[valachio]

There is also the possibility that we will look back on history and realize how hysteria and media fearmongering drove human society to take wholly unnecessary measures and paved a path towards more authoritarianism, more surveillance, a financial crisis due to the government printing trillions of dollars which a lot of it is going into the stock market and driving up companies to insane valuations, creating a generation of software addicts due to the pandemic forcing teenagers to stay home and cope using their computers as opposed to going out and interacting with their peers in person, and a myriad of other problems that we do not yet see in the short-term.

[notch656a]

This is the most truth I've seen packed into a few sentences in the past two years regarding what's happened.

[systemvoltage]

One major thing that's missing - NPR radio is about 95% race discussions. Every single time I turn it on, it is about race. When did race become such a dominant part of the society? I saw this flare up right after COVID.

Not sure if these race discussions are doing anything but dividing people more. It is having a negative effect.

[notch656a]

NPR also helped kill low power FM radio.

[fxbe12]

Amen!