We agree that the current situation won't change itself, and change to this system from inside of it would likely be stifled and repressed.

I agree that we need to keep trying to find a better way, because there are many people are will certainly keep trying to make things worse for us.

The first step is a better way to communicate between ourselves about what we want, why we want it, and how to enact our intentions.

With the advent and use of the internet we now have the possibility for a new way to organize our collective wants.

This system, which I call a consensus engine, would let us as a species make long term goals and work towards their fruition. Without some way to communicate that is less sustainable to misinformation I don't see any way we can get out of this into something better.

PBS Space Time is pretty great

I'd say there is a huge amount of bots, then the smart bots, then the actual shills. The smarter ones run complex operations and are able to use their own power to self propel their own stories. And there are a lot of similar 'power users' who are not wholly paid for by someone but would do work for the highest bidder. I'd bet that yes, 50% of what's on the front page of major things is reputation management or Hail Corporate stuff, then I'd wager the mostly less popular stuff is actual people, with a ton of bad posts from all sides at the low popularity

But what is unique is the fact that we have an extremely well preserved corpus of text surrounding him.

IIFC all those writing are dated to well after the life time, like 100 year past it or so. It may be a bunch of written things but there is no/little reason to take those writings as anything but written down stories.

Ever play Telephone with a single word for 5 minutes? Now do that to a epic for 100 years, the end result will certainly be something but it may be nothing like the truth

Sounds like the CCP approach to twain with the "but a 'kingdom' in the past had this territory so we are entitled to it.

This would be a direct link to the photo: https://i.imgur.com/NMNDl6b.png that I think it pretty interesting but that video shows a controlled disclosure timeline slide that is very interesting because the 2026 target of getting the fact accepted by some is potentially off track and it's from there that the academic study and eventual (timed currently 2030 {accd that slide}) total public disclosure are based on that milestone

and do you have one of those? Because form what I hear they beep when you're being a good drive too and you end up being a worse (than good) driver trying not to get the beeps

can I just use the zester to get some of the acidic bite back into a fresh sqeeuzed thing?

fuck all these 'tribalism' promotion posts, we should be finding ways to work together. Lisa, you're tearing me apart!

when the food has 2 days worth of sodium in it, you get thirsty. Many people don't drink enough water so then your thirsty and have your liter-of-cola and you can down it easily at that point

Do you have a written summary of that? I hate watching videos, and the dark forest book was fun but without a clue I don't understand the change to internet

When in most of our lifetimes has the u.s. presidental election not been 'the lesser of two evils'?

If all cops ate seven grams of magic mushies I think the world would be a much better place for everyone who has to deal with cops

Do you agree that those who are tasked with upholding the law should be allowed to violate that same law with impunity?

I understand your comment but I don't see how it could overcome the above question in regard to police officers.

that beyond brauts are pretty good actually

I think most normal people who don't own any yachts will agree, but it's a far cry from saying we need to make things better to actually doing so.

I think that to succeed in this we need a plan, and as plans go there are many. So the plan we need has to integrate lots of possible changes and alternatives.

The 'r/ a better world' idea, of a consensus engine is where I think we can make this succeed.

We can make a money making engine that uses it's resources to take people and communities out of poverty.

Imagine a 'church' or rather fellowship of people who don't want to be dicks to people and who don't want people to act like dicks towards them, that being the only main tie and not 'religion' as it is known.

this community group could use something called a 'consensus engine' to agree on things, and where people don't agree we can use the CE to see why they don't agree. This can be traced backward though a chain of reasoning to show where one party diverges in thought and action.

Examples: for science research, it acts as a chain of validation as well as a reputation management system. people who explain themselves well and created actually reproducible experiments gain clout in that area and

for showing religious people that they are hypocrites, someone says they love jesus and support his teachings of loving everyone and helping the poor, then they show that they do not help other or help the poor, then they have to try and define why that is okay and where their own disconnect comes from

for companies, a moral clause can be added that the company has to help people and can't just try to make money if it means killing others or ruining the planet

I have a ton of examples of how such an idea might work but zero ideas how to implement it, in case you wanted more info on the idea to make it yourlsef let me know

You mean 'native advertising'? that is something r/hailcorporate was pointing out for years, I wonder if it's been banned yet

don't be stupid.

FG and FB were fun but BL was filled with bad GCI which I am not as much of a fan of.

We are not no, and look how well it is working. I get that doing things that is unfair is unfair but this point is to me more fair, not less.