they win the AGI race. What if the bubble bursts or someone else does? Why bet the future of the young on this again?

@MattWalshBlog I suggest @Fat_Electrician be the producer of said shows and movies. There is enough content and ideas on his channel already for a 10 season run that matches this vibe.

@Grummz Linux really is our only hope, but one day, even most of that will be coded by AI at the very least.

There's a subset of Gen Z who do this, but plenty are switching to cooking at home or grabbing prepared meals when they can. That said, DoorDash delivery culture feels like a modern "luxuries of despair", the same way drugs of despair hit earlier generations. Instead of opioids, it’s small daily comforts to cope with the fear that the economy’s broken and personal futures feel out of reach. (Gen Z's already wrestling with record mental health and overdose struggles.) Spending for a moment of comfort when long term hope is hard to come by. Just a symptom of a greater rot in society.

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Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z needs to stop spending $28 on lunch when they only make $70,000—that is why they stay poor.

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In fairness, it is not only women whom are being harassed in this way, it is almost an infestation of AI assisted catfish across the internet, which is leading to a lot of misdirected hate from some men also. Its a billion dollar industry for the usa alone. This is from 2024, Its only getting worse for all of us. cnbc.com/2024/07/03/her…

Ai is a tool, the collection of human knowledge to assist us, across many domain. Replacing, emotion, lived experience, and humanity overall with Ai, is the wrong path. Yet it feels like too many are sprinting down exactly that road, probably because it’s great for their stock prices We should augment humans, not erase what makes us human.

@GhostPeppaz1980 @RaminNasibov @Steam I believe you can, but you need mods and such. I haven't played online myself in a long time, so don't know for sure.

@GhostPeppaz1980 @RaminNasibov Its on @Steam now, in a pack, its on sale often too, and runs pretty well.

@GhostPeppaz1980 @RaminNasibov OH yeah! In the APCs, you could just drive by planes lol.

Why not run an ELO style rating system for accounts and individual posts? Like chess, rate every post (or author) based on actual engagement outcomes (likes, replies, dwell time, etc.) vs. what was predicted for that audience/topic. High ELO content gets stronger initial boost in For You. A hot burst raises the score and keeps you visible. A spammy or low-engagement burst drops it automatically. Even better, make it CS2-style. Give each topic/“map” its own rating (you can be Global Elite on politics but only DMG on memes) while still contributing to an overall account ELO. Dynamic, merit based, and solves big account domination without blanket penalizing creators who post when inspired. The current 35 post batch shift feels like a blunt instrument by comparison.

@binx7h Reading mostly, I still do, just digital now.