How can you order a farmer to destroy their trees? I hope he fights in a higher court. Wish I’d heard about the nectarine giveaway. I’d have gone to pick some.
How can you order a farmer to destroy their trees? I hope he fights in a higher court. Wish I’d heard about the nectarine giveaway. I’d have gone to pick some.
As painful as it is, this is true. Consumer protection protects consumers. Businesses are expected to do their own due diligence.
Trying to regulate this away will just encourage contract lawyers to be even more convoluted in their language.
Unfortunately a lot of people get burnt when they cross the line from consumer to business world and don’t take on the due diligence aspect.
Basically, better education is needed on this, rather than government oversight. Regulatory capture would rapidly make it a stick to beat smaller businesses with otherwise.
They already need to get a business license…
They’re already going thru multiple state and federal steps and forms to establish themselves as a business…
Like, the end road all these people are walking down, is a “test” to see if someone is “smart enough” to be allowed to run a business
I’m fucking terrified about the future, covid really fucked up everyone’s IQs somehow. Right/left, doesn’t matter. Critical thinking has basically disappeared since 2020. Everyone is just running on vibes and historically that means they’re being manipulated by the oligarchs again.
People need to actually start thinking, but they just refuse to.
I personally think it’s data overload. The disruption of COVID pushed a lot of people over the edge. They went into a mental lockdown. Rather than filtering on importance, they instead filtered on whole topics.
It’s worth noting that the right, in most countries, shifted to a gish-gallop information mentality. This happened around the same time as COVID (though the build up started before e.g Brexit). For those able to rapidly filter, it’s just really annoying. To those who relied on authority to filter, it’s devastating.
It’s the same method as “brave new world” talked about. Swamp important information in a storm of noise.
Nah man, it’s deeper…
And to be clear, it’s not that I haven’t seen it to similar degrees in myself. It’s just (and believe me or not, I can’t/wont prove it) my IQ before all this shit was higher than a normal IQ test could measure. Anything over 145 needs a more specific test, and my most recent one was like 2012 and I beat that threshold.
And I’m not where I was before COVID, and I didn’t even fucking test positive for covid at any point. There could be other reasons for me personally, but again, it’s fucking everyone.
It legit feels like we all had a substantial drop in IQ. And again, can’t/won’t prove it, but I spent a few years working with the special needs population, ranging from high 60s IQ and barely noticable, to completely non verbal and me changing adult diapers.
Everyone is acting substantially less intelligent than pre-covid. Not saying COVID did it, even though we always heard of neurological lasting effects like long COVID and brain fog. It’s possible it’s lack of socialization and that stuff…
But bro…
I really think the COVID brain fog never went away, I think we all got it to some extent, and just got used to it and stopped remembering what it used to be like.
And this is reflected in the standardized testing of gen z and alpha, it’s a legit and measurable thing, although I think the fact that we only teach for standardized testing isn’t just contributing to this, it’s hiding it. If scores are bad now when standardized test scores are the only priority…
The metrics are hiding how bad the problem really is.
We’re cooked, it’s not a quick fix, people can’t just pay attention and instantly be better. It’s gonna take years/decades to dig us out of this. I just fucking hope it’s not happening globally
I know about the brain fog. I was working in china when it started. I got an early dose, before it started to mellow. I’m also up at the extreme IQ wise (as well as a good example of the difference between “smart” and “capable”)
I don’t think mass brain fog is the main cause however. The very structure of society began to crack. The status it’s stabilized in is so much worse for our cognitive health. We passed a tipping point where negativity became the dominant mindset.
Gen Z and gen alpha had their education massively disrupted. The cascade damage from that is only going to compound for a generation or 2. Disentangling the various factors is difficult to say the least.