Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones

There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit

But if you were to overthrow Putin, how would you do it?

If you have a fascist dictatorship, how do you end it? How was fascism ended in history?

With VR an important aspect you’re not mentioning is the 3D movement you are now able to do, inhabiting the played character in a more true to form way

kids should not lie to their parents

Said by someone whose parents aren’t abusive I presume.

Yeah no, welcome to the real world, there’s tons of fucked up parents out there that kids need to be protected from

“this was eye opening”

Bro if this was eye-opening your level of political analysis is high school level

Hell yea

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Your thirst is mine, my water is yours

I genuinely don’t know if they’re doing this intentionally, or if they are just completely blind to it at this point, but violence is, and always has been, normalized and used in the dominating political/legal/governing/economic systems. It’s just not treated as such.

Because what is denying someone’s healthcare insurance claim that they are supposed to get if not violence? Or sending police after someone? Or sentencing someone to death?

Violence has always been part of the answer. It’s just that that answer is not officially allowed for the common rabble.

How is it human nature when it’s literally the system that is the problem? This is not about individuals, but about systems, specifically the profit motive

Competition for the most profit under capitalism is literally the driving factor for all of this. If you don’t do it, someone else will take your place and do it instead

Or the French revolution, for that matter

It’s always endlessly frustrating when people don’t realize, or don’t want to realize, what you wrote

I’m just really tired of telling people about the obvious, and every time history keeps repeating

I don’t believe it’s just convenience, it’s as you said, people don’t care about the long term. In anything.

A big corporate platform (or whatever else, like, say, oil companies vs climate protesters) will always have more resources, whether it’s for development or marketing, so people will always have to be a bit willing to not have full convenience for a better world

If we don’t think about the long term, what are we even thinking of instead?

That’s the ironic thing about it. Because they’re so safe it becomes completely bland… basically all bit ensuring it won’t be as successfully anyway

They’re being so safe it’s unsafe

I mean, the thing that people watch twitch for is mainly the person/people on the stream, the game is a backdrop, rarely the actual focus

And not everyone is ego-centric like you’re saying? I mean, there’s literally tens of thousands of streamers. Don’t just look at the biggest ones that probably mainly appeal to kids, i.e. a different audience than you. Chances are the kind of people you would enjoy watching are just smaller and more niche

Okay then, hope people won’t complain when things go to shit again

Just forever on march towards the inevitable due to convenience

I can’t even get them to use mastodon or Lemmy, they’re not gonna go to an alternative discord

Okay, great, now convince 30+ other people I chat with on the service

Yes I know it sucks and will just keep on enshittifying, but it’s not so much as it being a replaceable social media for me, as it is a primary way for me to keep in contact with partners, friends, finding out about and participating in arrangements, and meeting new people in my local area. Stopping using discord is effectively cutting myself off from the local communities

Everyone in my social circle uses it, and will keep on using it. Maybe once some breaking point is reached due to ever increasing enshittification people will start being interested in alternatives, but we’re far from that point still

I do

This is strikingly similar to how Jews were treated in pre-war germany

Time to learn from history and not give in easily