Great visualization and further explication for more visual learners. Love this type of comment on Lemmy where it’s to further discussion and help clarify.

Appreciate that now I can use “local minimum” in a correct way with people :D

They’re taught that the long run is simply a succession of short runs and that therefore short term and long term economic thinking and planning are the same,which is,of course, glaringly wrong.

Anything to fill the insatiable hole in them where a soul would be in a real human.

They constantly fall under fallacies of composition or aggregation. To think in the aggregate and long term is largely thrown under the rug.

It’s “right” for a single company to slash wages and gut employment to seek higher profit margins… But when every company does it, it ultimately destroys the capacity of the bottom to uphold the top and it collapses.

Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

“We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.

I’ve become the same. I’m now that person seeking out more obscure and underrated gems from anywhere in the 30s through the 90s. I hate the thought of all this cultural collateral damage disappearing forever.

https://searx.space/

My current favorite search engine. Just pick one that’s running out of your country or close to it. Hope it works as well for you as it does for me.