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Is Ground News a Psy-Op?

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The BBC or any other state broadcaster cannot possibly be unbiased, it wouldn't make sense to run stories that damage the institution. The problem is that they claim to be unbiased. RT and Al-Jazeera don't patronise their viewers in this way. RT is obviously a Russian tool, Al-Jazeera represents the gulf states, fine. The BBC won't criticise the royal family and must have tied themselves in knots over the years, sitting on information about Andrew's obviously criminal behaviour, amongst much else.

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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?

I would imagine the 10+ demographic has the highest rates of attrition. Those people will have witnessed most of the transition from niche to lowest common denominator. Everyone knows the adage that 100k is the subreddit limit after which the community breaks down. It would happen here too. The discourse here is uncannily like the 2009 Reddit I remember. People are polite and well informed. I hope the localised and open nature of the service keeps it that way.

Prediction: Reddit will become a cesspit of advertising and data harvesting, a la Facebook. It's most of the way there already.

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What social taboos that exist today do you think will not be around in 100 years?

Drugs. The prohibition of psychedelic substances in particular is looking more like a crime against humanity since we are rediscovering their therapeutic properties in the west (that shaman have known for mellenia).

Discussion on the topic of mental health. Virtually nothing was known about mental health until very recently. We are the first generation that even talks about it. Therapy didn't exist in any practical and organised sense for my mother's generation. If you got PTSD during WWI, it was a death sentence because your own frigging side would shoot you.

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Where does the music go?

I imagine a physicist would invoke entropy to describe the diffusion of pressure waves and vibration into other forms of energy. Neuroscience might explain the propagation of signals from the cochlea into the brain. A psychologist could hypothesise on the influence of music on our mood and ideas. A philosopher might talk about the influence of music on the way we build our society and how that feeds back into our music. In this way, the music never stops, it continues on as echos rippling through through the universe.