Thanks for the link with an update. Yeah it's been on the decline for years - e.g. younger people not only choose streaming to do what they want when and how, but even younger ones forego TV entirely and just watch like YouTube, then Instagram and now TikTok I guess. Plus games, many of which offer stories inside of them, and which unfold in a more interactive manner. Having to sit there for like an hour while it blasts you with predefined content is one model, but there are other ways to be entertained, and especially when those other ways cost far less to even being free.:-)
We all do it. I was explaining the other day how the "Central Dogma" of biology is patently false, though nevertheless it is still a useful framework upon which to begin building knowledge.
(Wow a lot of downvoters here but fwiw I at least upvoted you.)
You bring up a FASCINATING tangent: is there a minimum level of agency required for someone to be "wrong"? Like if ChatGPT were to say something that represent racist trolling language, is it racist, or is it merely incorrectly trained? (and if it is a racist troll, then why is it not banned entirely from places like Reddit, Facebook, Tumblr, Threads, X, and the Fediverse? humans that do precisely that have that happen to them - why is it treated with "kid gloves"?)
Moreover, if someone steps up to become a leader, do we hold them to a higher standard? e.g. even though Trump can barely pass a test to determine if he is mentally incapable, do we hold his actions (such as assassination, invasion of another country like Russia is doing, etc.) against him? Do these standards vary according to the level of leadership, e.g. what if someone is not running to be a President, but they do vote to remove access to medical care for pregnant mothers - does the person bear any responsibility whatsoever for their actions in that case, if they "merely voted", the way that their cough cough evangelical christian cough pastors told them to?
Another source of bias is a personal relationship - is someone wrong, or conversely not wrong, even if they are your mother or father?
I think the Western world is under attack, and we have some difficult decisions ahead of us. People people are literally dying, and we are in this trolly staring at the lever. Whatever the attacker does is on them, but whatever we do in response is on us. imho. But if I say that, then isn't it likewise on them, those people who vote in the other way than I think is correct?
Wow, a representative democracy - I have heard those words before but I struggle to even so much as begin to understand what it might be like in such a place. For instance, I presume you have socialized healthcare? (It's a good bet b/c the only 2 first-world countries that do not are the USA and Saudia Arabia iirc:-P)
Crispr, I am just saying... (as the meme suggests, this is all totally fine, certainly no issues foreseen here, especially if I squeeze my eyes shut really tight!:-P)
It sure would be a shame if something were to... happen to him, capiche?
we’re all going to act like that didn’t happen
I feel the need to correct you in one matter: we (The People) are doing something about it! Why, Trump has been on the campaign trail for months now, saying how we should fix this very problem!
I am talking about allowing people to murder journalists and tattletales, ofc, what did you think I meant? We aren't "America" if we don't allow (checks notes) Freedom Murder of the Press, apparently. (Jon Stewart's recent take on the matter)
Just wait'll the fascists take control in the next election, and it may become so here! (this statement works regardless of country or year or even party affiliation, unfortunately, but people are people)
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Right, I was presuming that they don't actually - "streaming TV" being like Netflix, Disney+, etc., but kids doing things other than TV, period.
Maybe they are texting and on social media instead:-).