Dyskolos

Because I bet I have done more good in life and helped more people with my moneyz than you ever did with your mighty pen and mouth.

You know that narcissistic asswipes that will eradicate all societies in the long run, can be poor too? And richer can be nice? Admittedly, the dark triad (or tetrad) is very beneficial in capitalism, but not mandatory.

Considering how long they’re here, they definately can 😁

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After re-evaluation, you’re right. We can’t. We could just define the outer walls of what we can know. No matter how hard we’d think out of the box, we can’t measure the box itself. We could create such a simulation. But being more limited beings than our creators, our creations could only be even more limited. Like an LLM. It could asses everything there is to know and calculate a theory around it. Yet it will be confined to OUR specifications and the data we let it consume.

While you’re totally right IMHO, I’d argue that the inner universe indeed can prove this. Just within the rules and boundaries of the inner universe. With our given measures and abilities. Which are or might be totally different from the outside.

Horror = a supernatural element that is probably evil by nature. Blood or gore don’t do shit.

Thinking of stuff like “[REC]” (not the murican remake but the original), “night of the living dead”, “evil dead” or even the classic “Blair witch”. Horror is (or should be?) more of the things you don’t see that might scare. Gore is fine, but it should not the be core (like in slashers).

Sadly I’m totally immune to scares of all kinds in books, movies or games that the whole genre is useless to me.

Perfect fit. Corrected. Non-native-speaker might get a pass here 😁

That inherits radiates a certain kind of humor that could be considered funny. I want one 😁

7-8. Whenever I’m waking up and don’t wanna sleep anymore 😊 Depends on how late I was up though, I’m a night-owl.

Very rough, that’s not even 3 hours a day. Which, in my book, is very very little for a hobby. Compared to going to work for 8 hours :)

Nonsense. E.g. I do play a lot more than 20hrs and am not addicted. Wifey too. It’s a passion and we don’t work, so there’s plenty of time to do so. Like any other hobby.

Addiction isn’t measured by time but harm.

Dude, you tell the truth. I did lie though.

Language, Book-print, fire, the wheel, lying on the internet…

You’re welcome. Trust? Well, trust is hard to come by these days on the net :) Airvpn is italy-based, so if privacy is important, take them. They’re here for a long time now, never heard complaints and founded by hackers/pirates. Also we (EU) have strict privacy-regulations. SolidVPN is based in the USA, so…I’d never use those for sensitive stuff. No matter what they promise. They’re forced to do so.

There are also Mullvad, Proton, Surfshark, etc.

If you’re REALLY serious about your safety and privacy is paramount: take one outside the 5/9/14 Eyes alliances, like CyberGhost (Romania). Generally Romania rocks in those regards. High speed, cheap prices, and most importantly: PRIVACY. Also you could torrent there, in case that’s of any interest and not allowed where you live (like here in germany).

Hope you manage to avoid your stupid OSA. It’s never really about “Safety”.

As to your latter: reddit already partly does that AFAIK. At least for >=mods. An ai-summarization of a users political sentiment and more.

As to your argument itself: I don’t think you could even compare the net to other inventions like print media. In the end, even the dumbest dumbnut understands what a paper even is. The vast majority of the user in the net have not the slightest clue about any of the things we grew up with. “I thought it (the google app) was ‘the internet?’” Et al.

It doesn’t matter much if we had such a great news site we could trust, when most people will still only use the words from the big apps. This is intentional and nothing that you could just educate away. For every bit of education there will be thrown a ton of marketing against it.

Yes. We have seen the peak of the net. When everything was still great (content-wise of course, not technically). And this is not nostalgia talking. Everything slowly went to shit. We traded free, federated content for corpo-controlled bullshit that is just more flashy. Usenet for reddit, IRC for discord etc. A simple web-search (“just search, nothing more, nothing less”…you member?) For a parasitic poisonous spider that infects everything everywhere. Can’t even enter 90% of the world’s web anymore without solving a recaptcha (=working for free to train googles AI). And this is just the surfaces problems everyone can see but still won’t really notice.

Now we are controlled and monitored by a handful people. Except some stupid old farts like me, who will finally soon die out. And with them the only urge to gain back control and freedom. Nay, the acknowledgment of the loss to begin with.