I have evolved. New account: @Elara@lemmygrad.ml
It feels like we're living in an alternate reality where The Onion is a serious, non-satirical news source
How do people live with unread notifications? My brain won't let me. If there's a number next to the icon, my brain will not calm down until I have read, and responded to if necessary, every single notification. If I was in a situation where I had >500 notifications, the entire day would be spent just reading and responding to every single one. The only way I can avoid it is to never see the notifications at all.
So, essentially, there's a perception in the US that nuclear reactors are always at risk of catastrophic failure and that if this happens, it will be as bad as Chernobyl. Therefore, they oppose anything even remotely related to nuclear power. Of course, this perception has been very intentionally created by the fossil fuel oligarchs.
At this point, it's been so drilled into the heads of most people here that they just won't listen to anything you have to say that counters this point of view.
They aren't even trying to hide the propaganda
"Chinese Communist Party Congress set to anoint Xi as president for life"
If you read past the headline, the article goes on to say "We can be almost certain that Xi, as the Communist Party's general secretary, will be appointed for another five-year term," and "Technically speaking, since the term limit has been removed, he can stay in power for life, [although] that may require some formal ceremonies after five years."
Apparently, a theoretical 5 year term that they aren't even completely sure will happen means for life, and "technically speaking, he can" means he will do so.
South Korea launched the domestically produced, Hyunmoo-2 missiles. On this occasion, one of the missiles malfunctioned and landed on one of its own air force bases.
Hit their own base (trying) to own the tankies. Kim Jong-Un must have telekinesis powers now in addition to necromancy.
I kept calm for the most part because he is an American teenager.
That's not much of an excuse. I am a teenager born and living in the US. I am also an ML. Before becoming an ML, I never really thought about ideology, but I was anti-capitalist because I realized before I was even a teenager that the incentive structure of capitalism must lead to misery because it prioritizes capital over everything.
Yes, Capitalism does in fact create innovation, in precisely the wrong direction.
Recipients of bionic eyes from Second Sight are starting to go blind after the company behind the technology stopped supporting their products.
Welcome to Capitalism, where you can lose your vision because some corporation didn't get enough money.