listens to intl radio (radio.garden is amazing)

most songs are american/english

Doesn’t Germany have some spicy high stakes elections of their own right now?

Nobody’s gonna like to admit it but this is actually how it’s going

We should just track all the boats! Easy!

aka information silos

It’s a real problem. And the scary part is that if somone told you that most of the info you see everyday was lacking, manipulated or flat out lies, would you believe them or double down?

Typical AI search summaries

I think it’s part of human nature to try to improve things. If we just said “be happy with what you have” we wouldn’t have the very nice things we enjoy today.

But at the same time people are wary of change, and if something works well it is a risk to try to improve things. Older people have been around a long time, so nostalgia and routine is more engrained so they’ll be more critical of change even if it works out in the long run.

But no matter how good it gets people can ALWAYS find something to bitch about and some are just insufferable

Deep state is (generally agreed to be) non-elected officials who have the ability to sway govt functions. They can stick around for decades which is a good thing until it’s not. Their “power” is more about making things not happen.

The “resist” movement from the first admin could be seen as an example of deep state. If an elected person wants to do something that they have the power to do but the lower levels of govt disagree (ie it isn’t in someone else’s best interest) suddenly there will be things to stop it from happening or make it so slow, painful and costly that the elected would rather do something else instead.

Errors in paperwork, extra “random” inspections, key people in the process calling sick, insisting on following all procedure step by step no matter what etc.

BBC’s “Yes Minister” really nails the concept

Yup goes for controls too! I remember PS1/PS2 games having WILDLY different control schemes even between games in a series. COD pretty much standardized shooter controls to the point that playing any shooter that broke that mold was a real struggle at first

You think him not being mentioned is a coincidence? I think it’s mainstream media doing damage control to reel in their prior reporting. Since he was at large for a while his face and later his name was EVERYWHERE. In cases of mass shootings the shooter is almost never mentioned or named anymore. There’s a reason for that

Media plays a big part in encouraging copycats looking for their weeks of infamy. In the past it used to be serial killers, then years ago it was mass shootings, and thanks to the instant stardom they gave Luigi the near future could very well be more assassinations.

Right or wrong his success was demonstrating that being rich doesn’t mean someone is untouchable.

If people are serious about this sort of thing they’ll have to realize it’s not about freeing Luigi but being Luigi

I don’t condone illegal acts, just pointing out where that line of thought goes

Ebooks are great. Libby is the reason I am able to read as much as I have

In high school I was a big Tom Clancy nerd. I played Rainbow Six games and having a book all about all the gear and training and planning was AWESOME to me

Last year I finally got around to The Hunger Games books. I liked them quite a bit and now I get the hype. When they first released the people who went crazy about Twilight recommended them so I ignored them haha

Now I’m on book two of The Expanse and I really like it. It strikes a nice balance between geeky believable world building and good storytelling.