Most likely not from my limited experience of the place although this is becoming more of a surface issue and there are pundits (however disturbing) actually speaking about it. It’s becoming a serious fracture point for the right currently. Eventually the left will have to do their own housekeeping.
You would think but the major news media sure does their hard work to make suggesting not doing things like this is a hate crime. Also the fear politicians have around going against particular lobbyist groups is palpable. What the people want and what’s in the best interest of the country seems nowhere to be regarded currently by those in office, unfortunately on both sides of the aisle. I’m often reminded of the Tal Shiar and federation in this scenario.
So far as I’ve traveled. It seems easier for the population to be at least aware of what’s going on and engaged, particularly in the 10M and fewer population sizes. That engagement in turn seems to generally have good outcomes. Of course there are some outliers, but generally that seems to be around the limit where the population seems to maintain a strong awareness of the country in most places. Also yeah what you’re saying is definitely true as well.
Yeah it’s very unfortunate because we could pretty much effortlessly create a system that disallows gerrymandering and ensures the mathematical equivalence of all votes. The original concept was that smaller states didn’t want to become fully subservient to larger states if they entered the union.
Both? Yeah both. There’s so much emotional energy around this topic. So many actually deep philosophical questions involving what is a mind, copyright, the very essence of art. Aka there is so much fuel here to generate art which makes people think, feel, and question. Any medium is a valid medium to make art in so long as one isn’t committing illegal violence to do so.
Take banksy who creates works that really trigger people to think and feel but typically in an unlawful medium.
It’s funny I was downvoted to hell for the argument that smaller countries tend to have better behavior and that humanity would be better off if the population size of a nation was capped which is essentially what you’re suggesting in a roundabout way.
If I were to bet some states would go it alone or form smaller unions until they realize this drastically weakens them internally and on the global stage and ultimately a union would be formed not unlike the European union for the same reason the EU formed. When you go from part of a global power to a backwater 2nd or 3rd world country it’s pretty noticeable and the people there will want the former glory. Also losing strategic locations like Alaska or Hawaii would be big. At least Hawaii is too valuable as a military asset, if the US loses it someone else will take their shot at colonizing it. Essentially they’ll never be able to be their own country.
More so that it looks like a divide and conquer tactic and I don’t feel like playing into it anymore.
Well yeah the areas they took they lost and are now attempting to take back again. Some never really left, here’s look at you Belarus. Generally though Russia operates essentially the same as the USSR on the global stage and even internally.
Rage bait is now a fundamental aspect of society. I get it, we’ve essentially been conditioning billions of people for decades now with algorithms wrapped around engagement which primarily feeds off of rage bait. Here is a good video on the topic. Also explains the kinda global increase in partisanship everyone is on the us vs them thing. Personally I’m getting so tired of it all I refuse to claim any side.
To play devil’s advocate, how are organic neural networks trained aka human brains? Should any artists who ever consumed content they didn’t appropriately pay for be discredited and if not then where is the line? Does the line change if we learn that these systems have become sentient?
Trust me I totally agree there’s more than a few issues here. I’m not a fan of content with zero (known) willful intent. Of course breaches of copyright are also a major issue.
Even most i talk to on the right are not into this, like at all. I think we can get a bipartisan thing going on about this which is ideal. One major party being infiltrated is also a major problem. It’s honestly a bipartisan issue anyways.
Yes and no. Like technically yes but not a whole lot changed internally and externally. Same business, same allies, same enemies, same behaviors, same type of ruler, same intelligence ops and so on.
So same people new clothes? Also yeah I generally agree we don’t need nations but understand it’s unlikely the concept is going anywhere anytime soon. I just don’t see Israel or most definitely the US collapsing and then the people just don’t organize into any structure ever again. Some new nation will take form which may be better or far far worse. For all real outcomes a full collapse of the US is bad news bears for everyone. At minimum that arsenal just randomly in a new and untested player’s hands with unknown laws or governing structure is concerning.
Springfield, Essex (England)
Springfield, Fife (Scotland)
Springfield, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Springfield, Ontario & Nova Scotia (Canada)
Springfield, Canterbury (New Zealand)
Springfield, St. Elizabeth (Jamaica)
Springfield, St. James (Jamaica)
Springfield, Westmoreland (Jamaica)
Springfield, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Springfield, Durban (South Africa)
There should be an international Springfield celebration.
Senator Tom Cotton represents the state of Arkansas and a republican. Maybe the 2.2 million voters in Arkansas can do a better job next time.
Killing 360 million people sounds difficult and unethical.
Art can be for any reason and sometimes it’s only to rattle some cages. What exactly are people pissed at. Is it the style they determine to be AI generated or is it actually the concept of what they thought was human generated having no human touch. What’s actually the pain point here, or is this evolving into like a new prejudice where anything remotely AI is bad regardless of how it was generated. I think there’s a lot of valuable questions to ask about what seems to be a whole mountain of animosity. Let’s clear shit up a little. Without questioning does someone even know where they stand on a subject?
Yeah in the scenario of smaller and larger nations but let’s say all nations had a population around 10M or fewer then the power differential would likely be far less and of course the military power differential would be far less. Also today I learned today Ireland has a population of 5.5M, kinda shockingly small. Makes sense now there’s far more Irish outside of Ireland. Could have sworn it was more than that.