zarathustra0

Your brain is constantly processing the inputs from all of your senses and pretty much ignoring them if they fit with what it is already expecting.

Your brain is lazy. If everything seems to fit with what your brain expects then you believe that what you are seing is reality and you generally ignore it.

Generally the mind only focuses on what it believes is salient/interesting/unexpected.

I was gonna ask if they asked Trump to decide the headline.

Well, it depends where you want to stick it, doesn't it?

I heard child labour was legal in the US again? Or is this not in Arizona?

You read all of the news?

And I thought satire was dead.

Conflickulation

Joke's on you, my mother was completely unforgiving.

Yeah, but propelling them out of the solar system just sounds like the kind of fake-ending that ends up with the super villain coming back stronger in a decade. Have we learnt nothing from science fiction? You have to destroy your foes whilst you can.

Personal censorship has been around for a long time. People have always avoided saying things that others might view as weird or repulsive.

The true change is that everyday conversation is more monitored now than it ever has been before.

We have let insipidly authoritarian technology into our lives in an intimate way.

Stage one: get off the internet.

Stage two: ???

Stage three: Profit

How does that freedom taste?