[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Significant proportion, but a minority still.

But yes it’s not racism alone, also confusion, selfishness, disinterest, spite, partisanship, a long list of reasons

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t know.. just can’t trust this guy since his glowingly positive cyberpunk launch review

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Society is very natural, OUR current model of society is sadly not

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes behaviourally, no empirically.

You get a positive dopamine reactive from viewing multiple short form content pieces in succession, you get an arguably more valuable serotonin reaction from viewing a more in depth piece and maybe feeling like you learned something.

How you’re affected by these feelings of satisfaction will influence your behaviour. I recently compared mine and my wife’s weekends, she’d watched a lot of short form content and couldn’t remember a thing, felt empty from it, I’d watched a series of a tv show and could talk about the story and concepts.

But that’s not all there is to it, Plato argued that the written world would dumb people down because they no longer had to remember things and pass them on vocally, maybe a decrease in the requirement for individual cognition, but obviously an overall good.

Edit: edit was messing with me so I couldn’t add this til now. I’m just a drunk guy enjoying dinner and browsing Lemmy, what you’re looking for is the simple answer, the dopamine hit, a minimal conversation. Put your attention span to the test and look into some open access research on the subject, it’ll be fun! And its all that seperate us from the YouTubers that we venerate so much

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 58 points 1 year ago

Oh I really doubt many are boycotting it, just poking the anthills that are their fanbases and communities to keep them engaged

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Try to balance idealism with realism my friend, that’s my advice anyway. Strive for the perfect, but don’t refuse the good

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yes I agree it’s incrementalism, but it’s a grain of sand in the good side of the scales.

I see the strongest detractors of the voice being conservatives, not the groups saying it’s too little. In my opinion, and maybe I’m being more cynical than you, is that if people do not support this small step, there’s no fucking hope of anything more significant being supported any time soon.

So like I said, it’s not much but if it’s defeated I see nothing but harm coming from the loss

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Most likely very little (that’s why I said it’s a tiny step in the direction progress). I think it’s extremely high profile and has public focus, that makes it different to most advisory bodies.

Also true what your saying about it going bad and being stocked with shills.

Again I think it’s an action, which to me seems better than no action. Particularly because I don’t think a No vote results in increased indigenous support, but does result in emboldened bigots and conservative affirmation

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t know folks, sure it’s a token step but it’s something ffs, a No vote will have no positives I can see (just listen to conservative assholes saying they’re sick of hearing acknowledgement of country, and they’ll be back in power soon enough). Whereas a Yes vote brings us a tiny step closer to actual progress…

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

First weekend on Lemmy and I’m loving it.

I’m noticing a very strong hard-left bent though, which suits me just fine, but it’s interesting to see how progressive this space is

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Search ‘The Guardians of Jiefangxi’ or ‘Guarding Jiefangxi’ on the usual streaming sites and you should find it

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Might depend what you mean by ‘things’, there’s Chinese reality tv shows with English subs, an interesting one which got popular last year was about a local police station.

It was bizarre because it had cutesy graphics and sound effects overlaid with a guy being questioned for sexual assault of a minor

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