XiELEd
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- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 days ago:
Something similar happened to us in the Philippines. There was a huge propaganda and disinformation campaign on Facebook by the Marcos family (rumored to have partnered with Cambridge Analytica). Which led to people falsely thinking that Marcos I’s regime was a golden age, and now we have his son as president.
- Comment on braaiinnss 3 days ago:
Literally brainrot
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
What??
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
Chill
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
Now I feel bad for the people whose anxiety I accidentally triggered…
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 3 days ago:
I can relate as someone who realizes they’re actually more interested in the Humanities after choosing a STEM preparatory course. Then I remembered that the reason why I chose STEM is because my country doesn’t give a shit about professions other than being a lawyer, doctor, or engineer.
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- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 5 days ago:
God, same
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 5 days ago:
Or you can read world history that isn’t just Eurocentric stuff. Hell, I bet most people don’t know European History in depth. You can even get into scholarly theology, from Christianity to Hinduism. Read philosophies like Confucianism, which will help you understand a bit of Chinese culture.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 5 days ago:
Get into folkloristics, it’s pretty fun. You can get into all the Slenderman stuff because it’s literally untapped mystery you can’t just rely on secondhand sources, all the research is centered on one controversy that somehow killed his popularity but not every other religion. My “job” (it’s a hobby) is basically having to read the hundreds of all the Slenderman blog ARGs ranging from 2009 to the present day, as well as all the freaking Slenderman and Creepypasta comics. It’s just interesting how religious patterns emerge out of something spontaneously created on the internet, like Zalgo vs Slenderman having parallels with every other religion with “divine rivalry”. Interesting anthropological subject.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 1 year ago:
Colonialism has done really bad things in the African and Middle Eastern continent. When they withdrew they irresponsibly drew the borders and now civil wars happen all the fucking time
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 1 year ago:
Not just the US. Cambridge Analytica is trying to manipulate our politics through scummy means such as misinformation. And our country is being fucked by the effects of Climate Change while western countries are celebrating because “it’s more sunny and warm now! :D”.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 1 year ago:
Also you’re too focused on trying to defend yourself from any potential accusation? What about that point someone made that in some points of history, regions of relatively high cultural development change over time?
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 1 year ago:
I mean, not many people would call Eastern Asians “white people”
- Comment on 4202 g 1 year ago:
bruh
- Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue? 1 year ago:
I’ll call it that way.
- Comment on Make signing up complicated and difficult to discourage people from signing up. What's that practice called? 1 year ago:
Barrier of Bureaucracy
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 1 year ago:
There was that whole controversy about the Wish trailers because of Youtube compression…
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 1 year ago:
Intelligence doesn’t trend to an objective “perfection of the brain”. Someone with 190+ IQ can still believe in false conspiracy theories due to the nature of the human brain. So someone with a high IQ would easily solve a problem and deduce patterns, but will still fall to human cognitive biases.
- Comment on I feel superior 1 year ago:
Haven’t logged in on Reddit for a while. It feels good not to doomscroll for hours a day. Lemmy is less addicting and less time-wasting and actually has valuable comments whereas Reddit’s comment section is mostly pure garbage that I feel compelled to upvote (probably my compulsive tendencies though). But I still use Reddit to search up stuff, however on Old Reddit I think they added a feature where they put recommended posts IN THE COMMENT SECTION and you have to scroll for a while to access the other comments. Idk if that’s new or it’s something I just noticed but that’s such an asshole design.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 1 year ago:
Nope, they deliberately made it so that the populations of African countries can easily be enslaved.
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 1 year ago:
Holy shit? Do you have a source for that because damn. It’s something I would expect though.
- Comment on Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night? 1 year ago:
That’s so sweet!
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