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I don't have any answers, but do find it interesting that better parenting is considered a protection against being manipulated by problematic influencers. The influencing doesn't stop with children and whilst experience is useful for critical thinking, I can imagine there's a decent portion of parents who share similar opinions and values with their kids to an extent. Agree with the below. Problematic influencers understand manipulation enough to make it work well for them. Many of them are onscreen characters, quite different from how they'd act in their more intimate social circles. I imagine we understand psychology enough to present ideas to combat such behaviour, but the action required is probably incompatible with our present society. It's like people trying to communicate Climate Change science. It appears pretty well understood and urgent, but action in this respect is at odds with how many people want to go about their lives.

I think this probably sums up the format tbh. These TV debates have been pretty consistently shite since inception and labour didn't really need to do anything other than not lose. Doesn't matter what Starmer could be capable of. Walk in with a half decent plan and walk out. Polls showed 51/49 in Rishi's favour and that'll do just fine for Labour. Its been clear since the election was called that he wasn't going to face anything substantial from the Conservatives during this thing.

Had a amazing time watching this on Friday evening. Everything about it was absolutely brilliant. Fantastic acting, set and puppetry. The show ran for about 3 hours including the intermission and at no point did I find myself considering the time. Think I sat there with my mouth open in various stages of amazement and laughter for the most part. So much fun!

I was watching this earlier and as is mentioned during the video, it seems fairly relevant with regards to the concepts increasing mentions throughout popular culture. Really enjoy this guys channel and as ever, he manages to put these ideas across in way which feels manageable to the layman. Seems to touch slightly on the concept you replied to me with in the news thread also @Sampson Not too long either, so doable within a lunchtime. Might give you a bit of an existential crisis for the afternoon though!

This conversation gets so incredibly interesting and broad. Where we assume libertarian free will, it could be considered that whilst the emotional responses of victims are of course reasonable, it is the role of academics in society to look beyond the emotion and investigate the best way to deal with criminal behaviour in a way which is constructive to society as a whole. In this respect, it could be considered that specific emotional responses are constructive where for example, it might reinforce societal norms and values. However, it could also be that these sorts of responses have been constructive in the past, but we may now have the capacity as a society to find even more constructive responses on which to progress. Where the above is true, we could also imagine that where emotional responses are unavoidable and continue to serve a purpose for victims processing trauma, we have the organisation as a society to find even more effective ways for the victims of crime to be supported through that response and beyond in ways that weren't previously possible. All of the above again, would somewhat be determined by the pursuit of creating the most comfortable environment for as many people as possible. Maybe this pursuit is underpinned by underlying ideologies and cultural values that may be subject to change across time? If we're assuming a lack of free will and subscribe to determinism, we're all just on a conscious meat avatar ride through a world created through biological and unconscious psychological phenomena. In this respect, we might feel a conflict between how we treat criminals when we understand that they are product of this phenomena. Beyond this though, the potential disconnect between academic perspectives and the actions of wider society and government would all be products of this deterministic reality. Some of us might feel that the way criminals are treated is barbaric and others might feel the polar opposite with a spectrum of thoughts and feelings inbetween. Whilst feeling a purposeful capacity for change, in reality, I guess we'd all be essentially observers. In a thousand years, society could look unrecognisable and there could still be people on the same ride through time and space, with a similar spectrum of feelings. I note that the points raised above are not necessarily representative of my thoughts, but just conjecture (based on my knowledge at least) and a basic conversational outline. We kind of have to base ourselves in some sort of objective measured reality as humans, but its fun to look down the rabbit hole occasionally and the philosophy, theory and science of it goes much further in the hands of those who know what they're talking about with this topic.

Can't imagine this will actually release in 2025. Historic releases suggest it'll be either Spring or Autumn 2026. Look forward to exploring another Rockstar game though. I'd hope for a less grindy online experience, but I can't imagine it'll differ too much from GTA V considering the monetary success they've had in that respect. Single Player is almost guaranteed to be a great experience.

Never really watched any anime until the last couple years, but really enjoy some the feature length stuff I've seen knocking about on Netflix. Have since seen live-action TV and Movies optioned from other source material, where I think that I'd be more interested if they'd decided to animate them. The Wheel of Time was one, which funnily enough was preceded by some animated teasers which looked pretty awesome. Heading down to London next weekend to watch the Spirited Away theatre production. Really looking forward to it.

Would be interesting to know the tactics behind both the protestors and colleges / states plans. On one hand, if you want people to disperse, you'd think removing resources would be somewhat of a go to. Despite all the contrived content posted on sites like twitter however, there's often a core group of headstrong, resilitent and fairly well organised people that would and probably could continue in the face of harsher action, at least for a while. In some respects, I imagine the college and state would want to avoid that messy uncertainty.

I often enjoy hearing about subjects that try and get at the nature of reality. I think the unease is me reflecting the 'why' factor in these sorts of pictures back at the human experience. If that makes any sense at all! It's for sure exciting as well.

I saw the below the other day. James Webb Turns to Examine Planet Showing Potential Sign of Life Regardless of whether this planet turns out to be a successful candidate in the search for extraterrestrial, in the same way we're getting all these amazing pictures and other data, it seems that the time for such a discovery could come up on us pretty fast. What a day that will be, if there's anything out there at all....

Agreed. I feel grateful to live at a time where photos like these could quite easily be taken for granted. I guess that could be said contextually across time though! These sorts of pictures make me feel somewhat melancholy. So incredibly beautiful, but also gives me a sense of unease

Incredible...and just absolutely bizarre.

Interesting topic, but odd portion of dicussion. From the interview, it seems they are receiving supplies in the same way that people have been provided with supplies by sympathetic organisations in historic protests. She also says that there have so far been no barriers to provision of these supplies. I haven't seen the wider interview, but seems like a discussion around plausible action from the groups involved. The quote not matching the video for online clout is pretty standard twitter.

I only gave it a quick half hour blast, but the graphics certainly look a bit cleaner and everything held together fine from what I saw. I've seen a few posts online where textures haven't loaded, but I also imagine a lot of people will be running previous modded saves that will have been messed up by the version upgrade. I guess we're still playing a Bethesda release at the end of the day!

I re-downloaded on GamePass the other day and it's the updated version.