Re: I don't understand pre-orders. Do you preorder?

On 10/02/2025 15:36, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 2/10/2025 1:54 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> writes:
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One I found amusing was a opinion piece in a paper making all the
normal claims of how the younger generation was lazy, unintelligent,
would be the downfall of society etc. The catch ... it was a hundred
years old.

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Yes. In fact, as I recall, it goes back to at least Socrates complaining
about the same thing and he lived 470 – 399 BC.
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Do we really want swathes of people thinking that the likes of Andrew
Tate make some good points and he's a intellectual?

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I don't but for large swathes of people we're already there. And not
just young people.
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It's a fun fantasy I have sometimes, what if there were a magical school
system that makes everyone intelligent, analytical and mean? Meaning all
bullshit artists and snake oil salesmen would just be ignored or
ridiculed and would have to do real work or starve.

I do think it time for countries to start being more serious about teaching actual critical thinking skills at a much early age so they are much better equipped to not basically believe anything just as some talking head said it on the internet or indeed JD Vance said it. What he said about silent prayer and abortion clinics in the UK was a mixture of misinformation and just outright lies but I just know I'll see it popping up on social media as the TRUTH about how Christians are being persecuted.
Then again what can you expect from someone who complains about free speech and democracy in Europe and then the first thing he does afterwards is have a meeting with some neo-Nazis.

But that's SOCIALISM!  (Or at least that's what the current US President's minions in Congress would scream.)
 

Oh gawd, ask someone like that to explain what socialism is and the answer you always get shows they haven't got the first clue about it but it's definitely bad so if I label something socialist then it must be bad by default.