Now that Harris lost, it seems like people are agreeing with you.

In reality it’s both the campaign and the voters. But it’s easier to just blame voters. Lemmy/Reddit will down vote anything that goes against that narrative: but as we just saw, Internet echo chambers do not determine reality.

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Literally any criticism of the Democratic party. Like how Biden dragged his feet on withdrawing and then we “didn’t have time” for a primary.

Or criticism of foreign policy. Afghanistan was a cluster fuck and it seems both parties support Israel no matter what.

Letting the electorate focus on border security instead of protecting women’s rights was another obvious blunder, but no one expected Abbott to bus migrants to liberal cities. Republicans are really good at making immigration an issue.

When the going gets tough (and we all agree things are tough right now) you just need to appeal to fear and tribalism.

Passions are too high right now; say the same thing after Harris wins and maybe people will hear you. It’s like how everyone was on board with freedoms lost during the Bush-era (after 9/11). Years later we wonder wtf happened.

I am so ready for this election to be over

There’s always been terrible things going on, but now the internet allows us to inundate ourselves with news daily.

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Brave New World

It can be news on topics you’re interested in, blogs on topics you’re interested in, comics, subreddits, etc. To give an idea, I follow:

• Ars Technica for tech news
• NASA for space news
• Local blogs on food/events/news/ going on in my city
• RockPaperShotgun for gaming news
• “A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry” for blog posts from a history professor
• Richard Y Chappell for blog posts from a philosophy professor
• A few YouTube channels
• A few niche Reddit feeds
• XKCD for comics (most webcomic artists have an RSS feed)

Depending on your RSS app, you can also follow podcasts. I use InoReader for the above but I prefer a dedicated podcast app. There’s good/entertaining RSS feeds on the internet if you’re willing to curate it! It’s nice to get away from internet comments.

Honestly, just set up an RSS feed. The internet is a bunch of isolated echo-chambers where you self-select into the chamber with the narrative you favor.

Anna’s Archive. 37,666,367 books, 105,835,081 papers — preserved forever. I’ve replaced my entire physical library and can now take my reading on the go.

I’m not a tech person, so I’ll take the lowest hanging fruit. The obvious answer is to write a program that can detect AI. Then there will be a competition between AI fakes and AI detection. This is similar to what we have in sports. There are forbidden enhancement procedures (e.g., steroids, blood doping, etc.) that have to keep improving in subtlety so not to be detected by Anti cheating measures.

Me at American Airports: Why the fuck do I have to take off my belt/shoes and throw away my water? They just let me walk into a crowded airport with this shit…

After the reddit exodus I started creating memes for the first time and posting them on Lemmy. I’ve learned that it’s harder to be funny than I thought. Also a lot of time/effort and I have actually important things in my life that I focus on. Reposting was also kinda fun but what’s the point really

Seems like the Internet is just circle jerks these days

This is great stuff, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!