I wonder where you’re from. In the parts of Europe I know it seems to be everywhere, all the media, all the information channels, just inescapable. And it’s not US politics, it’s international politics - tariffs, visas, research financing, USAID, military alliances, new territory ambitions - these are not US internal politics, it influences other countries in a massive way.
Unfortunately that’s not the way it works.
Many people lose the mental capabilities they used to have when they were young, so they become unable to act the same way as they used to. They often lose the ability to learn new things. We’re talking 60+, so there are hormonal changes that can influence both the physical and psychological side of a person. Just stay young in your head is an advise similar to saying “cheer up” to a depressed person. The mental decline is probably partly genetic, partly pure luck or lack thereof, and a minor part can be influenced by lifestyle. So I guess try to influence what you can, excercise, eat healthy food, read, meet younger people and hope for the best.
One thing is to identify the bad behaviour in others, to see you’re doing it yourself is much harder though. People often don’t realize they’re doing something they hate in others.
I believe it does. It’s really hard for children to buy hard drugs.
Banning hard drugs doesn’t solve the underlying problem, but it makes them less widely available, which is a good thing. Ban him.
That’s not the same as just letting an LLM to halucinate a whole article from nothing - which it sounds like when you say it was written by AI. LLMs are not a bad tool for translations, they have to be checked well though. Working with a language is the one thing they can actually do - unlike giving real answers.
Even nazi Germany was allowed to host the Olympics. I don’t think it’s good, but that’s the way it works.
No, they were not. AI was probably used for translation.
You can have impact personally. That’s why many people hesitate to join a group and actually do something - they don’t understand only if they are personally active they can matter. Not doing anything because a person feels like activity is not realistic makes people resigned and idle.
Edit: I do understand your feeling of needing to have an impact. It’s important to understand what kind of activity is worth devoting ones self to. I personally feel motivated to be active when I watch superhero movies, so I guess it can have different effects on different people. As always, things are not black and white.
I think it’s actually really great to march in liberal countries to support communities from less tolerant places. In this interconnected world, it makes sense to support each other across the borders.
But even to take action in a group, you have to make the individual decision to join. You have to chose for yourself, which takes individual bravery, because even if you’re part of a group, the responsibility and potential repercussions will be yours to deal with. A group always consists of individual people. I read superhero stories as stories about finding the bravery in yourself (the superpower) to go and join the good cause despite the terrible danger.
I don’t agree with your view of superheros. I think they work as a metaphor of any person brave enough to stand up to evil. People never imagine they are the powerless population. The films focus on the heros and people personify with them - it’s inspirational. There has also been a big stress on heros needing to team up lately. The movies did nothing wrong. I agree with everything else though.
It’s not for people who were convicted. No due process allowed.
Do go for the shitty admins with no mercy though. We don’t need Wiki to slowly rot from the inside.
Exactly. People who want to believe certain things will find them in the Bible and will disregard the rest that’s also written there. Belief is, unfortunately, irrational.
Not everyone knows. This information should be everywhere.
Yes, but the pope is only the head of the Catholics. The other branches don’t care about him.
The meaning of bread is pretty loose as it is, especially internationally.
TV, newpapers and facebook is what I’m talking about. I’m the only lemmy person in my real life bubble.