I'm sure it would never be abused by tyrannical governments, fascist billionaires, or weapons manufacturers. /s
If they can block suicide ideation with such a device, they certainly can stimulate it, and cause mass suicide. Or on the other hand, they could drive users into a deep depression and turn them into suicide bombers.
Seymour Hersh is one of the only true Journalists left that isn't in hiding, constantly moving, prison or bunkered up somewhere. We would never have learned about the war crimes the U.S. committed in Vietnam if it wasn't for his reporting on the Mai Lai Massacre, or more recently the Nordstream False Flag.
You're not wrong. I posted a scathing comment on LinkedIn about not giving Reddit so much as a click or view in 2023. A week later Spez announced the throttling of the API requests/paid API access.
It's not just the search engines, it's the always on instant gratification machine that is called the smartphone. The only thing it's smart at, is stealing your privacy, stealing your money, and finally stealing your soul. Throw it away, and limit your internet usage to 1-2 hours per day max.
76 days to notice an expired cert!
Agreed. My reply follows similar thinking as you.
I disagree with your assessment. The Guidestones weren't there to help society rebuild after an apocalypse. It was built to scare you into thinking an unavoidable, likely human caused, cataclysm was coming. The builders clearly infused "bad human" into it's message when they say to keep the population under 500 Million. It's all part of the narrative to keep people chasing the cheese at all expenses. This creates ample opportunities for someone else to get rich off your fear. It's similar to the gold rush. Who got rich in the gold rush? The merchants.
I contributed 15+ years of content and moderation to Reddit, which they made private (not available to the public), because I promoted a peaceful protest of the Billionaire's Summer Camp. It's where the billionaires give the media there marching orders, AKA Operation Mockingbird.
Of course they didn't delete it, they just made it not public, so they can continue to use my data to sell to dystopic tech companies to train there A.I. I didn't make a complete backup of my data before I was suspended, and now it's lost to me. I was able to recover a lot using the Way Back Machine, but it's slowly being erased too. The only copy I reliably have is completely offline.
I've been Reddit free for a couple years now, after Reddit deplatformed me for planning a peaceful protest of the yearly Billionaire's Summer Camp in Sun Valley, Idaho. It's where Billionaires give there marching orders to the Operation Mockingbird media.
Quitting Reddit is way harder than any other addiction I've experienced, because it plays on the collectivism that is hardwired into us. It's why they peddle it to kids like the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries before them. Get them while they are young, and there brains aren't developed enough to build up self-control!
It's not just Reddit though, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, etc, etc, etc all do the same things to varying levels. I highly encourage everyone to watch the Documovie The Social Dilema. The only way to free ourselves of this new form of digital slavery is to educate people on the dangers our such technology.
It disgusts me that schools were complicit in giving Google our children's education data.
In 2024, I'll start posting on it on /c/Intelligence in early spring. I had done the same thing on Reddit in 2021. I even created a dedicated Sub, which got nuked from orbit: /r/SunValley2021.
I'm savoring a delicious glass of raw unpasteurized, non-homogenized, non-industrialized bovine lactation as I surf Lemmy, and come across this crap? Go jump in a lake soy sucker.