Are you the actual OP here? I hope this isn’t just someone else’s content posted from elsewhere.

But now? I’ve embraced it.

This is so great to hear. Own it. Your response is great. Your feet are huge. Take up a martial art with a lot of kicking.

I’m both cases my view on the people is the same: they do understand. The information has always been there and publicised. People wanted this.

We don’t like what they want and we call them dumb, but it is no easy task to effectively use propaganda on this many people. It’s also easy to label people “stupid”, which is not true. This mindset genuinely exists. America is a Trump supporting nation. UK is a Brexit supporting nation (I don’t know if current regret surveys would translate into votes, Reform has more support than ever and it is increasing, and surveys last time also predicted that the majority didn’t support Brexit).

There have been a lot of podcasts looking academically how this polarisation and thinking has come about in the last 2 decades. I’m really interested in getting to the bottom of answers of how people are so convinced like this rather than the simplistic and inaccurate conclusion that “they are all dumb”.

I was about to finish my training and no jobs were coming up. Then the guy in the job I wanted in my local area died just as my training was about to finish (he didn’t seem old or sick to me, and I still have no idea what happened there). They put this job out to advertise rapidly and hardly got a couple of applicants…and I’ve been here since.

This inflicts chip damage.

Spectator sports is entertainment.

The king’s role is entirely ceremonial and the monarch does not express a political option. England is a parliamentary democracy and the king gives his blessing to whatever parliament puts in front of him. Some anti-monarchists argue that the rotalss are a very expensive tourist attraction at this point, and useless drain on public funds.

I don’t know the exact ins and outs of the parliamentary process. There must be some previous example of a petition changing something at some point…but I would think of that an as an exceedingly rare exception.

Lemmy seems to have a very strong voice for pushing people towards Linux… But I don’t hear nearly enough about ditching Google and other mega-corps. I started Degoogling long ago and have been really happy with the result. There are lots of alternatives and there’s no reason to stick with Google the way people do. Your description of half-baked shitty products is their hallmark. Their bloody search doesn’t even work well anymore and that’s what the whole business got launched on.

Lemmy please strongly considering De-googling. It’s quite easy for almost all services.

This is some real boomer shit.