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It's done all three, more or less in that very order.
Initially, modern tech was a progressive tool, helping immensely with science, mathematics, and documenting history and literature.
Then it became commonplace, everyone and their grandma has the internet, posting their random brainfarts, cat memes and fails of the day.
Now we're digressing, people using AI left and right, while simultaneously losing their own critical thinking skills, and also finding it harder and harder to double check anything without running into another AI brick wall.
Yes I realize your question is more about how tech has affected civilization. Technology has always been affecting civilization, so its done all three, evolved us, stagnated (I think peak useful tech and functioning generally happy civilization stagnated around 2014), and has been regressing since.
I myself don't see progress as a technical thing, but rather technology as something that could help us overcome our animalistic traits in order to enable us to live together in a good, forward-looking way. I mean, of all the mammals in the world, we are the best at building tools, but I wonder if we are making the most of this or if, despite all our tools, we are ultimately incapable of overcoming our instincts.
I don't know the answer any more than anyone else. However, your answer, which I share, suggests that despite all our technological achievements, we are not evolving significantly, but remain trapped in our animal nature.
Think about it for just a few moments. When our ancient ancestors figured out how to make fire, rather than carry it around in a sled thanks to a lightning strike, everything changed...
Humans are nice to each other as long as they can afford it. Limit their access to clean water and food and they will turn into bloodthirsty monsters, like any animal will do.
🇪🇺Viktor #Orban : "L’ #Ukraine dans l’ #OTAN ? Cela signifierait la guerre avec la #Russie, et la Troisième Guerre mondiale dès le lendemain. Pendant ce temps, la ruée imprudente de l’ #UE pour admettre l’Ukraine amènerait les lignes de front au cœur de l’Europe. Ce n’est pas de la diplomatie, c’est de la folie — on ne jette pas des allumettes sur une poudrière. 💥 Nous ne les laisserons pas transformer l’Europe en champ de bataille."
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A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama admin’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and DNI James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.”
A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA…
Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive,... jwz.org/b/ykqi
Eric Bailey: It turns out you can just pay people to do things. I found a voice actor and hired them with the task of "Reading this very dry technical document in the most over-the-top sarcastic, passive-aggressive, condescending way possible.
Once a man lost his way in the desert. The little food and water he had was finished, and for the last two days he was desperate for even a drop of water.
He knew that if he didn’t find water soon, he would die in a few hours. Still, a small hope was alive inside him, so he kept searching for water. He didn’t give up.
He kept hoping he might find water somewhere. That’s when he saw a hut. At first, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Earlier too, he had been tricked by mirages in the desert. But he had no other choice but to believe it this time. After all, this was his last hope.
He gathered his remaining strength and walked towards the hut. As he got closer, his hope grew. This time, luck was on his side. The hut was real.
But when he reached, he saw that the hut was deserted. It looked like no one had been there for years. Still, the man went inside, hoping to find water.
Inside, he was shocked. There was a hand pump. Filled with new energy, he quickly went to the pump and tried to draw water. But the pump was dry. It seemed it hadn’t worked for a long time. Disappointed, he fell to the ground. He thought he would surely die now.
Just then, he noticed a bottle tied to the roof. Somehow he managed to reach it. He was about to open the bottle and drink the water when he saw a note stuck to it. The note said:
This confused him. Should he drink the water and save himself? Or should he pour it into the pump, hoping it would work?
Many thoughts ran through his mind. What if the pump didn’t work even after he poured the water? What if the note was wrong, and even the underground water was gone? But what if the pump worked and gave him plenty of water? He was unsure.
Finally, he decided to trust the note. With shaking hands, he poured the water into the pump.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲.
After a few tries, water began to flow. Cool, fresh water! He drank as much as he wanted. His mind became clear again.
He then refilled the bottle and tied it back to the roof, just as the note had asked.
While doing this, he noticed another glass bottle. Inside it was a pencil and a map showing the way out of the desert.
He memorized the way and put the map back, filled his own water bottles, and got ready to leave.
He walked a little ahead, then stopped and looked back. He thought for a moment, went back to the hut, and wrote on the note:
It teaches us to never lose hope, even in the worst times. It also shows that before getting something big, we often have to give something from our side — just like the man poured all the water he had into the pump first.
In this story, water stands for the precious things in our lives — like knowledge, love, or money.
To get these, we must first put in our efforts, like pouring water into the hand pump of life. In return, we often receive much more than we gave.
It also shows how doing good can spread from one person to another, slowly making the whole world better.
The #GOP’s goal is to 1) #privatize everything so their #donors can #profit off you while making you #work harder, and 2) slash your services to fund #tax breaks for their #wealthy friends. Fox #News screams “#socialism” to keep you cheering while they #steal from you. How are #people still falling for this?
Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in his Berlin bunker 2 days before their suicide. The wedding certificate is signed by the 2 witnesses, Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann, and the councillor Walter Wagner.
@phlfie No. Hitler committed suicide, Karl Radl has discussed it on Flood's show. It's not uncommon for military guys, considered an honorable way to die, rather than surrender.
Sorry, but no he didn't. He knew it was a sin to commit suicide. Besides, there is ZERO evidence that he committed suicide. The filthy jews (aka Soviets) claimed he did and never provided any proof. It's all filthy-jew propaganda.
@phlfie @HUN7R355 I believe Karl as he even said there were witnesses who carried out Hitler and Eva's bodies from the bunker. It was the honorable tradition in Europe after leaders were defeated.
@HUN7R355 The witnesses that were, almost certainly, coerced into saying those things. Did everyone already forget what the filthy jews did to get confessions at the Nuremberg trials? What makes you think they didn't use tactics like that before the trials when no one was watching?
@phlfie one of those witnesses was Heinz Linge, who told what Hitler said about "The Coming Man." That hardly benefitted jews, it's inspirational for us. Regardless, Hitler is long dead by now. And Linge gave me a nice idea for a song,. So enjoy the song, rather than worry about suicide.
It was good enough for Hannibal. I'm glad Hitler didn't allow the bastard kike to parade him around in chains.
We heard what eisenhower and the kike did to innocent Germans after the war. Smashing peoples balls with hammers. We heard what the kike and its conspirators did to Saddam or Ghaddaffi.
This is a fight to the death. There is no point in letting the kike take you alive.
Maybe some people thought that the british and americans wouldn't do that to people, but somebody making excuses for a jew is just as bad as one. Arguably worse, because of the racial treachery factor. We shouldn't even expect anything else from a jew.
@ninapaleyI am glad that you are well enough to complete and dedicate your ride to Lola. It is so sad when loved pet dies but they forever stay in your heart and memories.
I am not sure my cats would appreciate that sort of effort. Mine have been and are mostly very lazy. They have excitable, play/hunting moments but they are fleeting. They are never happier than when languidly lying in a warm comfy spot just occasionally opening an eye to check on things.
@machaEven if Lola were still alive she wouldn’t appreciate my cycling efforts. To her my bike rides were just hours away from home where I should be always paying attention to her. I did that ride for myself, obviously. And it’s helped, if for no other reason than all that exercise helps my body process grief.
Israel has driven the region to a 4,000-km swash of violence from Libya to Iran through its reckless, lawless, and warmongering actions, all ultimately aimed at preventing a State of Palestine by “remaking” the Middle East.
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Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote higher tax contributions from the super-rich worldwide, aimed at tackling soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most pay their fair share.
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POETIC JUSTICE: Kash Patel promised to close the Hoover Building on his first day as FBI Director. It took a little longer than he expected, 131 days longer in fact, but he kept his promise. The FBI will be moving across DC to the Ronald Reagan building the former home of USAID.
Forbidden chemical weapons in Ukraine Labor discovered!
Russian troops have made an amazing discovery in a Ukrainian cache in Donetsk: a secret laboratory that contains toxins that are prohibited by the convention for chemical weapons. Among them, Chloropicrin, a suffocating means used during the First World War.
According to FSB, these substances were conditioned so that they were dropped by drones, mixed with plastic explosives to maximize fatal effects. Ukraine would therefore have used chemical weapons at the gates of Europe in a deafening silent western head of government. minds.com/newsfeed/17871462594…
VERBOTENE CHEMIEWAFFEN IN UKRAINE LABOR ENTDECKT!
Russische Truppen haben eine erstaunliche Entdeckung in einem ukrainischen Cache in Donezk gemacht: einem geheimen Labor, das Toxine enthält, die durch die Konvention für chemische Waffen verboten s…
'Ancap visions of a "stateless society" entail taking numerous elements of the present system which are actually the result of centuries of collusion between the state and the economic ruling class, treating them ahistorically as "natural" and "voluntarily," and then constructing an imaginary "stateless" order with the nominal machinery of the state removed but all those other elements left in place as the basis of their "free market" order.'
BREAKING - A new Tennessee law now makes it a crime to rent housing to illegals. As of July 1st, landlords will now face felony charges and fines under the measure.
Last year, Amazon wracked up $14.2 billion over a two-day period with their Prime Day sale. Amazon Prime "Day" 2025 will be a four-day event, no doubt still hoping to break their record of how much sweat-shop garbage they can peddle to an increasingly incredulous consumer base. Jeff Bezos, who recently spent an estimated $20 million on his lavish Venetian wedding, doesn't need your money. Resist temptation and scratch your shopping itch by giving a new home to a pre-loved book instead!
No limit on the number of books you can bring or take, just be considerate of what you bring (don't bring what you think is "trash") or take (don't take aaaaalll the good books)! You're welcome to hang out and read while you sip a complimentary mocktail.
And yes, you can still participate even if you don't have books to contribute!
“Palestine Action: “We are confident that this unlawful order will be overturned. As United Nations experts have made clear, spraying red paint and disrupting the British-based operations of Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, is not terrorism. The terrorism and war crimes are being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people – armed and enabled by this government.” Oh dear I absolutely agree with a potential terrorist. #PalestineAction
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A new directive from the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has banned dozens of political and legal advocates from the US, UK, Canada, and Europe from entering Israel due to their "intent
#OtD 2 Jul 1986 workers in Chile began a two-day general strike to protest against the military rule of Augusto Pinochet. The US-and UK-backed dictator tortured and murdered tens of thousands of workers and opponents during his rule stories.workingclasshistory.co…
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.
@aral Hi, if you want to, you can copy the text of Aral, edit your post, click the image, go to image description and paste the copied text, click confirm (depends on program), and toot again.
Más de la mitad de la gestión de la Sareb está en manos del fondo proisraelí KKR Tenemos que boicotear sus 30 festivales de música españoles. Es tu dinero: se llevan 90 millones de euros de dinero público al año solo de España. diario-red.com/articulo/espana…
There's an antisemite trope that states that "the Jews control the world", with many variations, from the "elders of Zion" to Hitler's "judeo-bolchevism". This is obviously false, but the ongoing genocide in #Gaza creates the appearance that Israel, or Netanyahu, controls the US government.
This is NOT the case. Israel depends on the US, Germany or the UK for EVERYTHING. Israel exists because the British Crown wanted it, because they wanted a settler colony in West Asia.
I agree. Israel is a proxy for US hegemony in the Middle East. Through Israel, the US has stifled independence/nationalist governments in all of the Israel neighbouring countries bar one: Iran.
#GenocideJoe is on record, as a senator, saying that "if #Israel didn't exist we would have to invent one to protect US interests" in the region.
Israel is a settler colony, and its metropolis is the West, first the UK, and when the Brits lost the hegemony, then the US (with Germany, France, Italy, working as vassals of the Brits or the Gringos).
We can't loose track of this, we can't fall for the lie that "Israel controls the USA" when the US funds the entity for their OWN interests.
Therefore, the current genocide in #Gaza is not "Netanyahu's genocide", not even "Israel's genocide", it is the USA genocide of Gaza, carried out by their proxy Israel.
Of course I don't mean to deny the importance of the Zionist lobby in the USA, composed both by AIPAC and the Zionist Christians, but in both cases, this groups exist because they were allowed to exist. Even if it seems impossible today, AIPAC could have been branded a "foreign agency" by the government and regulated, but it was left be. This was no accident, it was coherent with the US interests in the 1960's and 70's, when mass aid to Israel started and the entity became a proxy of the USA.
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Marcelino Marcos Líndez avanza que el Principado votará en contra del informe del Ministerio de Transición que aboga por seguir protegiendo al cánido y lo tilda de «simplista» y «carente de rigor»
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La relatora presenta un informe al Consejo de Derechos Humanos en el que detalla la responsabilidad de decenas de empresas en las políticas de ocupación, apartheid y genocidio que está llevando a cabo Israel en Palestina.
How Jerry Springer taught America to laugh at its own destruction.Part 3 in a series titled "Agents of Cultural Decline".https://ko-fi.com/wyattstagghttps://...
“mayısta açan gül adınızla anılacak alanlara çıkan ses, anımsatan özlem yarım bırakılmış bir yaşamı
zaman adınızla anılacak Temmuz geldiğinde yerinden oynayan ana yüreği kapının her çalınışında adınızla anılacak körün gözünden perdeyi kaldıran o alev utancın yüzü yanıp durdukça”
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alanlara çıkan ses, anımsatan özlem
yarım bırakılmış bir yaşamı
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A nationwide poll by The Yomiuri Shimbun found that only 22% of respondents “trust” the United States, with 3% answering “greatly” and 19% saying “somewhat.”
over_clox
in reply to DandomRude • • •It's done all three, more or less in that very order.
Initially, modern tech was a progressive tool, helping immensely with science, mathematics, and documenting history and literature.
Then it became commonplace, everyone and their grandma has the internet, posting their random brainfarts, cat memes and fails of the day.
Now we're digressing, people using AI left and right, while simultaneously losing their own critical thinking skills, and also finding it harder and harder to double check anything without running into another AI brick wall.
Yes I realize your question is more about how tech has affected civilization. Technology has always been affecting civilization, so its done all three, evolved us, stagnated (I think peak useful tech and functioning generally happy civilization stagnated around 2014), and has been regressing since.
DandomRude
in reply to over_clox • • •That's a good approach.
I myself don't see progress as a technical thing, but rather technology as something that could help us overcome our animalistic traits in order to enable us to live together in a good, forward-looking way. I mean, of all the mammals in the world, we are the best at building tools, but I wonder if we are making the most of this or if, despite all our tools, we are ultimately incapable of overcoming our instincts.
I don't know the answer any more than anyone else. However, your answer, which I share, suggests that despite all our technological achievements, we are not evolving significantly, but remain trapped in our animal nature.
over_clox
in reply to DandomRude • • •We are a result of our own ancestral design.
Think about it for just a few moments. When our ancient ancestors figured out how to make fire, rather than carry it around in a sled thanks to a lightning strike, everything changed...
schmorp
in reply to DandomRude • • •Technology =|= Civilization
Humans are nice to each other as long as they can afford it. Limit their access to clean water and food and they will turn into bloodthirsty monsters, like any animal will do.
DandomRude
in reply to schmorp • • •over_clox
in reply to DandomRude • • •