yogthos

it really is just common sense

My understanding is that this is just the operation in US, not TikTok globally.

yeah looks like they took it down, but they did release it under Apache license so here's a clone https://git.sr.ht/~yogthos/quelmap

there's no money in peace talks

It's a very transparent regime change operation. Just look where Nepal is located to understand why this is happening.

This was developed in China, and if anybody is addressing the issue of capitalism it's definitely them.

That assumes a comparable level of development which is highly unlikely. Just look at how quickly our civilization changed in just a few thousand years. Stuff like the internet would've been basically magic even a few hundred years ago. Imagine what the civilization might look like in another thousand years assuming we don't wipe ourselves out.

It's certainly possible religions will adapt to this and incorporate alien life into their narrative. Religions has proved to be a tenacious meme, so I'm sure it can continue to reinvent itself.

The Us finds itself in an incredibly volatile situation because significant segments of the population in US no longer believe that the government has their best interest at heart, and that's a measure of how far the collapse has progressed. The underlying cause for this mistrust is the decline of material conditions over the past several decades. However, most people in US lack the political or economic education to understand what's happening leading to public lashing out in random and irrational ways. People understand that they're being hurt, but they don't understand who is responsible or why it's happening.

The mainstream is now split between democrats and republicans, with each camp having a different vision for the country, and blaming other for all the ills in the country. This creates a political climate that's ripe for opportunists to game leading to further deterioration of living conditions. The country ends up in a worse state after each successive election cycle, and the sectarian tensions continue to become more prominent. Violent outbreaks are starting to happen, and I expect these will only get worse going forward.

Furthermore, the effects of the collapse are not evenly distributed. While many working class people experience significant effects personally, nothing has really changed for the policy makers. This creates a lag between problems occurring and the leadership becoming aware of them. Thus things have to degrade quite significantly before people in power become aware of the severity of the problem.

Acknowledging a theoretical possibility of alien life and actually being faced with it being common are two different things. Religions tend to have an anthropic centred view of of the universe. The discovery that we might not be all that special is a blow to that.

Hence why I specifically noted the independently part. That part maybe difficult to prove of course.

Indeed, and the double standard is really jarring given that France is descending into country wide riots as we speak.