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В долгах как в шелках. США превратились в страну мнимых богачей. США стали страной мнимых богачей, пишет The Hill. Большинству граждан не по карману даже оплатить кофе, и значительная часть покупок осуществляется в кредит. Однако общество потребления не в силах разорвать порочный круг показной роскоши и продолжает жить в долг ради красивой картинки в соцсетях. Все из-за того, что общество глубоко шизофренично. Цифровое "я" существует в идеальном мире сбывшихся мечт, пока физическое давится лапшой быстрого приготовления в крохотной каморке. Но отказаться от этого — значит признать свою несостоятельность в мире демонстративного потребления.

AS VICIOUS AS THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME <br><br>A/ ENCROACHMENT AND EXPANSION IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: <br><br>1/Drawing the illegal nine-dash line to claim and seize territory in the South China Sea.<br>2/Deploying ships carrying IRREGULAR TROOPS DISGUISED AS FISHERMEN to approach islands and fishing grounds being exploited by Vietnam and other countries, CAUSING DISRUPTION LIKE AN OIL SPILL.<br>3/Openly sending the HAIYANG OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH FLEET into Vietnam&#39;s continental shelf to conduct exploration activities, regardless of protests from the Vietnamese government.<br>4/On land, placing PRO-CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTS in government positions, from the CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES (soft invasion), to introduce POLICIES THAT BENEFIT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME.<br>Chinese companies and businesses owned by individuals sympathetic to the Chinese Communist regime seize land, water surfaces, mineral resources, and other natural resources. They flood the market with subsidized Chinese imports, ranging from consumer goods to raw materials, with the aim of undermining and eventually taking over domestic businesses.<br>5/On land, the two countries sharing land and maritime borders with Vietnam—Cambodia and Laos—have become &quot;DEBTORS&quot; OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME, largely through Beijing&#39;s BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE.<br>....<br>B/ BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE:<br>(SELLING OUT NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST REGIME FOR FREE) <br><br>1/Building infrastructure in participating countries.<br>2/Creating &quot;AN EXCUSE&quot; TO POUR MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY into these countries, thereby disrupting and manipulating their economies...???<br>3/Delaying projects or proceeding with construction at a deliberately slow pace, with the aim of taking over domestic businesses through opaque and problematic practices...???<br>4/Providing funding to CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS, turning them into PET GOVERNMENTS and establishing PET REGIMES???<br>5/Draining mineral resources and intellectual capital, leaving these countries struggling to repay their debts and on the brink of collapse. Some countries have already collapsed. <br><br>C/ BUILDING THE BRICS BLOC<br>(I am currently researching this.) <br><br>1/Introducing the Chinese yuan into settlement and payment systems in these countries as extensively as possible, with the aim of DISPLACING THE US DOLLAR, EURO, JAPANESE YEN, AND OTHER MAJOR CURRENCIES from their dominant positions???<br>2/COMBINING THE STRATEGIES DESCRIBED IN SECTIONS A &amp; B ABOVE???<br>......

Hey Google ! <br><br>[One of the less well reported issues in the META Social Media case is the extent to which modern behavioral analysis tools has highlighted the concept of human agency / free will given the demonstrative statistical relationship between output (including design) and behavior.]<br><br>The Meta social media case and the underlying behavioral analytics tools have significantly challenged traditional legal and philosophical assumptions about human agency and free will. By demonstrating an incredibly tight statistical relationship between platform design (the input) and user engagement (the output), modern data science suggests that human choices on social platforms are highly predictable and structurally engineered, rather than entirely autonomous.<br><br>This intersection of behavioral analysis and the law highlights several critical shifts in how human agency is viewed:<br><br>1. From &quot;Free Will&quot; to Behavioral Choice Architecture<br><br>Historically, legal frameworks and consumer protection laws operated on the assumption of a rational actor who exercises independent free will. However, documents revealed in regulators&#39; actions—such as the landmark FTC v. Meta lawsuit—show that platforms design interfaces using algorithmic feedback loops that exploit cognitive vulnerabilities. When a specific design tweak (like intermittent variable rewards or infinite scroll) predictably yields a massive, statistically significant surge in screen time or dopamine-seeking behavior, it demonstrates that choice architecture can bypass conscious deliberation.<br><br>2. The Statistical Erasure of Agency<br><br>Modern behavioral analysis tools utilize predictive modeling to map user pathways. When algorithms can predict a user&#39;s next action with a high degree of mathematical certainty based on micro-targeted stimuli, the concept of independent &quot;agency&quot; becomes blurred.<br><br>The Input/Output Loop: If altering a notification&#39;s color, timing, or algorithmic ordering alters human behavior across a massive sample size by predictable percentages, behavior behaves less like a series of free choices and more like a systemic response to external stimuli.<br><br>Hyper-Personalization: The tools don&#39;t just predict general human behavior; they predict individual behavioral tipping points, effectively tailoring the erosion of agency to a specific user&#39;s psychological profile.<br><br>3. Legal Implications of &quot;Manufactured Consent&quot;<br><br>The core of Meta&#39;s defense often relies on the idea of user autonomy—that users choose to open the app, choose to click, and consent to the terms. However, advanced behavioral analytics provide critics and prosecutors with the quantitative evidence needed to argue that this consent is manufactured. If the design&#39;s statistical relationship to compulsive behavior is indistinguishable from the mechanics of physical addiction, the legal definition of &quot;voluntary user action&quot; begins to break down.<br><br>4. The Philosophical Shift in Regulation<br><br>The reliance on these analytical tools has shifted regulatory focus from content to conduct and design. Government bodies, such as the European Commission via the Digital Services Act (DSA), increasingly target &quot;dark patterns&quot; and addictive algorithmic design. This represents a formal recognition by governing bodies that modern behavioral tools have proven human free will can be systematically outmaneuvered by persuasive technology.<br><br>───<br><br>Would you like to explore how specific legal jurisdictions (like the US or the EU) are altering their definitions of &quot;consumer harm&quot; to account for this erosion of agency, or look into the specific behavioral mechanics (like variable reward schedules) used in these design models?<br><br>[Which famous psychologist could have told them so ?]<br><br>B.F. Skinner, the father of radical behaviorism, is the famous psychologist who could have told them exactly that.<br><br>Long before algorithms and smartphones existed, Skinner argued that human free will and agency are illusions. He posited that all human behavior is completely determined by environmental stimuli and past conditioning.<br><br>If Skinner were alive today, he would look at the Meta case not as a technological aberration, but as the ultimate validation of his life&#39;s work.

I haven&#39;t used Google search for a decade but I use YT and they removed the filter function that would give you the newest uploads first so now if one search for a topic one gets results all over the place in time. Lots and lots of old results. That&#39;snot helpful.

You lost me at &quot;enshitification&quot; - a term I HAVE unfortunately encountered. It doesn&#39;t add to the discourse; it isn&#39;t clever; and all it does is make me completely uninterested in whatever else this person might have to say. No thank you!