Born Hunter
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Not sure about die hard but yeah, its a bomb that fries tech but doesn't actually destroy stuff or kill people.
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It's my search history I'm most concerned about!
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Honestly, no one would be surprised.
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Well I'm making a giant EM bomb that'll send us back to the f***ing stone age. I'll fix the c**ts.
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Also, countries that have an authoritarian history tend to be able to implement lockdowns and track and trace type measures because their citizens are used to doing as they're told by the government. Civil liberties aren't a big deal. In the West where we have lived in relatively free societies with rights etc for many generations such authroitarian measures are difficult to enforce. We tend to have no appetite for them, some countries even make them illegal. Lockdown worked. How well it worked depends on all sorts of factors.
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Francie, lockdown worked, do you know how I know that, because shortly after it was implemented the epidemic curve peaked and came back down. Thats by definition 'worked'. Its absolutely undeniable. Does that mean its the only thing that works, no. SK had the capacity the roll out a massive test and trace program and implemented it as well as other measures very early in their outbreak. Sweden didn't legally enforce a lockdown but their citizens in effect voluntarily carried one out. Lockdowns work and have done since forever.
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To try to explain why I think this is significant. In the past people trying to manipulate you were relative equals, they were just people, clever people but still just people, limited in the same ways that the people they were targeting were. Both sides had the same weaponry. Big data and AI have changed all that in a scary way. These things are out evolving us. It's no longer a fairish fight. We are evolving over millennia, they are evolving over days....
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I don't know how to put this, 'they' have found a way to hack into our minds that is like heroine and we've let it proliferate through society to the point it's necessary to succeed socially. Kids are growing up with this as normal because adults have little awareness of its power and it's power is limited only by the AI it uses and the data it is fed. This is a new drug but because it's not a pill society has totally overlooked it's potency. Meanwhile the dealers are using it to gather intelligence on their users so they can make money telling whoever will pay them how to manipulate you.
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Well now im curious to know what you think the point was because you seemed to think that the problem is confined to the likes of FB and Twitter etc. It's being applied to anything that you use a screen to operate. And will evolve beyond that. I mean, if you're not bothered about this monster that is absolutely affecting all of us in the 1st world and is in its infancy then by all means scroll on. I sense you have a somewhat hopeless view, accepting the problem but believing there's no solution. Well there will be, but it first requires public awareness and discussion, like any movem
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I get that mate, manipulation is nothing new. But that view on this is sort of dangerous imo. This isn’t like an incremental advancement in tech like when someone figure out to rifle a muskets barrel, this feels more like when someone figured out how to weaponise splitting atoms! We’re not supposed to be living like this, ie we are not mentally equipped. And on a similar note to your FB in business anecdote, it’s becoming increasingly impossible to avoid if you want to be anything other than a total outcast. Its just another example of backward ‘progress’.
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I'm seriously concerned about what can be achieved with AI given just how much behavioural data we are producing these days, completely unaware. Its a new technology that has only really just started to proliferate through industry. We're still learning about it. What it'll be doing in 50 years is frightening!
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It's not just social media though mate, its internet activity. Any data they can get they are to build up behavioural information of their users and they use AI to spot trends that we never could, enabling them to understand our psychology and therefore subtly manipulate behaviour. Obviously the more active you are on any digital device the more you are feeding this problem and it's the various SM apps that are the real data gold mines, as you say. Technology is designed to be addictive and now they have the tools to gather unimaginable amounts of data of how we behave, process that data
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I feel like most of you have missed the point. Lol You've got an internet connection, you are affected. Never in history have ‘they’ had this sort of power.
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Anybody watched this? We live in a time of extreme power and we don’t realise it. “There are only two industries that refer to customers as 'users', one is IT, the other is the illegal drugs trade.“
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Detachment from reality and an overwhelming sense of virtue. Theres a page I follow on IG called nature is metal. It just shows all the savage, stomach turning stuff that actually happens in the natural world. I honestly think it should be a class in school! Ha
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Yeah but if we buy a fair trade bath bomb and cappuccino then 10% will go to the WWF so they can tell a dirt poor African that he should stop poisoning lions because he’s a b*****d and we need to save these beautiful creatures. LOL
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Tbf from what I've heard night shooting is the way forward. Trapping can be hit and miss and if you go on any of the sabs FB pages they're full of pics of smashed up traps.
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No mate. I just know the score. Tbh I'm pretty sure the sabs know too, otherwise I'd have not said owt.
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They train the badgers to tip the rock over and that then becomes the trap trigger. The flag just makes it easy for pre baiting rounds.
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Coming back to the Yellowstone as a case study, conflict with ranchers has been and still is compensated by taxpayers. The wolves are now so prolific that I believe they have done away with limits on wolf hunting on private land in ay least Idaho. Conflict is inevitable. It's the same story with lion reintroductions in Africa etc.
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Yep, right time of year too.
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I've heard that before (and other figures quoted) but I'm not sure it's strictly true. For instance all the 35'000 odd tahr in NZ come from the 13 original stocked animals over 100 years ago. I bet it's a similar story with muntjac here.
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I get that, I mean it seems even those responsible have acknowledged that it wasn't the success they hoped for. If it had been run by PHs out of SA, Zim or Namib then I dare say things would have been remarkably different. If we value nature as a society/species then we are going to have to make compromises. Almost any conservation programme can expect to experience opposition. If that is the test for legitimacy then that train of destruction will just roll on over the millennia until f**k all is left. Granted this is a complex topic where politics and ideology are getting in the way of r
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I feel like buying a grocery box requires a degree of 'togetherness' that I just don't have. It's just more convenient going to the supermarket. Probably more suited to a busy household than me anyway.
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The problem with these debates is that there are always folks who don't want the status quo to change who get up on their pedestal and just point out the problems. It's seems roundly agreed on this thread that the Yellowstone wolf programme was a success and yet anyone familiar with it would know that there was and still is a f**k load of opponents to it. And that is the same story for just about every wildlife reintroduction programme ever undertaken. You have to ask yourself if you're happy with the destruction of nature that has been like an unstoppable train since, well since Homo Sap
