I disagree about Soma being an isolated setting, there are actually lots of characters, it’s just that they’re all insane cyborgs who mostly happen to have their own personal reasons for attacking you.
I can’t seem to find them, but before the game came out there was a series of live action video shorts made in association with it to help establish the concept and setting, I’d imagine a show being along the lines of those but fleshed out more.
Perfect example of how censorship is still dangerous even if it isn’t the government doing it
scary meme
If reddit implodes there’s not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.
Why not? Isn’t that the reason for the influxes of users that have happened so far?
To me it would be worth it for Lemmy to get somewhat Eternal September’d if it meant Reddit being destroyed/replaced with something that isn’t a company.
It would only succeed in filtering really low effort bots anyway, because it’s really easy to programmatically check if you are shadowbanned. Someone who is trying to ban evade professionally is going to be way better equipped to figure it out than normal users.
At what point do people stop suggesting “go to a doctor” for serious health problems because it’s not realistic advice anymore?
“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
It did turn out that way anyway right
This is one of the bigger reasons I don’t want to use social media controlled by a corporation, it means they can choose to cut me off from people at their discretion, which will probably be based on what is convenient and easy for them.
Any media file also
I once lived somewhere I was sharing wifi with the neighbors, any time I’d right click on some porn Windows would give the option to stream it to their smart tv, I could not figure out how to disable it so this no longer happens.
Having been through that system I have to say, it’s inherently more about training students to be ok with having their movements and thoughts constrained, following instructions, being kept safely contained while their parents are at work, and (if you’re trying for academic success) developing a toxic concept of self worth and “success”, than helping them become informed and capable people. I don’t understand how anyone can graduate and conclude, yes, more of this is what our society needs to thrive. Maybe they just choose not to think about what it was actually like because they don’t have to deal with it anymore, or still buy into the idea that putting themselves through that gave them value because the alternative is too painful. There’s a reason so many people have anxiety dreams about being in school even decades later.
Not at all an endorsement of replacing school with child labor like some people seem to want, but we really need an entirely different way for people to have an opportunity to become literate and explore science and history etc. rather than putting more resources into this awful institution.