PeriodicallyPedantic

It's not propaganda to acknowledge they exist.

It's propaganda to normalize sociopathic behavior as the appropriate response to sociopathy.

That is exactly the sociopathic propaganda I mentioned, that simply isn't backed by evidence, but casts people with empathy as ignorant.

Humans do work that way. In the wake of disaster, and tragedy, and scarcity, we see people sharing resources and helping each other.

It's the sociopaths who seek power that don't work that way. The biggest success of capitalism is that the sociopaths have normalized their behavior and cast kindness as a flaw or disorder.

I mean, that's kind of my point - in situations like that, it seems like using Tiktok is small potatoes compared to the more significant issues that'd cause problem behavior. The Tiktok consumption is just another symptom, and if it wasn't tiktok it'd be some other escape mechanism.

To me, the article seems lazy, complaining about a superficial problem without spending effort to even consider or mention underlying root causes that could give rise to it and must be solved first.

And to be clear I'm not blaming the parents, they're not the "root cause" I'm talking about. They're victims too, in large part. They and their kids are stuck in a harmful cycle, and people with the ability to break that cycle are unwilling to do so.

What does "on tiktok" mean?

Unsupervised with their own accounts? I feel like that's difficult to believe. Watching a few tiktoks before dinner with their parents? That doesn't really strike me as a problem.

While I don't entirely disagree with the author, I feel like this is a far too superficial look at what is a larger societal problem: young people have checked out.

He makes the argument that mental health is in decline, and I'm not sure if that's true or we've just removed the stigma from therapy... But of more concern to me is that young people just DGAF, and I think that's because older generations have left nothing for younger generations to inherit, besides ruin. Kids 5-7 aren't gonna understand that, but they're gonna pick up the vibes from their parents.

You think it's dei?

No, it's all the old white dudes at the top making those decisions.

I came here to say exactly this lol

So it can run on one machine very well

Those probably have their own way of tracking

Maximum eyeroll

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She hasn't been seen since her surgery a few months ago. They palace recently released a pic of her, but AP and other photo publishers had to retract it because it was obviously manipulated. It appears they photoshopped in her face from a magazine photoshoot a few years ago.

I don't usually follow this stuff, but it turns out that when a photo gets retracted it's called a "kill notice" or a "photo kill". I didn't know that, so when I saw headlines saying that AP put out a kill notice on the royal family it got my attention lol

That's way too cool to be a Bitcoin miner