I don’t know where you reside, but can’t you write on the back of the envelope containing the letter with “return to sender”? In my country, this is what we do to notify the sender that the addressee no longer lives in the premise.

Not sure what you mean, but communication itself and its effect on human culture does not change, no matter the media. You can draw a painting to de-humanise and incite hatred towards a group, or you can go on radio and incite hatred towards a group. Either way, both methods can be used to incite hatred.

also includes many lessons we’ve learnt since 1930s.

Sorry I forgot to address this.

Correct me if I am wrong but I don’t see how we learnt since. As we speak, a used to be unknown far-right party gained massive electoral votes in Romania. It turns out that they have been making their presence in social media, where older establishment politicians have no familiarity with. The bigger lesson that democratic and liberal forces should do is knowing to use new forms of media instead. Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama knew this very well.

There were radio, televisions, and books. And while people had overall poor quality of education back then because of lack of access, Noam Chomsky mentioned people still try to educate themselves through reading.

The problem then and now is that mass communication is used by bad faith actors to emotionally manipulate the public into voting against their own interests. Back then, yellow journalism riled up jingoism. Goebbels and the Nazis saw potential use of radio for mass indoctrination, and made conscious effort to make radio cheaper and widely available in Germany.

I have kind of arrived to the same conclusion. If people asked me what is love, I would say it is a religion.

It has been a long time since I watched Her, but my takeaway from the movie is that because making real life connection is difficult, people have come to rely on AI which had shown to be more empathetic and probably more reliable than an actual human being. I think what many people don’t realise as to why many are single, is because those people afraid of making connections with another person again.

Zuckerburg and Facebook enable lies to spread because that’s how he makes money.

Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos-- you can tell they are insecure. They became rich and powerful and now want to stomp on people.

I reckon it is because anarchism is a really alien idea that would get eyebrows raised if promoted out loud in public. Not least because people are accustomed to the status quo (or that anarchism as an ideology gets a bad rep), but different cultures value different things. Go to Asia and one would observe how obsessed they are with flaunting status symbol and one-upping each other. This is contrary to anarchist belief in egalitarianism and communalism.

But people don’t experience attraction before puberty, right? How do they know what groups of people they’ll grow up to be attracted to?

Well, we all have crushes when we were kids, don’t you agree?

Edit: sorry if I sound like I am trying to put words into your mouth. What I mean is that some people already figure out what their sexuality is and whom they feel attracted to at early age. To whom you feel crush to at early age is an indicator.

Because Bernie knew the system is rigged against him and thus allowed neoliberals like Biden to have their way. Now that the DNC lost pathetically to an orange man, and the DNC leadership is enabling fascism, I don’t hear “vote blue no matter who” nonsense anymore. And Bernie and AOC have the last laugh and “told you so” moment to the DNC. Their tours are gathering record number crowds since Obama’s 2008 campaign.

Unfortunately, Americans have been tamed and brainwashed by their own government.

Plenty of kids already know if they are gay or not. In my home country, I have had classmates in elementary school who are openly gay. Some cultures find it awkward to talk about it to children, whereas in some, tolerance and acceptance to lgbt is part of culture. I probably don’t need to mention about the concept and existence of third genders since the ancient times.

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Now that I think about it, is she happy? Is she traumatised? Is she regretting? Is she laughing at the absurdity of it all?

The best kind of acting is where the face puts all kinds of emotions into one expression, making it too ambiguous to tell what the character really feels.

That’s why i always forbid access to my microphones by apps. Many AI apps will also remember what you discussed long ago.

I just want to say, Che-casio Cortez is looking really good.

I do think that Trump’s first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer “setting precedence”, but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.

You will realise that many people are too egotistic to back down.

You are quite right. There is a tribe in East Africa which makes a hole on their lower lip and place a huge disk into it. It is theorised that the practice started to prevent lockjaw disease that may have been prevalent in the area eons ago. I am not sure how this prevents lockjaw but maybe for them it works.

The Nazi rearmament gave people jobs (but caused excessive government expenditure). Also, Hitler stopped most of the payment for reparations when he came to power.