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To want to know something important that you wish you could wake the world up to that's happening

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NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 13/09/2023 23:41

For me, at the moment it's that every single one of our police forces needs an urgent outside investigation.
Women are having more of their rights and safety stripped away every day.

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DyslexicPoster · 14/09/2023 22:32

The national law breaking in SEND education within LAs. The whole of Surrey children's services being toxicly inert.

HelenFisksBrownSuit · 14/09/2023 22:32

or earth is expendable and humans advance to the galaxies

Using what? Musk's space hobby craft?

Hawkins0009 · 14/09/2023 22:33

wheresmymojo · 14/09/2023 21:33

That everything else in this list, including climate change, pales into meaningless insignificance compared to the risk and rewards of AI.

That most leading AI experts expect us to have AGI within the next 5 years - that's AI that is as capable as humans across a broad general range of tasks.

That this means massive and fast paced Industrial Revolution size change in the next five years.

That many leading experts predict that we will have AI superintelligence in the next 10-20 years and that more than 50% of AI experts believe this poses more than 10% probability of being the end of humanity.

(These are not crackpot theories, they are genuine expert predictions from people whose previous predictions have either been pretty accurate or actually thought it would take 25 years longer to get where we are now....so not prone to hyperbole).

so we have an army of data androids, what then Ai takes over the various galaxies ? why would a super intelligence settle for little earth ?

Sueveneers · 14/09/2023 22:36

Istanbulnotconstantinople72 · 14/09/2023 10:12

I would tell people that trans people aren't the enemy - it's the cis men who abuse the rules to hurt women that we should be angry with. Not with each other. I really don't understand why it's a trans people vs women argument while cis men appear to be getting away scot free.

@Istanbulnotconstantinople72 Trans women are the ones entering womens spaces and causing problems and erosion of our spaces. Not 'cis' men.

JaceLancs · 14/09/2023 22:41

That there is a consultation out at present about abolishing the work capability assessment - could include getting rid of the support group (those that are too unwell or disabled to work) could include removing certain criteria eg incontinence, mobilisation, severe anxiety re social interaction etc because we should be all able to work from home whilst ill, unable to move, whilst being doubly incontinent
parents of 1-3 year olds will be expected to seek work and might be penalised or sanctioned by having their benefits removed or reduced if they don’t try hard enough to find a job and put their very young children into nursery

SmallTreeDeepRoots · 14/09/2023 22:45

Also, when the harvest fails, that will be it - and there aren't very many harvests left.

@HelenFisksBrownSuit Yes. What is truly extraordinary is that not only have we had peak oil, but also peak soil and a host of others. Whatever changes we manage to make, the feedback loops are already in play. We can only attempt to manage our decline and preserve knowledge and skills into our next Dark Age.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 14/09/2023 22:55

That men still aren't doing their fair share of childrearing

I misread that as ‘childbearing’ and thought, erm, but how?!

Agenda 2030 is a despicable Marxist plan in plain sight to destroy the West.

I think that there are a lot of very bad influential people at the top, who have plans for us that we would never ever choose for ourselves. I find the idea of ‘own nothing and be happy’ very disturbing for one.

I’m also conscious that Net Zero could be used as an excuse for absolutely anything – and that we will have great innovations that help humanity along with tyrannical ones that are slipped in as well. I’m just waiting until they discover something that emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide non-stop, which cannot be neutralised, and thus which has to be strictly controlled/punished/eradicated. I’ll give you a clue: there are 65million or so of them, in the UK.

ULEZ is just the start; there will be cameras everywhere, watching what we’re doing at all times. Not just looking out for people committing violent crimes, but also whatever eco-crimes are the order of the day.

The terrible harm caused to teenagers and young adults by the pandemic/lockdowns.

I agree with this 100%. It’s another timebomb that we’ll never fully know about until much later – when governments will probably try to deny the link and deflect the blame.

Just for one thing, I keep thinking about all of those little babies who, during their formative months of exploring the world and the people they share it with, learned that nobody else apart from their immediate family have faces at all.
It was bad enough for those of us who are older – just a couple of years of misery – but for the tiny ones, those were their crucial months and years, with so many vital social development lessons to learn taken away from them, and they will never, ever get them back again.

To add one myself, I don’t think all that many people realise just how close so-called MAPs are to gaining official legitimacy. We have already broken the reality barrier whereby we are ordered to deny basic, provable truths in various ways, (please note, I am NOT at all equating 'transgender' with 'MAP' here), so we are already on the slippery slope towards people being told that whatever they identify as is valid – and it is the ones who protest about it who are the nasty haters, who must be punished.

We will still have laws forbidding child abuse, of course; but once there is official declaration that self-identified MAPs are as far from child abusers as the East is from the West, and thus have a right to acceptance, legitimacy and protection from fear enshrined in law (their child victims won’t ever get this, mind), the child abuse laws will be enforced as seriously as the law against defacing the monarch’s image on coins is now - where every tourist attraction has a machine in plain sight encouraging and permitting you to do just that.

madroid1 · 14/09/2023 23:07

That all the billions of shite emails sent round and round the world are contributing to climate change. They take huge amounts of electricity to run the servers to send them. Yet we act like they're harmless apart from the annoyance value of them.

And that the dark web can't be shutdown.

Failingatthemoment · 14/09/2023 23:14

All the school kids vaping chemicals which are burning their lungs

WinterDeWinter · 14/09/2023 23:23

madroid1 · 14/09/2023 23:07

That all the billions of shite emails sent round and round the world are contributing to climate change. They take huge amounts of electricity to run the servers to send them. Yet we act like they're harmless apart from the annoyance value of them.

And that the dark web can't be shutdown.

This.

Shuup · 14/09/2023 23:33

The extent of the vaccine injuries. There are thousands of us. I'm one of the lucky ones as I am still here, but more and more are joining our club and some are dying a horrible death.
I never knew what gaslighting was like until I experienced doctors and consultants who admitted to my face that my chronic health issues are undoubtedly caused by it, but then said the opposite on paper!
The government are lying about the stats and I want to shout it from the rooftops.

jessnoah · 14/09/2023 23:35

Moredrobe · 14/09/2023 20:16

I believe society needs rules for it to function. It is an unfashionable concept, but without these limits, things break down as we are now seeing. Examples: non-functioning schools, lack of border control, trans ideology.

I also think that the entire world is slowly developing a homogeneous culture which is created online and the consequences are seen in real life. The gist of it seems to be “anything goes”. We (because I’m not exempt!) find our “tribe” based on how our decorate our house, how strongly we feel about wind farms or if euthanasia should be allowed etc. Then we feel validated and like we belong and often that we are fighting for a good cause.

But this separates us from the people in real life who are actually around us. Without the internet, we are forced to have more community, to know one another, to see a wider range of views and ultimately to rub along - until someone transgresses the aforementioned rules of society.

I suspect there may be no way back for us.

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You could easily argue that the internet allows you to see a wide range of views from across the world while the local community likely is the same demographic of people (like wealthy and white for instance!) which doesn't really give you a variety of thoughts and opinions.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 14/09/2023 23:44

That all the billions of shite emails sent round and round the world are contributing to climate change. They take huge amounts of electricity to run the servers to send them. Yet we act like they're harmless apart from the annoyance value of them.

That is a very good point indeed. Whether it's pure spam or harmful phishing/scams - even the sheer volume of the bacn is irritating enough - what right do these people have to spectacularly waste the world's resources and harass so many people?

I read one proposal a few years ago to start charging everybody for emails - even just a tenth of a cent per email- so that the average person would pay a few pennies per month, legitimate businesses could budget for a still relatively tiny cost, but those sending millions every day in the hope of catching a handful of victims would feel it in the pocket. Then again, who would police it? And you just know that, whilst we would all happily comply and pay, the scammers would just find a way around it - maybe spoof an innocent victim's email address, so that they would be hit with their charges.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 14/09/2023 23:49

The extent of the vaccine injuries.

Yes, this is an appalling scandal. It's particularly nasty how showing any concern or asking any questions at all about vaccines gets you instantly treated as a whacko anti-vaxx nutjob off to Lidl to buy up all of the tinfoil. No intelligent discussion, even relating personal experience, allowed at all.

I agree with you: it's pure official gaslighting.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 14/09/2023 23:58

Re the 'children will be unteachable' comment above, I assumed that it was referring to how a lot of younger people are encouraged to think nowadays - especially by the various media aimed directly at them.

The way things are going, parents and older people in general are frequently painted as stupid and selfish, and the youngsters all know best. I know young people have often thought this way over time, but never before have there been as many official-seeming influences falling over themselves to urge them that it's 100% true.

Older people are not (generally!) wiser, more experienced people who usually know better and mainly care about you, to be valued and respected; they are just dinosaurs that are there to do for you what you demand of them, until they hurry up and die.

NooNooHead1981 · 15/09/2023 07:35

Shuup · 14/09/2023 23:33

The extent of the vaccine injuries. There are thousands of us. I'm one of the lucky ones as I am still here, but more and more are joining our club and some are dying a horrible death.
I never knew what gaslighting was like until I experienced doctors and consultants who admitted to my face that my chronic health issues are undoubtedly caused by it, but then said the opposite on paper!
The government are lying about the stats and I want to shout it from the rooftops.

Totally this, too. It's like the extent of the brain injuries by a lot of (mostly) psychotropic drugs. They cover it up and deny the harm, and my Facebook groups that I'm part of are full of people who are injured with movement disorders etc. I find it abhorrent.

DatumTarum · 15/09/2023 07:41

You can walk/cycle.

You don't need to drive everywhere.

We're driving ourselves to death.

jeaux90 · 15/09/2023 07:48

Agree on the police.
I want porn banned, it's causing so much harm to both our boys and girls.
Agree also with PP about gender ideology, most regressive, sexist and homophobic shite ever.

willingtolearn · 15/09/2023 08:49

That most of us need to learn to live with less so that national and global resources can be distributed more fairly.

Italianita · 15/09/2023 18:05

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Youthinkyoureuniqueyourejustastatistic · 15/09/2023 18:06

Repeat Covid infections

Complete break down of the NHS and how absolutely shit it is to need any sort of care right now.

tinytemper66 · 15/09/2023 18:33

Climate change

derxa · 15/09/2023 18:50

Shuup · 14/09/2023 23:33

The extent of the vaccine injuries. There are thousands of us. I'm one of the lucky ones as I am still here, but more and more are joining our club and some are dying a horrible death.
I never knew what gaslighting was like until I experienced doctors and consultants who admitted to my face that my chronic health issues are undoubtedly caused by it, but then said the opposite on paper!
The government are lying about the stats and I want to shout it from the rooftops.

This x million! I have posted on here about the CV vaccine triggering severe psoriasis. I don't mean a few scaly patches. It has taken two years for me to eventually get a biologic. The nurse who came out to teach me how to administer it said she refused to be vaccinated.

NotSayingItsTheMasonsBut · 15/09/2023 19:25

jeaux90 · 15/09/2023 07:48

Agree on the police.
I want porn banned, it's causing so much harm to both our boys and girls.
Agree also with PP about gender ideology, most regressive, sexist and homophobic shite ever.

Agreed it's more oppressive and dangerous than section 28 ever was.
It's certainly the scariest ideology I've seen in my lifetime.

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WitchWitchWitch1 · 15/09/2023 19:30

Screamingabdabz · 14/09/2023 00:43

The time bomb of damage that gender identity affirmation is going to have on young people in a few years time. They’ll realise they were lied to by adults they were supposed to trust, but it’ll be too late to prevent irrevocable harm and trauma.

This.

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