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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • I think right now companies are competing until they’re only 1 or 2 that clearly own the majority of the market.

    Afterwards they will devolve back into the same thing search engines are now. A cesspool of sponsored ads and links to useless SEO blogs.

    They’ll just become gate keepers of information again and the only ones that will be heard are the ones who pay a fee or game the system.

    Maybe not though, I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to what the incentives of businesses are.



  • I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

    The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

    It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

    I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.