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by titzer 1889 days ago
It's an ant death spiral at this point. The only way to be free of it is to unplug and focus on your own life.
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FooBarBizBazz 1889 days ago
> ant death spiral

Great metaphor. Thanks for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

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bostonsre 1889 days ago
Yes, individuals can flee to get out of the path of said shit snowball, but their descendants, family, friends, and neighbors are directly down hill from it.
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anaerobicover 1889 days ago
If enough people make the choice, it loses its power. It's the same as what makes voting works.
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bostonsre 1888 days ago
I'm not too optimistic that its possible to have enough people willingly boycott these news delivery pipelines to the point where it changes the ad dollar calculus for these corporations. They have been pretty great at cultivating addiction in a large proportion of the population, it seems like an extremely tough battle.
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snikeris 1889 days ago
Individuals can divert said snowball from said people.
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bostonsre 1888 days ago
Do you mean all people? Or a small portion of those people? Maybe building a shit snowball bomb shelter aka cutting internet to a household might be able to save a small portion of those people, but I'm not sure how anyone outside of elected representatives could ever hope to stop it for the wider population when the thing has so incredibly much inertia.
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