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[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 110 points 1 month ago (3 children)

yeah, the information age hit us before we could come up with an education age

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We made it way too easy for morons to get online. Folks who don't even know what a "packet" is can livestream their anus on TikTok, and capitalism is fine with that because it's "monetized".

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

nobody wants to adopt my "everybody gets arch only" platform

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. Everyone gets Temple OS.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

"No apps; just Arch!"

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You mean a data packet? What should people know that?

Less packet loss equals clearer anal shots.

[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

It's important to have a basic understanding of how magic internet-box works.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

We made it too easy for morons to find each other and unite.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure future historians are gonna end up calling this the "Misinformation Age" instead.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i like it, because it's kind of ironic. the term used by the us govt is "disinformation". so calling it the "misinformation age" tracks perfectly.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Misinformation and disinformation are not the same (in German at least?).

Misinformation is when information is wrong on purpose, to misinform someone. Disinformation is when information is just wrong, like when someone said something by accident that wasn't correct.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

In English I look at it the opposite way:

Misinformation = MIStake or accident

Disinformation = “dissing” of information, or intentionally putting it down/lying about it

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[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like it because it implies the good guys do EVENTUALLY win and set this shit right.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was called “The Enlightenment,” but then we forgor….

[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"The Age of forgor" has a good vibe to it

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It really sometimes depresses me to think how far along those utopian futures we could be if we as a species didn't have to spend so much of our lives and potential counteracting bad faith sociopathic saboteurs to progress.

Maybe history is just 75% of the people mostly at a stalemate with 25% whose empathy-deficient mental illnesses give them an edge in obtaining power and resources.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

The fact that this is considered a political meme :(

[–] brianary@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago

Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? is a really good graphic novel about a kid's relationship with his dad through the lens of retrofuturism, as it gradually tarnishes, starting with the 1939 World's Fair.

I'll probably go to Expo 2025 in Osaka this year, since I'll happen to be there, but it'll be hard to maintain any real optimism.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The future does suck. I think that's mainly because all progress we made in productivity goes straight to the ultra rich.

Just think about what these billions of dollars could have done to our lives... We could have eradicated hunger and poverty, have a new golden age for humanity and science. Instead we have popstars in space and oligarchs controlling the politics.

Without a new 'French Revolution' that gets rid of the parasites, oligarchs, 1%, billionaires we will never get to a good future.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 1 month ago

Man when i was a kid and i stared to see these assembly robot arms, i was like: woah, when i'm like 30, people probably don't work anymore, because that's what the robots do.

When i was 30 rich people crashed the economy and shrugged, and now ultra rich still try to get even richer, and kill the planet, because they don't live that long anyway

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not only that but setting up the institutions of our society to prevent it happening again

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[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 21 points 1 month ago

Id love if they cared about sources, what

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Technology made us regress

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[–] RambaZamba@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago

On point 😂😭

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We came so close to having the beginning of back to the future part 2. But instead, we have the second half of back to the future part 2 where Biff steals the sports almanac and Marty is unsuccessful to take it back.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He really DOES resemble bad 1985 Biff, doesn’t he?

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I believe when they made back to the future that the character of Biff was meant to be trump.

We don't have to worry about flat Earthers anymore, they all joined Q-Anon.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

sauce??? checkmate dumbass

[–] subarctictundra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] noli@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down

[–] FrostBlazer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Bots and bad actors; bots and bad actors.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I always daydreamed life would someday look like the cover of Somewhere in time by Iron Maiden:

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The little angry meme man makes me happy.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

This is the opposite of what a flat earther would say.

The main position of flat-earther (and the backers of conspiracy theories) is that you can't trust sources, especially official sources of course.

And if you look at things without having the official explanation you start to notice things that, in appearance, do not make sense. Like the fact that you can see farther away than the curvature of earth allows. Of course it's very easy to explain with the refractory properties of the atmosphere but can be quite difficult to demonstrate.

PS: earth is definitely round, I'm not trying the defend their theory.

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