All good points, thank you. I don’t disagree but I don’t think those things are as impactful as most.

The way I see it is that we keep trading one bad thing for another all the time. We might have TikTok now but we no longer have led in gasoline that gave anxiety/ADHD/depression to my generation. TT has also been demonised beyond belief due to influence campaigns from Meta but that’s a side note. We have mass manufactured nicotine products but at least it’s not an unfiltered cigarette. I don’t believe we’re regressing, or regressing beyond what’s a normal amount of random change.

Accumulation of knowledge is one of our best bets and seems to be somewhat working out. History will probably not always move towards a brighter future but that’s okay because long term we either bomb ourselves out of this planet or actually work it out.

“they just forget they were children once” said every generation of kids.

I’m 40, I’m reflecting on how my own generation is becoming dumb like boomers.

Who discussed social media in the 90s?

„We have never had x” is the exact same argument that could be used to a number of things that sparked moral outrages before. This is too much of a dejavu for me to treat seriously.

Every single generation fixates on something new ones do because they’re scared of change. I was endlessly derided for many things that are norm now. They were supposed to end the world but somehow we keep on going. I see my generational peers turning into own parents and dooming about Skibidi toilet thing. They forgot they were children once too.

Old people yelling at the cloud, as is tradition for every single generation before and likely many to follow.

This „Badger badger badger” song was the funniest shit ever when I was young. The only difference is that this one was an Adobe Flash applet while the new stuff is high definition video since we have more bandwidth now.

It’s not just retro aesthetics, it’s a straight Settlers 2 clone.

I believe all of this is legal thanks to DMCA.

Signed but current support doesn’t bode well. Does anyone know of any successful campaigns of this type? Stop Killing Games has twice as many signatures but isn’t even halfway there.

In 2016 Russian influence campaigns targeted both Clinton and Trump to sow mistrust in the democratic process so it’s not the whole story. This year Trump, on his own (and his billionaire friends) won by a landslide in terms of popular vote. There was interference for sure but it’s not enough to affect elections by this margin. It’s being told like that to absolve ourselves from bearing responsibility for creating a reality where half of the population feels left out to the point where they want to demolish everything.

They always had everything as full text but now some articles require going to their website. Or request full text via Readability / Postlight parser in your RSS client of choice.

I somehow doubt that couple of days is enough for prosecution to make a case or for judges to go through the evidence. Due process traditionally allows for appeals too.

I’m from Poland where previous populist right government set up constitutional court with their own politicians and it will take time to replace them legally. Currently that court is a laughing stock because they rule on everything, mostly outside of what they actually can, seemingly on their own and at moments notice.

What Romanian constitutional court did sounds kinda similar and it worries me. Are we throwing away democracy because otherwise we get fascism? I’m not sure if we’re not going to end with fascism anyway, just with liberal aesthetics.

Those people knew and voted for that guy regardless so this is not fixing anything and looks quite bad for the democratic process, especially to them. Do you believe mainstream parties don’t do the same internet influence campaigns? Suppose this Georgescu guy is guilty of various campaign financing issues but where’s the due process?

Retaliatory tariffs on US (affecting Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm) would be a natural escalatory step in this trade war but I’m not sure how effective that would be given that lots of high end stuff is affected by US sanctions already.

This is not going to rebuild trust in democratic institutions for those that voted for Georgescu. This is just kicking the can down the road.

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Anti-LGBT propaganda in the mainstream has been mostly the doing of PiS affiliated media, Catholic Church and teenage edgelords. Say what you will about PiS, they are not pro-Russia, and their homophobia looks tame compared to what was happening in the 90s. While there is some external interference on the fringes, we can be shitty on our own.

Polish homophobia doesn’t require stimuli from abroad, we’re doing well on our own. When we decriminalised homosexual acts in 1932 it was already decriminalised in then-Bolshevik Russia so I wouldn’t look into historical context that much. If I had to blame any external factors it’d be turning Poland into ethnically homogenous country after WW2. Allies did a real number on us then.

It’s anti-LGB hate speech bill. Gender identity was quietly removed from the bill draft couple of months ago.