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Well. When do you think you’ll die?

People are going to do the laziest thing possible. More at 11.

Started doing PT for an injury I sustained in my 20’s, and then largely ignored. Its made a huge difference. Probably going to quit one of my business (sell my stake) and take a lower paying role so I can focus on building up my vanilla operation. In my 20’s I focused on living in a manner consistent with my values. In my 30s I thought I could “get ahead” and took a corporate job, then started my own company. Now in my 40’s, its time to get back to my roots while I can still push it physically.

if the test comes back negative, it’s wrong only about 3 times out of 10,000,”

So there-in lies the problem, which is that things like cancer, are already rare. Say there are 6 real instances of cancer in 10,000. Say the system says 20 are cancer, 3 actually are, and it missed 3. That means it was only positively correct at a rate of 50%, even though its overall accuracy is well over 99%

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The “Gee thanks I’m cured” theory of social change.

I wouldn’t speculate trying to split out anything regarding covid. I would treat it as a singular event.

Yeah. I mean, I think we’ll see a global drop in total average intelligence equivalent to wide-scale exposure to an environmental toxin like lead.

Asbestos is bad.

But how do you quantify the impacts of a global average decline in IQ of 1-2%?

Hottest take and speculative: Covid.

And it kind of depends on how you think about the scale of impacts. Aspestos is horribly damaging for a few people directly exposed. The rate of exposure to covid is orders of magnitude higher.

I think we’ve really only begun to see the long term impacts, and we know already of many of the long term issues related to decline in cognitive abilities, heart issues, all kinds of other stuff. But we right now, only know the small “near tail” behavior of those issues. It will take decades to find the “long tail” behavior of the disease.

So if asbestos exposure is 100x as damaging as covid exposure, say… but 10,000x as many are exposed to covid… its overall impact is 100x that of asbestos.

Sure. You’re entirely immune to propaganda campaigns that existed even before your grandparents were born.

EVERYONE is victim to propaganda but you. You alone are able to identify the issue, that those in the positions of least power are the ones we should be asking to change global systems, an approach that has quite literally never worked to affect change.

I already told you that’s not what I’m doing.

They said, as they repeatedly did the thing they were being accused of…

The point of the critique is that individuals have no power to make Twitter less important, or at least, not the audience of this show. Who she should be bringing that critique to is someone like Jon Stewart himself, not to Jon Stewart’s audience. And actually, Jon is a great example of someone who did exactly this, with his Crossfire video.

Jon didn’t go on Crossfire and tell Crossfire’s audience to stop engaging with the content. He went on Crossfire and told the people in power to stop. Broadly, if you are ever doing something where you are shifting responsibility from those in power, to those out of power, you are doing the job of the oppressor.

Literally, Lemmy does not matter whatsoever to reddit, and likewise, Mastodon does not matter whatsoever to Twitter. Those things do not matter. Moving to lemmy or mastadon might make you feel better, but it has made not one iota of difference to those platforms.

Regulation, changes from those in positions of power, those can make a meaningful difference. But its utterly disingenuous to put things that require systemic reform as “collective reform”. Its utterly bonkers, and shields those in power, who can make different decisions, from needing to do so.

Ah yes. The pee-wee herman defense. How astute.

As long as you put the responsibility for outcomes on individuals and not systems and those with power over systems, you are doing their work for them.

There’s no propaganda.

Of course there is no war in bah sing seh! How could I forget.

Individual choices are practically immaterial and have almost no impact on the outcomes societies endure. For all practical purposes, individual choice is meaningless. You doing or not doing something doesn’t mean shit, because you aren’t in a position of power over systems.

Oh its absolutely not though. And you thinking that, thats decades of propaganda operating on you. And it worked. It shifts the responsibly from those in positions power, who can make societal scale decisions, to those who have the least power, who can only change their individual behavior.

And its not an accidental thing as a mechanism for governments, corporations, etc… to use to shift blame. Its all very well established.

When I need to buy or sell anything for my farm activities, its pretty much the only game in town.

I agree with @wesker@lemmy.sdf.org in their comment. No one in real life is on twitter. Twitter is place that seems real because people on media convince themselves its real and give it substance.

No materially meaningful thing happens on twitter, and its perceived importance is a byproduct of media hyping it up.

Now meta… thats an altogether different beast. FB market place captured most of what used to happen on craiglist. Its how entire families organize and keep together.

In terms of analysis, I’m annoyed at Cohn here. This isn’t something we as individuals have control of. Her saying people individually have to make the difference is like saying you individually have to make the difference regarding climate change by making different choices, like recycling.