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  1. I mean I literally said that it's like crowdwork for a comedien-- complete with an imbalance of power and rhetorical and logically flourishes. That's why I said "literally".
  2. But it's also part of being active in a teens life and understanding where they are putting their time and energy and sort of foolishness is going on. To be fair, I did plenty of foolishing things in my day (as I am sure you all did) but this is the flavor of foolishness and arguably the results and consequences of teen foolishness has never been more dire and unhealthy. This stuff can intersect with the "why are kids so intolerant" discussion tbh.
  3. And 6-7 is fairly self-explanatory if you've ever spent 10 minutes around any teen for the last 6 months.
  4. That’s literally exactly what I said, right?
  5. I’d heard of lookmaxxing because doing the mewing chin thin became irl meme ( a la 6-7) with even normie teens. my grandson told me the one common denominator with incels is male height. If you are tall, even if you are an awk teen, they hate you and call you Chad and tall boys look forward to the glow up.
  6. Dear God, I'm sorry. But yea, we checked our teens phones every other day. They got sneaky, but generally hard to get into a bad rhythm and pattern that truly radicalizes you when there is a monitoring protocol in place (and cell phones and laptops where checked in before bed in a central location).
  7. I believe you because based on another post were you put us on to some underbelly and subculture stuff, you seem like a guy who is in the know.
  8. Maybe we are saying the same thing, but....there is a floor salary/price that comes with autonomy, mastery and purpose generally and hourly wage roles don't qualify generally.
  9. same with the bold, and I agree, it definitely felt like what he did was akin to comediens who do crowdwork. He clearly retained a position of power and advantage and had tools of the trade (rhetorically and logically, speaking) to move the debate as he wanted. I think the reason he was so good was because he was articulate and an excellent communicator (and quick thinker). I saw one video where he drew an even more provocative distinction in that he's not university or college educated and they, the bumbling speakers were. But these are kids and he was an adult with heavy experience speaking. ETA the parallel to crowdwork and what he was doing:
  10. Short term, sure. Automony, mastery and purpose (AMP) seem to be the long term "nutrition" that motivates us; money (generally more external) motivations seem to be more like sugar, short bursts of satisfaction that go away over time. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014122304/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-drive-the-surprising-truth
  11. Studies have shown that's not exactly true.
  12. Now do climate change / sustainability policies... just kidding not the thread for it, but it's the same thrust of what you are saying. And because these things are seen as corporations perfomance, like I described, it's a signal to not take it all that serious and just wait it out until the winds shifts again. The only thing that really matters is the 10-Q
  13. Because I hadn't been touched by the algo before he died, i searched out a bunch of short form videos and from what I can gather, he was basically a really articulate (truly) thinker and speaker who reasoned with logic really well extemporaniously (at least, relative and compared to young college students) and defended his conservative positions well.
  14. As a parent and now a grandparent, the thing that has stayed with me about this while thing (the shooter and his motives, etc.) is something I read the mom said or commented on. I read somewhere and I'll try to find the source but it's been a few days, where the family member or the mom said something to the effect of "he was into his games and internet and even went as some sort of meme once for Halloween when he was in high school" and was just so oblivious and hand-wavey about the whole thing. Clearly no real oversight or discipline into how he was raised with respect to technology. That screams to me either laziness or apathy, but either way, a very dangerous way to raise kids in the social media/internet dsytopian timeline. Like many kids, if he maybe had more attentative caregivers who moderated and policed his online behavior and activity as a youth and teen in those developmental years, maybe some of the internet-induced mental illness could have been avoided. Then again, maybe guys in their late 20's and 30's end up breaking their brains on the internet on their own and it was inevitable. I truly don't know.
  15. We live in a chaotic world full of mental illness in pockets and genres that I didn't even know existed. I couldn't dream up this scenario or the players to this if I tried.
  16. 100% agree. American Christianity is a lazy, fat cat from lapping at the easy dish of cream. Christianity has always thrived when it was practiced in the margins in, dare I say, persecution. Americans (and yours truly) would be wise to heed Isaiah 1:22, "Your silver has become dross..."
  17. I'm guessing the boots in Gaza per reports today?
  18. Yep.
  19. Wait, I JUST got this joke. This is funny. ugh, i do have it don't i.
  20. This is a great point and it jives and makes me recall another piece of this that I had forgotten about that time until your post-- the mandatory trainings around hiring and recognizing subconscious bias and giving some rules of the road on how to better interview, score, bar raise, etc. You actually couldn't interview candidates much less get an HR partner and get candidates unless you had done the corporate certification at that time around DEI.
  21. You are right. I'd love to play this though:
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