Does anything useful even come in 8K at this point? I saw it as a spec last time I went television shopping, but it seemed like something that wouldn’t be useful for another decade.

… people have a tendency to underestimate how prone they are to manipulation. We should amend our constitutions to include freedom of thought as a fundamental human right.

Good for them. Chrome needs a corporate competitor, and the recent lawsuits that (I think) prevent Google from giving FireFox hundred million dollar bribes might lead to a diminished product.

Prohibition is effective, it’s just that it doesn’t work for easy to manufacture compounds such as alcohol or marijuana. Every known human culture has independently discovered alcohol, and marijuana is a weed that is ready to smoke in its natural form.

As far as social media goes, my country has reached a point where TikTok and Facebook are preinstalled on every phone. If a parent buys their kid a phone and removes them, they will reinstall themselves after an automatic update. When you take into consideration the “streamlined” registration process, one can argue this is a means to target prepubescent children.

…I guess an 8 year old could download a VPN and steal their parents identification, but I feel like some form of prohibition would help.

I still think it’s a step in the right direction. Once you make it illegal for children to use social media, you can start going after the platforms for knowingly manipulating children.

The value of social media lies is in it’s ability to change thoughts, opinions, and long-term behavior. The public underestimates how effective this technology is, especially when it comes to children. In the absence of regulations, these platforms can make people believe just about anything by exploiting perceived peer pressure.

Removed by mod

Lol. Although this claim might be technically true, comparing the cost of the first prototype lithium ion battery with a modern mass produced batteries is apples to oranges.

I agree with you there. At the end of the day, the Democrat candidates personally benefit from conservative policies. It isn’t a well balanced two party system.

…I’m not necessarily against Trump posts, but this shit ^ is obviously marketing or propoganda. It’s bots talking to bots taking to bots. It’s dystopian as fuck. The tone is always negative, which says alot about the orginazations that propogate it.

On my All feed, Trump is specifically mentioned in the title of 7 out of the first 38 posts. This doesn’t account for the posts that are primarily about Trump, but don’t include his name in the title. 0 out of 38 of the posts are about Democrats or Democrat policy. The only other politician mentioned in the first 38 post titles is DeSantos (1).

Based on what I’ve seen on Lemmy in the last three days, I am statistically likely to be a bot. I can’t argue with that.

I’m being serious though. I can name every person in Trump’s cabinet. I know everything about his policies, some I disagree with, some I don’t. I can’t name a single Democrat other than Harris and Biden. No one posts anything positive about them.

…as far as Lemmy goes, the community is more obsessed with Trump than the people on Truth Social.

I don’t get why nearly every post on Lemmy involves Trump. You’d think it’s democrat propoganda, but I haven’t read anything positive about the Democrats on Reddit or Lemmy in the last two years.

I think China’s view on property ownership has it’s advantages. Since nearly every piece of land in the US is private property, building infrastructure as simple as bike paths and railroads are a nightmare.

…I guess the government could use foreclosures and eminent domain to get similar results, it’s not as consistent.

…Reddit is the opposite of Republican. The people there are aggressively far left. It is hard to believe that it’s not an artificially enforced echo chamber.

The problem with echo chambers is that they are politically sterile. By aggressively forcing Republicans and moderates off the platform, we lose the ability to influence their stances and opinions. It becomes a circle jerk.

I’m having a hard time believing that you live in either China or the United States. You definitely don’t live in the United States because you aren’t familiar with our low income housing; if you do live in China, you’re job is to write these comments.

If there is one thing I learned about Lemmy, it’s that there are quite a few bot handlers that don’t want it to gain momentum. We are going to need some form of identity verification if this community wants to get off the ground.

It’s more like poor China with their average $5000 per year income.

They also have a 0% homeowner rate. All property is owned by the state. As for the houses they do “own”, the typical city apartment or rural homestead is…deficient by Western standards.

It could be better, but even the person with crippling medical debt lives luxuriously relative to the global norm. I think it could be better, but I think it’s important to understand exactly how much we have.

Where we got our excess resources is also relevant. I think it’s important to understand the exact role that weapons manufacturers and corporate chronies play in bolstering our lifestyles. At the end of the day, I don’t think the average citizen wants to know.

They absolutely are.

Let’s say I get into a car accident or have cancer. Treatment involves expensive chemotherapy, blood transfusions, and multiple rounds of major surgery.

If I’m in the poorest 10%-30% of the population, the care is provided free of charge. If I’m poor-but not that poor- I have the option to receive the expensive treatment and just not pay. It will just negatively impact my credit score, but I can also get away with “paying what I can afford.”

…this is just one example. Everything from our food to our electronics are subsidized by the government. Most of the resources are more or less taken from poorer nations. If they don’t play ball, we withhold aid, bribe officials, loan their enemies weapons, or finance a coup.

…I think men would be more interested in having a child without a woman that can seize both the child and your paycheck on a whim. A sperm donor is a lot cheaper than a surrogate.

If we had sustainable practices, at least of 3rd of the people in the United States and Western Europe would have a standard of living similar to the people in 3rd world country. This is assuming we don’t compensate for things by exploiting more vulnerable populations.

I personally think this is a decent trade-off, but the people my country would end up exploiting would probably disagree.