They’ve been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

Just ask an AI to fix it.

YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.

Easy

A black box you can’t look inside making determinations that could affect your access to the entire site. How dystopian. It’s also pretty clearly only useful for pruning users en masse and not have to bother with the responsibility a moderator should be subject to.

It will pass eventually. Seeing the way EU countries are going, the right to far right will get voted in, and they will end up voting for these sort of bullshit measures they can Orwellianly exploit.

It’s corporate controlled, it’s a way to manipulate our perception, it’s all appearance no substance, it’s an excuse to hide incompetence under an algorithm, it’s cloud service orientated, it’s output is highly unreliable yet hard to argue against to the uninformed. Seems about right.

Because it shifts from country to country no matter the scales you use. You could put dots on whatever imaginary axis you choose, and they would be unidentifiable across countries - about the only thing it could identify are the people who don’t have a clue about political environments elsewhere but think they do.

Your definition isn’t even correct, there are many “left” parties that want to concentrate power and even the most infamously “right” government of them all, that of the GQP in the US, have claimed things like wanting to “distribute” power from federal to state government. About the only universal single axial distinction between parties are those willing to operate and respect a system of governance, and those that only want to game it and change it to what they want, and even that is constantly shifting.

Right now a lot of our governments are democracies being divided up into the people who want to continue to operate within them being increasingly outnumbered by the people being hoodwinked into transitioning and increasingly operating outside of them. But even that isn’t left of right, and it is very dependent on the type of government it is being manifested in the first place - someone might want to play within the system in a high democracy high trust society yet would be willing to support those living in a dictatorship who work to game and change it.

Left and right is highly psychological. Venezuela’s dictator Maduro is placed in the “left” by those that like to criticize their own left parties, while Mile’s is “right” while Bukele, who has close links to Milei and Maduro, is not identified by either, having called himself a “man of the left” while increasingly prospering within the “right”. Why? Optics and psychology. “Left” and “right” is very easy to manipulate into a bipartisanship, and a bipartisanship can be worn down into an autocracy. The US is a prime example of this.

A party can be identified by two things: the ideology they say they will represent, of which things like “left”/“right” is the vaguest yet safest thing they can claim and easiest thing to divide society on, and what they actually can and will do, and to define either of these, you need far more labels than different ends of an axis. But people think the creation of the universe is detailed in a pocket book called the Bible, so it’s no surprise they think “left” and “right” is sufficient connotation.

Not really surprising, social networks are dividing people up and rather than recognize it, people on all political isles are following up with more barriers, essentially demolishing the need for an objective truth for democracies to work in. Social networks as of now are social slaughterhouses designed to lull in people like cattle and turn enough of them into pawns for those with pockets.

You identify issues that certain groups will crowd around divisively, you foster them into ridiculously zealotry, and you break them up into small bubbles you can politically manipulate. Take Reddit - before they used to think they would have more power by focusing on centralized communities that got legitimacy from rigorous contributions, now they are perfectly ok with each community being taken up by whatever brigade is interested in them and whereas communities like T_D were banned before, now they are actively encouraged for each international, localized domain of users.

It’s just another show for him.

I’d certainly guillotine anyone who thought that a 200 year old reference merited relevance and was anything other than proof at how bullshit out of touch the labels are. Then again, people being as ignorant as they were 200 years ago seems on cue.

Facebook has really taken the mask off, like X, and societies seem to care so little it might be time for them to get the Old Yeller treatment. I remember the old Deus Ex games, and some of the themes are so irrelevant nowadays simply because they have stopped being dystopian fiction.

It’s almost like left and right are bullshit labels, sort of like conservative obviously was to MAGA after Trump was voted in.

Please, threaten me with more exclusives. Please, put more excerpts for shows to promote your network exclusives, and see what I do.

What’s a joke is thinking you are going to get there when you haven’t even seen what’s going to happen during the midterms, or that there is still over a year to get to even that.

When you want to create the shiniest honeypot, you need high power consumption.

They could be copright trolls who are trying to force Steam to do just what they did so they can claim damages for lost revenue on delays on actually legitimate claims. It might be a bet on how well they think they will be able to defend against perjury from the people actually able to sue. Mods aren’t like YouTube channels, a lot of them aren’t getting a decent revenue stream that they claim they lost or to help them in their defense.

If the maxwellhill account suddenly becomes active again by someone other than a guy replying in PMs who admits to be a lawyer every time people point at it and VICE suddenly begins releasing articles about how she has been reformed into an asset for this administration, this will be some dark comedy hilarious type shit.

Monopolies becoming more of a monopolies while the US is weaponized to protect them.

In other words, they want to hook up users and companies, make them dependent, and then rise up the prices severely while finding ways to process and incorporate all of the data they’ve gathered in ways that will probably involve automating the jobs of the users themselves.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gog+red+candle+games&ia=news&iar=news

It has a lot to do with how it would have affected Cyberpunk 2077’s release in China and it’s huge gaming market. I mean, just look at the downvote count in my previous comment, there are a lot of butthurt factory trolls downvoting it from the red stained Lemmy “Marxist Leninist” foundries. China cannot accept any political commentary, specially coming from Taiwan, and the devs got punished for it. The devs capitulated, but China did not care, so why bother?

If only GOG was this militant when it involved Taiwanese developers (Red Candle Game devs), I would still be using their platform. They haven’t even allowed Nine Sols on it, so I haven’t bothered going back yet or have even recommended them to the degree I usually did over Steam.

It’s not even that they had to censor themselves, it’s their woeful attempt at an excuse. It’s funny whom they kneel before and whom the are activists against. Were it a China “Many Gamers” matter, do not expect them to have been as willing…