For those on Slashdot who are quite young, I will explain what is going on, and I have been researching all this for years. I'm an eco warrior, but when it comes to matters of the family and bedroom, I'm conservative - being it's better for society and the happiness of people LONG term. I also believe that brainwashing young people and manipulating them to suite one's own somewhat questionable motives to be unacceptable.
That out of the way...
As I type this, the first fracking site is going live in the UK in Cumbria. What, you don't know about it? Ah, read on...
Here in the UK anyway, the sun is increasingly 'intense' Notice that when you are outside, even if the air temp is not that hot, the rays are burning and if you are driving, you have to put sun tan lotion on any bare arms. I have been driving for over 30 years and NEVER known the sun so intense.
The oceans are warming.
Coral reefs are bleaching.
Food prices are rising. (Apples that were £1 for 6 a few months ago, are now £1.50 to £2, that's a massive increase!)
Advances in battery, solar panel and other sustainable energy technology is advancing very very quickly, thanks to work being done in Germany etc. A massive threat to the carbon fuel industry, that is run by old school types with little imagination, vision or compassion. (Opposite of Elon Musk, Tim Cook et al)
So, the powers that be want to keep the youth, who would normally be protesting at fracking and/or climate change or other matters distracted. There is a term for this strategy that was devised by Frankfurt School, so I understand. You get the masses gossiping and arguing about nothing - a bit like Bread & Circuses concept of dumbed down TV and sports - and those in power such as oil execs and such continue to wreck the planet to line their pockets for as long as possible whilst the masses lay powerless.
If the VW scandal and behaviour of big tobacco isn't enough to convince you, then it's a lost cause and we're going to end up with a bizarre, dirty, hot, dystopian
world full of confused dysfunctional people, a bit like a scene out of Total Recall or similar.
I don't know why all this gender and 'diversity' nonsense has been mainly occurring in the tech world, but tech blogs such as The Verge (that I have been banned from under a different login) and others seem to obsess about it non stop, putting off a lot of readers.
Thing is, there quite simply isn't a problem! The issues of gender, race and other are being inserted into the narrative to distract people. And that sir/madam/other (!) is part of this Frankfurt School ideology is all about, and they have fallen for it hook line and sinker!
(Am a techie, so if anyone with more insight into all this would like to enlighten / critique me, feel free.)
Either way, we are doomed if this madness continues!
...in infrastructure, they can steamroller through initiatives like this. Hence China has superfast trains, and Singapore fibre to every home, and has done for years.
Same in Spain, France etc, where in comparison to the UK (our trains are awful and expensive), their trains are well designed, fast and affordable - oh, and on time!
Elon needs to do all his good work in Dubai, China etc. The West is too greedy and full of special interests currently.
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For those on Slashdot who are quite young, I will explain what is going on, and I have been researching all this for years. I'm an eco warrior, but when it comes to matters of the family and bedroom, I'm conservative - being it's better for society and the happiness of people LONG term. I also believe that brainwashing young people and manipulating them to suite one's own somewhat questionable motives to be unacceptable. That out of the way... As I type this, the first fracking site is going live in the UK in Cumbria. What, you don't know about it? Ah, read on... Here in the UK anyway, the sun is increasingly 'intense' Notice that when you are outside, even if the air temp is not that hot, the rays are burning and if you are driving, you have to put sun tan lotion on any bare arms. I have been driving for over 30 years and NEVER known the sun so intense. The oceans are warming. Coral reefs are bleaching. Food prices are rising. (Apples that were £1 for 6 a few months ago, are now £1.50 to £2, that's a massive increase!) Advances in battery, solar panel and other sustainable energy technology is advancing very very quickly, thanks to work being done in Germany etc. A massive threat to the carbon fuel industry, that is run by old school types with little imagination, vision or compassion. (Opposite of Elon Musk, Tim Cook et al) So, the powers that be want to keep the youth, who would normally be protesting at fracking and/or climate change or other matters distracted. There is a term for this strategy that was devised by Frankfurt School, so I understand. You get the masses gossiping and arguing about nothing - a bit like Bread & Circuses concept of dumbed down TV and sports - and those in power such as oil execs and such continue to wreck the planet to line their pockets for as long as possible whilst the masses lay powerless. If the VW scandal and behaviour of big tobacco isn't enough to convince you, then it's a lost cause and we're going to end up with a bizarre, dirty, hot, dystopian world full of confused dysfunctional people, a bit like a scene out of Total Recall or similar. I don't know why all this gender and 'diversity' nonsense has been mainly occurring in the tech world, but tech blogs such as The Verge (that I have been banned from under a different login) and others seem to obsess about it non stop, putting off a lot of readers. Thing is, there quite simply isn't a problem! The issues of gender, race and other are being inserted into the narrative to distract people. And that sir/madam/other (!) is part of this Frankfurt School ideology is all about, and they have fallen for it hook line and sinker! (Am a techie, so if anyone with more insight into all this would like to enlighten / critique me, feel free.) Either way, we are doomed if this madness continues!
...in infrastructure, they can steamroller through initiatives like this. Hence China has superfast trains, and Singapore fibre to every home, and has done for years. Same in Spain, France etc, where in comparison to the UK (our trains are awful and expensive), their trains are well designed, fast and affordable - oh, and on time! Elon needs to do all his good work in Dubai, China etc. The West is too greedy and full of special interests currently.