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New comment by greenhearth in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

greenhearth — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:54:29 +0000

"Free market" and "entrepreneur spirit" fetishism and fear of collective social action against individual drives.

New comment by greenhearth in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

greenhearth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:35:06 +0000

Maybe if college degrees are not so valuable anymore, then school will become cheaper and this will allow more people to go to school. I would hate to live in a world where everyone is a plumber. Nothing against plumbers, but being human is more than unclogging drain pipes and installing toilets, and the one place where humanity's definitions are concentrated most intensely is the university.

New comment by greenhearth in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

greenhearth — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:25:14 +0000

That's because in authoritarianism it's all already eroded.

New comment by greenhearth in "Google co-founder reveals that "many" of the new hires do not have a degree"

greenhearth — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:34:31 +0000

I don't understand the "silly" part. Classic lit is amazing and also good for you. I am a late comer to it as well and I'm so glad that I have discovered it. I am finishing Ulysses now and it absolutely rocks.

New comment by greenhearth in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

greenhearth — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:00:22 +0000

This is the letters on Russian tanks in Ukraine. Sign of marauders and thieves.

New comment by greenhearth in "Where's the AI design Renaissance?"

greenhearth — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:55:56 +0000

That's not what "renaissance" means

New comment by greenhearth in "TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning"

greenhearth — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:25:59 +0000

It's basically television^1000. TV was also constantly criticized for reducing critical thinking skills and championing mediocrity. Douglas Adams put it best of course: "the future is the same old stuff with faster cars"

New comment by greenhearth in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

greenhearth — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:13:24 +0000

Just redistribute the resources, cap prices and let the economy prop up itself. The rich have to give it up for sake of stability and greater good. I'm sure they will understand lol

New comment by greenhearth in "33M voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check"

greenhearth — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:59:54 +0000

The numbers will be the same they ever were, as compiled by the usual statistics in place for decades: completely insignificant.

New comment by greenhearth in "What were the earliest laws like?"

greenhearth — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:40:55 +0000

Laws are many things and one of those things is a concern for justice. As far as self-perpetuation of the state, yes this is how a state operates, this is the nature of it. As for "the government," what is it? It's not a monolithic thing that you can just point your finger to. It depends on the nature and character of the citizens and the established customs of the nation, of which laws are a part. If we're talking about ancient Mesopotamia, then this is probably a tyrannical aspect. But there are many types of governments and constitutions. This dismissive attitude for "the government" is really not a practical, and even kind of a juvenile mentality.

New comment by greenhearth in "The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies"

greenhearth — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:46:02 +0000

What's the point of these superbabies if their brains are going to be full of plastic anyway?

New comment by greenhearth in "Everything is Ghibli"

greenhearth — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:10:36 +0000

The obtuseness and the soullessness of the user excited by this trick is what is most sad about this situation. "Look at me, I'm a cartoon!" speaks of the arrested development and some kind of a consciousness stunted by some autistic juvenescence prevalent in modern people. This pupa is really excited about living, I suppose.

New comment by greenhearth in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

greenhearth — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:22:07 +0000

The baseline theory of the state is exhausted. It's like figuring out how to build a car. We have all the ideas already, and the little innovative improvements are the cherries on top. We have quite a few modern political thinkers as well as ancient ones, not victors, but real critical thinkers and historians. As far as communication problem, yeah you may be right, but this is a problem of implementation, not architecture.

And come on, "Galadriel" and some mythical pharaoh? This is your argument-viable examples? I think a little too much fantasy is overtaking your thoughts; you might want to switch to non-fiction for a few months to balance yourself out.

New comment by greenhearth in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

greenhearth — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:35:25 +0000

What a ridiculous statement. Any dictatorship is a subpar expression of a state. We don't have to figure out the best government. We already have all kinds of ideas about this collected from millennia of thought on this subject. We just have to study and bring it into reality.

New comment by greenhearth in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

greenhearth — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:52:40 +0000

Plenty of authoritarian countries that have been economic disasters.

New comment by greenhearth in "Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies"

greenhearth — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:23:21 +0000

We going through some crisis and trauma right now, if you haven't noticed. It's bound to spill to this board. Thank you for your patience

New comment by greenhearth in "Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies"

greenhearth — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:13:56 +0000

How is this a "partisan" article? Looks like a regular news piece to me.

New comment by greenhearth in "Google Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews after rename criticism"

greenhearth — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:03:32 +0000

This name makes zero sense and is entirely stupid. Something like a gulf is named for its proximity to the immediate geographic body to identify it with increased precision. This is clear effort to pander to nationalism and racism, and to stir shit up and get people mad about it. It's old tricks.

New comment by greenhearth in "Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram"

greenhearth — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:03:39 +0000

Yes, you can make your own fake money now. Are you from around here?

New comment by greenhearth in "Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram"

greenhearth — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:24:34 +0000

So this is basically the bitcoin of social media engagement? I don't have any followers, I will just make some? Who's to say they're not real followers? What is this "real" anyway?