The Ravens, Vikings, and Bears are football. Wizards and Raptors are basketball.

Wow, I’ve been meaning to get around to watching it for that long?

True - I think it’s a combination of those personality traits, social pressures, and a desire to believe that leads to irrational conspiratorial/superstitious thinking.

Conspiratorial thinking.

Many people are motivated by a need to feel superior to others, have a strong distrust of authority, and/or feel that acceptance of a belief system is a requirement of their internalized group identity.

It was the first time I remember people struggling to mentally map the controls.

Your grandma or little sibling could understand how to move NES Mario around (not necessarily being good at it, of course), but 3D was too intimidating for a lot of people to even try.

I’m not sure that Kanye truly belongs to any time period.

I remember everyone gathering around the TV to see this because it was so unbelievable.

I do this too. I’ll be so sure that my way works too, load it up in analysis, and then… oh.

but the catch is the majority of people have to read the fucking words for that to matter.

Hell, I’d even settle for more people watching classic movies and TV shows. People need to maintain some link to the past to see the mindset of those who lived through fascism, wars, etc. and absorb what a society that rejects those ideas looks like.

Culture is a big part of our collective memory, and a society that can’t look back will just reinvent the same problems.

Also probably time spent in the sun.

It’s like a Pac-man / Ms Pac-man situation, huh?

A 30min drive to town is perfect. That sounds incredible.

I relate to this a lot. Grew up in a small town, excitedly moved into a big city when I went to college, then bounced around cities for work for a while, and now that I’m married and have kids, I keep dreaming about living further out where we’d have more space and peace.

I worry that it’s only better here right now because we’re small and not a target. The worst we seem to get are the occasional spam bots. How are we realistically going to identify LLMs that have been trained on reddit data?

That story is crazy and very believable. I 100% believe that AI bots are out there astroturfing opinions on reddit and elsewhere.

I’m unsure if that’s better or worse than real people doing it, as has been the case for a while.

Ha, I can definitely see how that could be visual clutter. You should also see it for posts when scrolling through the community.

I help mod a handful of communities, and I suppose it helps sometimes when I’m navigating into random threads from my inbox - just as a reminder.

That shield symbol just means that YOU are a mod in that community and can take mod actions on those comments.

This needs to be marked NSFW. We’re getting reports about it, but I’ll give a moment for OP to edit.

Edit - oh there already is a 2nd post. Removing this one then.

Competition is good for a lot of things, but it also becomes a day-to-day race to the bottom that rewards whoever is willing to sacrifice more of their life for the sake of their job than others.

The logical consequence is exactly this: we back ourselves into an increasingly uncomfortable corner that leaves less room for living than we could easily enjoy with our current technology.

I think it’s all of them, now that you mention it.