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  • I’ve referred to this as the death of the expert, apparently there’s also a book similarly titled that covers the same concept.

    I highly recommend anyone interested to look up Operation Mindfuck, how it worked and where some of the Discordians that took part ended up going later in their lives. I would also argue removing sources of authority like news organizations, or at least ruining their legitimacy, is a part of pushing the population towards chapel perilous.

    As for the concerns about funding a news coop, I wonder if the relative success of Dropout tv would be a good model? The only other successful organization in an unsuccessful format I can think of is The Onion, but they had a major investor save them.




  • I’d rather bet they knew the dangers of it the entire time. It’s pretty clear they WANT Jews in the rest of the world to feel unsafe where they are so that they consider migrating to Israel.

    There was a moment in one of Bibi’s previous terms when Israel was experiencing a massive brain drain primarily to Germany. He published a letter in response in (I believe) Haaretz basically trying to say Germany (and by extension the rest of the world) was horribly dangerous for Jews and only Israel could keep them safe. His administration has said something similar more recently, iirc.









  • I think I understand the joke, but I’ve seen things from this point of view as well. Something happened during and after pandemic lockdowns that has led to absolutely unprecedented numbers of people going out and hiking what were previously really quiet trails. It was already tough maintaining them before, now you’ve got tons of people who don’t bother to know the norms or understood rules of the parks.

    Several parks near me have had to institute an admittance/ticketing program with reservations made a month in advance just to enter the trailhead lot because they’re so overrun with people now. It’s great that people are outside and enjoying a public resource, but maybe it’s just a few too many people all at once?