General Discussion

I hope they don’t use nukes..
Isn’t there anyone left to..stop mutually assured destruction.

This is a real news story not a sad Diplomacy Game metaphor. I wonder sometimes if these guys can tell anymore..

Hah..I got it..I felt something was wrong re this being a problem of lack of quality education.
You can manage without even that absent active brainwashing which overrides your organic intelligence.
It is highly recommended that anyone navigating a complex modern society have expertise, knowledge and intelligence of course.

But at the very least the absence of brainwashing and more of these twenty steps backwards and half a step forward technocratic fixes..
Wet markets and factory farms and pandemic risk are fine! We have vaccines!
One fucking lunatic nuisance technology after another destroying attention and memory are fine! We have creepy Jonathan Haidt columns, scammy TED tech talks, creepy cottage industries of tech creep funded internet research choking out all real research* and ransomware patches!
We are buffered for collateral damage!
No billionaires were hurt in the making of this abomination!!!
*: DU is the sole internet use I champion as DU is different because of elad/EarlG and DUers.