"Why make a good product if you can put your effort into making it just seem like your product is good? This way you can pivot around more flexibly. Instead of having to possess a wide array of hard-earned skills you can make specific content about, you can simply learn the skills of marketing, branding and style, and now you can bullshit your way through anything you want."
-many modern business practices
Bah. Who needs NATO when you have the world's best pikemen?
Subterranean lizardmen, of course.
like diabetes and obesity
With obesity in particular, that's not exactly the most complicated illness in the world.
Uh huh. Sure thing boss.
Yes, that's always the story. "Get control", for ages now. The fact they're so incompetent that they cannot finish the job despite supposedly overwhelming resources and plenty of time is a strong sign its a bunch of bs.
Yeah, it's tempting. Sure would be nice if things were that simple. As soon as you start actually trying to poke holes in it, it all falls apart pretty quick though.
The populists are a good example. If media and tech wasn't after their own profit margins first and foremost and was instead trying to maintain control of the world, then just don't cover them. Total media blackout. Nobody would hear much about them, they wouldn't be able to amass huge fanbases, they would never succeed.
But since covering them is very profitable clickbait, the media does so, and they can take power. Would make no sense if your goal was to actually hang onto power. You won't find Putin giving tons of free airtime to any of his rivals, it just doesn't make any sense.
Eh, little too gullible.
If the world were really controlled by some singular shadowy cabal for so many years, we'd have a unified world by now, and things wouldn't be so chaotic. Populist idiots wouldn't be able to take power so easily and muck everything up.
It makes much more sense that the world isn't run by anyone, and just goes where the wind happens to blow it. This is far, far more harsh and frightening though, and not as sexy, so people don't really like the idea. Doesn't leave them anyone to blame for their problems.
They have wikipedia pages too, go take a look.
Actually, tons of people have. It's up there in the same category with freemasons and illuminati in the conspiracy theory and qanon circles.
Yeah, pretty much. Collaborative storytelling is the most apt description I've heard. Could probably add "rng aided" and you've captured pretty much everything about it. It's definitely one of those "all about the journey, not the destination" sort of things, sort of like a road trip. Also like a road trip, can be anywhere from meticulously planned to basically being railroaded on down to "uh, how about that way?" or anything in between.
Normally I'm a little more picky about my food recommendations, but I fully agree.
It's a texture thing, it's not so much about the flavor the cheese adds as it is that sort of drippy, plasticy smoothness.
I understand people that prefer cheddar or whatever, and that's fine, but it really is completely different.