I don’t think that would be nearly as cheap as sending robots to build the mansions and resorts.

What food do they need added to their diet?

Call me a fool, but I like this more than gold.

Bismuth rocks.

The Entropy Centre is a largely Portal-inspired game that will require you to plan out what you’re doing even more than Portal. (Note: there are a few chase sequences and a few battle ones that break this pattern.) And there’s a cute robot called E, and your portal-gun-equivalent has an AI too. Basically, it’s Portal but the AIs are friendly.

And then there’s The Talos Principle series, which is even more like what you’re looking for.

Controlware is good.

China is the most populous country, as well as one of the largest, to achieve this.

This was made possible due to the One China Policy (1 China = 1 China).

Content (images, audio, text…) generated by GenAI. It’s slop not quality-wise, but because it’s mass-produced (as opposed to artisanal creations).

Not all slop is AI-generated, though - we had mass-produced content before GenAI, too. GenAI is just turning it up to eleven.

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I don’t know enough about those instances’ leaders to guess whether they’re also misled by propaganda or knowingly supporting these dictatorships and their actions.

If the line changes altitude upward at some point, that’s uplifting.

Not to mention the escalators.

Well, maybe they had some good points.

I don’t know, but there must be something making people too scared to switch from Reddit /j

I’m still in the process of abandoning Reddit and barely started moving from Discord. Almost completely done with Facebook, though, and deleted Twitter while it was still Twitter.

YouTube will probably be the hardest to replace, and I’ll stay on Bluesky alongside Mastodon for a while.

I guess the hard-core fedi users are naturally overrepresented because they’re posting here a lot more often than others.

I think we might be having a misunderstanding. I thought of “tankies” as denizens of lemmy.ml and similar places, likely not even being Russian or Chinese themselves or living there.

I’m pretty sure you are right about Chinese and Russian imperialism. However, the average person anywhere is not a knowing supporter of imperialism themselves… that’s where propaganda comes into play.

…they are the enemy, they hate all that is good and just in the world, all they know is war and submission

I don’t think even Trump supporters are that horrible people. At worst, tankies are falling for Russian/Chinese/etc… propaganda, possibly due to overcorrecting from American propaganda. None of us are immune to propaganda.

Intergenerational humor time

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Because “right” and “good at winning debates” do not necessarily correlate.

I can’t win arguments because I’m bad at arguments.

By that logic, I would probably end up changing my beliefs every week or so or end up believing something absurd because someone who believes it is good at sophistry.

But then again, this is also why I try not to argue much. It’s a waste of time and just makes everything worse.

I will, however, hear people out if I think they might have some good points.