My favorite part is how people in the public eye who present end-of-days predictions always have some weird excuse after the fact. As was beautifully parodied in Parks and Rec.
In this case there have been impersonators, and the original author has no connection to a lot of the newer stuff. She is not trying to cash in or play things up, which is a wonderful contrast to a lot of people who claim to be doomsday predictors.
A quick and drunk google:
In 1939 the Soviet Union had around 171m people. At the end of 1940 there were about 1.5m people in gulags - 0.87% of the population
In 2023 the USA had 664k prisoners and a population of 337m - 0.19%
Over the course of 40 years, 14-18m people went through the gulags, and over 1.5m people died.
A 1999 comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has been fuelling these rumours. In a new edition released in 2021, she claimed the next big earthquake would strike on 5 July this year.
It’s called “The Future I Saw”, with diary entries and is “based on a dream”. One of the covers had a big disaster happening in 2011. That’s the year Fukushima was hit with a tsunami.
A lot of superstition has arisen around it, causing tourism to drop off recently. And flights from Hong Kong to Japan have been massively reduced, and one airline even halted their flights there as of a week ago.
You seem to be missing one major piece of information: They don’t care.
The more conservative someone is, the more selfish they are and less empathy they have. Most MAGAs are so far up their own ass that if you told them this, they’d roll their eyes and laugh at you. Because in their mind, nothing bad can happen to them. And if something like this did happened, they’d instantly start screaming about a false flag and want to arrest all democrats. You can’t explain to them that they’re wrong, or the potential dangers of their actions, because they 100% will not believe you. They only understand actions or mockery.
TL;DR: You’re basically trying to convince Narcissus that he’s not that good looking.
Paywall it for short term gain, at the expense of long term viewership growth.
Making a company worse for increased short term revenue, at the cost of customer retention, product quality, etc. causing increased turnover which further compounds all the other steps. Is a common issue among all modern companies.
In short, there was a shift in MBA education a while back that includes a bunch of lies-by-omission and misrepresented data. Meaning that the only thing on their mind when they graduate, is to please investors at any all costs, including company longevity.
I’m pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.
You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you’ll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.
It’s basically impossible to block everything, although most of what you listed in a comment is unavailable to websites. To minimize what is available you can use ublock origin, umatrix and user-agent switcher.
And the best version is by Doctor Spin aka. Andrew Lloyd Webber. The guy who wrote the most famous songs in Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, etc.
Literally the same reason why Ford sells 150s and 250s and Volvo sells 70s and 90s: They are different products and don’t base the version numbers on their competitor.
As long as enough people are narcissistic and lack empathy, this will happen. Because at the end of the day, conservatism is narcissism. As is easily demonstrated in all tthe “leaporads ate my face” social media groups. Where you can see them cheering something on when it’s hurting others, and then crying as soon as it impacts themselves or someone close to them.
Yes, it’s obvious sarcasm. But reading comprehension has seriously gone to shit in the last decade or so.
Yeah, it’s very obvious that some of the people responding here don’t interact much with non-tech people, and they have DEFINITELY never worked IT.
Most people aren’t interested in learning the more intricate things. And if you try to force them, they’re not going to get more interested as they learn, because they literally are not interested in tech. They want to accomplish a task, if that takes a bunch of learning just for one thing, they’ll go a different route, or pay someone else to do it for them.
That has to be one of the most out of touch takes I’ve seen in a while. You’re basically saying that things should be intentionally more complicated, and you expect the result to be people just power through and getting used to things being that way, instead of just stopping.
This is what happens when leadership listens to tech-bros and ignore everyone else, including legal, ethics and actual tech experts.
They’ll be backpedaling like crazy and downplay it like a furby-style thing.
It’s just as real at the OilWell app.
In other words it is not real. But made by an ad company.
It really depends on the community and the mods awake at the time.
One of my accounts got a week ban from a larger community for being “accusatory”. Because I said someone sounded like they were spreading misinformation.
Yeah, he seems narcissistic enough that he really doesn’t think there would be consequences.
Hopefully there are other people around him who doesn’t want the rest of the world aiming everything they have at them.
This comment section is perfect proof that most people literally don’t read news, and have the memory and attention span of a golden retirever puppy.
https://time.com/7285796/james-comey-86-47-trump-threat-investigation-instagram-post-fbi/
A photojournalist was hit over the weekend and is still in the hospital after surgery.
Double clicking with the mouse on a word usually selects the whole word with the space after, very nice for copy-pasting.
Double clicking on the selected word will sometimes select the whole line(In some applications it actually selects up to the newline marker, so it will grab multiple lines if resized smaller).