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And yet none of my friends and family can see this blatantly right in front of them. Have people gotten stupider ? Its as obvious as the sun being hot.
It's that whole frog analogy, where you can slowly boil a frog alive by gradually increasing the temperature by small increments.
I'm pretty sure that's a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren't actually that stupid and jump out of the water.
*after you lobotomised the frog first.
Hopefully not coming off as too much of an ass, but normies largely won't care, as it doesn't immediately affect them. Knowing it's a bad thing requires a bit of understanding about an operating system that most people just don't know or care to learn about.
Right, it’s of no consequence to people who just browse Facebook and do online banking and candy crush and watch TikTok reels. They’re already perfectly happy giving up everything about themselves.
And this is the issue. People are lazy and dumb. No desire to learn.
'Bad' is just an immediate feeling of aversion to most 'people'.
It does immediately affect them though
I don't know if they're stupid or have just given up or what. I always feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk to people about technology. Usually they can't even acknowledge there's a problem while I'm so pissed off about it that I'm not sure I could restrain myself from doing physical harm if I found myself in the presence of some of the people responsible for this shit. It's incredibly frustrating.
I am 10000% in the same boat. I can't even talk to them about tech because like you, I'll go insane trying to make them understand these issues and they just laugh it off, or I'm a crazy tinfoil hat person. Even though its documented 100% proven what big tech does.
A lot of them have given up as well. I mean, say you have a kid, then you forgo thinking about anything else in the world except that, who cares if zucc and thiel are destroying the world and surveiling you constantly to bring in a new era of authoritarianism that will result in mass suffering? Your kid needs food. Parents by and large do not care what is actually going on, theyre too busy (from what ive seen.) And I can't really blame them.
So I prefer to have intelligent conversation online, and when around IRL folks I just act as dumb as them.
Yes. Yes they have. All it takes is one charismatic idiot to make your otherwise thoughtful and mindful friends to debase themselves. It sucks, but welcome to the world.
Edit: Debate to debate. Fucking autocorrect.
Referencing the recent comic "if everyone in the world thought like me it'd be a better place" except I'm actually right 😩
They never had a problem with it.
See Windows and Mac.
Or IOS.
Or the people who cheered when Epic Games lost their lawsuits.
I think most don't care about privacy, cause why would tech giant be interested in them. Especially when using more secure/private alternatives usually means you lose out in convenience, price and "quality" (how fleshed out the app is).
They're just pzombies. Herd animals.bundles of reaction and reflex without consciousness.
We all start out that way. Not everyone is fortunate enough to grow in an environment that grants them access to education and insights into how tech works.
If you start thinking of others as lesser just because they’re less/uneducated about something then know that someone could be thinking the same of you.
As someone who has been offering those insights for longer than many people have been alive: they call you a nerd hate you for trying to make their lives harder and tell you to fuck off, because mastodon takes five seconds and one decision more to register for than Twitter.
Then ten/fifteen/twenty years later when they panic because you were right about everything, they blame you for Facebook being evil because you knew about it. Despite being the one person they know without a Facebook account.
You're making up someone to be mad at, who yells at people for using a GUI and shouts "nooooob!" Without irony. That person sounds unpleasant, and I would like an apology for the assumption that I'm them.
Just gotta put this into context:
Sounds like condescending narcissist POC speak to me. No apologies.
Yeah I guess I should just switch to windows. Continue this conversation on discord?
Joke’s on you bud. I use NixOS.
Curiously enough, home-manager supports Discord.