this is very well documented and there is actually a really good book about how particular manifestations of mental distress are social contagions spread by the media and institutions.
“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”
Boomers: "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my children's time. I want to be comfortable and they are a bunch of ungrateful brats anyway."
they're going to be liquefied and used to pay for long-term care for their owners. There's a very real housing x disability tension that nobody in power seems interested in addressing
genuinely feel bad for the guy longing oil thinking it will go up just because 20% of the worlds oil supply has been shut off for a month and every oil refinery in the middle east is on fire due to an escalating war with no end in sight
when i saw sy hersh (who broke the abu ghraib story) speak last year, he was very bleak about this. he said that if the abu ghraib whistleblower had come to him in recent years, he would not expect the story to make a difference today the way it did in 2004.
AI is oneshotting executives at the biggest companies on earth. youre the CEO of mcdonalds. you already serve slop to slop consumers. you asked a slop machine to serve you wordslop about what foodslop to sell. complete vertical slop integration. annihilate the earth now.
I-I will… *sniffle* …die in a hospital bed at age 90 s-surrounded by loved ones in-instead of… *pouts* …having my head blown off by artillery at age 17!!! Wahhhhhhh! How unfulfilling!!!!
This is complete bullshit btw, the real reason is that the upper class has a deep disdain for their country's own culture and love to larp as westerners