brunchyvirus

I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.

Back when I worked in web hosting I would occasionally get calls mostly from certain European countries and websites mainly doing online gambling which was illegal in those countries. They would always try and demand I hand over the owner of the website and to take it offline.

My response was always the same unless you have a court order from our government than fuck off.

The ones that did have court orders were always interesting cases though and the crazy ones were the ones with court not to take down the website but to plugin a device to monitor all the traffic and every year they would send a new order to let them monitor it for another year